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The one here https://www.ferrariparts.co.uk/part/ferrari/109632 seems easy to repair. Is the original one different?
As of 400i gen2 paint was applied more thorougly, for previous models, paint was scarcely sprayed, so backsides of the panels is often bare metal....
Flat plane are harder to balance for this reason: less counterweights on the oposite side of the cylinder. The issue however is: secondary"...
Wow... rebuilding my whole distributor tester seems like a piece of cake compared to this "side project"
More balance at lower rpm, and the crankshaft is not cast unlike other "production" engine so this was not overly expensive (for an already...
These engines aside from the V8 found on the lancia Thema are flat plane. Compared to a cross plane balancing these crankshafts is much more...
There were discussiosn on the subject: for stock looking rims, it's either 15'' original rims (as found in the 400 carb) or 16'' repro for the...
I do have a big capacitor just after the ammeter and a toroid that protects the ignition, hopefully voltage spikes from the alternator are trapped...
You'd better keep the TRX: proper 16'' tires (235 width) are even harder to find than trx, and the new trx rubber is really good.
On all the car I buy, I end up changing the battery terminal as well as the ground strap (or ground cable). Sure the stock ones do look better,...
Or change the voltage regulator... But at the end of the day when you pack more power in the same case, reliability will suffer. I now have a...
If you really want to clean the engine, just use some fully synthetic truck oils :do come with lots of detergent, and with or without ZDDP...
On our heavy cars the results could be different: my personnal experience with the vredstein on a 365 was that lateral stability in high speed...
Over the course of the last 30 years my brothers and I got 7 of these. (4 manual, 3 auto). Manual is more noisy, because the axle in the torque...
I really like the auto transmission... Performance wise there is not much difference, rear diff is much more robust, torque tube far less noisy...
If timing sprookers or the tensioners had to be replaced, then an engine out is more or less mandatory.
If one follows the maintenance guidelines, there are quite a few things to do around 50.000km (valves, valve guides,...) that are easier to...
They will probably throw at ypu whatever they have in the shelves that fits. Even back then they were quite creative: my late 400i gen1 is a mixed...
The higher rpm bearings are built with tighter tolerance, but they usually come with higher drag. The additional 1000 rpm is not meaningfull :...
What the qr code (just above the skirt) says?
