Chief designer | Gioachino Colombo |
Technical director | Orazio Satta |
Numbers of frames built | - |
Chassis | tubolar oval girders with welded crosspieces |
Wheel base | 2.50m |
Track width | front and rear 1.25m |
Weight | 700kg |
Measures | length 4190mm, width 850mm, height 1000mm, Ground clearance 150mm |
Steering | central, endless screw type |
Wheels | aluminium alloy-spline drive wheels |
Tyres | Pirelli, front 17x550, rear 18x700 |
Brakes | hydraulic drums al round, mechanical hand brake operating on the rear axle |
Fuel tank | one rear tank + one tank on the right side for a total capacity of 185lt |
Oil tank | in the cockpit's left side, 18lt of capacity |
Cooling | watercooled, total capacity of the circuit 11 lt |
Front suspension | Independent longitudinal parallelograms, transverse semi elliptic leaf |
Rear suspension | independent, transverse semi elliptic leaf |
Shock absorbers | idraulic and friction shock absorbers all round |
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Engine | Alfa Romeo 158 |
Type | straight 8, two alloy blocks, screwed iron cylinders |
Bore and stroke | 58*70mm |
Engine capacity | 1479cc |
Power | 275 HP (1947-48) - 350 HP (1950) |
Rev | 7500 rpm (1947-48) - 8500 rpm (1950) |
Compression ratio | 6,5:1 |
Average pistons speed | 17.5m/sec (1947-48) - 19.85m/sec (1950) |
Effective average pressure | 22.35kg/cmq (1947-48) - 25kg/cmq (1950) |
Cylinder head | mated with the engine's blocks, emispheric head design |
Valvetrain | 2 overhead valves for each cylinder, 100° angle |
Valves clearance | 30mm inlet and exhaust |
Crankcase | Elektron cast, mated with chassis trough six bearings |
Crankshaft | cemented steel, counterbalanced |
Crankshaft bearings | 9 bronze bearings with antifriction metal |
Connecting rod bearings | - |
Camshafts | double overhead camshafts operating on five bearings |
Valve control | - |
Distribution control | with gears operating on rollers, front position |
Fuel feed | under pressure with volumetric compressor, one inverted triple choke carburettor |
Compressor | Alfa Romeo type - engine rev * 1.32 pressure 2.5Kg/cmq |
Ignition | t2 magneto generator, 14mm gauge spark plugs |
Lubrication | forced with 3 oil pumps |
Cooling | watercooled with one centrifugla pump and one front radiator |
Trasmission | fixed drive shaft composed by two half shafts with central bearing |
Clutch | dry, steel and aluminium alloy multiple discs, elastic hub |
Gearbox | four speed + reverse gear, mated with differential housing, lateral shift |
Gear ratio | I 1:2.39 |
| II 1:1.66 |
| III 1:1.284 |
| IV 1:1 |
| R 1:2.30 |
Rear axle | - |
Differential ratio | 16/38 |