what work are you doing on your Ferrari over winter?

Ok lets starts we have bees and flowers and ....

No ok xenon light uses xenon gas instead of a metal wire wich gets hot because of the ampere going through it. To ignite that gas you need a high voltage to produce a spark like on the engine when your sparkplug ignites the fuel air mixture / gas. So you need to convert the 12-14V to much higher volts on xenon its up to 28.000 V for that you need the convertion box a small box wich is connected to the xenon bulb. It transformes the 12v to 28.000v and generates the signal for the xenon bulb. Because of the high voltage a standard xenon system uses a big mantel around the cable like the cables on the spark plugs. The chinese or cheap xenon hid conversion sets doesn't use this they use normal wires wich only isulate up to 400-500V the voltage goes through the isolation that is on one hand a bit dangerous for the user but also makes sometimes problems you got a noise from the headlight area where you can hear the voltage jumps between the two bad isolated wires this can cause a failure in the xenon light and the light starts to blink or doesn't light at all. That why i would use a xenon system wich was developed by a big company for the automobile industry like you have in every car you buy from the cardealer. On the picture you see such a box.

And to the xenon bulb itself there are some different formats in the ferrari 348,355 headlight you have a bulb wich has the format H1. Because of the high voltage and needed isolation the xenon bulbs have a new format called D1S, D1R, D2S or D2R they doesn't fit without modifications into the ferrari headlight. But some smart chinese companys wich build these conversion kits change the socket of the lamp from d2s to h1. They take out the glas part with the xenon gas in it and put it into a plastik socket wich has the h1 format.
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here again a picture of the converter box and one with the d2s xenon bulb installed. And a picture of the "chinese" conversions they use the normal wires.
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And some more pictures about the h1 and d2s sockets. You see that the D2S wouldn't fit in our h1 headlights. So you need a xenon bulb with h1 socket they are only available from aftermarket companys without much quality. You can also use some sort of adapter also shown on the picture. There you screw a plate onto the headlight socke where the h1 lamp normaly goes in. and in that adaptersocket you can put in the normal D2S xenon light. But i don't like that solution because then i cannot change back to the h1 light and i maybe need it when i doesn't get the xenon light street legal. I don't know if you only need to pass a technical inspection when you change that on your car?
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Oh i forgot to explain the Kelvin thing. 4500-5000K is a stock light. K means Kelvin .. temperature of the light. A normal halogen light has something arround 2000K. On the picture attached you see the different light temperatures and the resulting color. 5000k is like snow white the normal halogen light is yellow. 6000k has abit of a light blue touch in it. And all above gets more and more blue. Its also possible to get pink, red or green in it with very high color temperatures. But the brightness of the light depends also on the temperature you got the best brightness arround 4500-5000k thats why the car manufacturers use that range. In that range the light is arround 3 times brighter then a normal halogen light. On 8000k still 2 times.
On the other pictures you see 4 different light temperatures 4300k, 6000k, 8000k and 10000k
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I bought my car a few months ago and the first job this winter is to clean up the underside and get rid of any corrosion. There is quite a lot but it's mostly surface rust on mechanical components; the body/chassis is pretty much rust free. So far I've done one side of the front suspension, so there's still much to do! I've attached a couple of photographs - a before and after.
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i was thinking challenge grill, tubi and hyper flow cats along with a 30K for this winter. possibly painting the rear bumper and 3M-ing it

 

I'm working on selling mine

 

what other cars would you rate as hairdressers' cars? SLK230? Z3?

 

Z4 and the BMW 1 series

 

I'm preparing my car for the winter, the only time we can enjoy our cars here, and found this thread quite handy...I'm going to try the Tubi stage III, from Scuderia Systems UK, A/C gas, fog lights, and paint. Does anyone know where I can finds directions to dye 355 spider roof ?

 

I will try to do the following:

30K
Hyperflows
fix shrinking leather on doors
respray front bumper
maybe if I get ambitious, change out the interior carpet

 

WOW! Amazing work. What is the trick to doing it?

 

Enjoy your summer. Winter is so far away.
Darryl

 

You're right..but it averages 122 Fahrenheit...I guess I can drive my car but won't enjoy it.

 

What's winter ???

 

68-44 F

 

Oh..... its about 74 right now here in coastal SoCal .

 

Boy I wish could drive my car in SoCal !