My one (the 208 GTS turbo, the only one that is already serviced) works well and zero problems: I got it one year ago, exactly. If you buy a 100.000 km one (and there are many...) never opened, of course it will break down quickly: sodium valves must be replaced immediately, and the turbocharger too. Those are cars usually owned by people who handn't enough money to service them in the full and correct way. ciao PS And if you "tune up" the wastegate (many owners did that...) the not intercooled one will blow up very quickly
On the other hand, if Porsche had had a street version of the 917 on offer, then I would have been interested... (actually, there was a guy with one, not far from where I was living in the 1970s, but on the other side of the border, in Germany, with one of the "race 917s" slightly detuned for street use...) Rgds http://www.i-t-d.net/Porsche_917/917-Strasse/917-strasse.php
I followed and supported the sale of a single owner fantastic F40 with just 7800 km, always gently driven, (no track or something like that) sold for 1,12 M Euro two months ago. Before the sale it required the following services: -new clutch -new clucth bell housing -new fuel tanks -many others services Amount: 25 k Euro (this at an unofficial service shop: the estimate at an official Ferrari service shop was 40 k Euro...) I never heard of a 208 turbo that required so many works just after 7800 km since new. And the fragile car would be the 208 turbo? And then the F40 what is, made by paper? ciao Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Never realised the F40 has bag tanks. They are "lifed" parts. Not good for cost of ownership! The clutch is well known to expire but what was the problem with the bell housing?
USA F40 hasn't the race fuel bags and it's heavier too. The bell housing is a magnesium alloy that looks to be a self destroying one and needs a machining too for oil passages or something like that (the mechanics explained me the whole story but I don't remember very well that). Ciao
I assume, it has something to do with the porosity of the material and thus getting leaking after a certain amount of time. A well known problem with all kinds of cast materials. Be it iron or magnesium or aluminium. If I have to design fluid passages in cast iron parts for high-pressure hydraulics I insert, press in a tube made of steel, brass or aluminium billet material. But if a part is not badly cracked or similar, just leaking out of porosity, today there are chemical ways to fix the problem. Loctite for example offers a chemical process for impregnation. Best Regards Martin
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133 K USD: not bad! And consider that's the most common of the four models two liters turbocharged (828 made). ciao
