Overview, history, walkaround, and road test of a very rare and unique post-war Italian Sports car. @jondega www.rareclassi... #autorestoration #alfaromeo #giulia #homologation #racecar
The TZ and TZ 2 are among my very favorite post-war Alfas. Someone in Eastern MA has/had one of each and used to bring them to lawn shows regularly. Can't wait to see what you guys can do with this one -- your work is beautiful!
All 105 and 115 Alfa gearboxes have problems with the 2nd gear. The gears of 1st and 2nd are some heavy, so the syncronisation needs to be done with double-clutching to avoid crunchs. A somewhat common fix in the Alfa community it's to dissasemble the gears and enlight them by drilling or reduce the mass of the gears, but it needs to be done in order to keep the gear balanced so it doesn't cause centrifugal force in the shafts. Apparently, Porsche was entrusted with designing the gearbox, nonetheless, in any case the gearbox hace that problem: One of the biggets of the Alfas from those years. They are great great cars. I have a black '78 Spider Some people do it and others don't. It needs a good machinist and, well, do all the things involved in going to the very heart of the gearbox, thoug its desing it's clever. With that, the fix its permanent and apparently one never will have to change synchro rings again Great to see your video! Hope to see more of that TZ!
Thanks for sharing the info. I'll get with our inhouse machinist and see if we can implement this "Fix". A lot of the early Ferrari transmissions use Porsche synchronizers also. I hope you and Mrs. Robinson are enjoying the Spider; I'll get an update video of the TZ out soon.
Erm ..More like 118 Hp when the engine was Factory fresh ...50+ years ago.. Pretty and Iconic car ....But a late 80's Honda Civic SI will outperform that in every possible way except style.
When you say content do you want more History? longer walk around? Driving of the car with or without commentary? Thank You for your critique; I'm just an amateur winging it.
