Are any of the 355 owners in need of a new replacement "cloned" key fob for their 355? If there is sufficient interest, the infamous "Gobble" may come to the Stoogeapalooza and be able to make some for us on the spot. He made one for me a few years back and it worked flawlessly. If there is some interest, I can ask him on the pricing per fob.
If I can reply in your stooge thread, I'm not just doing clones now. I can also find PIN numbers in immobilizer boxes or master fobs then install matched sets that don't suffer from the rolling code of a clone. Where I did clones for people in the past I'm rewriting them to new master and slave data for free. I set up a small website but they probably won't let me link it. This might be a good opportunity to take my wife to CA (her brother lives in San Diego) and meet some of you guys. If you're taking cars apart it would be a good time to remove immobilizer boxes to read data.
Cool, I have a client lunch at noon then plan to spend the afternoon working at home, so should be there to sign when the mailman arrives. Worst case I'd have to pick up the box at the post office tomorrow.
Since no one is listing any projects to work on, what about the brain trust working on a timing belt change on a 612? A basic lock ans swap belt change and bearings. For those of you with the V-12 experience, is this something that can easily be done during the course of a normal Stooge event, with normal Stooge day tools, not leave my car in pieces, complete the job correctly while understanding that I also have food to bring out?
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If you mean a nail polish special (valve covers on) probably could do it. But you could get stuck not having a tool. I can't think of all the stuff we would need since I never think about that stuff being fully equipped myself. I have not done the 612 but 550/456/575. If you took off a hour's + worth of junk (covers) in front of the belts before hand I bet we could do it. But you are trusting the last timing and possibly loosing a couple degrees in the lock and swap. Belts do stretch albeit very small. Oh wait...Bruce...isn't there a dumb bar somewhere that interferes with easy access? I can't remember.
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Btw, I met Bertil while I was in Sweden, and he says hi to all you crazy stooges! Wish he could make it to one of these gatherings... Great guy!!
I want to install an OMP seat into the passenger side. It requires custom mounting brackets being made. I will need access to a MIG and a drill press. So, it's no timing belt change but it will take all day.
I can bring up a MIG welder if Pete has 220V maybe from his cloths dryer. My TIG is too heavy to travel if you are making the brackets from Aluminum. I would just buy sparco brackets and adapt them. I'm pretty sure OMP seats have same or similar 4 point base mount like 8x1.25 threads. If the sparcos are not long enough you may have to bolt them to bar stock to fit the front rear ferrari anchor points. Worst case plenty of tools that cut at my house.