F430...HELP. Need a new/used engine! Yikes!!

what happened to the engine?

 

Sell the 911, TR or the Lambo.

Try the recyclers: Ferrari Parts, Huge Warehouse, Fast Shipping, New Used and OEM, Exotic Auto Recycling, Leading part supplier for Ferrari, Maserati, & Lamborghini, Used Italian car parts & repairables, ebay.

Not sure what would cause the engine to implode.. why are you at a dealership when an independent can do the same work for half price?

 

Is this a rosso corsa 2005 F430 Spider?

Try this: https://www.iaai.com/Vehicles/Search.aspx?Keyword=ferrari

 

No kidding. How did this come to be?

 

in addition to above Ebay has several including a warranty, caveat emptor,

 

What were the symptoms before the failure?

I tend to think of 430 engines are pretty bulletproof...

 

I'm sorry to hear of your problems. I'm in the UK so can't help with sourcing a new block.

Could you give us some more details about your car? EG: How old/ how many miles? How often was it serviced? Did any of the headers fail?

It will be useful for the community to understand how the engine failed.

Good luck with getting back on the road.

 

Contact Mike at Ferrari of Costa Mesa. They part cars as well. ferrariservice.com

 

Sounds like main crank bearing issues. Oil starvation? Contaminants in the oil?

A little more information about this would be nice. So that if there is something that could be prevented the community could consider ways to prevent it from happening to other cars.

Did you contact Dave Helms? Did he give you any feedback? Many trust his input rather implicitly.

 

Dave is the best but does not have Sd3 equip. A big part of the reason I sold my 430. Didn't want to be captive to FoD.

 

Contact enginefxr ...He can give you reasonable and possibly less costly options. His rebuild would definitely be cheaper

 

The old "loud tick" noise strikes again...............

 

Ferrari Service Costa, Michael is a solid guy. 2148 Newport Blvd, Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Phone: (949) 548-9541

 

Man...18 K to RR the engine is interesting to think about.

There must be a better place to get this done. I would talk to the GT or CS racing guys. If it took 120 hours to swap out an engine I cant imagine that the car could ever be used as a race car. That's three guys for an entire week (@ $150/hr each).

Wouldn't they have it out on the first day?

 

What model Year/Month car? Just curious. Be sure to document all of the failures in the engine with photos.

 

And you guys wonder why I so "tend to favor independents" in my posts. I presume that some of that is for the warranty. Looks to be about $30k asking for a used 430 engine. I can't see why the swap with direct parts from the OP car shouldn't be more than a day or two labor tops with the right equipment.

I also presume OP is limiting access to the VIN for resale. Shouldn't matter but can't say I blame him.

 

LS1 Swap?

 

Ha, LS1 sighting. Had a ~700 hp LSx, pulled like a mother but didn't quite have the sound of the 430 lol.

To the OP, best of luck, hate to hear that...

 

I may be able to help, sent you a PM

 

I'm guessing (hoping) that this includes a fair bit of the engine disassembly and diagnosis?

 

I have thought about this scenario before and would be tempted to swap a new engine in and just take the broken one home and re-build it over time until it is "fresh" and then sell either one on the open market to re-coupe part of the cost. Document the bejeezus out of the process so that you dont scare the next owner.

 

I sympathize with the OP's situation for sure, but working in the service industry, I feel like I should add this. I doubt 18K was just labor, Im sure they factored in some "cushion" for taxes, fluids, misc items etc. and also, that appears to be about 100 or so hours of labor. With all the diag and disassembly time, and then R&R the engine, fuddle with missing parts, swapping parts over etc. then re-install test drive, verify the engine is good etc. 100 hours may not be as far fetched as one would think.