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Title: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: mirafiori76 on October 16, 2010, 12:48:24 PM
Now here is an engine which i have never seen. It's got the distributor on the other side. Also some parts that i never saw on a volumex engine. It seems to have turbo as well. ??? And it's not build in a Racing. Look at the color of the car.
Who can tell more about this engine? Albert perhaps?


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: mirafioriman on October 16, 2010, 01:27:22 PM
Looks like the head or engine is from a later twin cam where the head flows the other way such as the engines fitted to the Lancia Thema


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: mirafiori76 on October 16, 2010, 01:44:05 PM
The flow is the same. Inlet left, outlet right.


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: Tas131 on October 17, 2010, 02:01:34 AM
It's not a reverse port head. The cambox or the whole setup maybe Lancia in origin, some Betas had the inlet side cam mounted dizzy.


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: Fiat 131 Abarth#2 on October 17, 2010, 06:30:19 AM
Hi Mike,

it's cambox from Lancia Beta Montecarlo

Enzo  ;)


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: 131v6 on October 17, 2010, 07:15:40 AM
I owned this car briefly before removing the engine and selling the car. Engine was Argenta with Volumex pistons and blower. There was a custom exhaust manifold and small turbo in series with the blower and an intercooler. Cambox and dizzy were off a NZ market 132 with air conditioning but yes is same as montecarlo. The car was very quick!


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: mirafiori76 on October 17, 2010, 08:14:41 AM
So it's a Lancia engine. My problem solved ;) :D ;) :D Didn't know. :)


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: jasonh131 on November 07, 2010, 08:39:54 AM
I owned this car briefly before removing the engine and selling the car. Engine was Argenta with Volumex pistons and blower. There was a custom exhaust manifold and small turbo in series with the blower and an intercooler. Cambox and dizzy were off a NZ market 132 with air conditioning but yes is same as montecarlo. The car was very quick!
A couple of threads on here about doing this like the 037 , what sort of BHP did you have
 nice engineering project you had there :o :)


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: 131v6 on November 09, 2010, 06:50:55 PM
I don't think anyone ever dynoed it and i only drove it a small distance. If i had to guess i'd say around 180-200hp but the massive torque was most impressive. I remember being taken aback at its ability to break traction in 4th gear/ 50mph. Hopefully it ends up in a car again eventually.


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: mirafiori76 on December 08, 2010, 04:21:30 PM
 ??? But the engine IS in a car. Not?


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: 131v6 on December 10, 2010, 01:28:24 AM
no, unfortunately the engine is currently sitting in a workshop gathering dust.


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: mirafiori76 on December 10, 2010, 07:39:27 AM
And what happened to the car?


Title: Re: Dizzy on the other side
Post by: 131v6 on December 12, 2010, 05:41:59 AM
i put a 1600 in it and sold it to a guy who used it as his everyday car for a couple of years. It has changed hands a couple of times since and is i believe now being made into a race car.