Generator 80 KW 1999 Diesel Engine of Alfa Romeo, 1999

When AVL’s Alfa Romeo 164 was transformed into the chicken run Alfa Alfa, the car’s engine – a 150 horsepower turbo diesel – became a generator, which supplied electricity. The cooling system was connected to the hot water system reservoir. In the metamorphosis, the sexy powerful Italian engine fused with the serious Dutch Heemaf generator. In typical Dutch style, this generator is made, not of cast iron, but constructed from tubes and sheets of steel. The electronic regulation parts (cybernetics) were improvised by AVL. While providing power, the generator holds three worlds of design: the Italian, the Dutch and the homemade improvisation that binds the former two together.