Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 328gt4

[Francis Newman (francis]

Hi Grahame

Any pics

Sounds nice

best

Francis

On 20 Aug 2006, at 16:57, Grahame Reinthal wrote:

> > What car are you enjoying down there?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have only recently found some of the various Ferrari chat groups  
> on the
> net (FerrariChat, Ferrari-Talk, both browser-based, and Ferraritech  
> and this
> Ferrarilist, both e-mail based). I am not sure how many of you use  
> all of
> the others, or how they are all related to each other, or not, as  
> the case
> may be...  Anyway, do you tend to use one group for certain kinds of
> questions?  Are the different largely groups different kind of  
> folks?  Or
> what?
>
> And since you asked, well, it's a long story, but I have a 328gt4  
> (not a
> typo).  It's a 1977 308gt4 into which we transplanted a 328 motor,  
> changed
> the mechanical injection of that to electronic sequential (using  
> 348 rails
> and injectors), did a zillion other little things and now run it  
> all through
> a MoTec M48 engine management system. It still retain the original
> gearbox/transaxle, and everything all fits perfectly, and to look  
> at the car
> from the outside you would never know, until you open the engine  
> cover.
>
> It is a very neat and tidy job - quite elegant really, although I  
> suppose
> it's put paid to my concours d'elegance days... and so I tender my  
> apologies
> to the originality purists amongst you!
>
> By the way, here is a technical question - anybody using silicon brake
> fluid? What is your experience of this?
>
> Cheers for now,
>
> Grahame
>
> P.S. I do have a bunch of other questions relating to brake  
> upgrades, wheel
> upgrades, best track tyres, efficient exhausts and other things,  
> but I will
> wait till I have these issues a bit clearer in my mind after some more
> archive reading and digging around!
>
>
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