Friendship and the List | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Grahame Reinthal (grahame![]() |
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Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 19:51:26 -0700 (PDT) |
It was my pleasure recently to meet Phil
T. here in We spent an afternoon together trekking
around doing Ferrari stuff. Phil and I first went to Cavallino Motorsport, a
great Ferrari engineering shop run by Miles Sandy and Russell Reeves, who did
my 328 conversion of the 308gt4, including EFI and MoTec and other stuff, plus the
360 brake conversion on the same car so it pulls up fantastically. We then
picked up Clyde from his hotel and met up with Gerry Duyvestyn (long time
Ferrari guy, former club president and so on) who is a mad car nutter with a
beautiful 330 and about 30 project cars including Indy cars, Lambos, Ferraris
and in particular an 840 horsepower twin supercharged v12 Ferrari/Ford T-bucket
- you have to see it to believe it. Gerry's business manufactures and
provides lots of unobtanium parts for older Ferraris, from about the 355 back,
including windscreens (even for Testarossas - Clyde was quite excited about
this) and all sorts of things, and he is also behind Mille Miglia exhausts, the
anti-oil surge sumps for 308s, etcetera. We had a great afternoon
together and then I dropped them both back to their respective digs. Anyway, inspired by all this, I took the
328gt4 out for a run over the week-end after a long time of enforced dormancy (my
back has been so bad I physically could not get into the car). It drove really
well but when it came time to turn on the lights (after 20 years of my
ownership), it has suddenly developed the stupid, flappy, blinky headlight syndrome!
It does not seem to be a mechanical cam and rod problem - seems to be purely
electrical because it does different things each time I try to operate the
lights. One will go up, then down, then both will go up, then down, then both
won't go up at all, then both might go up, but straight back down again. The
net result - no lights. I suspect either the relays or more likely dust
or corrosion of the switch gear in the steering column. Any of you had this
issue? Oh well, life is a journey, not a destination. And it's an old Ferrari,
after all, so what can you expect? But it is certainly not yet ready for Cheers, Grahame |
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