Adventures of a 95 Verde Mugello GT

Thanks everyone for the support while i arranged purchase of my first car on my sanity check thread

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/sanity-check-prior-to-first-purchase.653713/#post-148321320

Now that its here and registered, and because its winter in Indiana... i have absolutely no where to go!

Hoping the enjoyment of the purchase lasts beyond the first few days, i finally got it on my lift to assess what im dealing with going forward. Found some good and some things i will need to deal with.

First the good... the best thing clearly is someone had already added a Capristo straight pipe in place of the center resonator! Car does sound great.

The rest of the undercarraige was generally good without any missing parts. I absolutely love the car on the lift... I get to pet the horse everytime I come and go into the house.

Follow up woth whats needed to come
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Now some of the things i found that will need attention.

Both inner CV boots are torn up. Still seem to have plenty of grease and not contaminated, but also made a mess of the area. Havent been able to find any tutorials or videos on repairing these. Looks like i need to disconnect the outter lower control arm (among other things) to get the axel out. Anyone have any experience with these? I suppose it wishfull thinking hoping i can R&R the inner joint and boot while keeping the exel in place and doing it all simply separated from the transaxle?

Dare i say it, but is any split boot suitable for an extended temporary solution? That leads me to my next issue...

Inner lower control arm bushings are getting cracked and rotted. Can assume the fronts are toast as well as sway bar bushings. Looking thru Ricambiamerica.com site Im still learning the strategy for finding parts and suitable alternatives..

My rear lower spoiler is cracked at the trailing edge and has a little damage on the lower leading edge. Any technique to repair these?


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How are these exhaust sensors supposed to be routed? Cant believe the just hang out here all willy nilly. Any way to clean this up?

As ypu can see some of the fibeglass insulation is coming apart around the Cats too.. any replacements available or need to worry?

Moving forward both front brake duct tubing have tears where they make the bend from the front towards the brakes. It seems like replacing these with aircraft grade tubing would be most ideal. Anyone know the size and length of the tubing.
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How are these exhaust sensors supposed to be routed? Cant believe the just hang out here all willy nilly. Any way to clean this up?

As ypu can see some of the fibeglass insulation is coming apart around the Cats too.. any replacements available or need to worry?

Moving forward both front brake duct tubing have tears where they make the bend from the front towards the brakes. It seems like replacing these with aircraft grade tubing would be most ideal. Anyone know the size and length of the tubing.

 

So clearly the pictures and posts dont line up exactly, ill ha e to leard how to embed pictures within the text.

Anyhow overall its very dry underneath. Car has definitely taken some scrapes and shots over its life and needs a good undercarraige cleaning to uncover any other problems. Right now im trying to determine where to source parts from and what i need for suspension work. I will assume sway bar bushings and links may as well be replaced too. Are there any kits out there or preferred vendors... at the bushings specific to our cars or is there an acceptable general part that works.

 

I am on the southeast side of Indianapolis. Would love to meet up, have already been contacted by a few other locals. Seems like a small but great community within the state so far.

 

Moving on with work today... fixed a tail light bulb.

Front fog light assemblies are in not so good shape... looks like water has definately gotten into them before. Do i have any options or leads on a new set? Or is there an alternative in the other parts thread? Glass is good, but need to get inside.

Also chasing down why my highbeams don't work. Both headlight and flashers are not functioning. Have not had a chance to open the fuse box yet and mess with relays or fuses? Enjoy the carnage..
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Thank you for the encouragement! The green continue to grows on me! It does look amazing.

I do plan to continue to get my hands dirty on this car sorting it through...

 

Moving on....

My shifter spacer was long ago crumbles to bits and left to rot in the bowels of the center console.. instead of cleaning anything up it looks like it was just left to crumble and all pushed down below. Got out the shop vac and dug all the bits out, cleaned and scraped all the old dirt and grease out of the pivot of the shifter too. A generous spray of silicon grease down there too.

Then I had a friend 3D print a new spacer and can say it came out fantastic! Replaced a plethora of washers being used as spacers through each screw hole, however it still seemed like the shifter was dragging along the underside of the gated shift plate. All that is gone. Seems to sit level with the console and i now have a few MM of clearance under the shift plate, but still have to push down to engage reverse.

 

I found this one in south Florida...showed up on ebay in Dec, but was thru a small dealer/flipper down there.

 

What does everyone use for a rear license plate bracket behind the plate? I only have 2 holes in the bumper but they are mounted fairly high and I’m worried that the lower half of the plate will vibrate against the bumper and hang down below the flat part

I found this to space it out, but is there a better solution?
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Auto-Drive-Universal-License-Plate-Frame-Mounting-Bracket-Black/36065972

 

I have been reading all about the eventual fuel pump issues. I just watched the CarWizard YT video on the 550 Fuel pump R&R with the Kia part number. It really does seem easy enough.
Going to order and swap Fuel filters and inspect for black bits and go from there. On the Fuel diagram, it shows washers around the fuel fitting and banjo bolt. Are these copper crush and is the banjo bolt recommended to be replaced with filters?