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Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
New member
Username: Parkerfe
Post Number: 13
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2002 - 8:29 am: | |
Ferrari North American did not build nor dyno the car though. Ferrari Spa did. As posted below if you will go to www.owners.ferrari.com and follow the directions in my earlier post you will see that the info I posted was directly from Ferrari Spa. In fact, the Homologation Form is written in Italian. |
Chris Richardson (Boozy)
New member
Username: Boozy
Post Number: 25
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 10:16 pm: | |
Ferrarina.com lists the Spider at 300. Some of you seem to be finding it listed somewhere else at 315 or 320, where are you finding this information?
I just looked in my manual and it lists it like this:
Max power: 231.2KW sAE net/310HP SAE net at 7200
Max engine speed 7700
Maximum torque: 228.6 lb. ft/310Nm
31.6Kpm???
Strange.... |
Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
New member
Username: Parkerfe
Post Number: 12
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 10:00 pm: | |
Chris, once you log on to the site, first click on "Vintage ", then on "Historic archive", then on "homologation form" . From there you can download and print info from the factory on almost all Ferrari models ever produced. I compared the 1989 348 tb/ts info with the 1993 348 Spider info. Compare for youself. |
Martin (Miami348ts)
Junior Member
Username: Miami348ts
Post Number: 1471
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 9:08 pm: | |
I could not tell the difference either. My 348TS was driving just as good as the 348 Spider I sold last month. No differnce. However I know that Ferrari lists the 348 Spider and GTS and GTB as with 320HP instead of the 300 on the TS and TB.
History teaches us that Ferrari was never too accurate about the HP in the first place. The Spider definetely has a different exhaust. That may explain the added HP.
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arthur chambers (Art355)
Junior Member
Username: Art355
Post Number: 117
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 8:33 pm: | |
Yes:
For the sypders, they changed the exhaust, and allegedly it has an extra 12HP. When I went from my 348TS to the 348 Sypder, I couldn't tell the difference, by all the books seem to say there is a HP difference. A good book to read about the V8 Ferraris is The Original V8 Ferrari History. I've got it around here somewhere, and it is quite definitive in the specs of the various V8 cars, and it goes up to the introduction of the 355 in 1995. |
Chris Richardson (Boozy)
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Username: Boozy
Post Number: 24
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 8:25 pm: | |
Hmm. Everywhere I have looked seemed to indicate that it is 300hp for a 1994 348 Spider. On the owners' site it even says 300hp where I was looking. Am I missing something? |
Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
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Username: Parkerfe
Post Number: 6
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2002 - 7:23 am: | |
And while 0-60mph times are not listed, the 0-1000m times were over 2 seconds better for the Spider and GTB/GTS models than the tb/ts models. |
Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
| | Posted on Saturday, February 09, 2002 - 10:19 am: | |
I did go ahead and pull the info on the 348 tb and ts. It list "Potenza max" at 221 kW at 7200rpm and "Coppia max" at 323 Nm at 4200rpm. So the changes Ferrari made to the Spider made a biger difference in HP than it did in torque although it did move the max torque up from 4200rpm to 5000rpm. |
Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
| | Posted on Friday, February 08, 2002 - 9:42 pm: | |
No. I have just put on the cat bypass pipes and a K&N filter for the sound. I doubt I do anything else. It performs as well as I will ever need . |
Chris_N_Chicago (Chris_N_Chicago)
| | Posted on Friday, February 08, 2002 - 3:09 pm: | |
Frank,
Did you install that tubi yet... ? or get any chips in the ecu's ? |
Chuck Rine (Chuck348ts)
| | Posted on Friday, February 08, 2002 - 10:39 am: | |
Frank,
235 kW = 315.14 HP (conversion factor is 1.341)
324 Nm = 238.97 lb-feet (conversion factor 0.737)
FYI, there is a great UK web site for all kinds of unit conversions:
http://www.omnis.demon.co.uk
Chuck |
Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
| | Posted on Friday, February 08, 2002 - 9:59 am: | |
I just downloaded the "Certificato di omologazione" for the 348 Spider from the Ferrari Owner's web site. It list "Potenza max" at 235 kW at 7200rpm and "Coppia max: at 324 Nm at 5000rpm. Does anyone know how to translate those figures to horsepower and torque ? |