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From: Grahame Reinthal (grahame![]() |
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Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 04:14:09 -0700 (PDT) |
Hi Rui, Thanks from the opposite side of the
world for the link you sent - the translator produces some amusing English but
I get the gist of it perfectly and it is very informative. So this is my next
project! BTW, how are you and the family? And how is your
immaculately restored 328? What other car projects do you have at the moment? Cheers for now, Grahame From:
Rui Gigante [mailto:rui.gigante [at] gmail.com] Hi Grahame and all, On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Grahame Reinthal <grahame [at] reinthal.com.au>
wrote: 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 - 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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