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Exor SpA (controlled by the Agnelli family) today own 30.1%, 24.9% by EU institutional investors, 11.2% by outside EU institutional investors....
Hmmm, isn't Fiat owned by the italian state? So the italian state is moving their own company to Netherlands to pay less tax to themselves. That's...
Not that I know of. Everything will be custom made. 4.2L heads flow enough to get close to 600 hp at 8800 rpm. Cams and exhaust manifolds are the...
You need to regrind your original cams. The cam lobes clear the heads by a hair thickness so a regrind with smaller base circle is the only way....
A new flat plane crank is just under $2K in Europe. New heads are about the same each. Cams about $400/each. What I dont get is why a used F430...
Thrust bearing are at different positions in the blocks but can be moved. Camshaft bearing diameter is different so cams can not be swapped...
It's about 140 mm taller (5.5 inches) :)
The early 4200 engines are more different to F430 than Quattroporte 4.2 F1 with dry sump from engine #107297 and up. GranTurismo 4.2 block and...
Looks like the new V6 Twin Turbo.
Type F136 engine designer is Paolo Martinelli, who is also responsible for the V10 and V8 F1 engines that powered the red cars to 6 drivers and 8...
Ignition coils and fuel injectors changed to Scuderia version on later engines.
The design I meant. I dont like the bi-colour red-black. Paint is easy. Plastic surgery is more work.
Maybe you have this? [ATTACH]
That rearend looks much better than the 458
Yes, they said everything must be water based paint from now on. You would not like to drive without silencers as that often make an annoying...
SS 304 can expand up to 10 mm/meter in length when it's very hot. That's twice as much as plain steel. There are various ways to stop silencers to...
If the exhausts are made exactly the same inside and out and same thickness steel used you need a good ear to hear any difference between...
I can't edit my previous post. Honeycomb were only used for the more or less flat surfaces as it dont bend around corners. The first fibre layer...
Some of the exterior panels are sandwich type and have thin kevlar honeycomb layer in between the kevlar/carbon cloth layers.
Brembo alu calipers were stock on 840i (V8 model) Weight is half of the cast iron ones. I have them on my Euro M635 CSi with 324x30 mm rotors.
