Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Someone is about to get burned

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

If you read through the service invoices, you’ll find that they went through the whole fuel system, which on a car that has been sitting for prolonged periods of time, it will need.

 

The Bosch K-Jetronic is an amazing system, but is primarily mechanical. When I was looking for a 328 last year, nearly every example had running/starting issues ( even the one Dominic & Lash looked at for me in Connecticut). It’s amazing, but incredibly complex that if one subsystem is “off”, it throws the whole thing out of whack and doesn’t run right. Common failures are the warm-up regulator, fuel pump, pump check-valve, idle air bypass device and finally the fuel distributor (which on US cars runs off a signal from an O2 sensor and ECU to control fuel flow/pressure levels to trim emissions output) . All of these items will feature rubber O-rings/seals that regardless of mileage, will degrade, usually from exposure to the fuel (especially today’s ethanol mixes which seem to be everywhere). If you’re paying someone to do all of the Re&Re work, crack open the wallet, because none of those parts are cheap and neither is the time. Hell, I even had to replace the fuel pressure regulators on my Mondial last year and it could’ve cost over $1400 in parts alone! I found aftermarket replacements for way less and it’s been running great, but people are ignorant, or kidding themselves if they expect these fuel-related items to last forever (they don’t...).

 

( https://www.ferrariparts.co.uk/part/ferrari/137960  but these are the same spec but made from Stainless and with Viton rubber diaphragms for fuel resistance:  https://herko.com/Retail/new-fuel-pressure-regulator-herko-pr4061-for-various-vehicles-1972-1998.html )

 

The invoices also note major work to the ventilation system which again, reveal parts that have been adapted to make it work because the originals are NLA and replacements didn’t work properly! I’ve got the 328 manual, there are several pages devoted just to adjusting the LED switches to turn the thing on and off and set the temperature! And Ferrari had TWO versions of these switches during the production of the 328! Oh ya, they were also used in the Testarossa and 412. I wonder how many of those are still working...

 

Peter

 

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From: BRITT ROTHMAN via Ferrari
Sent: April 1, 2022 1:13 AM
To: PeterGT4
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Someone is about to get burned

 

You know guys, I had a 328gts for 7 happy years. And if somebody wants to pay stupid money for one then so be it. Not worth that money to me in a million years but I guess if you have more money then you can spend you don’t care….

However, that aside I have restored, to a proper level over 20 cars, mostly Italian and I learned from the best in the U.K. I have to say I don’t understand how you can spend 39k dollars to do the work listed in the advert unless US shop prices are a supreme ripoff, OR 2. There is more work being required than listed. And then the question is why? I had 80k miles on my 328 and it didn’t require the majority of work listed. And a cam belt service at any number of shops in the U.K. with a water pump rebuild is still less than 1500k GBP ( including 20% VAT) and a 3-4 day job. ( so about 2200.00 USD). So I don’t know what the hell somebody paid 39k for but sounds like utter BS to me but then hey, it’s their money  ( of course at that rate it soon will be everyone else’s money but stupid is what stupid does).
The second point however and I stand by this - the underside of that car with the pictures shown is many many times lower than I would expect for a car with this miles and that price. That car wouldn’t even get to start to compete at the FOC concours in the U.K. ( I entered many times) and there are at least a dozen 328s I know personally in the U.K. alone in much better condition both from the engine bay pictures and the underneath that are valued for insurance purposes at about 120k USD. My point is, that is not a “nice” car. I can see it in the pictures and I assume it’s worse in person. The seller and the buyer either don’t understand what a “nice” clean car is or they didn’t care. But that car is not even close to the condition that warrant 1/3 of the price. I really don’t think people understand what I good Ferrari looks like OR the market in the US is so distorted compared to the Euro market that this is “normal” for us buyers. Glad I don’t live there anymore (at least for the Ferrari market).

And yes, anybody can spend what they want on what they want so don’t reply and tell me that. I’m just saying that whoever bought that thing must either not know or not care but nobody is going to tell me the car is nice or in good condition. (And my 328 was a lhd which are worth less in the U.K. than RHD).

Changing subject:

I’m taking the 512tr (ex-Clyde) to it’s big import inspection on Tuesday. wish me luck! It’s very strict, very long and without it I can’t use the car here. The snow has cleared enough that I can get it to the inspection station. Once inspected I can get plates and then it’s a summer of Scandinavian driving for the ex Atlanta car!

BR in Stockholm

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> On 31 Mar 2022, at 23:23, Robert Garven <rgarven [at] gmail.com> wrote:
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> I respectfully disagree!  Ha That price is insane, I wonder what this earlier handbuilt fully restored much rarer
>  car with real carburetors would sell for!
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> Classic Pinn design
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