Purchased a 360 Modena Manual
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Hi there
So a few months ago I added my second Ferrari to the stable, a 360 Modena manual to go alongside my 458.
I absolutely love it, spent a long time searching for a good example which was not in need of thousands spending on it to bring it upto a standard I would be happy with. The car was never advertised and was under the care of AV Engineering the past four years. Had it a few months now and I love it, the car also has the extremely rare Novitec exhaust setup, sounds incredible!
Over the past couple of weeks I've spent many days machine polishing the car the bring the paint to perfection, to then protect it I added a coating of Gtechniq CSL ceramic and EXO coatings, also ceramic coated the wheels and restored all the trims, interior has undergone treatment using Ferrari's own leather cleaning and conditioning products.
Am over the moon with the results.
So a few months ago I added my second Ferrari to the stable, a 360 Modena manual to go alongside my 458.
I absolutely love it, spent a long time searching for a good example which was not in need of thousands spending on it to bring it upto a standard I would be happy with. The car was never advertised and was under the care of AV Engineering the past four years. Had it a few months now and I love it, the car also has the extremely rare Novitec exhaust setup, sounds incredible!
Over the past couple of weeks I've spent many days machine polishing the car the bring the paint to perfection, to then protect it I added a coating of Gtechniq CSL ceramic and EXO coatings, also ceramic coated the wheels and restored all the trims, interior has undergone treatment using Ferrari's own leather cleaning and conditioning products.
Am over the moon with the results.
Edited by Gibbo205 on Wednesday 17th April 14:17
That looks lovely.
An interesting choice to go along side the 458. I still have my 430 (which is for sale) alongside my 258 and I can't imagine choosing the 430 over the 458.
I spent a week with the 430 again the other week and loved it, it's very different and I love the way it looks. But I only drove it because I like to make sure it moves.
An interesting choice to go along side the 458. I still have my 430 (which is for sale) alongside my 258 and I can't imagine choosing the 430 over the 458.
I spent a week with the 430 again the other week and loved it, it's very different and I love the way it looks. But I only drove it because I like to make sure it moves.
Gibbo205 said:
Hi there
So a few months ago I added my second Ferrari to the stable, a 360 Modena manual to go alongside my 458.
I absolutely love it, spent a long time searching for a good example which was not in need of thousands spending on it to bring it upto a standard I would be happy with. The car was never advertised and was under the care of AV Engineering the past four years. Had it a few months now and I love it, the car also has the extremely rare Novitec exhaust setup, sounds incredible!
Over the past couple of weeks I've spent many days machine polishing the car the bring the paint to perfection, to then protect it I added a coating of Gtechniq CSL ceramic and EXO coatings, also ceramic coated the wheels and restored all the trims, interior has undergone treatment using Ferrari's own leather cleaning and conditioning products.
Am over the moon with the results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4Se0ac6C4
Would love to see pictures of the 2 together.So a few months ago I added my second Ferrari to the stable, a 360 Modena manual to go alongside my 458.
I absolutely love it, spent a long time searching for a good example which was not in need of thousands spending on it to bring it upto a standard I would be happy with. The car was never advertised and was under the care of AV Engineering the past four years. Had it a few months now and I love it, the car also has the extremely rare Novitec exhaust setup, sounds incredible!
Over the past couple of weeks I've spent many days machine polishing the car the bring the paint to perfection, to then protect it I added a coating of Gtechniq CSL ceramic and EXO coatings, also ceramic coated the wheels and restored all the trims, interior has undergone treatment using Ferrari's own leather cleaning and conditioning products.
Am over the moon with the results.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4Se0ac6C4
Hi there
Coming upto a years ownership now, glad to say it has been trouble free but in saying that I have not spared any expense in taking care of the car.
As such it had the belts all changed ahead of schedule a few months ago and some other jobs doing along with fitment of high-flow 200 cel catalyst to get more of the high-pitch scream at higher revs, which it now has, sounds lovely.
Unfortunately and I am a little ashamed of this but in near 12 months I seem to have only driven around 1500 miles, maybe 2000 maximum, do find I don't drive it as much as I thought I would.
Goes in for its scheduled service next month anyway.
Had the cars alignment tweaked to be a little more aggressive on the CS specs, I now have 3 minutes toe out per side on the front which has transformed the front end, feels very alive.
I even did a Donington a track day in the car, admittedly I babied the car and by that I mean I only did three sessions of about ten minutes each and did not push the car hard or drive it hard, I just wanted to feel how it felt to drive something more old school on track:
Must admit it felt awesome, like it was truly made for it, only let down was the PS5 tyres, can only imagine how awesome it would be on a set of Cup 2 tyres, but that is not a path I wish to take with the 360 as it is simply too nice to start doing track days in, I ticked the box, it felt incredible and it avoided black flags, insane considering how loud it is though camera/phone MIC never seem to convey just how amazing it sounds.
Coming upto a years ownership now, glad to say it has been trouble free but in saying that I have not spared any expense in taking care of the car.
As such it had the belts all changed ahead of schedule a few months ago and some other jobs doing along with fitment of high-flow 200 cel catalyst to get more of the high-pitch scream at higher revs, which it now has, sounds lovely.
Unfortunately and I am a little ashamed of this but in near 12 months I seem to have only driven around 1500 miles, maybe 2000 maximum, do find I don't drive it as much as I thought I would.
Goes in for its scheduled service next month anyway.
Had the cars alignment tweaked to be a little more aggressive on the CS specs, I now have 3 minutes toe out per side on the front which has transformed the front end, feels very alive.
I even did a Donington a track day in the car, admittedly I babied the car and by that I mean I only did three sessions of about ten minutes each and did not push the car hard or drive it hard, I just wanted to feel how it felt to drive something more old school on track:
Must admit it felt awesome, like it was truly made for it, only let down was the PS5 tyres, can only imagine how awesome it would be on a set of Cup 2 tyres, but that is not a path I wish to take with the 360 as it is simply too nice to start doing track days in, I ticked the box, it felt incredible and it avoided black flags, insane considering how loud it is though camera/phone MIC never seem to convey just how amazing it sounds.
Edited by Gibbo205 on Wednesday 17th April 14:22
Lovely car. I still miss my first Ferrari, a yellow 360 so in a kind of homage to it, the next car will be yellow. I had an opportunity to buy it back for peanuts and I really regret not doing so.
Nice to have that contrast in your non daily driver life (I assume). I assume that McLaren in the background is the daily grind commutemobile? I'll get my coat.
Nice to have that contrast in your non daily driver life (I assume). I assume that McLaren in the background is the daily grind commutemobile? I'll get my coat.
MingtheMerciless said:
Lovely car. I still miss my first Ferrari, a yellow 360 so in a kind of homage to it, the next car will be yellow. I had an opportunity to buy it back for peanuts and I really regret not doing so.
Nice to have that contrast in your non daily driver life (I assume). I assume that McLaren in the background is the daily grind commutemobile? I'll get my coat.
At the moment I have:Nice to have that contrast in your non daily driver life (I assume). I assume that McLaren in the background is the daily grind commutemobile? I'll get my coat.
600 LT Spider - Special drives & tours, odd bit of daily use and track days
360 Manual - Drive outs and odd daily use
R8 Manual - Daily and drive outs
Alpine A110S - Everything
GR Yaris - Everything
1978 Corvette - Dry use only
Sold the 458 but its not a bad collection to pick from.
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