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Tom Bakowsky (Tbakowsky)
New member
Username: Tbakowsky
Post Number: 7
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 7:40 pm: | |
Speaking from personal experiance..I've even had cars as late as 1997 needing exhaust maifold replacement.
All manufactures(Ferrari included)must warrenty major emissions components for 8 years(this I have read and heard lots of times before)So if anything should happen to the manifolds under "normal" operation the parts should be replaced at no charge or under "goodwill" because Ferrari knows this is a problem. |
Mitch Alsup (Mitch_alsup)
Junior Member
Username: Mitch_alsup
Post Number: 160
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 4:49 pm: | |
My F355 came with a 1 year powertrain warentee from FNA. I got it at 22,000 miles, just after a 30K (engine out) service. The headers sounded fine until I started taking it to the track (28K miles). After the first event, the tone of the engine was not right, after 5 more events, I took it back to FOH (about 5 days before the 1 year warentee was to expire) and gave them a "my history with the car" diatribe. They replaced the headers (didn't even hassle me--thanks FOH).
Would the headers have lasted if I didn't track the car? Don't know. But there is a large body of evedance that the headers on the 95s were not up to snuff.
My particular car was produced after the valve guides were switched (around mid-year). |
Clark Driggers (Clark)
Junior Member
Username: Clark
Post Number: 56
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 3:14 pm: | |
Mitch,
I am in the process of buying a 95 355B with 5500 miles. It is having the major service done. Should I be worried about the headers as a waer-n-tear problem with a certain amount of miles or is it from hard driving? How did you get them to do it under warranty?
Clark |
Kurt Kjelgaard (Kurtk328)
Junior Member
Username: Kurtk328
Post Number: 137
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 24, 2002 - 12:01 pm: | |
McMurb, sent you an e-mail.
To all others, thanks so far - keep it coming, all comments are appreciated.
Thanks again
-kurt |
Mark Izzo (Tdf355)
Junior Member
Username: Tdf355
Post Number: 107
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 4:41 pm: | |
Whoa Frank, slow down!! The guy wants to buy an F1, Ive had many thousand trouble free miles with mine. My 99 is a great car and we all know anything that goes wrong on an F car is expensive no matter what. I do agree that I would go back to manual just out of personal preference. If you want to take a flight to the US , my Tour De France Blue F1 spider is for sale. Might be a bit more expensive here though! |
Frank Parker (Parkerfe)
Intermediate Member
Username: Parkerfe
Post Number: 1369
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 1:18 pm: | |
Look to be sure it has a manual shifter in the console. If not, stay far away from it unless you love spending money at your local dealer. F1 shifters are for race cars and people with more dollars than sense IMHO. I have driven them at Road Atlanta and on the street. For the track they are great. On the street, I wouldn't own one if you gave it to me. I would sell it and buy a manual version though. In case someone out there does want to give me one ? |
Mitch Alsup (Mitch_alsup)
Junior Member
Username: Mitch_alsup
Post Number: 154
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 12:02 pm: | |
As a 95-F355 owner who just (resently) had his headers replaced (under warentee--thanks FOH--on a 7 year old car!) and had his left CAT replaced (had to eat this one myself), both headers were only charged $4,500 to the work order (although 8 * $18 gaskets seems over-the-top), and the cat was only $1100.
F1 trannys did not come along until after the valve guide materials upgrade (bronze to steel),
and header update changes were already performed in the factory. Although the clutch is a known wear area on 355's, F1's tend to use more clutch than M6's (although not always--driving style can make or brake clutch life). |
Bart McMurry (Mcmurb)
New member
Username: Mcmurb
Post Number: 4
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 7:29 pm: | |
If you don't already have it, I can fax you a copy of the Forza f355 Buyers guide. Just give me a fax number and I'll do it tommorrow. |
Tom Bakowsky (Tbakowsky)
New member
Username: Tbakowsky
Post Number: 4
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 3:37 pm: | |
Be very careful...these cars seem to eat exhaust manifolds and catalitic converters..This has been traced to crappy valve guides,Ferrari now has updated to a better material. Exhaust manifolds are $3500 each! and converters are I think $1500
each. The F1 cars like to eat clutches aswell. I put 2 clutches in a customers car with in 30k. |
TomD (Tifosi)
Intermediate Member
Username: Tifosi
Post Number: 1268
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 11:01 am: | |
check the archive for info on early 355 having issues with I think the valve guides/seals??? |
Kurt Kjelgaard (Kurtk328)
Junior Member
Username: Kurtk328
Post Number: 131
Registered: 3-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 10:18 am: | |
I am thinking about "upgrading" from 328 GTS to 355 GTS F1.
Any advice on what to look (out) for is apreciated.
Thanks
Kurt |