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Mitch Alsup (Mitch_alsup)
Junior Member
Username: Mitch_alsup
Post Number: 221
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 15, 2002 - 9:42 am: | |
The 348 marks the point in time when Ferrari began to get serious about center of gravity issues in road cars and road race cars--thus the dry sump. |
Dave Penhale (Dapper)
Member
Username: Dapper
Post Number: 359
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 15, 2002 - 7:42 am: | |
Thanks Bret, good info. I was initially suprised at my 348 being dry, but then having thought about it longer it makes sense for cars that are going to be tracked/raced or even driven on the road 'enthusiastically'. So that got me thinking they probably ALL were, with the possible exception of some of the tourers e.g Mondial/400/412/456 |
BretM (Bretm)
Advanced Member
Username: Bretm
Post Number: 2916
Registered: 2-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, November 14, 2002 - 1:01 pm: | |
There were a couple dry sump 308s, mostly early euro cars, others are almost all wet sump. They didn't make dry sumps the standard until the 348 in the 8 cylinders. 288, F40, etc are dry. I think they made the change to dry with the 12s with the 512BB. Daytonas are wet and I think the 365 is wet but not sure. I seem to remember that being one of the differences between the 365 and the 512. |
JRV (Jrvall)
Junior Member
Username: Jrvall
Post Number: 104
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, November 14, 2002 - 10:39 am: | |
What do you mean by later? Later than what?
Ferrari has a lot of different models floating around. :-) |
Dave Penhale (Dapper)
Member
Username: Dapper
Post Number: 354
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, November 14, 2002 - 3:13 am: | |
Do all later F cars have dry sump lubrication and if so has it always been that way? I guess with the racing heritage the answer is probably yes but I wondered if some of the later modern tourers for instance had more conventional wet sumps. |