Its been a while... lets talk about timing belt changes

They went back to 5 on the V12. There was no certainty from Ferrari if the change to 3 ever applied to the Flat 12. Those intervals have been set by different distributors around the world. USA and Europe have several differences.

 

In December 2017 I asked the question about the belt replacement schedule on my 512BBi to the Ferrari concession next to my place, the answer (translated from French):

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The timing belt replacement for your BB512i should be done every 3 years or 50000 km.
The factory has standardized the periodicity for all models to 3 years or 50000 km, except the 612 every 5 years or 50000 km.
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And Ferrari of North America has set a different standard. I have the service bulletins.

This is one of the reasons timing belt threads are a cluster ****. I should have ignored it.

 

Don't we have about a hundred of these threads? Just like you say, its 5 years or 30k miles. That is the rule I have always used on all mine and it works great.
If you want to do it in 3 because of some special conditions, then by all means spend your money. I will stick with Brian's advice.

 

The good news is that there seems to be an agreement on the 30k miles or 50k kilometers limit

 

Are you going to use a Newman diff? Out of 4 cars with one being a turbo, I have never had a diff issue but his is good.

 

Wise decision!


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Just saw a picture on their site. Man that looks great. Very high quality. Newmans is 3500, what does the Modena run?

 

Pretty cheap! But then grand tour sait it cost 26k pounds to fix lol At the dealer for sure but the TRis not that expensive to fix (relatively speaking)


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when I remember right with freight, custom and tax not even 1.800 euro each, but this has been about 8-10 years ago.
next diff I would need I will buy from philwozza

 

Really? I am the exclusive US distributor for Modena Engineering Ferrari parts. That would not be the price.

The Modena differential is complete with side gears, spider gears and all positraction parts. The posi is offered in 2 different levels of lockup but I discourage buying the more aggressive set up.

Pauls is a very good part but is a bare housing.

I would have to check the current exchange rate but it is over $4000 US + shipping from Texas.

 

Still pretty darn cheap!


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I think it is a good value. If you have the unfortunate experience of breaking one in a fashion that damages the spider and side gears it suddenly becomes even more attractive.

 

Must be very old stock. No longer in the loop and it is a very old price. Probably should check and be sure they even have it. More than that I cannot say.

If they actually have one I'd buy it.

 

If I had a nickel for every time I ordered a part listed online, only to get an email/call the next day explaining that the part was not available and hasn't been for some time...

 

I got an email back from Frank at Modena this morning and the price was 3500 + 210 shipped to Dallas, Texas so I guess it went up. I wonder if that includes internal spider gears and ready to go? I did not think to ask.

 

when I got mine all they have been complete, without the outside bearings of course, but as I see the price only raised about 15 % since more than 10 years ago. I think those 3500 are australian dollar an dnot US dollar? then this would be about 2100 euro plus shipping.
when you have contact again with frank tell him a nice hello from me

 

Yea, it has to be purchased by a shop like Brian's or a retailer. They will not sell to the public.

 

Newman's diff is good, Just put your internals inside!

 

Does someone have a good photo of Newman's piece? Man, the Modena piece looks like art.

 

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