Bradan 456 major service

How many miles on the clock?

 

Great photos.
More more more please!

Thanks for sharing.

 

So what is the issue on aftermarket belts? Some aftermarket products are superior to OEM and others are just junk. Which is the case with belts?

 

Wow great thread. Looking forward to this project and your expertise knowledge. Many thanks

 

Aftermarket belts? You are the expert of course but those are Dayco, same as OEM, no?

 

Dayco makes the timing belt for Ferrari. We do not know the specifications from Ferrari, but my guess is they specify recent date code, Ferrari part numbers, and yellow packages. I would not worry too much about the stock Dayco belts as long as they are recently manufactured. The last ones I bought were only 6 months old from Dayco. Only my guesses.

 

Timing belts are manufactured as very wide belts, so that multiple finished products can be sliced from the batch. Somewhere in the timing belt lore on this site was an opinion or report that Ferrari specifies to Dayco that they "slice" their (Ferrari) belts from the middle of the batch to get the most consistent length and highest quality. Have no idea if this is true or if it's marketing hype.

 

Sounds like hype to me, but then I'm a little put off with Ferrari about now after all I've found out about "Drive cycles" and how you must follow their instructions exactly!

I haven't come close to Ferrari's mandated drive cycle and all monitors are complete except for evap which won't complete with a nearly full tank, so I've heard. all I know is that monitor has always completed in the past after a code reset or battery disconnect so I'm not worried.