Yes, I converted my F1 575 to a gated, three-pedal manual

That is interesting.

With my old 599 when I would reverse up my driveway I would smell the tang of clutch.

Do you know what this may have been?

The driveway was a little steep.


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No idea why you would want to do that. My driveway is like a ski jump hill, so I go up it in 1st and come down in reverse. But the difference between 1st (3.15:1) and reverse (2.38:1) in a 575M is way worse than in a 599. In the 599 reverse is 2.93:1, while 1st is 3.15:1, so you might have smelled clutch going up in 1st, too.

 

I did this perhaps 3 times and then It was always roll down in reverse and drive up in 1st! There was a tight corner and I just had to work out how to negotiate this in the 599 as it was so big!


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Your garage makes me feel inappropriate ;-)

 

must be much easier to navigate in that Dino! Beautiful cars

 

Hahaha! If it makes you feel any better, I’m thinking impure automotive thoughts as well…

 

LOL!

That was my very first house I bought and I added a 2.5 car garage at the rear, was always a dream of mine!

That was 19 years ago when I bought that house in Australia.

Now I live in Beverly Hills and this is my current house that I am getting a permit to add some garages a gym and home cinema!

When my architect gave me the first renderings I was unhappy with the cars in the garage.... I said to him...... you could have at least added a Ferrari. So he di on the next draft!

The cars will also have one of the best views in all of LA!
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You guys crack me up!

 

Dude! That is righteous!!

 

Did you see the 2 x Enzo's and 9 x Maranello's?

 

Now that you point them out…

 

I never could afford more than one Ferrari at a time. Come to think of it, I could not even afford one Ferrari at a time or the one I have now. My Dino went in 1978 and the Daytona in 1980. The 308 GTS went in 1983 and I have had the 575M almost 15 years. A drought for a few years in the 80s, 90s and 00s.

 

Fortunately for me by the time I turned 18 my parents were bankrupt from some bad property deals.

After I saw the ugly side I never wanted to go there ever again which gave me the drive and persistence to power through anything and to make something of my life.

I have been very lucky to have a work ethic that has never gone away.

11 years ago I bought my first Ferrari and I think I am on number 13 with 3 x more on the way.


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I am interested to know the Daytona drive when it was newer.

I drove one and the steering was so sloppy. There was so much play that you could literally move the wheel 4 inches and it would not ever make an adjustment on the road!


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No play in mine and it is pretty miraculous what they could do with worm and roller. Very precise if a bit heavy at low speeds. Did not bother me much since I owned C1 and C2 Corvettes without power steering, including a 427.

All I ever wanted to do when I was young was fly fighters like my father, so that is what I did. Bad eyes, so in the right or back seat, but they all had sticks and throttles there. Not going to get rich doing that, but you cannot buy the experience.

 

This gives me hope that if I buy a Daytona I can have the whole steering and suspension completely rebuilt to fix the handling to the way it should have been.

And flying fighter jets is a whole next level.... Just like landing on the moon..... Where do you go from there?

 

Retire and have USAF turn me into a rocket scientist as a contractor.

 

@Condor Man i assumed you meant where does one go to get that adrenaline buzz after being a serious pilot and some guys have unlimited capacity for the adrenaline that’s for sure…..

one of my life long friends is a retired green beret and that guys interest and capacity for “the adrenaline buzz” will probably not be much different for him at 70 as it was at 30! ;-)

EDIT - p.s. I know there are other veterans and pilots in our group (and they don’t need smoke blown up their skirts)…but as an example…how fun would it be to have dinner with Terry and Clyde @Clyde Romero and just listen to some of their aviation stories!

 

CM- Note also that the steering box was adjustable with a lock nut and set screw on the Daytona and the one you drove may have been worn out or merely out of adjustment. Mine was fine and I never had to fiddle with it, but she was only 8 years old at that time with around 20,000 kms. I still have my copy of Angelo Wallace's translation of the Daytona WSM.

 

Are you parking ypur car in an uphill? I did park my 550 in a steep downhill one time in the drive way of my buddy in Italy. Flew home and was supposed to fly back two days later to pick up the car. Long story short, the car sat there for three weeks. And it had been raining almost constantly.... I arrived and found out that water had come imto the passenger footwell and into the trunk. After that, I never leave the car in a angled spot. It might be so that the car is designed so that rain is drained down when the car is in a level spot. Not neccesarily working like that when it is in a up ur downhill. What do you think about it?
Erik

 

That is a real pain in the butt!

I think you would be able to have this resolved buy checking all of the drain points.

The same thing happened to me in my first Taycan and the dealer said that it was a known problem with draining around the windshield area that gets blocked from leaves and debris.