Ferrari Mailing List: Re: The Official Ferrari Magazine (TOFM)

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

Thanks for the head’s up.

 

Really? In this day of CNC machining, it takes that long to make a crank? With the beginning of the V-8 production, they went to machining forged pieces instead of whittling away a big solid round bar to save time (I remember reading in the Michael Dregni book “Inside Ferrari” a stat was stated that a V-12 crank started off as a 300+ lb bar, turned down to something around 50lbs. Needless to say a LOT of machining steps were needed to accomplish that). Far easier (read = cheaper) to machine the precise profile starting from a rough shape in the case of the V-8 crank forgings. Regardless of billet V-12, or forged V-8, they were all hogged out by men on old-fashioned manual lathes and grinders.

 

25 days is an eternity in the Marchionne era of high volume... How many CNC machining centers would be needed to supply 8000+/- cranks (or 10K if you throw in the remaining V-12s) within a manufacturing year?

 

Peter

 

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From: Michel Savard
Sent: February 23, 2018 4:58 PM
To: PeterGT4
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: [Ferrari] The Official Ferrari Magazine (TOFM)

 

The Official Ferrari Magazine is an excellent magazine written by Ferrari. They are very expensive. The only time I got one (actually 2) was after visiting the factory (2009 and 2016) and at the end of the visit they gave the visitors a magazine.
Fortunately, they do have a newsletter that is free. I love reading their articles. For example. earlier this week was an article on the 50th anniversary of the Daytona. Today, I got an article about the V-8 engines. Did you know it takes 25 days to make one crankshaft ?

It’s worth subscribing, it’s free, they don’t bother you with useless emails.

Michael Savard (1981 308 GTSi)
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