F40 LM Restoration

Should be effective without adding a lot of weight. Will want to make sure that the epoxy is not metallized as some are dosed with metal for use in integrated circuits. Should be plain old epoxy.

 

I can't help you on the gearbox. Good luck on that. One wonders how you can crack a reverse gear.

The La Ferrari name smacks of top down corporateness. Too bad since it is otherwise a marvel.

 

Typically wet lay up epoxy that we use is not metallicized these days as the chemical makeup for the cure rate has to be as pure and linear as possible. There are specific heating and cooling progressions that make all the difference in the world as far for the final strength characteristics and void rates.

Could not agree more. It's like they finally jumped the shark with the names.

"What do we call it?"
"Who cares? What are we calling it?"
"Well, we just call it LaFerrari."
"Okay, then it's going to be LaFerrari. It will be a great car, so no need to overthink it."

Seriously, they totally blew it on the name. If I had one, I would say I had the LF, F150 Project, or the Enzo Replacement. I don't know if I could say I had LaFerrari. Maybe in time...

 

We don't need another thread on LaF but I also wish it had been a more traditional name. "Italia" was brilliant because it evoked the art and technology capability of the Italian people. But if this is supposed to evoke the ultimate of Ferrari (THE Ferrari), that is silly because there will be more progress in the future and therefore yet more "ultimate" Ferraris.

 

Thats being indescribably kind.

 

Thank you for offering some content aside from the new hypercar

 

Hi Traveller, could you make the images that i ask by MP?

Regards

 

Brilliant thread, great read...
Good to see such a thorough approach to restoring the car to its appropriate glory.

Can I ask, was the car in such a bad shape it couldn't go on for a while? Perhaps drive it for the season, then have the shop undertake the work when temperatures drop in October 2013 or so?

 

$15K for the shaft and two gears? Ferrari does not seem to want to support restoration of its classics. I assume you have no uptake on your search for an old F40 gearbox. Remanufacture may be the way to go; hopefully there is info on the alloy used in the gear set.

Or I wonder if you could get away with a gear from a contemporary car such as a TR or even a 328? Odds are the ratio would be off but it would not have to take full torque, being reverse. (Did Ferrari design a completely different box for the F40?)

PS what you show in the photos looks pretty good.

 

With the quite mature market of tuning, mostly for Japanese cars (GT-R and such), surely some of those suppliers might have contacts on where to have such parts built to order?

Just a thought, might be interesting route to look into...

I had the shocks on my Diablo rebuilt by hand, as the only option to get them fixed was to buy a new set from the factory at outrageous cost...

 

IE don't let Ferrari rape you!

A single gear can be out sourced and built with a higher quality material and more precision and can be very cost effective aswell as less time consuming.

 

+1

This isn't a Pebble Beach car. I am sure you can get the gears you need somewhere else. Heck, you can probably rebuild the whole thing with stronger gears for 1/3 of the price they are charging you.

Just order the parts by dimension. Don't tell them what car they are going into.

 

Afternoon Wood!!

 

Have a look on this web site: NOEL RACING - Préparation Ferrari Compétition, so Jean Christophe Noël is specialised in F40 preparation, including redoing gearbox, so he can even redo some parts if necessary as he was good enough to recreate such gear box with short gears, you can call him also if you need to get some engine parts or adaptation! good luck

 

Nice looking unit. Is the weight saving coming from smaller diameter tubes (hard to tell in the photo)?

BTW appropos of the earlier discussion re turbos and wastegate choices http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/288gto-f40-f50-enzo-laferrari/401409-friend-blows-up-f40-track.html

 

You mean the original was not done in Al alloy (am still learning about this car)?

The "hybrid" does look much beefier, which raises the question of how do you know that the new structure will support the needed weight without undue flexing/twisting. Any computer modeling (e.g., finite element) or just rules of thumb?

 

Thanks .. that explains everything (except why the hybrid departed from original).