Ferrari Mailing List: Re: UFI Oil Filters - no watch or gun content

[Britt2Asa (Britt2Asa]

No, sorry Bubba. No urban legend. I read about it here and told my  mechanic. 
He said he doubted it and muttered something about people not knowing  how to 
tighten a filter. Less than two weeks later he had 3 of his customers  blow 
the filters and then he was a believer! One of these guys is a close  neighbor 
who destroyed his 328 engine. Ended up buying a new engine from Egham  
(marenello spares). Tried to claim off Ferrari UK and they didn't want to know. 
 
Happened to a few guys here in the UK FOC that I know. It was the Ferrari List  
that I first heard about it on and I made sure my car didn't have one of those  
bad batch filters. From then on I used Baldwins (on the 328) but the 400i and 
my  Alfa have been happy on UFIs....
 
Britt

Hey  Paul: I've had my gt4 since June, 1999, and changed filters every 4K, 
using  only UFIs. I've put 50K on it with NO oil baths. But then, it's only a  
Shitbox, right cLyDe?

Sounds like a 99% urban legend to me. Think of  all the UFIs used all over 
the world, and how many actually burst. Sounds like  it's a toss-up on whether 
you get hit by a?piece of space junk?or have a UFI  malfunction first.

Juan Manuel Fangio? probably owes his life to, when  jumping into his 
Mercedes 300SLR at the start of the 1955 LeMans du?24, having  the gearshift 
lever 
run up inside his pants leg, delaying his start by some 20  seconds. Fangio was 
some?50 meters behind Mike Hawthorn and Pierre Leveigh  when they came 
together on the pit straight, killing Levegh and some 80 odd  spectators. In 
all the 
thousands of LeMans type starts that have taken place  over the years, That's 
the only one that I've ever heard of that a driver, whe  jumping into his car, 
stuffed the gearshift knob up his pants-leg. I guess it  happens about as 
often as a UFI bursts, or you get hit on the head by the  frozern contents of 
an 
airliner toilet.
?

Yer pal, Ferrari  Bubba







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