[Alpines] bill atalla

[William Lewis]

There is an article in this months Hagerty magazine stating that Bill 
Atalla has built a 165 hp Alpine motor.  Anybody know what mods he used? 
It would be nice to know what mods get you the biggest bump for the buck. 
I have rebuilt my series II car with a 1725 cc motor bored to 0.030 over, 
balanced, ported with the dual exhaust off the early series cars. I have 
an electronic ignition and built an adapter to use the early series 
distributor in the series V block.  I drive my car for fun and I don't 
want to put the $150,000 in my car that Bill put into his.  That would 
definitely impact the fun factor.

I am still using the old Zenith twin carbs with the log manifold.  I would 
like to go with twin side draught carbs but I don't want to have to twist 
the block or relocate the firewall components.  I would also like to have 
a carb that can still use the vacuum advance.  Anyone know of a way to do 
that?

Apparently, Bill wrote a book "Race Car in the Making" and is launching a 
website www.buildyourclassiccar.com  The site is currently under 
construction and I don't see the book on Amazon.

Bill Lewis