Dizzy on the other side

[mirafiori76]

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?

[mirafioriman]

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

[mirafiori76]

The flow is the same. Inlet left, outlet right.

[Tas131]

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.

[Fiat 131 Abarth#2]

Hi Mike,

it's cambox from Lancia Beta Montecarlo

Enzo 

[131v6]

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!

[mirafiori76]

So it's a Lancia engine. My problem solved Didn't know.

[jasonh131]

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

[131v6]

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.

[mirafiori76]

  But the engine IS in a car. Not?

[131v6]

no, unfortunately the engine is currently sitting in a workshop gathering dust.

[mirafiori76]

And what happened to the car?

[131v6]

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.