Re: installing non-Alfa engines in old Alfa Spider pre-1962

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

I'm fairly certain that a boxer won't fit in a 105/115 engine bay. 
But if you want 276hp in your Spider just call Jim Steck.  This 
Alfetta http://www.gtv6.org/b_berger.htm is currently making 282hp AT 
THE WHEELS (owner figures 340 at the crank) from its 4-plug, 8-valve 
original engine.  Expensive, but probably less so, and certainly less 
of a pain, than swapping a Subaru motor.  Save your spare WRX motors 
and save some poor 914 from its VW powerplant.

At 5:21 AM +0000 10/3/02, alfa-digest wrote:

> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 18:38:03 -0700
> From: Stacy Faught <slfaught@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: installing non-Alfa engines in old Alfa Spider pre-1962
>
> Just to throw another log onto the fire....
>
> I wouldn't dare do this to my spider quad, but mabye
> on a more "common" 80's spider...
>
> Has anyone given thought to the turbochaged 2L boxer
> engine that resides in the current subaru wrx, ect.?
> It might be a bit wide for the application, but it is a very
> compact design, and would probably allow for the stock hood...
> assuming you didn't want to go AWD with it, the engine isn't all
> that tall---a tuning chip from the stock model in japan will take it 
> to "rally" specs, which
> is 276 HP if I'm not mistaken...
> I can't possibly imagine a spider with 270+ HP with a very wide
> torque band...of course at that point, you'd probably have to swap
> out the rear diff for something that can handle all that torque...
> It would be a huge, and expensive, project, but man would it
> be fast!
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