Engine Transplant needed

[kitfreak]

Does anyone know of anyone, in the south capable of transplanting an Alfa Romeo V6 into my Italia? Its an MX5 at the mo.

[ZR1cliff]

Nice looking car and looks well put together,more photos needed

[kitfreak]

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>> Edited by kitfreak on Saturday 10th December 10:24

[B19GRR]

I can understand why you're thinking of the Alfa V6 (sorry I can't help there anyway), but dare I suggest looking at the Nissan 3.0l V6 (NA or Twin Turbo ) from the 300ZX, not for any performance/reliability issues, but simply because it's already set up for rear wheel drive so you wouldn't have to mess with getting a gearbox adapter plate thing made up.

Cheers,
Rob

[steve-bubs]

Skip the V8; stick a RV8 in there

http://freespace.virgin.net/bob.carter/Mazda_mx5_V8.

[stevieturbo]

Depends what is wanted. Fords duratec V6 might not be a bad idea. Fairly light, and more compact than a V8 which would make fitting a lot easier.
It would also make more power than a mildly tuned Rover V8.

[Marquis_Rex]

I would stick with the Alfa V6- it's more "high brow" than many other options.
RWD shouldn't be a problem- the Alfa 75 was RWD and if you want the 24valve engine- mix and match bits from the later transverse Alfa 24valve with the earlier 12 valve longtidinal application.
Biggest issue may be if you wanted to NOT use the transaxle 75 gearbox but a stronger box (the 75 box has weak synchros and an aweful change).

The Alfa V6 engine is pretty robust with a strong bottom end but the weakest link on the 12 valvers are the valves themselves and some had tensioner problems.

[tr7v8]

75 change is OK, not knife through butter but acceptable. Much better than the Alfetta/GTV transaxle. Also only known fault is pinion bearing collapsing due to the spacer eroding, which is what mine did. Synchros generally OK although 2nd gear can die if abused.
My 75 TS LE did 112K miles and aside from the pinion bearing issue was fine even when sold & others I know of had no problems,

Jim