Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Effect of track time on valuation- Now "R" Rated!

[Douglas Anderson (dnt]

Red line on a new engine?  Hey, I shared this before but I like doing it so here it is again . . .

1979 – Ferrari Factory – August 1^st – “CHIUSO – FERRAGOSTO” – the Roman Holiday.  In Italy August is shut down nation wide. 

So Tibor and I drop off our fellow traveler at the Ljubljana airport in what was then Yugoslavia and agree on one thing – ROAD TRIP to Modena.

The factory then, unlike the huge Disneyland it is today, just popped up on the left hand side of the street – Brick building with FERRARI across the top. Just like the pictures.  We pull up across the street and walk into the little guard office on the right side of the main building.  He doesn’t speak English and while Tibor speaks a half dozen languages – none are Italian.  Who speaks English?  Sign language and at 1:00 be back here.

We walk across the street to the factory’s small Pizzeria.  There ain’t nobody around other than a nice guy behind the counter.  We have lunch.  12:45 we’re back in the small, very small, waiting room made smaller because of the F1 car in it.  Behind the wall are yellow 8” or 9” tiles in a checkerboard design of yellow tiles, every other one with a Cavallino on it. 

In front of the wall – with its aft end shoved up against the unique checkerboard is the current F1 car.  On one side is a driver name – Gilles Villeneuve.  On the other is Jody Scheckter.  Two for one.  I busy myself taking pictures.

At 1:00 a nice young man comes through a door and asks in good English – what can I do for you?  We’d like to know if we could have a small tour of the factory.  Oh, do you work for Ferrari?  No.  Do you own a Ferrari?  No.  Do you work at an independent shop on Ferrari?  No.  Well then – waving his hand circumscribing the very small waiting room, you have seen a little of the Ferrari factory. 

Fearing that that was that – and what’s to lose I tell him we both have a history of Porsche; and in the heart of all Porsche owners Ferrari is the car to own.  Oh he says – checking his very big watch – I can spare 45 minutes – will that do?  Yes and may I bring my camera?  Yes.  And we’re off.

Now here’s where engine break in period for a Ferrari engine comes in.  Mind you there is no one else to be seen.  Everything is shut down. 

We leave the waiting room, go under the brick arch, and crunch crunch cruch across a gravel court yard heading to the far building where the final assembly takes place.  About half way there, 1:10, a loud siren goes off for about 10 seconds.  I ask is that the usual end-of-lunch whistle?  No . . . we’re testing an engine.  If it stays together . . . we ship it.  Crunch crunch crunch.

And that’s the factory break in method.

Pictures?  Oh yes – all slides.  One of these days gotta do a slide to CD job.  Now where did I put that fine Kodak Carousel?

Doug

 

From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com> On Behalf Of Robert Garven
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 12:54 PM
To: DOUG <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Effect of track time on valuation- Now "R" Rated!

 

Friends,

 

I know we all do this I heard at the factory they started the new engines up and drove them around

at redline without even breaking them in. Like the story of the car coming to the US with a wine bottle 

behind the front seat!  HA

 

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

 

 

Rob

 

just to prove the back seats are usable. Pic from a GT4 photographer in LA!  Ha

 

 

On Nov 25, 2020, at 12:09 PM, Hans E. Hansen <FList [at] hanshansen.org> wrote:

 

My warm up routine was/is relatively easy:

I live on a long steep hill.  A brief driveway idle period - like 60
seconds, then down the hill with no load on the engine.  I rationalize
that all the mechanical bits are turning for the 3/4 mile to the
bottom, circulating the fluids.  Then about 3/4 mile at very light
throttle - low speed, level ground.  For most of my cars I call this
good enough.  But for the departed GT4, I turned down a long
residential street with a speed limit of 35mph for about 3 miles.
Then a higher speed section for another 2 miles.  Then 60mph at light
throttle back into town, about 5 miles.  Good to go.

Hans.

On 11/24/20, Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

Rick, you bring up the warming up routine.

Has anyone ever installed a block heater on a Ferrari engine to speed up the
warming-up phase?

I’m almost tempted to install one into the 308. I’d consider it a big help
for the engine, seeing as it takes an annoyingly long time to get this thing
up to temp, before I put some serious speed on it (freeway on-ramp is too
close to home, so I take the “long” way around the neighborhood).

Peter

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