Hi Everyone, It is a 308 Gtsi USA 1980' i'm restoring with some engine mods. I bought it last year as a project car i didn't have a chance to drive it at all. The pics i will post mostly dated back a few month earlier... Image Unavailable, Please Login
engine out.... a tensioner, and water pump housing... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Most of the parts are going through wet media blasting and after, the steel parts are yellow or silver plated . Image Unavailable, Please Login
one of my favorite! I think it is a huge difference ! The 2 fuel filters and the fuel pump assembly without the pump... Now with 2 new filters and new fp . Of course the base plate wet blasted and yellow plated and black painted! I think as most of the parts has not been plated from factory ? As all the parts i saw was only painted on the raw steel.. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
almost forgot this: the tensioner pullie is modified to 7075 so i gained aprox 30-40% weight Image Unavailable, Please Login
nice work keep the pictures coming ! do you know Stefan in Buda ? (he hasn`t posted here for a while, though) http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/members/98455.html
Great job. Keep the pictures coming. My friend has a wet media blasting machine. What a great job they do, no pitting like a media blaster does. Makes the parts look like new or better. Better than soda blasting.
For a "project" car in the first picture, the vehicle looks pretty solid to begin with. You are taking it up a level or two. Well done!
Thanks for the encouraging words. The wet blasting makes great texture, the parts looks like new after! When the car arrived it looked promising, but the oil filter was loose and after further inspection I found out that the car must be stored 20 year or so in a garage without running. As i'm running a business buiding race engines, designing engine parts and ecu programing, and beeing A Ferrari enthusiast, my mind started to spin like an F1 engine: So the saga begun Also i'm used to high quality in the racing business, i try to make it looking very close to the original but upgrade the performance as much as "reasonable".
Some more parts are on the bright side ! I think most of us doesen' t know that such a nice piece of engineerd parts in these cars. Like the door stop Assy.. They looked a pice of junk @ first sight! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
a bit of inside look: the tie rods are crome plated as original , the picture is not perfect... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I made the modification suggested here , as i had the hard gear change when cold experience on a 208GT4 before. So i drilled a hole and grinded a small cut to help the oil go out easily from the shaft hole. It is strange ferrari made it like that because the other shafts had a spiral cut to prevent that..... Also my friend helping out rebuild the gearbox , sent me some pics i share with you Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Im all for seeing a girls knockers but last time I did that in a thread (several years ago) i was banned for 3 days.
It was fun to read the comments. Thanks for them on friday afternoon Some more parts ready: the tensioner assy,/ water pump pulley also made custom 7075! The factory waterpump pulley is very heavy i cant imagine why.... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
i didn't liked the heand brake assy at the rear so cleaned and added a pair of new maintenace free bearings. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Good idea on the hand brake pulleys-- I recognise those from fixing a friend's garage doors last year-- $10 from home depot.
