How a Ferrari 458 Italia is built

Very interesting. Thanks. Thanks for sharing. I once saw a 1 hour TV show that showed how the F car was built from the start to finish. Fantastic show. Would love to see that again.

 

Probably Ultimate Factories - Ferrari. You can watch it here:

http://www.streetfire.net/video/ultimate-factories-ferrari_713772.htm

 

That's it! Thank you so much for posting the link.

 

Here's the next part: For all the talk about "computers" and "robots", you can see it's still a very much hands on method of assembly.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdWx1OVf4oo[/ame]

 

Thanks these are great, but have seen the second clip before.,but still worth watching again.

Thanks. !

 

Hadn't seen this one before, great video.

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

Video #3: Let's build the engine

http://youtu.be/F4uSn-0Qfjg

 

Awsome videos!

 

That video brings a tear to my eye.

 

Great videos, thanks to all.

Taz
Terry Phillips

 

+1 great videos.

 

VIDEO: Today we're building the frame:


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Does anyone know where the amplifier is located in a 2010 458?

 

New video is up!

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Can't wait to watch this.. This is my one big complaint about the 458. a lot of the cars have a TERRIBLE orange peel look to it. Some have said that this is Ferrari's special way of making it uniquely Ferrari...

not impressed with the paint finish on a quarter million dollar car.

 

I've read on another forum that the orange peel look that is common to a lot of cars these days is due to the switch to water based paints.

 

Any type of paint can be made perfectly smooth. The problem is the automated spraying robots, but even more so the lack of proper elbow grease preparing the surface that is going to be sprayed.

Most restorators achieve much better results than any factory paint job, but 95% of restorers still achieve standards way below of what I am looking for. The difference is in the handwork - you can't cut corners if you want to have a perfectly smooth surface. This takes time, and therefore is very expensive. And once prepared it then is essential that you spray very thin, just enough to get a solid coat. The downside of course is that damage occurs more easily. Automated spraying is done on thicker coats to prevent easy chipping, sacrificing the smoothness.

I have seen really terrible finishes on new Ferraris. A real problem if you're buying your dream car.


Onno

 

This makes sense.

I've noticed that BMW's have quite noticeable orange peel and they use the same paint supplier, PPG.

I don't think preparation affects the orange peel. Poor preparation would result is visible sanding marks or panel waviness.

Restorers tend to sand off any paint imperfections (and many coats of paint), but this requires too much time for a production setting - the paint correction threads on here show how that can be done. In fact, some PPG primers, I've been told (by PPG rep I know), don't even need to be sanded. You can see the glossy primer in the video - only the door and fender edges have been sanded.

 

Assembly video - Part 1 and 2:

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