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Originally Posted by E150GT
Is The Italian Tuneup Good For Gassers Or No?
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Don't take this as gospel, but when I first heard the term decades ago, I understood it to mean this.
When the high performance European Sports Cars, arrived in America, after WWII, in the prosperous 50's and 60's, many of the owners were older wealthy individuals, who drove them conservatively and around town, primarily. Well they loaded up and began to run poorly, spit back through the carb(s) usually Multi-Webers on Ferrari's and Alfa's, Maserati's were notorious. Multi-S.U.s, on our British, Jaguar's, Aston-Martin's, MG's, etc.
The owner would return the car to the Garage or Dealer and everything would check out as satisfactory. Maybe a change of Spark Plugs, or just a fast high speed drive, where the engines and cars were used as designed for high speeds over a distance of 100 miles, many times less, with the engines being run to redline and held at high-rev's for most of the run. This would heat everything up to proper operating temperatures and help in blowing the crud and deposits on the spark plugs, valves and pistons and ring packs, clean. So, running the piss out of it, is an "Italian Tune-Up". Works on everything!
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