500 miles on Enzo engine rebuild

No revving?.....just kidding.

I am curious to ask at how many miles and why you needed a rebuild.......sorry I have not been following the story leading up to the rebuild.

 

Is that at idle?

 

see this thread: http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=300296

 

Thanks Steve.

 

Glad to see it back up and running

 

Good you are back running!

It's odd to me, I once bought two indentical automobiles, but it was obvious one engine was 'smoother" or 'stronger' than the other one....

Looks like you had a good guy on the rebuild!!

 

Bill, were you able to get some break-in/test hours on an engine dyno as Jim had mentioned in your rebuild thread? Glad to see it's running smooth.

 

It sounds amazing at idle; it sounds like a lesser sports car at speed.

 

So is Ferrari paying for the gasket to get replaced since they (the experts) sent you the outdated part?

 

Bill

When you install new clutch don't be tempted to set shift time super fast unless you want to be replacing it again in 4K miles...

 

Hmm... I thought faster shift times helped a clutch last longer, i.e., faster engagement = less slip, particularly under power.

dale

 

Sounds nice. Good to see she's going strong. Break in being over, is it back to the track or are you going to let it rest a little longer?

 

Ferrari sending an outdated leaky seal? Can't even imagine such a thing

 

Nope. Setting the Enzo shifts to the fastest time, which as an aside the factory doesn't do causes a lot more stress on the clutch and wheel bearings which as a further asides cost about 14K in parts alone. Some of the bolts and you have to replace a lot of them when you replace the wheel bearings are over $300 each. You don't have to be an engineer to understand this. Simply set the shift time to minimum and feel the clutch and wheel bearings bang as you shift away. Final bit of advise. Follow the recommend procedure with a SD3 EXACTLY including follow up checks after a run through all the gears as you don't want to get this wrong.

 

Doesn't she purr. Very nice.


I have heard Enzo motors are somewhat notorious for snapping valve springs. Any truth to this? I have personal knowledge of only one case, which was specific to Steve Wynn's black Enzo in Las Vegas. I believe a couple of the springs snapped.

 

Are the internals of the Enzo, 599GTB, 599GTO and MC12 F140 units interchangeable?

 

That was early on. There was a recall that addressed that. We've had no issues with them.

 

According to the decibel-metre the Enzo is louder.

At any rate, congrats Bill and I hope you get to really savour your newly-engined Enzo!

 

Very cool Bill, glad to hear it's back on the road.

Besides this minor set-back, the engine sounds very nice at idle.

 

Well, I would hope that even Ferrari would build in a little bit of over engineering so that tightening up on shift points would not cause massive running gear failure, but what do I know?

The point I was making was someone recently pointed out to me the reason why F1 clutches burn out in 15,000 miles is because Ferrari, for whatever reason, presets a relatively slow shift speed. Instead of engaging quickly, the plates slowly (again in a relative sense) grind themselves together.

Dale

 

I think they burn out on paddle shifting cars because of reversing which causes huge slippage and first gear stop and go which slips and kills the clutch.

Being careful I got 28K miles on an F1 and there was still some clutch left.

Shift speed on the Enzo is a different issue here. When set to fastest it really slams the drive train and causes other issues.

Best