308 GTB (1980) Undoing the Vandalism

Hi, As I seem to be always asking questions on the forum, I thought I'd start posting some details of what I am doing. Hopefully so that fellow chatters might get some information or photos of help to them.

Today I have been looking at removing the 328 Electric Mirrors (I think that's what they are)
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and replacing with original Vitaloni baby Tornados. I have a photo of it with its original Drivers side Baby Tornado (sorry for copyright reasons I can't post. Just google XOL308 ). I'll clean up and sell the two removed on ebay unless somebody here wants. I don't know if they work because no controller was fitted.

The door armrest I had already taken off by unscrewing with a large posidrive the two M5 screws on the underside rear of the armrest and with a spanner the two close to the interior door handle with 10mm spanner. Actually one of the rear screws was a self tapper rammed into the nut but M5 is what it should have been.

Next I undid the lock button, the two tiny pozidriv screws on the rear vertical edge of the door card, the 2 tiny pozidriv screws on the bottom, the four screws holding my speaker grille and then finally the large pozidrive exposed when the speaker grille removed. Grille is the Black and silver ridged type.

This left me with the exposed door panel which I expected to have some plastic sheeting. Unfortunately removed and not replaced. I did find a 1 ft sq pice of silver nylon sheet stuffed into the door, not sure why?
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I did find some other odd things (I know our cars are 40 years old but Isn't it amazing how little respect is given and how many bodges done to them)
There's two green wires coming in on the loom that are spliced to two grey wires that disappear back into the door and which I have to figure out for my own sanity what they do/are. The gauge of each are the same and the connectors are the same as two splices on the glovebox wires,
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I suspect these may be original Ferrari but not sure why. Yes, you can see a previous chunk angle ground out of the door to fit a 13cm speaker, they also cut a mega hole in front of the speaker cover so at least were consistent! You can see on this photo the large hole to the right which takes the hidden door card retaining screw

Final bit of investigation then is to figure out how the little glass pane is normally sealed. I suspect parts diagram won't have it. Mine has the external wiper, and a mass of sticky gooey sealer on the inside which can't be genuine can it?
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Off now to clean up the excessive glue on the door card leaving the build number still taped inside. And order a new mirror because I ended up with one with a plastic base and one with a metal base. Think about the wiring and the sealing.

 

I'll pm you Bob.

 

Ha!

 

I hesitate to say a restoration as it devalues what some people here are doing. Just undoing a few things David. Thanks for the advice and wishes.
Does anyone know what the silver grey cloth is? and did Ferrari use clear polyythene as the door membrane.

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It's 1980.

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Took the passenger door card off today. Huge difference in the fibreglass armrest. The front piece is thin like the rest of the armrest, unlike the drivers which I now realise was rebuilt and is I suspect off a later 308i or 328 as mountings are different. Anyway I discovered the cloth is attached to the passenger door properly although maybe cut short. I agree in that I expected polythene.
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