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Thanks guys. Yes I like the Sud very much, I had one as my first car and then ever since. This one is my 3rd and holds up remarkably well, stripped it and repaired the rust when I bought it for beer money 13 years ago and did a quick re-re-repaint some years ago and past month I had to replace a rocker (sill) for the first time. It gets driven summer and winter and had a good portion of snow and salt in the past weeks. Sud owners all know each other over here it seems there are less than 100 registered in the Netherlands (much less then Ferrari 308) and it is not very popular as a classic, there are thousands of 105 series Alfas for example, but some people are restoring them or importing surviving examples from Italy.
Just watched the Wil de Groot vid with his supercharged 308: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0QmjBYds8Y that is a well sorted car. In may/april my job may go on a 50% rate for 6 weeks and I may have more time then, also in july I will have 3 weeks for the 308.
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I plan to get back working on the car next month and then have it painted before end of year. Then engine & electrical work etc. I will update this thread when there is progress and pictures to show!

 

Wow you signed up over 4 years ago and your first post is in my project thread, I feel honoured!
I made some dumb decisions in the past year, not a good idea to do some work first on another car (the Alfa) as that got out of control and then my only working car broke down, the Lancia Montecarlo something with a valve. So now I´m working hard to finish my Alfa (repaint) and then I will get back to the 308 project. The Lancia returns to hibernation like it did 8 years ago when the engine first broke down, I revived it 3 years ago with a lot of effort but only short pleasure so this time that 2.0 Fiat twin cam won´t be repaired but replaced with an Alfa 3.0 24v V6 haha (to make it a full cousin to Dino 246, Lancia Stratos and one off Alfa Sprint 6c). But not after the 308 is back on the road.
Work on the 308 will restart in a few months.

 

I agree with Viper Driver, this is unbelieveable! It shouldn´t be that difficult to diagnose the car was only running on 4, and then some searching to see why. You struggled for 15 years while all it took was swapping 2x2 ignition wires on 1 bank (that should have done the trick I agree putting the dist in the correct position is the proper repair). Power was half and fuel use double, because all the fuel on 1 bank went out unused. That is bad for the engine as the fuel would have removed the oil film in the cilinders and also uneven thermal expansion.
Well, you have another F now, allthough just a regular assembly line one

 

I have seen this one before...what does the sign say, ´Race Ferrari Parking Only`? Great to this on the side of the road as if the owner was doing some shopping.

 

I see also the Zertec Mondial Z project thread is brought back up on top, there are more projects lurking like the Wil de Groot scratchbuild Mazzer, it is tough for a normal working guy to stay focused on a car build and like me some have published fixed dates for expected progress but it always takes more time. Mark E is very dedicated and disciplined but his build is also lasting years longer than expected.
My Lancia dropped a valve or something in the head (maybe a sodium exhaust failed) and it needs some other repairs but I decided to put it away and will do the 308 first. I drive around in a half finished Alfasud for now and I want to build first a fiber frontspoiler for that one, I have made a steel one that I will copy. It is an easy project but I have never worked with fiber and resin before so maybe if it turns out well, I will do more like the 308 front spoiler.
Before summer there will be new and regular updates to this project.

 

That screen for the air inlet is a German market only requirement I think. The rear fenders I bought have part of the air channel under the rear windows build to it so I think that will define the inward angle to the rear side windows and everything else will follow from that.
A quick update for everyone, I won a pair of fiber rear fenders copied of an original GTO on ebay for only $699, I was the only bidder. The seller found them in an estate he was liquidating and in that estate were also moulds for many of the other panels, he already sold the moulds but brought me in contact with the company that bought them, and they will make me a complete front clip and the rear panel and spoiler upper and lower. I will only need to fabricate the rear under part myself so this will take the quality of the end result to a much higher level.
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This was over 2 months ago and the builder of the parts said it was to cold and they had a snowstorm, in California! But I googled "weather in + the towns name" and it was true, however this was also a while ago and I should sent another mail.
Before I found the parts I had already decided to build a full wheelbase GTO lookalike so around Christmas I had removed all the home made panels already and made new rear A arms to get the 2450 mm wheelbase.
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I remade the wall between engine compartment and trunk to make room for the engine that I moved 40mm to the back by switching the spacers that the mounts have from the rear mounts to the fronts. This way the angle of the drive shafts is not too large.
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And then there were lots of other things, like my Alfasud threw a piston trough the cilinder wall. I think a valve got damaged when the flywheel broke september 2011 and the engine spun to over 8000 rpm, maybe. So I had to find and prepare another motor. I found one that had been lying around for years of unkown origin, that is in there now and it works well but I´m also building an "all new" spare 8v with new oversize pistons, cams and everything. That takes time.
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