308 ferrari engine "HELP"!!!

Wow, sounds like quite the project. Hope a few guys down there come to your rescue and take up your offer. I should would. Good luck.

 

It must have been a really good buy

 

That sounds like a heck of a deal to me. Hope the rest of the drive train and brakes are ok too. Sounds like a fun project. Too bad I live all the way across the US. Once you get her going, all the work will be VERY worth it!

Kurt



There is nothing like a Ferrari, there never has been and never will be!

 

that is an awesome deal! what color is the car?

john

 

Must have been a great sofa!!!!

Good Deal!

 

Well it was leather!!

I agree what a great deal. How come I never seem to find these deals? Good luck with the rebuild, wish I was closer so I could help out.

 

I'd buy a parts manual and start trying to figure out whats what.

Quite a jigsaw puzzle to put togethor.
Good luck. If you get stuck - posting pictures of unknown parts will probably a response or three.

 

What are the three parts that it is missing?

 

Let's see... knowledge,time and money? Just kidding, sounds like the deal of the decade. Even at that price you could send the engine out to a reputable shop for assembly and be ahead. sell the sofa for some extra cash, I would check the cushions carefully, seems as though someone let this go real easy.

good luck, Brian

 

I would suspect the engine was blown (broken timing belt?) and the PO tried to rebuild it, got it all apart and gave up. But $2k?? That's a silly cheap price.

Problem is, to get the whole thing together if you don't do it yourself will likely be in the price range of a complete car.

Ken

 

This sounds really familiar to me, Like I've read it here before... was the car (or parts) in a basement? Didn't she let it go because her husband or fiancee or something died?

 

Umm, that's the timing cover. I've been told that the cam drive bearing holes in the cover are bored with it mounted on the block, and the holes in the block are machined at the same time. This was the only way Ferrari could guarantee that their centerlines line up with extremely close tolerences. Thus the cover & blocks are a matched pair & another cover just won't meet spec.

I don't believe that I've ever seen this in a WSM, but I once looked up the axial alignment requirements for the bearings & can believe this. Also, if the cam belt drive shafts aren't parallel with the cam gears, the belt will want to slide to one end of the gears & will rub up against the flange until something gives.

I recommend contacting Malolm West at ferrari.uk to see if this is truly the case.

 

Did she give you the title? Seriously.

 

How's the paint on this car? Not that it really matters for that price. I'm just in shock and awe... and trying to figure out how good of a deal you got! Resprays on a 308 can be very expensive. If the paints in good condition... wow.

Congrats!

 

Bill, I just looked at your profile...

You got a 308 for 2K and you've got a 914-6! Don't tell me it's a factory car... then again at this point I'm going to guess that it is.

 

So the engine blows in 6 years? Hmmmmmmmmmm. 17000 miles?
I've heard stories like this.............................HOW?
















Ripley's Believe it or Not.

If true, what a great project to fall into! Hope you can save the block.

 

Did anybody look into the engine that was for sale on eBay last week? It was in parts, supposedly missing only the gasket set. It made 'only' $5200....I think one of the pistons had valve marks on it though. Might have been a nice buy for Masonfamily..