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Well.. how about this, in a last ditch effort i decide to swap the new looking NGK spark plugs out of the new engine with the old champion spark plugs from my old engine. Took it for a 30 minute drive, not one misfire! The NGK plugs that came out of the new engine are heat rating 9 which...

Good ideas guys, next on the list is to check the fuel pressure / fuel spray pattern at the injectors, all the sensors appear to be OK, i checked the throttle position sensor... reads 0.5v with throttle closed and 4.5 volts fully open, with no voltage spikes noted when moving the throttle. If...

Thanks for that, yes i have visited on several occasions, great site, too bad there isn't a live forum... it could be months before a post is made and replies come in! There is an active forum for these models in the Netherlands.. but little english on there. Good thought... the fuel was...

OK... where to start, i recently installed a replacement engine into my '95 Ghibli. The transplant went smoothly, the car worked perfectly for 3 days and approx 80kms, it had excellent power. Then, when i was driving the engine started to have an intermittent stumble / hesitation / slight...

OK i can already answer my first question, i can use my existing 6 bolt flywheel and mate to the crank with provisions for 8 bolts, you just need to drill two extra holes in the flywheel. The bolt spacing is the same, just 2 less bolts. Decision time... replace or rebuild... i just want to...

Well after looking into this available engine in more detail it has came from a later '97 GT, so it has a Voith clutch and flywheel with 8 bolts, instead of the 6 bolts of earlier versions.... this could possibly be a problem as i was hoping to use the original clutch as it has less than...

Well thanks for the encouragement, when i have more time i might look at a rebuilding the original engine. The annoying thing is i bought this car simply to drive and enjoy! I just finished and sold a long term Alfa 105 GTV restoration project, i wasn't looking for another project! Cheers

I did consider repair, although i'm a bit time poor and and i'm not sure if i'm willing to pull the engine apart myself. Labor here is quite expensive, and by the time you add parts, which could be a rod, a sleeve, rings, gudgeons, head gaskets and who knows what else (how long is a piece of...

Thanks for the warm welcome guys, i wish my first post here was something more enjoyable but i'll get the Ghibli back on the road soon enough. May the guy that sold me the car have bad automotive karma for the next 5 years, as i'm sure he was aware of the problem, but anyway, the car is in very...

Thanks for the suggestions guys, and the links are great. I appears that most useable engines for sale appear to be around the 2800-3500 euro mark. My Ghibli is an early January '95 build, so it has the coilpack ignition engine but with 5 spd gearbox and no ABS. Does anyone know if mating a ZF...

Hi everyone, it's an unfortunate first post but i'm on the hunt for a Ghibli 2.8 engine in good condition (post '94 engine with coilpacks on plug, not the earlier distributor version). I don't require any ancillaries such as turbos etc just a complete (assembled!) head and block. I have...