is a 360 challenge a viable daily driver?

It's not even a viable racer

 

just try driving it ,its real cool looking

 

You only live once and driving a proper race car anywhere is a thrill of a lifetime! The whole ownership experience is a personal fit. I'm a scratch & dent kind of guy, I would take your chance to own the car and not look back. The rougher it is, the better. Comfort and amenities would diminish the experience.

 

A simple answer to this is NO. Also remember that the really big difference in lap times between a CS and a Ch car are the slicks. A ch car on street tyres would be wierd.

 

Note: F355 is setup at the factory ride heights with factory spec tire sizes has only 4.2 inches of ground clearance.

 

Is that in the 355 manual? That's pretty low!!!

 

A guy from the local Porsche Club where I used to live put a roll bar/cage in his 911 for use when he took the car on the track. Turning into the entrance to the racetrack, a car ran a stop sign and t-boned him. His head (not wearing a helmet) hit the roll bar and he died later that day, although no other injuries were sustained.

Do not put a roll cage in a street car.

 

Roll bars are safe for street cars... cages are meant for dedicated track cars.

 

I looked it up again, it is 4.65" of ground clearance. Sorry for putting it 0.4" too low.

 

I'm completly agree. My 355Ch it's a street legal car, and It's a pleasure drive it, but not recomended for a daily use..... streets are not prepared to this kind of cars.

To have a Ferrari is something incredible, but more if you've got a Race Car prepared to go in the street. I'm agree with Jim, you should do it more "Stradale", taken care with disks and pads, roll-cage, etc.....

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are they the standard wheels? how'd you fit them over the brakes?

 

They look like CH wheels to me ..........................

But what would I know

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showpost.php?p=137910695&postcount=37

 

oh yeah. i was tricked by the silver colour. i've never seen them that colour before.

 

It's more stradale, white wheels are so racing.....and I prefered in grey.

 

lol!.

 

It would certainly be a cool and fun ride, but you might tire of it quickly. Few weekends a year...is it worth it to get it for just that? How about campaigning it in some series and driving it on the street in small doses.

Or possibly figuring out how to use it to raise money for charity at fundraising events so you get to do fun stuff with it even if you are not driving it as much.

I like the idea...but it needs careful thinking to make sure it works for your circumstances.

 

perhaps talk to an Ferrari Dealer that has a history of running the cars. Or the tech/crew that ran their challenge team. Its been a few months and no one has answered, so i would set off on a different path to source your answer.

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I hope you are getting it for a steal, because with welded frame damage... Its going to be a tough one to shift when you are done with it.

 

No AC. No real windows.

 

Unless your clutch is worn or some other F1 system malfunction, you don't need to access TCU with SD2/SD3. Some of the older version TCU does not allow reset of PIS.

We ended up switching all our Challenge to Stradale TCUs for faster down shifts and PIS resets.

By the way none of the 360C I have come across had door locks, but as others have pointed out the bigger problem is no ignition key or hood locks so a door lock does not really serve any purpose except to add weight.

Oh, no parking brake either. So that's a problem for street use. You could leave the car in gear, but not having parking brake for street use is illegal in most jurisdictions.

 

TCU is about US$2,000. Plug and play basically. Just use a SD2/SD3 to make sure PIS is OK.

I don't know your local market so I can not comment on the right value of a street legal 360C. In terms of world wide market for 360C as a track car, an average example is probably worth about US$80,000, while a fairly good one with GT aero kit is worth about US$90,000. They are going on 10 years old and are getting pretty tired if they have been used frequently on track.