Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Looking to buy a Ferrari

[clyde romero (clyderomero]

I agree very nicely done and I agree on what was said

         
 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Lindsay [mailto:rolindsay [at] yahoo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 8:45 AM
To: clyde
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Looking to buy a Ferrari

Fantastic write-up Doug.  WRT the braided fuel hose,
check with any M-B or BMW supplier.  They still stock
it.  I might add; Replace the old hose clamps with top
quality correct clamps when you do the hoses.  looks
really nice too.

rick

--- Doug and Terri Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:

> My 2¢
> 308s come in 2+2 configuration or 2 seaters.  Tops
> that come off (GTS 
> [Spyder]) and tops that stay on (GTB [Berlietta]). 
> Black bumpers close to 
> the body (Euro) and black bumpers sticking out -
> USofA, and bumpers the 
> color of the car.
> 
> 308's have interior switches that toggle and 328s
> have roundy rounds - a 
> smoother interior.
> 
> The first GTS's had a nice little clock and oil temp
> gauge attached to the 
> lower left corner of the dash.  Try peering at it
> and you go off the road. 
> Later moved to a center console and easier to read.
> 
> If either the 308 or 328 windshield has been
> replaced did the black surround 
> get put back correctly?  Most pop out at the
> corners.
> 
> 308 carb cars have that quintessential BWaaaaaaaaa
> carb sound along with 
> straight cut gears and lots of other nifty noise. 
> The injected cars have a 
> nice shusssssssssssssss sound.
> 
> The 308 engines are flat crank that have their own
> very mechanical sounds - 
> the standard Indy car switched to a flat crank to
> get .00001% more HP but it 
> also sounds mor' betta.
> 
> Ferrari historically has built the carb cars, and
> some V-12s as two engines 
> with a common crankshaft and case.  As it was
> pointed out, loose the 
> ignition on one side and lots of unburned fuel goes
> down the pipe and if you 
> have cats, ignites there.  There is a chance for a
> fire but mostly it will 
> simply melt the substrate - which gives you the old
> potato in the exhaust 
> pipe routine - you stop --- with a cat hot enough to
> light a nice cigar. 
> Stop over some dry grass or trash and it is the gift
> that keeps on giving.
> 
> You drive/drove Jags - ok, you know what fuel, hot
> water and brake fluid 
> smells like.  As in the cars of the Crown - smell
> any of that and stop. 
> Carry a nice illegal halon fire exingusisher.
> Remember to burp your car AND tighten the overflow
> tanks on some 308s. 
> Coolant dumped on to hot headers can and does catch
> fire.  I know that for a 
> fact.
> 
> The early stock cars have what looks like 12" wheels
> (really 14s) that one 
> has a tough time getting some sexy good looking
> tires to fit - unless you go 
> to Coker and at 350 per corner - or some horrendous
> Pebble Beach show car 
> only price you may get the original Michelin 205/70
> x 14 tires - otherwise 
> they have been updated to the QV status with concave
> centers or for some 
> 328s - convex (for ABS - ?) which to my taste loose
> just a tad.
> 
> 308 carbed, 308 injected (unless you know the
> provenance try to go for a 4 
> valve - some of the 2 valve injected cars had piston
> ring - cylinder - what 
> ever problems and though they were supposed all made
> good by the factory or 
> dealers - who knows.
> 
> In any case - you seem to be a guy who knows how to
> disassemble, clean, 
> repair and reassemble so NO car as you buy it will
> be fit for you.  You 
> gotta tinker just a bit.  To that end - all 308s and
> 328s have fish line to 
> raise and lower windows - the factory grease
> evaporates to hard pink soap 
> and after a while your motor burns out.  Now you are
> faced with replacement 
> or repair.  Working with needle like screws (Ferrari
> glues, pop rivets and 
> screws everything together AFTER they assemble it -
> nice touch) so the doors 
> will take you between 4 and 1000 hours to repair.
> 
> Watch your fingers when messing around with head
> light adjustments - 
> disconnect battery.  Those things can take off and
> snip snip pieces of you 
> faster than you can say "ow."
> 
> So that's it - great car - made between 3 and 5 a
> day.  Truly a hand made 
> car - and in many respects - the mechanicals look
> like it.
> 
> Oh - I stayed away from carb talk and fuel line
> stuff - other than be sure 
> to fuel injection hose.  The gas one could purchase
> in the 70s and 80s 
> didn't kill rubber.  The new stuff does and since
> all new cars ARE fuel 
> injected why make good braded hose any more - unless
> you get it from a 
> specialty Ferrari shop.
> 
> Onward - George - I always liked the XK series Jag
> and enjoy watching them 
> at the vintage auto races.
> 
> DOUG 
> 
> 
>
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