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..as if THAT were necessary, BUT: I'm digging thru parts piles inna garage under a workbench, lookin' for an Alfa 1750 F.I. pump for a fellow BCF'r. So far haven't found that thing. What I HAVE come across so-far: One box containing TWO sets of used (up) MGB 3-synchro tranny layshafts & laygears, bearings and balk rings. A timing chain "chest" from a 1600cc Alfa, fuel filter housings for same, miscellaneous cables, locksets, brackets, all GTV. Three Wagner iron cooking skillets, two drain snakes, one Alfa used waterpump, an alternator needing a diode pack, a "Rigid" pipe threading tool...

And this is just the "surface layer"!!! Is scrap steel worth anything? I'm keepin' the aluminum. :jester:
 
250$ a ton here. I just checked because I have 1500cc paperweight.
 
DrEntropy said:
And this is just the "surface layer"!!!
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Careful, you might find an Elan under there! :jester:
 
DrEntropy said:
..as if THAT were necessary, BUT: I'm digging thru parts piles inna garage under a workbench, lookin' for an Alfa 1750 F.I. pump for a fellow BCF'r. So far haven't found that thing. What I HAVE come across so-far: One box containing TWO sets of used (up) MGB 3-synchro tranny layshafts & laygears, bearings and balk rings. A timing chain "chest" from a 1600cc Alfa, fuel filter housings for same, miscellaneous cables, locksets, brackets, all GTV. Three Wagner iron cooking skillets, two drain snakes, one Alfa used waterpump, an alternator needing a diode pack, a "Rigid" pipe threading tool...

And this is just the "surface layer"!!! Is scrap steel worth anything? I'm keepin' the aluminum. :jester:
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You should wander through my buildings!!
 
PC said:
DrEntropy said:
... digging thru parts piles inna garage under a workbench, lookin' for an Alfa 1750 F.I. pump for a fellow BCF'r. So far haven't found that thing. ...
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On a related note, here’s a guy who replaced his Spica FI pump with a Bosch unit.

I can’t say I’d do it quite the same way, but it shows that (at least for his car) it’s pretty easy to do.


PC.
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I was under the impression that the 1750 Spica pump was a mechanical pump / fuel distributor, driven by a timing belt off the front of the engine. I had a similar unit on a 1972 Giulia Beritone 2000. I think it was first around 1981 that they went to the Bosch L-Jetronic.
 
That's the "pump" I'm talkin' here. It's ~someplace~ and haven't located it yet. SPICA mechanical. I have another one bolted up to a 2L but it's so tired it allows fuel bypass around the pistons when hot and vapor locks at the injector lines. That's nothing to pass on to a friend!
 
Well, the guy's sig line says he drives a '73 GTV and he does say he's replacing a Spica pump. Not sure what the deal is there.

Me, I had actually stopped at a used car dealer to check out a '74 Alfetta when I found a (now <span style="font-style: italic">my</span>) Jensen hiding in the corner of the lot. So I never did get to wrestle with Spica.

I still have a craving for a Montreal though.


PC.
 
Day two: I need a miner's hat...
 
> Just dial 1800 CHINA

I thought they buy only Lead for use in their paint. :laugh:
 
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