Alpine Alpine tour.......

Greetings from Italy! The car is brill after all the hard work... (see radiator cooling fan posts..) The sound of the exhaust going over the alpine passes at 5500 in 2nd or 3rd gear... especially on the descent.. I never cease to be amazed by this car (GTA Turbo..) The air con not too good even after some Italian gas - anyone got a condenser and compressor? anyway 800 miles in 3 days without a hitch. Dunno about your weather but its 36° here!!! back to Kent this weekend. I will tell more for those who can stay awake. Ciao!! Paul

Greetings from Italy! The car is brill after all the hard work... (see radiator cooling fan posts..) The sound of the exhaust going over the alpine passes at 5500 in 2nd or 3rd gear... especially on the descent.. I never cease to be amazed by this car (GTA Turbo..) The air con not too good even after some Italian gas - anyone got a condenser and compressor? anyway 800 miles in 3 days without a hitch. Dunno about your weather but its 36° here!!! back to Kent this weekend. I will tell more for those who can stay awake. Ciao!! Paul

Bring a dingy.

and a big bilge pump

and buy a boat (Speed of course)!!!

Si21 or stay in Italy mmmmmmmm now let me think

Greetings from Italy! The car is brill after all the hard work... (see radiator cooling fan posts..) The sound of the exhaust going over the alpine passes at 5500 in 2nd or 3rd gear... especially on the descent.. I never cease to be amazed by this car (GTA Turbo..) The air con not too good even after some Italian gas - anyone got a condenser and compressor? anyway 800 miles in 3 days without a hitch. Dunno about your weather but its 36° here!!! back to Kent this weekend. I will tell more for those who can stay awake. Ciao!! Paul

clee's already done it 2005.....lester to Geneva then onto monza and back again....... and it never broke once...... except cooking his brakes on an alpine rally route blast up a mountain though

[Alpineandy]

In May 2001 in my red A310 (with 3 other A310s, 1 spider and 1 GTA atmo).
London - Munich (where we met the others) - Lake Lugano - Chiavenna - then back to Munich via Austria. No car problems at all, despite us using the tiny roads that aren't marked on most maps to drive down into Italy.
Excellent

Got back on Sunday. 1800 miles in 9 days. 30+ mpg. What a blast - especially ragging it down a very narrow road to Locarno following a DB7 Vantage that just couldn't lose me! Alpine honours upheld - it was very hairy at times, all the Italian drivers getting out of our way and waving. The (Dutch) DB7 driver was very unhappy!! Going up the Furka pass several bikes pulled over to let me past too! The car needs extra cooling for this sort of activity - the wastegate sticks after about 20 miles of full throttle ragging and you lose boost - comes back after stopping for a coffee or two. I have a Toyota GT4 chargecooler that I'm fitting and I reckon plumbing the turbo cooling water through that will be a good idea. That Italian sun didn't do the paint a lot of good though.....

I don't think youll find the wastegate is sticking, its a hefty springed, simple device. Youll probably find everything it just so heat saturated that half the air you're pumping it is just heat...

Interesting idea. Only thing is that the boost varies as it gets hot/cools. It usually spikes badly with the gauge going off the scale momentarily, then later very little boost. But before I replace the turbo I will do that chargecooler thing........

Interesting idea. Only thing is that the boost varies as it gets hot/cools. It usually spikes badly with the gauge going off the scale momentarily, then later very little boost. But before I replace the turbo I will do that chargecooler thing........

But the actuator doesnt get hot enough to be bothered by it, you can touch the capsule with your hands even after a full rag. Boost pressure will fluctuate with charge temps, hence why people can hit boost cut on a winters day, and not on a summers day, even though the actuator *should* be doing the job of maintaining a constant boost pressure.