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And the answer is....................................drum roll .............................................155. Am I right? ..........................................What do I win?

Indeed Are you the stylish guy sitting on the arm of the sofa then? I'm probably the guy staring in the totally opposite direction, as usual. Physically there, but mentally very far away

Yes, it reminds me what I want to achieve. A meet in Gothenburg would be awesome. Anyone from The Netherlands, the UK, Germany or France wanna join in? A few 1000 km never hurt anyone... Dude is talking about Liseberg, http://liseberg.se/sv/hem/, but I think this form of entertainment is better for us... The red dots are the nearest race tracks from Gothenburg. Gothenburg is just north of the western edge of the pic above. Used to live in Gothenburg for a while and my former landlord there buys and sells Alfas. Last I checked he had a GTV 3.0 V6 and a few other Alfas in stock.

I think we could have a lovely talk! His location, Gothenburg, suggests that we need not worry about a language barrier I checked out his album. If my car was like his, I would have come a long way compared to where I am right now 4-pot Brembos, a roll cage, race seat and so on. I like it!

Filip: If you look on the pics you can see that not only will you get answer to your questions, but you will also see that he is using a upper strut brace from a 145..

Nice upgrades Spirito . From picture with parts, the rear shock absorbers seems to be not sports one. Why you have choose to not upgrade rear shock, they are much cheaper than front one? Well spotted I ummed and ahhed long about this one, read a lot, drove a fair few cars before deciding that for me & the imperfect roads I drive on I wanted to bring it back to the original ride height (my car was lowered originally) and if I was keeping the 17" wheels I was hoping to make the suspension a little more compliant. The front has Koni sports becuase it needs it (does a lot of the work & is likely to wear sooner) but it's usually on about 1/3 setting from softest and the rear has TRW shocks that are to the OEM standard. I have new KYB standard height springs all round, the rear is all polybushed, new bump stops and the front has new arms, strut top mounts etc (standard). I cannot fault the rear end. It feels very well tied down, takes whatever roads I travel over with minimum of fuss & has grip levels that are in my experience incredible. With the polybushing at the rear I didn't think that firmer shocks (Koni's) were needed, in fact I think it would have made things too hard. Everybody I knew with Koni sports on the rear has them on the softest setting anyway which galvanized my choice for standard spec. rear shocks. The front is very good, still not perfect but is settling in now after 5000km's. I'm sure other will agree that finding the right compromise for the front end of these V6 916's isn't easy. I'm toying with ideas of uprating the rolll bars (especially at the rear) to give the steering a little more feel and directness. I am 100% happy with the ride/handling balance ... no longer am I on full alert for potholes & imperfections, mid corner surprises aren't likely to upset the car and I can live with the car on real roads. We don't do a lot of km's but it's our only car & it does a lot of long trips away. It still rides like a GTV (which is very lively). It will never be a boulevadier, it's suspension is a little old in design (Alfa 155 - 90's?) and more geared towards the sporting side. But I've bought the balance back a little bit and now that it's a little more compliant and a little less uncompromising I've found that it's actually more fun to drive faster & I can push it a little deeper without getting white knuckles or feeling like I'm going to break something. These are all subjective opinions of course ... but it works for me.

Hiya Ben! About time you got onto this forum!!! And once again - your car is looking fantastic!! And yes - that's me who bought Spiritos Quaiffe - And I'm very happy indeed. With the aussie dollar taking a dive I've saved money.

I bought a generic intercooler installation kit from ebay, cost me 60 quid iirc. A few more bits, steering wheel boss kit for a 147 and a variable thermal switch for the rad fans. One complete suspension assembly Installed the fuel lines for the 16vt fuel rail and engine loom. I swopped the gearstick tunnel as the coupe motor is cable operated while the twin spark is rod driven gear linkages, straight swop. Next was getting the 16vt in the car which I didn't even have to remove the engine mounts Best way was to go from underneath, I left the subframe and bonnet in place. Once engine was in I started installing the intercooler and pipework.