Re: alfa-digest V8 #116

["Dean W. Cains" <dwc@domain.elided>]

Hi Louis:

I'll answer the simple question first.  The o-ring used to adjust the idle 
is only on the Spica-injected Spiders, GTVs, Berlinas and Alfettas, i.e. 
those cars imported to the US from 1969 through 1981.  Can't help too much 
with the problems on your '91, but maybe just a full tune-up would do a lot 
of good.  I'm talking about all the ignition parts; plugs, wires, cap and 
rotor.  Then include the air and fuel filters.  With the symptoms you 
describe, it could very well be a bad fuel filter.

Springs and other suspension pieces can be a subject that no one agrees 
on.  I use Bilstein shocks and Ereminas sport springs.  It lowered the car 
about 1.5 inches and it's pretty stiff, maybe too stiff for some.  My wife 
doesn't like riding in it at all, but things feel different when you're 
just a passenger.  Most of the springs are very similar in ride height and 
stiffness, whether they are from Centerline, Ereminas or IAP, and all are 
very nice for the street.  Bilsteins are about the stiffest shocks, and the 
Konis might be better for you, since they are fully adjustable.  Unless 
you're doing any racing, leave the sway bars alone.

Regards,

Dean

At 03:35 PM 10/8/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 13:37:31 -0400
>From: ltooz@domain.elided (LLe_2001)
>Subject: Spider's Springs & Shocks & Heights & Rides?
>
>Hello all,
>  Thanks for all the inputs on tach&oil pressure problems. I have question 
> about my suspension.
>  The front passenger side is about 1/2 (may be less)lower than the driver 
> side. I pushed the passenger side, it seems to be softer than the driver 
> side. It's a 91 spider veloce with 96,000 miles on it, can the springs be 
> bad? The shocks looked old and the rubber cracked already.
>  The rear seems to be lower than the front. Is it the design or the back 
> springs already sagged? I saw most of Alfa spiders have the back lower 
> than the fron while people are driving?
>  QUESTION with all these after market performance springs set. RED or BLUE?
>  They're are stiffer & shorter? How stiff and how bad do they change the 
> rides after you install them. The original springs are more expensive 
> than these red & blue springs. I need your inputs on these sets if you 
> put them on your car, please give me your true opinion before I buy them 
> and can't stand the ride and have to buy the original one.
>  My engine is very smooth, but I can't ever seem to rev it pass 4000 rpm 
> even when I floored it?
>  The idle surge up & down sometimes? I don't want to use the throttle 
> screw to adjust this? Someone was talking about the "O" ring somewhere in 
> the fuel injection system for this idling adjustment. Where is this "O" 
> ring is at?

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