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<\/a>What a mess!<\/strong> You can see from this picture why I was keen to freshen up the engine bay on the Sprint. An hour of work and I’m ready to crawl under the car to disconnect the transmission.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n This may seem like an added complexity, bringing the Sprint into the picture, but I have a lot of reasons to do it this way. Among them:<\/p>\n Once my mind was made up I had to come up with a plan. Do I prep the 1300 and have it ready to drop right away, or do I focus on getting the Berlina out of my shop and on the road then finish the Sprint at leisure? Since I’m going to paint and detail the engine compartment it makes sense to finish the Sprint at leisure.<\/p>\n I had an hour and a half scheduled to work in the shop yesterday so I set to it. The hood came off the Sprint, followed by the airbox, Dellorto DHLA 40’s and then radiator. There is no easy access to the 4 lower nuts that mount the carbs to the manifold from above so I had to pull the passenger side wheel off and go in from below. The radiator came out without much fuss, though I probably spent as much time chasing a shop-mates puppy away from the spilled coolant as I did working on the car.<\/p>\n I still have to decide if I will stick with the current carb set-up or change to a Weber down draft on a 1600 manifold for better fuel economy. I’ll worry about that later I suppose. Next up is disconnecting everything on the underside of the Sprint and pulling the engine out. Hopefully that will be done today.\n
<\/a>Dellorto DHLA 40’s still attached to 1600 Veloce lower plenum. I’ve gotten 25,000 miles out of these carbs without touching them.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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