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by kare
Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:40 pm
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: GTE Safety Belts
Replies: 16
Views: 11776

Re: GTE Safety Belts

The third point was always done through the floor panel.
by kare
Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:04 pm
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: Anybody see one of these before?
Replies: 25
Views: 19869

Re: Anybody see one of these before?

I have no idea. I just know that standardization of cigarette ligters have failed til this day. Falcos is Italian and correct for many Italian cars of the 60's-70's. Remote copies are still being made in China, illumination ring (100% identical) and Italian electric connector prove the DNA. I am not...
by kare
Sun Apr 03, 2011 1:57 am
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: Anybody see one of these before?
Replies: 25
Views: 19869

Re: Anybody see one of these before?

I think we may have discussed this before, but anyway: the plug looks and feels very old fashioned, so my guess is it goes back into 20's or 30's when cigarette lighters were rare and didn't obey any standards so they could not be used as power output. Cigarette lighter finally killed it, but Fiat s...
by kare
Fri Apr 01, 2011 5:13 pm
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: Anybody see one of these before?
Replies: 25
Views: 19869

Re: Anybody see one of these before?

The plug is 100% correct. I've bought some in Italy.
by kare
Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:55 am
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: Anybody see one of these before?
Replies: 25
Views: 19869

Re: Anybody see one of these before?

Is there anything that suggests that light belongs to Ferrari and isn't just generic stuff sold at every Italian gas station?
by kare
Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:56 am
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: 250GT Connecting Rod
Replies: 19
Views: 14026

Re: 250GT Connecting Rod

Robert, do you remember crank length and red line RPM for 500 Mondial engine? If I remember right many of the Lampredi engines run with critical piston acceleration values, which mean that any material and heat treatment problem will easily result in problems. Surface tension as a result of heat tre...
by kare
Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:41 am
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: 250GT Connecting Rod
Replies: 19
Views: 14026

Re: 250GT Connecting Rod

When studying metallurgy I think my material science professor said that thermodynamic calculations show many heat treted phases in steel really to be meta-stabile with a half life of a few million years. So yes, maybe we should replace the conrods every 10 million years or so. In real life this mea...
by kare
Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:01 pm
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: 250GT Connecting Rod
Replies: 19
Views: 14026

Re: 250GT Connecting Rod

Fatigue does not generally occur in steel under 18MPa or 180 kg/cm2 or 2600 lbs /sq.inch (if I calculate correctly), so ways to damage a rod in normal engine use are very limited. So check them for cracks and don't keep them in your attic for 10'000'000 years, or the heat tratment will wear off! Bes...
by kare
Sat Mar 12, 2011 1:32 pm
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: Dying Daytonaspider beauty?
Replies: 20
Views: 15080

Re: Dying Daytonaspider beauty?

I don't know whose side to choose. I'm not a great fan of either Finnish or German culture. With regard to cars Finland is very much like Germany - Eastern Germany that is. Best wishes, Kare
by kare
Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:53 am
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: Dying Daytonaspider beauty?
Replies: 20
Views: 15080

Re: Dying Daytonaspider beauty?

In Finland 95E5 was introduced in 2008. We now have 95E10 and 98E5 since new year. The common propaganda is being geared up as sales of 95E has gone down 30% since new year and the statements of the politicians are getting pretty funny as there are hardly any engineers involved. We are being told th...
by kare
Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:55 am
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: Dying Daytonaspider beauty?
Replies: 20
Views: 15080

Re: Dying Daytonaspider beauty?

I think alcohol in gas actually solves this problem, it does not contribute to it. Ethanol will make the water blend into gas and not stay in bottom of the tank/filter bowl, where the water might stay for a very long time even if you drive the car. It is the water build up that makes the bottom of t...
by kare
Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:15 pm
Forum: Vintage Ferrari Archive
Topic: Preproduction 0891GT versus S1 PF coupe
Replies: 67
Views: 155490

Re: Preproduction 0891GT versus S1 PF coupe

SWB is a fake by Hugenholtz using Lusso chassis 5057 restamped into 2687. Owner at that time might have been Theo Melcher.
by kare
Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:35 pm
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: Compatible parts for early ferrari's
Replies: 17
Views: 13677

Re: Compatible parts for early ferrari's

250GT wrote:Its not the real thing.
It's like Barbarella: "Oh, you still change the oil in the OLD-FASHINED WAY - we prefer to do it with credit cards these days!"
by kare
Thu Jan 27, 2011 6:29 am
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: So what happened to this GTE?
Replies: 6
Views: 5732

Re: So what happened to this GTE?

By the way, the guy from the museum says 4105 could not have been in Poliziotto Sprint. Heh, denial is always the first stage after a surprice. A car playing a lead role in a movie would make a very nice exhibition piece for a museum, so having destroyed a restorable car to create a artsy-fartsy he...
by kare
Thu Jan 06, 2011 6:09 am
Forum: Vintage Ferraris
Topic: Door latch screws GTE
Replies: 16
Views: 14191

Re: Door latch screws GTE

T308 wrote:Didn't you car have an engine fire? Perhaps the plastic hood release was consumed and replaced with a metal version?
Yep, and it was also largely dismantled and put back together at the factory in 1966, so almost anything could have been replaced. Best wishes, Kare