Originally Posted by selespeed
There is hardly anything wrong with Spica. The only real problem is that there are hardly any mechanics out there who can setup the spica injection in a proper way.
Apart from that an Iniezione badge, doesn't mean the Spica is still actually fitted on the Spider in question. Most Spiders who are brought to Europe have had a carburettor conversion.
Of course, that's working on the assumption that our poster is in Europe.

I really wish newbies would learn to fill in the "country" field.

I mean it's not like the geographic location has
anything at all to do with the sale price of a car.
As for SPICA haters ---
The fuel injection system really is a perfect representation of Alfa. For starters, as best I can tell, it was internally developed -- not an outsourced, bolted on piece of equipment from some other supplier -- an importance difference that seems to cause a bit of concern at AO, especially in these days when Alfa is using non-Alfa originated engine parts.

It was a highly advanced system for it's time -- and don't I always here about how far ahead of the engineering curve Alfa always is/was? It is truly a quirky, unique little set-up, characteristics which are trademark features of Alfa Romeo. Plus when it works it works, and when it gets buggered up, it really, really doesn't work (or so I hear, as I have no personal experience with this type of problem). After hanging around this forum for a couple of years, I have to say that really sounds like the definition of an Alfa.
--Toronto