Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari Digest, Vol 186, Issue 219

[Robert W. Garven Jr. (rgarven]

Looks like the seal housing on the 308 by the distributor.

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> On Jan 31, 2022, at 9:35 PM, CHRIS HILL via Ferrari <ferrari [at] 
> ferrarilist.com> wrote:
> 
> Clyde, that’s a seal housing , not a cam retainer, I’ve seen a number of 355 
> ones cracked, my guess is a cam seal may have been installed unevenly and 
> cracked that housing, they are fairly fragile and can be damaged putting new 
> seals in them, the ones I have seen cracked were  around the area where the 
> rubber o ring portion meets the main body of the seal housing. 
> Buy a new one and put it in. 
> The cams are retained by the front cam bearing cap and journal. 
> 
> Thank you 
> Chris Hill
> 
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>>  1. IMSA Daytona 24 Hrs. GTD Pro (georgedodson [at] comcast.net)
>>  2. Re: IMSA Daytona 24 Hrs. GTD Pro (Rick Moseley)
>>  3. Re: This is crazy (Peter Rychel)
>>  4. Re: Cam retainer crack (Peter Rychel)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 16:25:06 -0500
>> From: <georgedodson [at] comcast.net>
>> To: <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
>> Subject: [Ferrari] IMSA Daytona 24 Hrs. GTD Pro
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>> Did anyone watch the IMSA Daytona 24 Hrs ? In GTD Pro there was a
>> knock-down-drag out between the two lead cars Jaminet and Vanthoor, both
>> driving Porsches, in the last 6 minutes or so. They were banging doors,
>> cutting each other off, taking some real chances and becoming more
>> aggressive on each lap. It had to end badly for at least one driver. Sure
>> enough, Vanthoor was struck and spun around into the grass, allowing the
>> Risi 488, by to finish second! It kind of reminded me of two F1 drivers at
>> the led of last season. 
>> 
>> 
>> George 
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>> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:43:53 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net>
>> To: "georgedodson [at] comcast.net" <georgedodson [at] comcast.net>
>> Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] IMSA Daytona 24 Hrs. GTD Pro
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>> There was a huge LMP field this year, nice to see.? Castroneves ran a good 
>> race.The Porsche guys put on a show.? Glad they didn't pull them or assign 
>> penalties... just let them race.
>> 
>> In the recent Steve Nichols interviews they asked him about the recent 
>> F1?(Max/Lewis) conflicts on track and how he would characterize them.? He 
>> said they seemed pretty tame.
>> He expounded by saying when Senna and Prost were going at it, publicly Senna 
>> said it was just a racing incident. ? But their Telemetry showed he hit 
>> Prost and buried the throttle until the two of them came to a stop against 
>> the wall. 
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>>   On Monday, January 31, 2022, 01:25:18 PM PST, georgedodson [at] 
>> comcast.net <georgedodson [at] comcast.net> wrote:  
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>> Did anyone watch the IMSA Daytona 24 Hrs ? In GTD Pro there was a
>> knock-down-drag out between the two lead cars Jaminet and Vanthoor, both
>> driving Porsches, in the last 6 minutes or so. They were banging doors,
>> cutting each other off, taking some real chances and becoming more
>> aggressive on each lap. It had to end badly for at least one driver. Sure
>> enough, Vanthoor was struck and spun around into the grass, allowing the
>> Risi 488, by to finish second! It kind of reminded me of two F1 drivers at
>> the led of last season. 
>> 
>> 
>> George 
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>> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 05:00:02 +0000
>> From: Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com>
>> To: Anthony Bauco <tbauco [at] gmail.com>
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>> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] This is crazy
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>> You can also thank all of the QE/stimulus spending over the years to drive 
>> currencies down into the dumps (first with the self-inflicted ?08/?09 
>> housing market crisis and now this).
>> 
>> But even China is getting too expensive to operate in. They?re farming out 
>> production to cheaper neighboring countries. I don?t think you can 
>> incentivize enough to bring that level of tech back to North America (which 
>> only causes further inflation if you?re handing out money at those levels!). 
>> Sure, Intel is building ginormous chip fabs in Arizona, but how much of a 
>> dent is that going to make on the market? Asia still holds more than 80% of 
>> production and they?ve built that up over decades. To amortize that Arizona 
>> plant (@ $20B total) each chip is going to loose money that really, they?ll 
>> never make back. Unless they can churn out trillions of them (and that 
>> depends if they can get enough material!).
>> 
>> Back to cars, it really is wide-spread. My local GM dealership is a ghost 
>> town ? I?ve never seen the parking lot that empty...
>> 
>> Peter
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>> From: Anthony Bauco<mailto:tbauco [at] gmail.com>
>> Sent: January 31, 2022 5:58 AM
>> To: PeterGT4<mailto:dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com>
>> Cc: The FerrariList<mailto:ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] This is crazy
>> 
>> Step 1: Open trade with communist country.  Thanks Nixon.
>> Step 2: Say nothing and do nothing as more and more companies ship 
>> manufacturing to China.  Thanks to every president from Nixon to Obama.  Now 
>> our national security is in China's hands.
>> Step 3: Try to even the playing field by imposing tariffs with the hope that 
>> companies will shift manufacturing back to the US.
>> Step 4: Impose crippling mandates that will crush businesses and supply 
>> chain infrastructure due to virus released by China (retaliation? gross 
>> incompetence?)
>> Step 5: What the fuck do we do now?
>> 
>> The future of the entire world depends on what we do now.  Will people bitch 
>> and moan if we spend money to incentivise companies to move manufacturing 
>> back here instead of giving free shit to buy votes?
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 2:22 AM Robert W. Garven Jr. <rgarven [at] 
>> gmail.com<mailto:rgarven [at] gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 150k over sticker!!
>> 
>> https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/control-buyers-paying-thousands-sticker-price-cars/story?id=82489039
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>> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 05:06:12 +0000
>> From: Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com>
>> To: Clarence Romero Jr. <clyderomerof4 [at] gmail.com>
>> Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Cam retainer crack
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>> Turf it and get one machined from solid billet. I would not be surprised if 
>> that was a die-cast piece.
>> 
>> Can you take better, close up pictures so we can see why it cracked? 
>> Probably a stress-riser like a casting mark. I can see I a divot-like 
>> indentation just beside your finger tip that looks like where the crack may 
>> have started from.
>> 
>> Peter
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>> From: Clarence Romero Jr.<mailto:clyderomerof4 [at] gmail.com>
>> Sent: January 31, 2022 6:52 AM
>> To: PeterGT4<mailto:dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com>
>> Cc: The FerrariList<mailto:ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
>> Subject: [Ferrari] Cam retainer crack
>> 
>> While doing the service on the 575 we found a cam retainer crack
>> Car has 52k on it
>> It?s a 2003
>> 
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>> Scars are Tattoos with better stories !
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>> If you have no enemies, you have no character !
>> 
>> Clyde Romero
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