Would it win a concourse ? Is it Aussie delivered ? Have the cambelts been done ? Has it still got the books and toolkit ? Is it a replica ?
It really sticks out when you are scanning through a thread I hope it annoys certain people in the F1 section ... I plan to post a LOT this year until I get an apology from some gutless ******* who defamed me and didn't get banned for said infraction ... .seems you go to the sin bin if you swear or give someone's name in an open forum but you're fine to lie about another member and get told to apologise by the mods when it has been stated your version of events are corroborated by 2 mods.
Its been replaced by this one.........another Ferrari owner singing about his car,lol VAN MORRISON Crazy Love Chords - GIOVANNI ANGELUCCI ovation guitar - YouTube
saw an F40 on beach rd around Beaumaris yesterday afternoon. Had british plates on, another bloody import with red carpets.
Spoke to a few people. The theory that I accepted is that as the 4 shut down cylinders cool while the engine is still running on the other 4 cylinders, and a bit of oil gets past the rings. Any one else have a theory? There is definately nothing wrong with the engine, only one cat temperature sensor.
F40's don't have carpets, only kevlar floors. They are definately after market red mats to stop the floor getting scratched. I can't work out why some people have this thing about importing Ferrari's from other countries. They are all made in Italy in the same factory. Just that some came here via another country.
I guess that the unburnt fuel being injected into the shutdown cylinders would have washed the oil film off the bores, which stops the rings sealing and allows more oil into the combustion chamber, which is then exhausted into the still-hot extractors, where it would have ignited. So you got white smoke from fuel igniting in the muffler, followed by blue oil smoke. When I installed the engine in my Queen Mother a million years ago, the positive wire to one of the distributors caught and was torn off, unnoticed by me as the dissy's sit so far back under the scuttle. The engine started fine and ran smoothly, I went for a drive and thought, "this is a bit gutless", back to workshop and noticed one bank of extractors were cold. Doh! No harm done, that engine still runs strong and smoke free today.
on a related note, anyone with a carby Ferrari will be familiar with the fine layer of soot which builds up on the rear panel above the exhausts, particularly noticeable on 246, 308 and Daytona because of the kamm tail. This is mostly unburnt oil - the tiny amount that comes off the cylinder walls on the intake stroke, which doesn't burn because the fuel/air mixture isn't as precisely metered as an injected car and is usually on the rich side of optimum. I have had Redline oil in my Daytona for about 6 months and this soot buildup simply doesn't happen any more. My guess is that the oil seals the cylinder walls so well that what's left behind is able to be completely burnt. It's expensive at $30 a litre, but I'm loving not having to wipe the car's bum after every drive.
Just saw a red 599 in Nhill, of all places. My Location@11:58,2/4 LOT 1 Victoria St, Nhill VIC 3418, Australia http://m.google.com.au/u/m/wkpZVF
the mention of red carpets was intended as sarcasm. rule of thumb for red UK cars is to have hedious red carpets. F40 of course is an exception.
