Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Fwd: Watch "The 610 WHP Twin-Turbo, Flamespitting Ferrari 348…" on YouTube

[Adam Green (FlatCrank]

What I remember of the 348 is nothing to do with overweight men with tattoos, shaved heads and goatees taking pride in disrespectful treatment of women.  So it goes.

The car, on the other hand, seems great.  Not an easy thing to build, even with a healthy budget and current technology.

What I do remember is chassis flex and contortionist ergonomics with heavy, dead steering that needed narrow tires and just the right suspension and tire pressure to get on a knife edge of handling.  And disconcerting secondary safety.

What I remember about those "shoehorn" after-market turbo's is heat, lag and longevity.  Modern turbos and IC's greatly improve the drivability, but heat is heat and those old drivetrains are not forgiving even if you can fortify a 355 box and try to keep the metal out of the bearings.  Note the blue smoke on a trailing throttle in one of the later shots.

All in all, an impressive build that deserves a lot more professional review -- stats, specs, design, turbo specs, dyno pull, chart, gearing, weight, lap times -- maybe that's all saved for a magazine print sale.  Of course, there's nothing "sleeper" about a Fly Yellow 348, though I'd rather something other than that wing, but it does have a nice look to it as not being over the top.  It would be good to see it do a full track day and drive to/fro the track without issue -- that remains my "proof of the pudding is in the eating" test for any modification to a road car.  That, and good a/c. : )

Adam

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com> wrote:

The 610 WHP Twin-Turbo, Flamespitting Ferrari 348…: http://youtu.be/6KajL7klumA

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