Slowly but surely, making plans...!

It's amazing how much research is involved when you're attempting to build a car for rallying that hasn't been used too much in the UK. Especially when you have to build it to the original homologation papers, and there are so many.  One of the problems with getting hold of any homologation paper is that you can't look until you have bought them, and then when there are about 20 different papers, as is the case with the Alfetta, then you have to make sure that you buy the right one.

This has been an incredibly laborious process as both of the required papers, either for the car in 2.5 V6 Group 4 spec, or in 2.0l Group 4 spec, are missing from the F.I.A archives.  These are 5855 for the 2.5 and 641 for the 2.0.  Fortunately a long, long trawl through the internet has found me some similar papers for the V6, which is number 674, which was a 1981 Group 4 homologation, and 5622 for the 2.0 which is a 1976 Group 2 homologation with the Alfetta actually being homologated as an Alfetta GT America, but I guess that I won't be calling it that (unless I have too!). This was a monster of a car in full spec, running with a 16 valve 240 hp engine, but that of course would take it into the D5 (multi-valve) class, even if we could find, (and afford) a head, so we will just be running it as an 8 valve engined car with about 180hp, so not a patch on the Pintos which I have recently been reading can get to about 220hp, but then again we won't be spending much more than a couple of thousand pounds on ours!