Black lower front grill on 328

The grill looks like it was painted flat black. Is that the normal finish (flat) for the lower part of the 328?

 

Well, my grille wasn't painted back, but I did just have it restored for the repaint my car is undergoing.

I first had the anodizing stripped off, then had the grilled disassembled, polished out and all the rock dents fixed, then reassembled, then reanodized in the matte silver finish.

Are you planning to reanodize yours? If not, how do you plan to do it?

Oh, no need for you to disassemble the grille for anodizing unless there’s some damage to it like mine was. It should just dip in for the strip, then in another vat for the fresh anodizing.

 

Max, did you use MEK?.. If so sanding should not have been necessary?.. Details?

 

Call Italian Recycling. They have two 328's that they're parting out. They may have the grille.

 

I know they have at least one. I saw it a few weeks ago. Give Doug Axt a call at 916-631-7300.

 

All in all, the black grill does not look bad. The 438's and 355's grills are black and look good. If you are not really hung up on originality then keep it black and enjoy the drive. You can always take your time and find and aluminum one as a replacement.

 

I think I kind of like the look of it in black.

 

I just bought some parts off that car as well and directed them to this thread as I thought you might be interested. So did they contact you or you them?

 

Theres also one for sale on EBay. $350.00.

 

I just got some stuff from them as well. Probably the same car. On the invoice, the parts car is listed as "1986 328 VIN# 73061". If anyone keeps track of VIN#'s ect, then scratch that one off the active list.
When I got my car is was missing the air injection system for the exhaust/cat converter. Car runs great and since there is no vehicle inspection in Florida, I don't need it, but wanted to put the system on (blanked off) so the engine compartment would be 100% correct for the shows. Right now my car is at 97 points. They gave me a good price (not a steal) of 40% of the new price, since it's only for show I didn't want to spend full price, a little cleaning up and it looks good enough.

 

LOL! Same thing with me, except mine was missing the rear set of exhaust gas analyzer pipes. That's one of the thing I bought from them.

 

That doesn't sound like an '86 VIN. My April '87 is #71403.

 

Max,

There is a 328 grill on ebay with a starting bid of $350:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FERRARI-328-FRONT-GRILL_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ140736QQihZ007QQitemZ170219780122QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

 

Looks good, glad Doug at Specialized could help you out too.

Dan

 

Looking good, enjoy the ride.

 

Max, congrats!

As an aside, your turn/driving light lenses have become very expensive and hard to find, I'd recommend covering them with the vinyl protection offered by Griot's Garage and others to prevent a shattered lens from gravel hitting them down low...

Alan

 

HEY....there's my car Aluminium it is... MARK

 

Looks good.....

Did you ever figure out if your painted grill could be brought back to original finish?

 

Vast improvement, IMO. Pininfarina knew what they were doing.