JohnD Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) I wanted (not for me, for a friend) to find anyone who had fitted a Spitfire with an Alfa V6 engine, a not trivial, but doable project, IMHO I searched for 'Spitfire "Alfa V6" ', with the end part in quotes -> 4K-odd hits, that seemed to be for either 'Spitfire' or 'Alfa'. Right, let's focus down a bit - use the Boolean search words, I used 'Spitfire AND "Alfa V6' which should get hits that have both. -> 67K hits!!!!! That's not right! there should be fewer that have them together! Or, of course, I'm not using it right! Any ideas! John Edited March 21 by JohnD Link to post Share on other sites
zetecspit Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Under the search box, (after you have clicked to start typing) there appears a box of options. The e=second one down is by default search any word, but click the one under which is all words.... That should cut it down a bit! I don't understand why search facilities are not "all words" by default..... Link to post Share on other sites
JohnD Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 Thnaks Zetec! Yes, clicking on the "All" narrows it a bit (28 hits) So the advice to use OR just means that? And it doesn't use a Boolean search (AND, OR, EITHER, NEITHER) at all? Link to post Share on other sites
Nick Jones Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 ISTR selling some CV joint parts to a guy building a Spit/GT6 based kit car with an Alfa V6..... not sure if it's ever been mentioned on here though.... Link to post Share on other sites
JohnD Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 Thnak you, Nick. There's a guy called Robbie Whitlock from Sc***horpe, who went all the way to the Triumph Experience in the US to ask if anyone else had fitted a Spitfire with an Alfa V6: https://www.triumphexp.com/forum/triumph-performance-forum.26/spitfire-1500-busso-swap.1770398/ I don't know him, was he your customer, Nick? Link to post Share on other sites
Nick Jones Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 No. The guy I’m thinking of was quite well on with his project and it was definitely a kit based on a Triumph chassis. I’ve had maybe 3 who were/are building kits on Triumph chassis but only one Alfa. I don’t know much about Alfa stuff, but I imagine the gearbox will be a challenge. Can’t offhand think of any RWD Alfa V6 cars that don’t have a rear mounted transaxle rather than a conventional gearbox. Anything is possible given sufficient talent, time and money, (or even just sheer determination and absence of fussiness), but just because you can doesn’t mean you should.... Link to post Share on other sites
Kev_tr6 Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 There’s a guy on the Betaboyz forum who is putting a Lancia Beta 2000 engine in a Spitfire. Link to post Share on other sites
JohnD Posted March 22 Author Share Posted March 22 I don't know that one, Kev! Send him the link I posted, please? Link to post Share on other sites
Kev_tr6 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 21 hours ago, JohnD said: I don't know that one, Kev! Send him the link I posted, please? I’ve sent him the link John. Link to post Share on other sites
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