Didn't see this posted in the forum; I originally saw it in the July issue of R&T....
Didn't see this posted in the forum; I originally saw it in the July issue of R&T. https://gearpatrol.com/2019/05/15/restomod-ferrari-f355-makes-the-best-1990s-sports-car-better/
Saw it in Road & Track too. Sweet car but once again, silly misinformation about $20,000+ for headers. Some things never change...
Ummmmm. Sounds like most of our cars. We all have modificata’s I like the steering wheel and seats, nice. We should just be selling our cars with Modificata added, since most have done those needs and at considerably less cost. Should bump the market up. Will try that next go around Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I'm putting a red 'M' on the back of our Spider. I'm sure FNA has a pile of 512M badges for cheap that I can snap the 'M' off of...
The money that guys spend on modifying BMW and Porsche, easily covers the maintenance on a 355. And people over maintenance these based on a silly piece of paper - an addendum to the manual so cry baby dealers in the early 2000 could generate revenue on one of the best Ferrari’s ever built at the time. Yep, have some issues, but 1999 they were all worked out. How about 996 turbos that puke water out because they glued in water lines . The bad rap our cars get is ridiculous. This article shows a nice clean car with some sweet “upgrades” but the basic car is all there, nothing like Singer and it represent what most of our cars are. Gee, thanks R/T... maybe we will get that Porsche “bump.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
why didn't we think of this? As a way to hedge against catastrophic failures, Segal bolted in modern, more robust replacements for items like the headers, gaskets and radiators, then reset the cam timing and balanced the throttle bodies in the name of reliability and long-term durability. To make sure this Ferrari would be his ideal sports car, Segal made plenty of tweaks like adding European marker lights and replacing the bodywork between the taillights with metal mesh to aid cooling like the F40–to swapping new suspension and modern, high-performance brakes. And to be sure there’s no mistaking the Modificata for a stock F355, he swapped in a new exhaust: a powder-coated, free-breathing set of straight pipes that make his car louder than the ‘90s Challenge race car Ferrari built.
I love the idea of the F355 x F40 mashup. The interior is great but the exhaust looks a bit half baked. With just a few more small touches it could be the complete package. Too bad the reporting is full of cliches and misinformation.
