The Ferrari Bloodline

No worries at all, Mario.

 

So today I was out at 7am to meet my detailer and work on the yellow F50 for half a day.

1. Door-kick rubber protectors
It was mainly to do the 4 rubbers (functionality of a kickplate) which protect the carbon from your foot when you come out.

One door was done a month ago (see post #271) and now was the turn of the other door.

So we gently removed the 4 rubbers.
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And then we had to clean the dried old glue very patiently by hand (as you don’t want to use a thinner as one does not know how it might affect the carbon; it could go all cloudy on you).
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Then you apply glue on each of the rubber and its carbon base one at a time and let it cure.
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Then you push on the whole rubber length and wait till it all dries. Then you go the next one.

Once done with the four, I noticed that the extremities of each rubber tend to want to lift from the base. So I pushed the top end parts of the four rubbers together for few minutes.
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Then I did the same to the bottom parts. We were all done after 2 hours and it looked perfect.
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2. Bits in the engine bay
I checked the engine bay and had a look at the 8 (4 each side) small parts which were supposed to have been polished last time (pics 2-4 of same post #271). But to my surprise they were still tarnished!
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I thought to myself may be the detailer did just a couple of the eight (as he was on his own that day). I asked him ‘how come if you did these last month they look so tarnished?’ He looked more surprised than myself and said ‘no, the pics were work I did on another F50’…

So we started to work on these eight small bits. One side is really tricky as you have a black oil pipe running in front of the 4 parts
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A good hour later we were done.
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But we noticed the chrome hanger needed polishing and did the two side
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Cont’d in next post.
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Cont’d from #278.

There was also an ancillary device which needed attention.
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And we did that.
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3. Signs of Originality
While doing these bits inside the engine bay, we found three interesting things (look for those when inspecting F50s):

A. Yellow is good.
3 small screws marked in yellow paint after they are tightened to the correct torque. You will find then on each side.
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B. Green is good too. 8 green dots on the inlet manifold (4 each side) - next to the small parts we detailed in the previous post.
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Incidentally, they are similar to the green paint dots that you find on each of the Pierburg valves of the silencers.
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C. Hand-written gives a touch. 3 labels adjacent to the air box. Two are small stickers (of which one is hand written). You find the exact same 3 labels on the other side as well.
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Cont’d in next post.

 

Finally, before leaving, I had to enjoy the car overall. Here are few close-ups.
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And a few general ones.
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I asked myself how clearly would I be able to see the engine’s beauty when, from above, the engine cover is down and, from the back, I look through the black mesh…
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