I REBUILT A WRECKED FERRARI THEN GAVE IT TO MY DAD

this is the moment I bought this x rental non-running wct Ferrari F430 no way the Ferrari was left abandoned after it got an engine and gearbox issue years ago which someone stripped apart but never fixed since then me and my dad have been rebuilding the engine rebuilding the gearbox Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari and have made a start on the Bodywork but it still doesn't drive there's something that's broken that that that's there but today I'm going to completely finish rebuilding this car and modify it and do something I've always dreamed of doing giving a car to my dad and not just a car a Ferrari this is your Ferrara no it Ain the main reason we couldn't really drive it is because this is limp but we're going to make it stiff again because this little situation we got here you see that's broken so we can actually go backwards and forward into gear third and fourth but to move to the side it doesn't really do it the part that's broken we've managed to order it £380 no wonder it's broken because it's made out of plastic someone definitely could have 3D printed that for us but £370 if you can 3D print that you would have made £ 370 the bit you can see is broken in the middle here holds the gear stick in place in the middle and without it it's completely loose the gearbox uses two cables to change gear one cable to go forward and backwards and the other one to go side to side the gear stick won't go side to side because it just falls out of place so to access this part and change it I've got to completely dismantle the Senter console never done this before F I can see it sort of had a locking knot and then a threaded part on the back of the gear stick so I had to undo that first then unscrew this threaded part then after that there was a SE clip on the side of the gear stick had to take out the C clip which then had a bunch of washers a spring which keeps the gear stick in the central position and loads more tiny little components but I still couldn't get the plastic out I've removed something from the side something from the front and last thing to be removed is this thing from the back flame but it was pretty seized in there everything's fine yeah yeah yeah what it's hot down there but eventually we got it out yeah after that we had to pull the gear stick so it disconnected from the cable below it and once we got the gear stick out I realized something else wasn't right when I put the gear stick into the new plastic piece it was still sitting loose in there and my dad noticed there was something else broken which sits on the bottom of this spring here you can see on this diagram we're missing number six another time part the part we've got one and we've got an upgraded one in aluminium and it's coming tomorrow fingers crossed it will be here so now we can crack on with something else and hopefully this is going to solve it if it doesn't we're in a big problem but I think it will we're going to put the battery in the one there that you see that says Ferrari on it because that's for the Ferrari all right yeah here is the battery cover but I think I've made a vast very oh no I made an error tell me what mistake has he made what mistake he can you not tell I think he painted that black I know I bought it black completely forgot the carpet's red well it will be red when we clean it so my dad got on with putting in the battery cover without any idea he would actually own this car soon so maybe I need to get some fabric paint for that black carpet to make it match after that there's more trims to go on the back of the Ferrari these black things sit behind the grill and almost stop you from seeing inside the engine bay when you're behind the car it just neaten things up a little bit there's one for each side and that's looking a lot better wow that was W oh yeah that quite cool now yeah it looks better it's got all blacked out what do you think oh I look so much better there's also a few things missing from this rear bumper as you can see reflectors and some registration plate lighting under here I didn't realize I was missing any of this when I built up the bumper as if I had it before it would have been a lot easier to install with the bumper off this is the wiring Lo for the the registration plate lights I assume that these clip onto that like that like you know like form for like that you know like that and then the registration plate light loom clips into the engine Loom at the back here then all I've got to do is Slide the wires through this tiny little hole in the bumper which then would come out where the registration plate lights are do you reckon it matters which way I plug these no each connector goes onto the side of the light and then we're going to test it it works doesn't matter which way it goes round and now that we know it works we can bolt them into the bumper for good and that is the rear bumper complete rear bumper is all put together now and is complete which is good but there's still some more things we need to fix and eventually modify and improve as well and that requires the cars to go in the air for the next thing that's actually missing we have an ABS fold on the dash so when you're driving it the brakes are going on and off on and off on and off because it thinks it's skidding and the reason of that is because there's a wheel that's loose a wheel speed sensor which is loose on that side and no wheel speed sensor on this side there's supposed to be one there have ordered one it was about 40 quid uh it's off a Maserati but same thing that's meant to go there what I didn't realize and completely forgot is that there's some kind of modified made bracket which mounts this too so we haven't got that bracket it doesn't look anything special it's probably from a million pound from Ferrari so we're just going to take that off and make the same bracket that side and hopefully that works fingers crossed right so you got to replicate that but a mirror image for that side mirror image yeah yeah well it would just be the same the same but [Laughter] mirrored curveball that ain't an ABS sensor that's completely thrown me off now then so that is a suspension control module I don't exactly know how it works or what it does but I know I'm missing one so whether this is linked to the ABS in some way I have no idea but this Ferrari has some kind of special suspension which can adjust depending on what driving mode you're in what these sensors have got to do with that I have absolutely no idea right before we find out whether we have any warning lights on the dash anymore which I hopefully we won't but we don't know I have noticed that this car still sits kind of high it has got the stock wheels on which we will be changing in this video but I just expected it to sit a little bit lower but luckily these are on adjustable coilovers from standard so we could just wind these down a bit and it should hopefully make it sit a little bit lower look a little bit nicer so that's what we're going to do now and we're just going to guess exactly where we want it to [Music] go out I'm sure you guys all know how coilovers work I've noticed it comes standard on a lot of high-end supercars and this is good because we can adjust the ride height without having to buy expensive aftermarket suspension all I've got to do is Twist the suspension down to a ride height I think is going to work again this is going to be complete guess workor and I won't know how low it's going to be until we put the wheels on and lower it down to the floor another job that needs doing are the handbrake brake pads there's a separate caliper here which is just for the handbrake and whilst the brake pads look good the actual brakes the handbrake caliper brake pads don't look the best so mad knocking out the pin here then unscrewing the top bolt of the handbrake caliper unfortunately you can't get to the bottom one because the lower arms in the way but just by undoing the top bolt it can slide the brake pads out on one side and on the other side then he's got to take off the actual brake caliper which he's doing now so he can remove the brake disc which looks a little rusty but he's actually in good condition then the piston and the handbrake caliper is here and you have to twist that back in with a special kit so you can fit in the new brake pads which are obviously wider then the worn brake pads which is removed and there you go in goes the new handbrake caliper brake pads which are really small but again these won't be under much heat because they're just for the handbrake now this isn't the usual way you'll change the handbrake caliper brake pads but it's just a lot of the bolts were Rusty and we didn't want to risk snapping them especially as we wanted to get this on the road by the end of the video done see if the handbrake Works suspension is all lowered evenly it's absolutely guess work I hope it's not too low that we can't get it off the RAM and we can't drive it but it looks perfect chances of that I don't know I guess we'll find out we still got to leave the wheel off on that side cuz my dad's still going to do the handbrake pads on the other side but the time has come for me to fix the gear stick here is the piece you know how much that was 50 Quid 80 quid I'm not too far so that sits underneath the spring and it kind of goes in like that see mean like it's got to go in there so to get that out we I think we've got to knock that pin out out of there take that off take the spring off put this on and then put it all back together sounds easier all right yeah yes one pin that little pin that is the smallest pin in the world oh Sensational then the spring then that now we going to get his pin back in and I haven't got my glasses oh a look at that one step closer to get the driving Ferrari for my dad and he don't even know yet now I've just got to figure out how all of this gear shift mechanism went back together first the gear stick goes in which presses onto the cable at the bottom then I've got to knock in that thing at the back of the gear stick yes and that's held in with a c clip which is really fiddly and I hate these type of jobs after that there's this thing which I don't know what it's called that slides in from the side and then there's a spring a washer and all of that goes in the side as well and once that's in to hold it in place is a SE clip another really fiddly job Liam had to push it all in place and because it's springloaded he had to hold it down whilst I was trying to get the C clip in place but eventually we got it in after that there's this threaded part which goes on the front of the gear stick and after that we put the Gated part on to see if it all works and hopefully it does here we go it's pinged second third fourth fifth six okay it won't go in reverse but we might need to like jig the car around sometimes it does that doesn't it successfully passed to an extent I'm going to bolt all this together then we can adjust the cables to get the perfect gear shift Mission success now the Ferrari is slowly getting there but a lot of the components do look a little rusty and tired especially underneath the wheel arches but I think we have a solution for that I called up the ice [Music] blasters these guys can completely blast pretty much the whole car with dry ice which doesn't make a mess it doesn't get anything wet and it does a really good job of cleaning and degreasing everything and these guys are completely mobile just look at the difference it's made underneath the Arches and they even offered to do the carpets inside the car I'm not entirely sure how this works but it did a pretty good job and I've left a link for you guys in the description below if you wanted to get any work done by these as well so we can't get reverse um we think it's a cable situation so these cables here which move all the mechanism they can be adjusted and when we take the gate off the gearbox we can get it in reverse because it allows you just to go over a little bit further which is actually pushing the cable that way we just don't know which cable it is so I think all we got to do is I'll sit inside push it all the way over and then my dad will adjust it until I can actually put it into reverse I think that's the the way we're going to do it ready ready oh I'm in Reverse oh fixed well done so you got it first try is that good y don't do anything because look first second third fourth fifth sixth reverse come on then let's get it on the road seats door cards Wheels should we see how low it sits because then we can then we can push it off the ramp and we can open the doors up there and properly get access in here I hope it's not too low here we go [Laughter] did you Le it so you need to go up put blocks of wood under it it then we can see how much how low it is you is on right that is the ride height and those wheels are Tiner why did they do that on Old supercars in the day yeah boy look at the back how did we guess that almost level that's near fingers next up it's the engine covers these fit either side of the engine just to neaten up that engine bay a little bit more there is a lot of other stuff which we can clean up in the engine bay but we're going to be doing a lot of that stuff over on the mark 2 channel so make sure one you guys are actually subscribed to this Channel and also the mark 2 one if you want to see extra content once the engine covers are in I moved back into the car and started reassembling the center console once and for all which uses a few Allen key bolts and then the electrical connectors which connect to the hazard lights and the parking lights then I can push it all into its place only I seem to struggle a little bit when it comes to the ashtray so we've been trying to get it in like that but it probably goes that some things just don't make sense on this Ferrari but I guess that's the beauty of Italian engineering and that's why we love these cars finally I can bolt in the Gated shifter the part which makes this Ferrari so rare and that tops it off nicely this was one of the first things that come out and it's finally going back in we're going with the OG seats because we've kept it kind of OG really what's Original Gangster that's what you are tonyan OG everything is actually original gang like we've lowered it a bit which is a bit OG plus but other than that apart from the wheels and the exhaust ah the exhaust is OG plus yeah that's OG plus that's a necessity in it I did actually buy some aftermarket bucket seats for the Ferrari but then changed my mind and fitted The Originals and the reason being we pretty much kept everything original on this car and if we have added anything aftermarket it's always been subtle that'll help with the value of the car and also if I do anything outrageous my dad's probably not going to like it but the original seats aren't even that bad they're in pretty good condition for a nearly 20y old car before we put the driver's seat in you have a little look underneath here is the VIN number of the car and if I put that VIN number into car vertical you can see that this car's actually got a pretty decent check I can see on the check that we're all green no mileage fraud no outstanding finance and no recorded accidents and the good thing all the mileage all lines up and it's pretty low and that's quite good news because this being a quite a rare car that means it should hold its value because it's quite low mileage for an older car which is manual right Matthew you time for the door CL I can see a rough price of what the manual 430s are going for at the minute and a full timeline of the car now that is a good car vertical check but a bad one might look something like this on screen now Liam do a hot bul to show everyone out Liam it might even show your photos if the car was crashed at a car crash auction website like this one on screen and that is good to know if you are still considering buying the car redeem yourself Liam you can get 10% off your car vertical check by clicking the link in the description box below and using Code Matt on that check Liam redeem it now hot whb straight up can't call vertical him just the final pieces now before we can properly test drive this car I've just got to finish as assembling the door card on the left hand side and then we can move over to the driver's side which we were both really struggling on trying to sort this window regulator out so we've managed to rebuild an engine rebuild a gearbox and the one thing that's defeated us is this window regulator it won't lift the window up straight that's how it that's how it closes that's what we're going to have to deal with unfortunately we didn't have the time to fix this for now because we had to go to wheel Mania to pick up the new wheels and there's a lot of other things on the Ferrari that we do need to get sorted to make it absolutely perfect but for now we just needed to get it on the road for the first time the car has come a hell of a long way since we picked it up and a lot of people probably never thought it would go back on the road and to be honest neither did I my dad's about to get one hell of a car that's if it all works and goes to PL but even though there's still more bits to touch up it looks absolutely unreal it's crazy to think this is a 2005 [Music] car okay my dad's driving it first actual proper Drive the door card's rattling that is well annoying oh the steering's filed out oh my God what the hell oh it sounds good yeah I think it's going good it's it's quite scary when you just rebuil every in it so they have that much faith in the Ferrari me and Liam are in the pickup truck following so if it breaks down we've got a g with a jail free card this is a proper get out of jail free card but we didn't need the get out of jail free card cuz the the Ferrari was driving great and looking great even if the steering wheel was turning right when we going in a straight [Music] line and it wasn't long until we arrived at will Mania we're here we finally made it to whe Mania it's done its first drive my dad's drove it for the first time I've drove it for the first time it's made it here there's a few little issues here and there but the main thing the engine works and the gearbox works and here we are at wheel Mania of course for Wheels because these ones just are W one Sid's gray back my one side silver and they're 18 in I think they're a bit too small let's go get let's go get the wheels back in my bag and I got to brag I do this sh for real when we was down and we had nothing we had to share a mill put when staring well back in of that looks nut 20 all round then we G for a 9 20 on the front and not too aggressive on the rear we going for 11 for 20 on the rear yeah so it's kind of like an oem look like it still looks like the original wheel doesn't it yeah but it's just better in every way just better wider bigger better tires on as well it's keeping it OG plus that's what was going yeah oh no way that is SI ma branding and you could get it all at real minut it could someone do that themselves as well yes so they their own initials they could order forged and put their own initials on how about that and with the link in the description there's a 100% discount code there waa 100% every 100 no there is a WhatsApp number there and if you guys message Jord he'll sort you out if you've come from me go get him on the car now yeah don't he ain't going to let me drive it after you got them on oh yeah cuz you'll be cing this is it we all know it's the wheels which completely top off the build and I think by going with these OEM plus star wheels it's going to finish off the Ferrari perfectly but is my dad going to like it we put a lot of work into this car and wheel Mania are about to finish it off with these custom wheels let's see how she looks with her new shoes yes [Music] [Music] oh oh look at the fitment it's like we almost knew didn't we and there it is an almost finished Ferrari F430 but one last thing my dad has now got to fix all the broken parts on the car because this is yours what it's your this is your Ferrara no it [Laughter] ain't that's yours but but we're not fixing it anymore this is all on you now mate it's mine yeah yours you got a Ferrari mate yeah I can't believe it my dad has helped me build my dream car the mercil ARA he's helping me build the McLaren he helped me build the purple GT3 out in Florida and little did he know he was helping build his own Ferrari the least I could do was let him have the Ferrari go on then wow who's coming over with me now he's got a roll lexander Ferrar all right out this channel is his legs are [Music] about [Music] [Music] so good what a car well I think that's the outro thanks so much for watching this video If you enjoyed it hit the Subscribe button hit the thumbs up button and I'll see you in the next video 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Channel: Mat Armstrong

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Length: 26min 24sec (1584 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 09 2024