Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Franco Gozzi's book

[Douglas Anderson (dnt]

400R stories?  Here’s one - No basis and no facts but it circulated amongst the tranny techs – RR got a hold of one of the first sent over to them.  Their engineers took it all apart and were aghast at the roughness of alleged machining and quality.  Oh well, it’s a start they said – so they set about making it RR approved.  Reassembled it - - - - and it didn’t work.  Too slippery or something.

Shrug

 

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Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Franco Gozzi's book

 

Speed bumps around town. Unavoidable. Steep inclines too. 

 

IIRC, yes. The venerable 400 was used by many manufacturers. RR included. 

 

There is a story behind Ferrari engineers working with GM. I remember hearing it but can’t recall it now. You can probably imagine that conversation. 

 

 

 

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On Nov 29, 2020, at 10:43 AM, Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:



Was this automatic the same one also used by RR ?  the U.S. Turbo Hydro 400R.

Doug

 

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Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Franco Gozzi's book

 

Could be. 

 

Automatics are better for our driving. Traffic sucks. 

 

I found an article about a swap:

 

https://www.onallcylinders.com/2015/04/24/ask-away-swapping-out-a-th-400-for-an-4l80e-overdrive-transmission/

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