Alfa GTV6 3 litre Glenwood Motors
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- The video is based on the rare and successful Alfa Rome GTV 6 3 litre that was homologated for South African Production Car racing with the involvement of Dawie de Villiers from Glenwood Motors
Wow. Amazing interview. What a legend.
Wonderful trip of the motorsport history in South Africa, all the great drivers of the day dropped by the legend Dawie de Villiers.
Thanks V
Glenwood Motors is an iconic name to me as an Alfista. Probably known worldwide to every Alfa nut interested in racing. Like Dominic Beninca in Australia
In my opinion there's nobody, but nobody, out there that knows carburetors like Oom Div. Many moons ago I built a Mk1 2 door Golf vir bored 1900 Jetta motor. Oom Div tuned the scrapyard 40 Webers that I ran on that car like you won't believe. The throttle response was something to behold. No flat spots, no issues with idle speed, just instant response from low RPM all the way to past 7000. He's a true master. Thanks for the great video. Subscribed.
I could listen to this man for hours
Yeah. Years and years of knowledge and experience
Great to hear about the old days of racing in SA💪🏻
I've been hearing about Dawie de Villiers and I'm from the Seattle region! Imagine Dawie's 3.7L evolution of Giuseppe Busso's original SOHK 2.5L at full revs on a race track. has to be absolutely glorious!
The man who made average Alfa's fly! I owned and drove many with their road holding far superior to the engine performance. That translate to driving them flatout all the time and never reaching the handling limits. I have to admit I wrote off all the Alfa's I owned in spectacular crashes. I still wonder how I walked away from all of them. Crazy young days.
Hehe. Good explanation of the experience. Reminds me of how crazily I used to drive mine as well and they still held up. That Gen of Alfas were not unreliable.
That blue 156 is beautiful !!!
Thanks for making this video. I recently bought a 3 litre and will undertake a full restoration. Hopefully I can get in touch and get insight from him to guide me through it. Keep the content coming!
It's good to see these cars being restored to there former glory. If there is any other info that you require get in touch. There is a big Alfa Community in SA whom are always willing to help
Very good to see Dawie looking so well.
Great video and thanks for charing.
Yours Lance.
Great video. Very informative. GTV-6 is an awesome car.
A true legend of the sport!
Fascinating. I’ve got one. Took me and autodelta services in London a long while to sort.
1.Gearbox was ridiculously undergeared, meaning that the car drank fuel like crazy. Also no lsd. Sorted by installing a 75 transaxle giving 26 mile per 1000 rpm compared to 21.
2.Compomotive split rims couldn’t hold air , and wheel size too small , and suspension with 50 series p 7’s was too high, and tyre walls to stiff for the suspension. Sorted, larger wheel rims, stiffer roll bars, suspension dropped.
3. Brakes? Sorted, drilled and grooved front disks, bigger ( brembo calipers) at the front, grooved at the back, and adjustable brake balance control, putting more braking at back.
Unfortunately the Compomotive Rims were very soft and got damaged easily. But they still great looking wheels.
Lucky u to be the owner of 1 of these cars. The value is on the rise
Post pics if u can, would love to see the car
Rollin with V . The problem wasn’t only the softness of the rims- meaning that they couldn’t be restored, but they leaked air from the inner bevelling of the wheels inner rings, which were poorly machined. I did think of getting new larger inner and outer rims, and did reach out to compomotive, who were utterly dismissive. So I ended up having autodelta Uk supply new wheels.
Very good video, great historical perspective. Thanks for sharing!
Great video! Would like to see one on the 333i or 325is...great origin story
The legend. Forza Alfa 🍀
SEI UN MITO!! ALFA ROMEO FOR EVER, CUORE SPORTIVO!!
Like the Alfa history and insight Vash!!! Keep it up
Thanks for the support
True Legend ..
dawie did my gtv 3.0. no1 understands that motor the way dawie understands that motor
Baie mooi
Dawie de Villiers - the man who killed Goliath many many times.
How do you get it to 3.7 Liter?
From what I understand (being here in the US) the engine requires the 3.2L GTA crank then special boring out of the wet liner holes in the block to then receive larger barrels (I don't know the specifics on the barrels). I believe there are also other displacement variations and head configurations. If one forgoes the 3.2L crank but goes with the larger barrels and pistons the result is (obviously) 3.5 liters. I'm not 100% sure, but think there have also been SOHC versions of that displacement. Which in my view would be quite the secret sleeper engine! :-) Note the full 3.7L 4-cam may exceed the capability of the GTV6 and Alfa 75 transaxles. Still, crazy wild in my view (I own a GTV6 w/3.0L 4-cam with GTA grinds out of a 164 and think that's plenty quick).
Probably Porsche pistons. In the US i believe they homologated a turbo version. Good old days.