Whats the story with this car? Check the engine over the wheel arches when he opens the hood. Also check the instrument cluster looks like 575 Check out the images: Image Unavailable, Please Login Looks like its at factory, but the instrument cluster is in Miles and not KM Image Unavailable, Please Login Also this gauges taken out Image Unavailable, Please Login
They put a poorly designed coil on plug ignition system on it. Nothing new there. And he changed some instruments. No big thing really. Just noticed its a 575 engine. Its a factory car. They have been robbing the parts department.
He says it's a Ferrari Corso Pilota Classiche car, so the stuff over the wheel arches might be some sensors. The instrument cluster definitely looks like 550, with the three dials on top of the central ventilation.
wow so Ferrari use this car at Corso Pilota Classiche in Italy and lets customers test the car on track as 550.... Why not use real 550 with 550 engine etc?
No, thats a coil on plug ignition system which a 575 has but evidently they were short some parts and fabbed their own.
I am sure it needed a new engine. They ran out of 550 engines many years ago. So many got used up as replacements from breaking the oil pressure senders off. Same with 456.
^ Collapsed motor mounts can damage the oil pressure sender when it comes in contact with the anti-sway bar. This is especially true with the old style motor mounts if they're still on your car. I'm lucky to now have a handy "inspection port" ever since I replaced the broken louvers on my car's undertray with this hardware cloth assembly... Image Unavailable, Please Login I can easily see the clearance between the oil pressure sender and the anti-sway bar. Image Unavailable, Please Login Old Style (left) v. New Style (right) Motor Mounts
Wow, this is interesting. When my son and I were there for a factory tour in October 2019, as part of our visit we toured the Corsa Clienti facility, located just off the Fiorano track (in addition to the engine production/assembly hall, final assembly hall (F8 Tributo line) and the F1 HQ building). Unbelievable the historic Ferraris that were kept inside that building. Anyway, sitting just inside the CC building entrance was a slightly forlorn looking RC 550, and I wondered at the time why it was just sitting there. I wonder if this Corsa Pilota 550 is that car? Interesting mods and neat video, anyway. Would LOVE to go back someday and experience the Corsa Pilota program at the Fiorano track. So cool!
By the way, Ricambi America sells an oil pressure sender cover which is very effective in keeping the contacts clean: https://www.ricambiamerica.com/135940-b-oil-pressure-sender-cover.html Dirty contacts cause false high oil pressure gauge readings. I have these on both my 550 and F355 Challenge.
I have driven that very car on Fiorano. It is detuned significantly. I was flooring it out of the hairpin and the car had no power. I have a video onboard and I'll figure a way to upload it. I just assumed it was done to protect the drivers and the car. Interesting about the dash, I showed a picture of the car to a friend and he asked why that was different, I had no idea it was.
So with this heavily tinkered 550, Corso Pilota Classiche certainly does not use Classiche certified cars
Honestly none of them would get a Redbook aside from the Daytona but fortunately that isn't the point of the program. It's still a lot of fun and a memorable experience.
Condition has nothing to do with Classiche Certification. Its about originality. There are some pretty scruffy cars that are certified. Also Tommy from your description you may have just been experiencing the traction control. Nailing the throttle coming out of a tight turn would make it fall flat on its face. Or who knows. Those cars are rode hard and put up wet.
That hairpin is the only spot there that you can really mat the pedal and hold it there for a while from a slower speed. You can't do it after the left turn going down the straight past the garage because of the apartments to the right. You have to lift and cannot get on throttle again until just before the bridge but you are going a pretty good clip by then and I didn't notice it there. So if coming out of a tight slow turn makes act like that, then that's what was happening. You can hear me asking what the hell was going on with the car. I'll get the video up somehow.
