Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 575 shake down

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

I didn’t say much to anyone, but I’m in the midst of finishing up my timing belt job now... I went ten years since I did it last.

 

Yes, 2009 was the last time I did my belts.

 

This isn’t the 1970s, rubber and the fiber reinforcing technology has come a very, very long way. I pulled these belts off and the rubber felt perfectly pliable. No dry rot or any signs of breakdown. Even the bearings – which were probably the last batch of European-made SKF – rolled butter smooth. No grease puking out the sides of the seals either, they looked literally like brand new. These belts aren’t made from “magic fairy dust”, they are made in the same factories that make them for all of the other OEM manufacturers who need to stand behind multi-year and super-high mileage warranties. Just like industrial hose that must withstand bursting from multiple times working pressure, timing belts are designed to work way beyond a normal service interval (so think decades and six-figure mileages).

 

I had intentions of doing this job a long time ago, but one thing lead to another and here I am. So, new belts and Hill Eng. Bearings went on. I’ll try not to push it that long again, but long-term, I don’t have intentions to sell, so if I do stretch it out, I’m not going to lose sleep trying to please a future buyer.

 

And yet, I just can’t understand why some people pay MASSIVE amounts of money for barn-find cars (that have engines seized up for decades of non-use)...

 

Peter

 

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From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dino308gt4=hotmail.com [at] ferrarilist.com> on behalf of Brian E. Buxton <BrianBuxton [at] BuxtonMotorsports.com>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 12:11:52 PM
To: PeterGT4
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] 575 shake down

 

Buyers are getting nuttier and nuttier about service work ... asked for a buy figure on a 2007 F430 the other day and had a couple of dealers tell me that it needed a clutch in order to retail the car - it had 62% life remaining!  Why would you replace a clutch, brakes or anything else with *over* 50% usable life remaining???  Same as people changing timing belts every 3 years or 10,000 miles.  Belts do not wear out in anywhere near that time frame.  Tensioners are going to be the issue if there is one, but not a belt.

On another note the F1 trans do wear through clutches a lot faster than manuals trans cars.   Lots of slip on takeoff and in shifting.

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On 5/19/19 7:47 AM, Clarence Romero Jr. wrote:

Ok so it’s been in the high 80’s here in Atlanta 

Highway surface temperature over 95 plus

The car is black on black and hey I am not white so the A/C is gotta work

And low and behold it’s a cold one 

Very impressive to say the least 

The motor temps in stop and go traffic are great as well

Looks like Ferrari finally did there homework with regards to keeping these V-12 cool

Nothing anywhere close to the 512 motor temps 

In transmission auto mode pretty smooth shifting 

The car had a new clutch installed a while back and the car only has 26K on it

So I don’t know what the previous owner was doing ? Drag racing?

Anyway my drivers seat stopped working, I know it’s a fuse 

And you will never guess where they put the fuse box on this car

Passenger side, remove foot carpet, unlock panel 

It’s like they stole a page from the circuit breakers panel on the F-14!

I will let Rick cover that one 

Anyway that’s it for now 

Plan on doing an oil change soon so look for that report 

Gotta go guys

Later and thanks for all the great support 

     RF4-4EVR

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