Modified Ferrari 348

[Angelis]

snotrag said:

Was the payment made on a Credit Card to a 'company' or a bank transfer? If Credit card the bank should be able to get your money back I would have though.

Bank transfer.

Too late to get it back.

I can only wait and hope now.

[snotrag]

Thinking positively - it may be that the bankrupt fella is selling off personally all his odds and sods to raise whatever cash he can...

[CraigW]

angelis, ferrari stalker, tell all!

[Whatty]

CraigW said:

angelis, ferrari stalker, tell all!

Agreed, we're waiting

[CraigW]

I seem to recall someone else had an issue with him also, thats a bit disturbing but I'd try not to get too overly concerned about it, thats what he wants.

[Angelis]

In case you are wondering where the stalker story posts have gone, I decided to delete them as it doesn't really fit in with the thread.

Edited by Angelis on Saturday 13th February 10:37

[Waiter]

To be honest I preferred it when it was about the car.

The rest I have no interest in at all.

[Angelis]

All about the car from now on.

[carter711]

The power of the internet

[lewis87]

haha quite an interesting read.

[Libertine]

Well, he deserved what came to him. Sounds like a smart arse who got outsmarted!

After reading many posts on Club Scuderia, it sounds like there are a few more Ferrari owners just as irritating...though they can't all be like that.

The only one that I've ever known, wasn't

Now back to the car...what's next?

[Angelis]

Libertine said:

Now back to the car...what's next?

I have to decide by monday the colour of the dampers.

Main bodies are black... but I can choose the other ones.

Not sure which colour to go for. Tempted by the purple.



I also have to source a water pump which can be a problem. New one costs £905 plus vat and my costs are escalating. I can have one rebuilt for around £195 though, but i'm not too sure about that.

Whilst 348 water pumps have been reliable, if they have a catostraphic failure, it can destroy the engine. This is because the cambelt powers it. I've marked it on the pic below.




I also nearly got this rear spoiler on ebay. Turns out it's not carnon fibre, but fibreglass.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FERRARI-355-CHALLENGE-REAR-S...

It would look something like this on the car. Although the car pictured is a 355.

[mat205125]

I'd forget the spoiler personally. I fear you'd end up explaining that it's not an mr2 in drag all the time.

[Transmitter Man]

Angelis,

How about a remote mount electric water pump: http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CSI-903DPRKIT/

This is the only model I coul;d find that offered off-engine remote mounting.

Most of these mount in place of the stock waterpump on many American V8's.

Commonly used in various motorsports so not sure if there's enough flow for a daily driver.

Enjoying the read.

Phil

[OlberJ]

Spoiler makes it what it is i think.

Keep with the purposeful "modding" just don't go adding anything for the hell of it and as for the colour of the shockers? Keep it simple.

Loving what you're doing with the car, excellent work.

[Track_Cit]

Great car mate!

Edited by Track_Cit on Thursday 15th October 22:57

[deviant]

I was going to suggest an electric water pump however I would be very careful with how it is installed.

Although a different caliber of car I used to have a highly strung, supercharged MK1 MR2 that was running an electric water pump. One day out on the road the plug came adrift which of course turned off the pump. I only noticed something was wrong when the temp gauge fell down to cold then bounced to hot and back down again followed by the smell of burning coolant.

Luckily Toyota reliabaility won the day and there was no damage done.

If I was going to use one again I would figure out a way of having a warning light or buzzer that comes on if the pump is not receiving power.

I did find the pump good for a few other things though...

When it came to draining and refilling the system I just had to turn the ignition on and let the pump prime the system for me.

I also experimented with having a turbo timer wired in to the pump and radiator fans which you might find handy. My MR2 used to create some monumental heat which was very hard to evacuate from the engine bay and on trackdays it would heatsoak between sessions so I set the turbo timer to keep the water pump running and the radiator fans running so coolant would keep flowing and be cooled down while the engine was off...made a huge difference!

[Angelis]

Changing the water pump to an electric one would just be more work for us.

Most specilaists have never even changed the original water pump on the 348, so I'm sticking to that.

But keep the suggestions coming.

[CraigW]

hey angelis, surprised you said its a bit hairy above 130, my 94GTS was rock solid at vmax at up to 170. (apart from the time when I got new tyres and the berk at the tyre place pumped them up to about 45psi and I almost crashed on the M3 at about 75!!)

mental story by the way!

[_Batty_]

Angelis said:

Changing the water pump to an electric one would just be more work for us.

Most specilaists have never even changed the original water pump on the 348, so I'm sticking to that.

But keep the suggestions coming.

i'd be keen to purely get it inspected.
once out get the tolerances and bearing checks, and replace it if a-ok.
otherwise look to get it rebuilt.
surely its only the bearings or the impellers that would fail?