430 GogglesPisano's F430 Ownership Journey

Totally awesome! And the button is great, nice touch

 

Wow. I just went through your whole journey and I'm already sharing it with all my friends I'm so impressed by how hands on you've been. Truly enjoying the journey of this car! Good and bad will happen it's part of the experience. I need that front lift in my life that's genius !

 

I would be selfishly interested in clutch pedal tips/info. I need to add my clutch sensor that apparently does nothing.

 

Tools and step by step with removing the stock brake pedal and adding the clutch/brake pedal. I think I need to do the same to get the clutch switch bracket into the area.

 

Me too on the clutch switch

awesome Joe!!!!!

 

Wow amazing. How did you source an authentic shift plate ? We need to get together sometime for an 08 photoshoot! Seems like we're both local. Our cars are technically brothers.

 

Well actually the launch control that Ferrari implemented was a 'botch job' anyway, it involved the use only of the TCU so only worked on F1 cars and it simply used the slipping of the clutch approach because Magneti Marelli or Ferrari didn't involve Bosch, or Bosch wasn't interested to do it (for whatever reasons). The net result was it sucked and caused significantly more clutch wear than was necessary.

I've been working on a L.C. solution that uses input from the ABS system (the wheel speeds specifically which are received by the engine software anyway and the RPM to be able to do a Proper anti-slip based launch control for the fastest possible acceleration off the line. I'm even going to have a training mode where it can learn the surface grip the first time so it knows the thesholds for best possible traction off the line. And yes it will work on both F1 and gated cars too including my modified settings which allow proper heel and toe without accelerator block out of the stock firmware.

Watch this space...

 

I've seen it in CF, considering it

 

Let's do it. Inspired by your journey and would love to share experiences and meet. You going to tomorrows show in San Jose area ?

 

Great info, thanks Joe!

 

Best thread on fchat. Love the front lift. Keep it coming!

 

Joe, If your referring to the 3 bolts thats at the bottom of the rear diffuser look at Eurospares diagram 106, item 16 for the bolts and item 14 for the washers

 

I guess you mean these parts...

Undertray bolts - 66121400 washer 7x35x2 , 10902424 bolt m6x20

Be aware, the washer is no longer silver. It's black so if you want things to match replace all of them on the diffuser and save the old washers to replace them if you lose one in another part before being anal like me and replacing them all to match.

 

All the washers on mine are black

 

You must have watched NGS vid... Watch mine next time, 'by the book'

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