Pic of your 360 or 430 you took today or recently

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Very clean. How much lowered and what size rear wheel Ahmed?

 

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Thanks man. A buddy and I lowered it ourselves, about an inch. Rear wheel is 20x12.

 

@rjd72 you should bring it to Fort Worth tomorrow!

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Thanks for the heads up!

 

Guess what I’m doing
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creating an exploded assembly drawing of your capote?

seriously, awesome. talk about convincing other people to take on projects! have this one on the list.

you just doing the elastics replacement? or a whole new top?

 

Whole new top. Trying to document a how-to along the way as the service manual skips around a lot and has you doing some things that aren't necessary.

Bonus is I got to improve my metalworking skills. The Ferrari dealer that serviced the top last (broken cable) did not diagnose why the cable might have broken. I've always felt the top did not go down properly but it's my first F430 so I had no reference. Come to find out about four brackets were bent on the driver's side causing binding when it got to the lowered position. I've heated, hammered, and straightened everything back out so it folds as it should. You couldn't really see the issues unless the top was completely off though to be fair. I feel like I have a much greater understanding of the mechanism now and am certainly more appreciative of how it works.

 

Great going there! When I did my elastics and documented the entire process, I found the top, while it looks daunting, is really a fairly straight forward mechanism.

 

F430 Barchetta ! FTW!

 

you and John hold my deep admiration for your work!

I would by lying if I didn't say I am trepidacious about taking on even the elastics replacement....

 

you’ll like this then, just recreated these original doodads. Price from Ferrari: $325 each. Price for me to make it: $0.50. I used the old top material so it’s authentic.
New one on top:

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What color? I’d consider that for my 348!


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Buttoned up. Write up coming soon
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So that is brand new huh? Why can't you be my neighbor!

 

only a few hours north

 

Wow, you've got skills Joe, that looks awesome

 

Amazing job! Congratulations !

 

significantly more chutzpah than I have. and I'm a huge fan of DIY. massive respect!

 

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Respect. Probably a better car for it as well!