Here's a pic of me pulling the engine out of my 612 yesterday!

Jason - Like many on here I am fortunate enough to fall into the category of "having everything" (all things relative, I have what matters: health, family, and means...although I do not have an F car, yet!) and tell my family to not get any holiday gifts for me and spending time with them is gift enough.

I woke up early this AM with fam still asleep and picked up the iPad to read newspapers feeling truly blessed and at peace. I started scanning F chat and only tapped on this thread as there were few new posts / traffic on other threads and I wondered why this "pic of a pulled 612 moto" kept appearing at the top of the forum.

Two hours later I feel like Santa is real (his name is Jason) and finding this thread is my gift! I am truly in awe of your knowledge, commitment and passion to this project. Thank you so much for sharing this experience with all of us. I wish you all the best in bringing it to completion and will be following to the end.

Also, much respect for sharing your honest insights and thought process as you work thru the few challenges you have faced. You clearly have extremely high emotional intelligence in addition to your engineering prowess. Please keep sharing and continue to ignore the ignorant few who post on here.

Cheers!

PS - once you finish if you ever have the car up in Chicago please let us know as I am sure there are many of us that would love to meet you and check out this beauty.

 

I work in loop and live in Gold Coast.

 

GREAT THREAD!! This is a journey and it epitomizes the saying "nothing ventured, nothing gained." Sorry for the pitfalls but you will obviously overcome them. Looking forward to reading what the New Year brings for this project.

 

When you finally succeed, you'll be our new resident expert on the 612.

Best of luck.

 

Jason, very impressing what you are doing +++
and you will finish the car!!!

Good luck

Andrew

 

It is very likely something so damn simple that you just cannot see it .

I though cannot understand what is going on here. You cannot have bent the valves again because minus the cams she passes the leak down test. You install the cams and then you have a leak issue ... hmmm??

Is the leak issue on the same cylinder that suffered the hydraulic'ing? I'm thinking cam followers are your issue and it was not only the conrod that suffered from that experience but also one or more cam followers.

Have you tried for the sake of testing swapping the cam followers on the cylinders that leaks to another cylinder to see if the leak moves also?
Pete

 

Excellent!

 

Great news! Please continue to keep posting your progress...

 

Been following this from the start.
Very impressed with your capabilities but more so with your attitude.

I suspect 2015 will be a fun and rewarding year for you both Ferrari wise and generally.

 

Jason- Very glad to hear everything sounds better. Just button her up and you should be making music soon.

 

Persistence pays off.

You're gonna have a fun spring with that car...

 

I just read this whole thread. Thanks for taking the time to share this awesome project, and I can't wait to see the car back together. Good luck with the rest of the assembly!

Oh, and what happened to the windshield? I heard you mention it during the restart video, but I didn't catch what the problem was.

 

Very good news +++

 

I just keep thinking how lucky this 612 is to have found a new lease on life.

 

Good news at last.
Pete

 

Good luck with the restart... Fingers crossed...

 

Gotcha, it's great that the windshield's covered. Hope you have smooth sailing from here on out!

 

Jason, best of luck for the restart!
We're all rooting for you

 

Best of luck, Jason!