Your 355/348 mods

ENGINE
Upgraded valve guides with 360 valve seats
Airboxes powder coated silver and debaffled
K&N Filters
Gothspeed resonator delete
Gothspeed ignition wire reroute kit
Kingsborne ignition wires
QV headers
Larini test pipes
Capristo Stage 2
Gothspeed lateral panel hardware kit

SUSPENSION
Lowered 1 inch
19" Modular wheels
11mm HE spacers
F50 brembo brakes
Custom alignment

OTHER
6k HID Kit
Stereo upgrades

 

Cool 348 Mod I did.
MVI 6138 - YouTube

 

Very cool!

 

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That is way cool!

 

Dave, It is not a bad looking wheel but has a new style to it. Something you would probably see on a 458. A Momo wheel similar to a 360 wheel would fit the car better. I could be wrong though. Try it out.

 

My car has:

Custom 321s/s stainless headers with modified OEM shields
Evoflow High flow cats
295/35/18 Bridgestone rear tires
and of course a radar detector which came with the car

 

Fabspeed cat delete pipes, Tubi exhaust, K&N filter, kinesis 3 piece wheels, aluminum shift knob and nano tint.

 

6 pot AP Racing brakes
Quantum Racing adjustable Suspension
Ceramic clutch plate
360 Carbon seats
360 Challenge steering wheel
Schroth harnesses
Tubi exhaust
Hyperflow Cats
K & N Filter
Aluminium gear shift knob
Carbon heat shield
Carbon interior bits
Carbon fiber sills
Titanium wheel bolts
15mm front / 25mm rear spacers
355 wheels
355 Front bonnet vent
Engine Start button
Aluminium pedals
Steering wheel extension
SFS silicon coolant hoses
NGK iridium spark plugs
Magnecor ignition leads
Front splitter
HID Lights
Clear side indicator lights

Carbon wing badges (pending)
355 under floor panels (pending)

 

All new bushings
Rebuilt re-valved shocks
Challange wheels
Custom ground effects
Cooling mods
COP
Tuned ECU

Wing going on next

Started today
Engine blueprinting now in progress
Trans bearing mods for higher loads
Possibly hydrogen injection system



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I bought a Kiwi 2 Wifi yesterday does that count as a mod?

 

Can't wait to see the car back together Tim....from all I know it is definitely goin to be a beast..

 

Thought it would be cool to bump this up, looking forward to seeing how people are modding their cars nowadays.

Interior:
HE pedals
HE slickshift
Blacked out carpets
Small bluetooth speaker in head unit slot

Wheels/Suspension:
Slightly lowered
Custom Work wheels

Engine:
Cat bypass
Nouvalari Sport exhaust

Exterior:
Painted lowers
French fogs
Destraked doors
Round Carello lenses on custom LED plug/play housings
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Looks nice! ^ What work wheels are those?

 

95 F355

Suspension
Challenge wheels
Front Challenge Sway bar and bushings
Rear Challenge Sway bar and bushings
Rear Challenge Sway bar adjustable link
Front Challenge Sway bar adjustable link
Challenge steering rack
Challenge steering pump
Moton Triple adjustable shocks front and rear
Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires
Front and rear spacers
Lowered and corner balanced

Brakes
Front Stoptech 355mm cross drilled rotors with lightweight Trophy Calipers
Rear Stoptech 332mm cross drilled rotors with lightweight Trophy calipers
Front and rear stainless steel brake lines

Body
Rear Challenge Grill
Challenge Door grills
Yoshi Fender shields
Carbon Fiber door sills
Challenge clutch cover
HID headlights
Clear front turn signal lens
Rolled fenders
Tinted windows
Scud Ing adjustable LED 3rd brake light
Scud Ing LED rear tail lights
Scud Ing turn signal relay for LED bulbs
Scud Ing front turn signal LED bulb

Interior
Momo steering wheel and adapter
Full Valence USA carbon fiber center console
Vallence USA carbon fiber dash instrument panels
Carbon Fiber inside door handles
Carbon Fiber parking brake handle
Carbon Fiber mirror triangles
Carbon Fiber rear diffusers
Carbon Fiber engine side covers
Shortened shifter by 3 inches
Hill shifter plate
Yellow tachometer with adjustable shift light
In dash voltmeter
Challenge door vents
Rear shelve glove box

Gearbox
Complete disassembled, cleaned, filter changed,
New gear box cover bearing
New 3rd gear synco
Hill throughout bearing

Engine
Flowed heads
Ported intake
New steel guides
Challenge belt shields
Challenge engine mounts
Challenge rear frame brace
$35,000 engine rebuild, Engine taken down to bare block rebuilt with new pistons, rings. bearing, oil squirters, polishsed crank, water pump, Hill tensioners, all new gaskets and much more. Build by Challenge Series engine builder.
Saladana Aluminum radiators
All new engine and water hose from engine to from trunk
4-2-1 stainless custom headers
Inconel header heat shields
Hyperflow cats
Gothspeed one off "Scuderia" exhaust with custom bypass
Gruppe M intake
Powder coated valve covers
Custom painted air box cover and water tank
Dual Piggy Back computers to adjust fuel and spark
Dave Helms Gold kit
New alternator

 

A couple of questions if I may. Who flowed and ported your heads? Have you any flow /gain sheets available?
Also In the engine rebuild, why were the Pistons and piston skirt oil Jets replaced? Thanks

 

Thanks! They're Seeker SX, I don't think they're made anymore though.

 

Flowed by the infamous Gary Sharpe. He actually did a good job and the engine builder was impressed but not by anything other that he found. I have the flow numbers before and after in a chart and I can find them.
The skirt jets were replaced because they were all broken and laying in the bottom of the pan. If you are not careful in putting in the pistons and rods you can hit them in the install. There is only a few mm of clearance when you install. The previous engine rebuild was poor. Many on this site that had Sharpe do work for them will attest. The car needed rings and the liners redone most likely because I had a bad thermostat and fuel was most likely washing down the cylinder walls. A Ferrari ring set is really expensive so it was almost cheaper to do pistons and rings. The bore was also make slightly larger and pistons are slightly lighter in weight.

 

Real nice modifications there, Bob.

Barry

 

Thanks. The engine,suspension, brakes give the 355 the performance it should have instead of a nice looking car with a good exhaust sound.

 

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Yea i know what you mean about the skirt jets, i was lucky because mine were not broken and i reused them.
So you might have new oversized bores/liners then, because standard ones cant be over bored due to the nikasil coating.
I resused my pistons because they were in great shape and i lightly honed my bores to seat the new rings. The rings were from superformance and were not as expensive as one would imagine.
Hey thanks for the information, very interested in the head work.

 

430 Wheels
Aftermarket Arm rest
94 Steering wheel
94 Dash
94 Glovebox
Floor mats
Radio
Painted Calipers
Front clear turn signal lenses
Shields
Exhaust / headers
Lowered
Lack of stickies

Robb

 

I would love to experience your car. I believe more steering feel and suspension mods for better handling would greatly improve the base car. My s2000 had 3 way Moton coilovers and it was insane the handling.

 

Is Valence USA still in business? Tried to call them and email them regarding the carbon fiber center console for my 355 but no response? Any idea?

Thanks
Mike

 

Don't know if they are in business. My console was the first one they did 15 years ago. They did fantastic work, but were unreliable as far as getting work done. I,think I waited a year for them to do the console and instrument panels.