Had the time to give the engine a blow over with compressed air and gave it a wipe down. Not bad for a 30 year old, unrestored engine bay if I do say so myself. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Forget about the wax, I still trying to clean off your sticky fingerprints from the last time you worked on it.
Image Unavailable, Please Login As you may remember I’ve been replacing the plastic fuel injection lines using the kit sold by Unobtainium Supply. This was a fiddly, challenging job but I’m happy to say that, after about 30 hours, the job is done! One surprising fact: the original 32-year-old fuel lines were still pliable with no signs of cracking or swelling, even when I cut one open. Alan N.J.
Gave it an upper bunk in my garage. Image Unavailable, Please Login Thanks to Peter Imbimbo of Car Lifts Plus, I now have a Backyard Buddy Four Post Lift. Works flawlessly and fits the 991 Turbo S in the lower berth and the 328 GTS in the upper berth just perfectly. All this in a garage with a ceiling height of only 9'4". Peter and his team did the installation, testing and troubleshooting in under three hours. The lift was packaged beautifully with no mars, scratches or rust. Backyard Buddy was the ideal solution for the limited ceiling height. I had a Lift Master 8500W garage door opener installed prior to Peter's arrival. I can't say enough about Peter's professionalism and level of service. He is a great resource for all of us.
Replaced the air injection hose from the air pump to the diverter valve. Original hose cracked when I removed the air pump to install stainless steel plugs where the rear bank exhaust analyzer tubes are installed. I purchased 3 feet of FC-647-12 black cloth covered hose from this site: https://teaguecustommarine.com/em0011/12-fc647-cloth-braid-hose I cut to fit the hose after I reinstalled the air pump. I had to use some silicone spray on the diverter valve side of the hose to slip it on the fitting. Tensioned belt based on 78 owner’s manual. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
finally got around to fitting that tiny little filter inside the fuel distributor unit this morning. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Took mine for a drive around Manhattan yesterday. Nice empty streets. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Image Unavailable, Please Login Conditioned and touched up the 39 year old Connolly leather this morning... A few authentic wear marks. She is a driver not a show car....
After reading one of the other threads, decided to clean up my targa top. A previous owner had decided it would look good to badly spray paint it black, so after carefully paint stripping it and then using some fibreglass conditioner, came up great Image Unavailable, Please Login Then the stripper went on Image Unavailable, Please Login Then used a fairly soft scraper to remove the softened paint Image Unavailable, Please Login And finished Image Unavailable, Please Login Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
A better pic of the end result refitted to the car Image Unavailable, Please Login Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
Image Unavailable, Please Login The E brake on my 82 308 was engaging a bit high, indicator of adjustment needed. So I adjusted the rear brakes today… You can get to the outside adjustment without removing the wheel. The E break engagement is a bit lower now.
Replaced a cracked ground cable connector up front. Fun trying to locate proper one. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Moved the 308 into its new garage! My family and I moved into a different home in the same neighborhood where we’d been living. I was able to keep the 308 at the old house while I worked on the garage at the new place. I finished and painted the drywall then did an epoxy floor. I went with one of those kits from Lowes... Really happy with the way it turned out. Prep work was a colossal pain, but I think it was worth it. Just hope it holds up! The top picture is a not-very-good before pic. I also ordered a Ferrari flag that should fit nicely on the wall above. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
"De-quarantined" or "de-confined" my 328 GTB to go to to the supermarket. You are allowed a one-hour sortie to buy "essential provisions"; I bought 24 half-a-litre beer cans, and 6 kilos of cat food (a cat has had the good idea to have her babies at my home...). Should I have been asked, I could easily have explained that I can't be expected to carry 12 kilos of beer and 6 kilos of cat food on a 1 kilometer walk. The 25 kms on the odometer (15 miles) for a two kms walk would have been more difficult to explain...and the stockpile of beer cans in the house, too... For the first time in years in the North-East of France, it has not rained at all for five weeks, and you are not allowed to drive the cars...how ironic. The car was happy; me too. Rgds Image Unavailable, Please Login
Well, an aside for cat fans... As said above...got an unexpected delivery on Thursday. The cat is not mine, but she decided to deliver in my own bed. No price for guessing who the father of the little gray one on the left is... Rgds Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
