348 Interior Updates

Looks great Brent! I am heading that way right now... I just ordered my pedals this morning from Ricambi. I think that the aluminum tips for your wipers/lights/turn signal controls would compliment your interior. I still can't make a decision on the console panels yet...

 

The consol looks fantastic!! Those flags are a really nice touch, the type the factory does with the newer cars, very nice. My only suggestion is have you considered a CF bezel for the gauge cluster?

 

OH MY GOD!!! That console and the flags look outstanding!!!!!!! WOW!

Those flags normally use a drill-through post connection -- did you drill the CF ashtray or just remove the post and glue them on?


again....WOW!

 

WOOOOOOOOOW!!!
It's perfect with those flags! That's the part I would like to put on next.

 

I did the carbon fiber vertical console today (finally). I also switched the green light overlay on the A/C & heater & clock with a red plastic overlay.

When the lights are off, you see red instead of green. When the lights are on (see below) you see amber lights that match the gauge colors...much better than the factory green.

Everyone is taking better pictures than me, though. Maybe I need a more modern camera phone.
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Hi Brent, That is the way I got it but Daniel and I found that the lights were reversed, turn signals on the inner and reverse lights on the outer. I'm still working on her everyday, I have had it for 2 months now. Daniel has been so helpful. Needless to say, I spend my money with Ricambi!

 

Joe -

Before you swap the lights, have you followed the thread about 308 lights being sometimes reversed too? http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83633

No Doubt: Despite your photography, you actually managed to shoot the best picture of gauge rings so far ! The look far more subtle in your picture (and closer to reality) than in most other pictures I've seen. Kudos! I'd encourage you to buy a new camera, except I don't want to pre-spend any of your $$ that might have otherwise been headed toward Ricambi


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Mmm...tell me about it! I'm thinking chrome, drilled pedals and a new steering wheel.

Let me know if your hyper-flow cats go back on sale, too.

 

No doubt, I love the red overlay for the consol read-outs-- the car should have come that way in the first place. Can you provide more info on that piece?

 

Thanks. It's just a transparent red piece of plastic that I bought at a hobby store.

If you've got the courage to open your $3,000 black A/C-Heater-Clock box, you'll find a series of circuit boards. The bottom-most layer of circuit boards has two boards. You unscrew a single phillips screw from the top board on that bottom layer and then you'll see that there is a cheap green overlay for the clock, fan, and temperature displays.

That green overlay is held on by two drops of glue that by now are so old that all that I had to do was to *barely* press inward on the green overlay and the glue gave up the ghost and the green piece popped right out.

Then I just superglued my red plastic back in place of the old green.

Green lights (the actual LEDs are green just like the cheap green plastic overlay, you'll still have those green lights even after you remove your green overlay) through red plastic make amber.

So you screw back the one circuit board and reassemble your black box A/C (be careful!).

Poof! You've now got an amber light display instead of the awkward, clashing green.

Or you could just use a grey sort of window-tint piece of plastic...as that would match up to our top level of vertical console lights. That would be a fairly conservative change from the garrish green.

 

Wow - so very impressive!
It really looks so classy and even period-correct. You've done a beautiful job.

 

I love the carbon fiber. Looks very very nice!

 

Yes Daniel,
I read Matteo's thread last weekend about his 308 and looked at the pictures. At least the 308 lights had the reverse lights in the amber lenses and in the inner mounting point. I went ahead and switched mine and I am much happier with the appearance.

No Doubt, Wal-Mart has the 6.0 MP Kodak on sale on Friday for $199.00 from 5:00 AM to 11:00 AM. This is a smokin' deal! Get there early!

 

Now if we could just do something with that one "dead button" on the console ... Even if you replace it with an active one, hooked up, say, to a radar detector or whatever, you're still stuck with an inaccurate emblem on it (if you replace the dead button with one of the other working ones). This is infuriating enough to keep maniac-obsessives like me up all night stewing about it.

Italian cars seem to have this tendency (one dead button in a console array) more than others. For example the 1989 Maserati Biturbo.

Fallback solutions:

(1) Paint it red and mark it "Ejection" [that will keep your passenger polite).

(2) Glue a miniature marque emblem to it.

 

Even better, fit a Euro spec rear fog lamp switch..
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Yeah, I never understood why the US cars didn't have that button and fog lights.. I mean, you've got fog once a while right ???

 

Brent,

Great idea putting the flags on the ashtray! I think we'll offer that as an option. That way it will save the customer that anxiety as they drill through the piece. Always looking for new ideas and improvments!

John

 

Guys, my mechanic removed that recently to fix my aircon & that idiot short circuited it! Cost me US$900 & another US$460 (transistor pack) to fix it by another electrician but my hazard lights & foglamps now not working Just be careful with that. I'm so fed-up with the system that I'm thinking of just replacing all the buttons with simple two knobs; one for the blower & next for temperature. Ferrari UK quoted the control panel for GBP5000!

 

This control panel was 5000GBP at Ferrari UK?

http://ricambiamerica.com/product_info.php?cPath=13&products_id=201897

 

I don't know Daniel, perhaps it came with the aircon unit, condensor etc. You know they always like to sell things as a set rather than ind. parts. You've got some interesting stuffs, can you help me to find injectors for the 348 motor? Please send me an email. Thanks. Jon

 

Definately be careful with the A/C - Heater - Fan box.

But, keep in mind that your hazard lights/foglamps aren't part of that black box. They have their own, simple, cheap, $2 relays and two wiring harness connectors.

A little Stabilant 22A on those wiring harness connectors and your foglamps and hazard lights should be back to normal (heck, you've probably got one or two connectors simply unplugged back there right now).

To remove that entire vertical console, just remove the phillips screw under each ash tray, then remove the two phillips screws that hold down your chrome shift gate.

That will let you pull the whole vertical console out. Pull it out and turn it sideways (or all the way around if you can). You'll quickly see if your wiring harness connectors aren't all plugged back in.

Check the two white wiring connectors at the top of your console.

You can do all of the above without touching the mid-level black A/C-heater box (the expensive part).

 

Looks real nice