A long read but worth it!

http://www.build-threads.com/build-t...m-restoration/

 

Wow!!!

 

I used to deal with those guys when I worked at Maranello. There was a bloke called Matthew who worked there with a moonstone 3door and a track/race prepped fiesta...

 

Saw this the other month when it was on the front page of build threads. Awesome thread and pretty cool its in the UK!

Jordan

 

Awsome car, I love that site, theres some proper awsome projects on there, this is my favorite


http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/175782-sv...qashqai-r.html

 

Brilliant read, thanks

 

Both quality build threads.

 

That is really interesting, there's some bloody clever people out there

 

i can honestly say as much of a ford fan as i am, if i were to win a sizeable amount on the lottery my first purchase even before a house food or clothing would be a ferrari f40, got a ride out in one in 1999 and fell in love immediatley

 

I have worked on a few ferarri Daytonas and we had a F40 in with less than 6k on the clock still on its original tyres.

There are some cool cars out there and the F40 uses the same weber marrelli ecus and sensors as a cossie 1 ecu for each bank lol

 

one of the perks of working for them!! Idle valves,3bar maps all as cheap as chips! !

 

Try bloody getting 3 bars and tps now tho

I'm not a ferarri person but the F40 is awesome.

 

How much did that cost I wonder

 

We had a dozen iscv in stock when they were in short supply a few years back. Did a deal with a company for most of my engine build parts!

 

Very nice!

Although a shame they used so much filler and primer on the bodywork. The original cars had printthrough on the paint from the carbon weave and IMO that is part of the attraction of a no compromise performance car.

Also why the pikey chopped strand matt in thier laminating?? theyve gone to the effort of using carbon and matching the EXACT carbon/kevlar 8HS weave pattern then used pikey cheap csm hidden underneath!! for the sake of a few hundred quid on a £100k rebuild i would of expected them to use advanced composites throughout.

 

About 6k for each end 'clam', iirc! And many hours getting them to fit properly, as being hand made, every car was different and a complete fuck to get panels to lign up.

 

Got to agree, seeing the carbon through the paint just proved how hardcore the car was.

 

Cool build

 

I agree with you there, this is up there with like most people one of my all time favorite cars. Remember when i was a boy having an F40 1/18th model and dreaming what it would be like to drive a real one. Shame there all left hand drive though (well all but 7 which were converted from new for the Sultan of Brunai the greedy git haha)

 

I think I would have aF40 too if I won the lotto.

 

That was long but interesting but love the f40's.

 

Wow what a good read