REBUILDING AN EX RENTAL FERRARI | PT1

so this is the conrod out of this Ferrari engine which is quite clearly bent and this is the Ferrari 430 that I bought from the Trek Experience place for 60 000 pounds which may sound expensive but are only saving grace is that this is a gated manual and the only gated manual Coupe for sale in the UK is just short of a hundred thousand pounds so it's safe to say the budget is going to be tight when rebuilding this Ferrari oh my God which is going to be difficult seeing as most of the engine and the gearbox came with this car in millions of pieces but now I need to see what sixty thousand pound got me let me explain the bumper situation in fact Hannah's going to explain the bumper situation this is not the bumper that should be on a F430 this is a scooter rear bumper which is a little bit more expensive in fact a lot more expensive than a 430 bumper how much is one of these bumpers a bumper Alone 3 245 pounds and 20. not only that this thing here how much is that two thousand two hundred and sixty three pounds a 72 P this is like over 5 000 pounds worth of bumper and it's got self-tapper screws in it it's absolutely battered safe to say I don't think we're going to be replacing it with a scooter rear bumper we're gonna have to look elsewhere now the rear bumper I don't think it's actually original but it is a 430 bumper but how much is one of them is missing which is what we're gonna need to buy is how much oh wait how much is it the diffuser is 3101 per it's four thousand four native the carbon One 8 400. so we're not having a carbon diffuser okay we definitely gotta find maybe some secondhand parts I don't know I'm not sure that's supposed to be in here oh is it off well the bumpers are hey now seeing as this car hasn't been on the road in over 11 years it's gathered a lot of dust so I thought it's only right that we cleaned it which made me notice a few strange things Gray gray and then on this side silver and silver nice and now it's time to remove any evidence of it ever been a track Experience car although I think it's life on track was short-lived as the Body Works looking pretty good for an extract car [Music] oh good how's this turned out it's starting to look promising for a 2005 car the paint looks really good bearing in mind it's been absolutely battered round the track it's all live we've got a little like I don't know whether it's peel or like I don't know if it's rust because I think these are aluminum so I don't that's just that's a problem apparently on the f430s it's common for the lights to wobble there's no exception on my one because [Music] it's so sticky it leaves fingerprints in it but the time that I did spend on track took its toll on the interior especially as it was left to sit there for a long time according to Google only around 1500 manual f430s were ever made which makes this one pretty special first out is the seats four bolts holding them in and one seat belt which is connected to them then we can start attacking the carpet and whilst my dad was working on the front of the car he found something missing What's missing well you see that hole under there look That was supposed to have a clutch Masters oh wow wow the master cylinder is Obama to take another master cylinder unless there was another manual the clutch master cylinder is attached to the clutch pedal and its job when you push down the clutch pedal is to push hydraulic fluid through the clutch system allowing you to release the clutch find it a second hand master cylinder on one of these could be pretty hard and brand new you're looking at around 332 pounds cheers guys thank you thank you so it's beyond me why that master cylinder is missing but we'll worry about that later for now I'm cracking on with getting this interior back to how it should be it's not a full detail but the interior has been absolutely transformed by about an hour worth of cleaning it's definitely making me feel a little bit more confident about my purchase [Music] okay we have got Freddy's engine which he kindly donated to us which has a bent comrade one bent conrod and then we also have the original engine block here we've got to make a decision now on what block we're gonna use because we've got to build up an engine for this Ferrari bad news about the original block is in some of the cylinders you might find it hard to see here they are scored now these sleeves you can actually replace them but in Freddy's block these cylinders are all good so I think we're going to use this block yeah now I know the Ferrari Fanatics are probably not gonna like that I'm not using the original block but for now this is the most cost effective option so let's start stripping this one and we've got a lovely new parts cleaner thanks Motel was Hannah is on the cleaning tutor me and my dad are trying to work out how this engine was assembled before we take this engine apart we're just taking note on how it's put together providing was put together actually properly but if you look at the bottom of the rods here that's marked with a Y and then a number and then on this side it's marked with an X and a number then again it goes to Y and a number and x and a number so it constantly goes y x the last cylinder this one it went with the one on this side but the one that's actually bent is also a y Marx Conrad as we couldn't really see any pattern between the x-com rods and the y-con rods and it's also really difficult to find any information on this engine online which you'll find is a problem later in the video I can only think of one person I could turn to we're trying to work out these kind rods because they're all marked weirdly like so some have Exxon and some have y on so if it's on if it's on the bottom of the cat facing you when you flip the engine upside down I'm sure that's a batching number to be honest mate unless you want to balance the rotating assembly I wouldn't really worry too much because I'm pretty confident we get it on the Audis as well where they're like a batching code so you can look at it and you can go oh all the X's are like a certain weight but it doesn't really matter too much as long as your code's on the side of the rod match so so as long as f i mate you'll be meant we have two crankshafts one out of Freddy's engine and one out of the original engine we need to make sure one of them is at least good the crankshaft is a huge part right near the bottom of the engine the explosion from the combustion pushes the piston and the comrade down which makes the crankshaft rotate now as we had a bent comrade on our engine which seized the engine up we want to make sure that that's caused no damage to the actual crankshaft because this part of the crankshaft is where the bearing sits and if it's damaged here it might not be getting the right oil feed or have the right clearances which would cause engine failure all over again now what I'm doing now with the micrometer is measuring one side of the crankshaft then the other side making sure it's all even and I'm doing this in two places for each part of the crankshaft where the bearings is all the engineer people are going to say this is not a exact measurement but no but we we think it's pretty good it's the best we can do with the kit we've got basically um I'm confident with this one uh let me show you what I think a bad crank looks like this is goes straight over that and I assume it look at that I don't even have to adjust the more I promise a lot doesn't go over that straight over that I mean I don't think I'll be putting that one in this visual scores in that one but we're struggling to get to see any difference in any of that crank we're going to say that one is good this one for the bin now the engine is pretty much completely stripped so we're gonna clean it all up in the parts washer before we can build it all back up again but to move forward from this point we're gonna need some parts and there's only one place I could think of where we could get parts fast gonna come in and hopefully leave with loads of Ferrari parts let's get shopping we've took a trip to euros fares which have a load of new and used Ferrari Parts the warehouse is absolutely massive they even have full complete engines for sale so we made sure to take a lot of photos of how the engine was assembled whilst it was on the rack in there but we didn't come for an engine one red bumper one orange bumper and a bunch of stuff which should help us build up the Ferrari engine when we get back I don't know how much for but we've spent a lot now there's loads of Parts on this Ferrari that we can cross reference to different cars and we can save a lot of money by doing that but there's some parts like the bumpers and a lot of the seals and bearings which aren't cross-reference so they're the bits that we're buying today and the total amount of parts we have here it didn't look like much but it's fitted into a Range Rover 13 887 pounds and 48p which means we are now 73 887 048p into the 4 30. but we should have enough now to put this thing back together most of it really but we'll find out one very expensive trip later and we're back and now we can start building up the engine I think what we're going to start with are the two cylinder heads with this being a V8 there's two cylinder heads four Pistons each side here's one cylinder head and here's the other this one's upside down but you can see here the exhaust Valves and then the inlet valves on this side here these are going to open and close until they're airing and to let all the waste out but to make sure we're gonna get the most power out of the engine these have got to sit perfectly flat against the top of the head and to make sure that we do so we've got to take them all out and these are held in here with little springs and the these collets on the top of the valve but we'll take them out and we'll go from there let's do it to take them out my dad's going to use this sort of clamp which squashes the valve springs down and then once the valve springs squash down it can get a magnet to remove the collets which hold the valve spring onto the valves once the collets are removed we can release the clamp and then remove the valve springs which will give us access to the valve and this part right at the bottom we want that to be super clean so it sits nicely in the valve seats my dad's got a lot to get through so whilst he was doing that I put the Ferrari in the lift to inspect the underneath of it found something else uh I just noticed there's a bolt in there and a bolt in there like these brackets which are like mounted to the chassis and then on this side there's no bolt here or here so the radiator is just completely free so so we're missing some kind of bracket on the top and the bottom there well fantastic now before I bought this car I checked it out on car vertical and everything seems all good there's no records of it ever been in an accident there's no outstanding Finance there's no mileage roll bats and it's never been recorded as stolen but as this core was a truck Experience car for most of its life it's unlikely that a crush would have ever been recorded so I'm going to take a look over it and see if there's any signs of one we're actually doing all right here so underneath here it looks like the standard suspension is adjustable coilovers so we can adjust the ride height up and down it's also like looks like it's adaptive so maybe it's got a some kind of adaptive suspensions that hardened and soften it when you're in different modes everything here looks pretty good for a 2005 car anything on this side this side looks fine and that side looks fine let's have a look underneath now if you were checking a car out on car vertical which had previously been in an accident then it would flag up on the report here and if the car was auctioned off at a car crash auction site it's likely we see the photos of where the car was damaged as well not only that you can see a full timeline of the car and loads of other information so it can be really handy when buying a used car so to take your car a friend's car or a car that you're potentially about to buy click the link in the description box below use code map for Discount and thank me later when you can find out a few hidden secrets that you might not have necessarily known about the car you're looking at right underneath guessing this is all part of a rear diffuser look at all these bowls they didn't want this falling off one two three four five six seven eight nine no like a small scratch there but nothing really that bad oh a little bit of Economist in there but yeah with the valves now out of the cylinder head we now have another job the valve seals the seal sits on the valve here and stops any oil from getting on top of the valve or inside the combustion chamber normally when the oil is on the on the springs and everything at night and then it runs down it runs down the stem of the valve so when you start up in the morning it smokes like ah smokes a lot and they're in every single one and that's exactly what will happen if we have bad valve seals we'll get a lot of smoke on Startup in the mornings or really bad ones could just smoke all the time but before we put new seals in we've got to clean up the valves next step now that they're clean we've got to make sure they mate nicely on the surface around here so we use this paste which is like kind of like grinding paste almost and that's going to go in the seat slide it in and we're gonna grind it yeah can you see how that's all nice and clean if you look at this one there's a good one that's not very good oh yeah that's all dirty yeah can you see how that's the seat oh no it's nice yeah all the power [Laughter] 32 to go well 31 now my dad and myself cracked on with grinding the rest of the valves in place before moving on to the next step okay valves are clean seated in all we've got to do now we're gonna keep the same Springs on there but we need to change the valve seals we've got this full seal kit these are the new valve seals and as I mentioned they're pretty vital to replace when doing an engine build like this my dad's using a socket to push the oil seal in place and once the seal is sat in place like that we could then push the valve in from underneath and it should fit nice and snug then it's time for both the valve springs to sit on top of the valve and we've got to compress this all to put the collet in place now we saw a video on Tick Tock of a guy doing some kind of hack to get the collet in place using a socket and a piece of plastic and we were dying to see whether that actually worked because if it did it would save a lot of his time fiddling around with the collets collets are in okay plastic bag and this is a good idea this come on yeah go and squeeze it oh no oh no it's gonna launch it's gonna launch we failed on our first attempt but on the second yes hey did it go did it work yeah once we'd suss the hack out we were moving quick time putting all the valves the springs and the collets back on each one oh there we go every valve spring is in that head is just about ready but we need to test it to make sure a valve well all them are actually properly in because if the valve opens and it then drops it into the cylinder it could be drastic and we don't want to do that so we're going to test them now by just knocking the valve down to open it and making sure everything stays in place is this how Ferrari would do it yeah [Music] hooray one cylinder head ready for the engine um we just gotta do that one now with this cylinder heads complete we can then turn our attention to the actual engine block and one thing we need to do before we reassemble it is make sure the cylinder sleeves are nice and smooth at the minute you can see there's a lot of scratches and grooves in there but nothing that can't be fixed and to sort these out we need to rub a bit of oil in the sleeve and then my dad's going to use this tool to hone out the cylinder [Music] and there we have one smooth cylinder sleeve just another seven to go [Music] all of the sleeves are nice and smooth this engine is effectively ready to build back up let's go it's actually a sticker gasket then and you think it sticks on this bit Yeah well you think it does let's go skip sticker on it no stickers on that one or is it beep oh yeah we're in a predicament I've just ordered a workshop manual for the Ferrari engine which is also a Maserati engine but it only shows you torque specs and workshop procedures for serviceable items so things like clutches thermostats auxiliary belts nothing as big as this and we've since found out that Ferrari don't give out torque specs or repair procedures for jobs as big as this because it's supposed to be done by Ferrari and not just a bloke in a garage in Leicester so if you're a Ferrari technician then the comment section is open for you we need your help because I'm not sure Ferrari are going to help us although we're trying to put one of their cars back on the road and our next step is to do the Piston Ring Gap we've taught this to our spec it's just tight okay and but the next thing is to do all the Piston Ring gaps that's what we've got to do next but we can't do that one without the piston ring specs and two without the piston rings they haven't arrived yet so we're stuck how can you order those items yeah for a big strip down if they can't give you the specs yeah that is actually quite true how yeah out in the UK they can sell you structural parts for a Porsche but they can't tell you how to fit them so Ferrari must be able to sell you Parts but then they've got to fit on yeah it doesn't make it conrod shallow throw it away no I want to give it away I think we're gonna give this Conrad away to someone who orders within the next 100 orders of Matt armstrong.co.uk the hoodies are out the new hard work beat Talent hoodie you can check it out with the link in the description all in the hats as well go grab something and we'll pick someone in the next 100 orders to send that comrade to thanks so much for watching this video if you've enjoyed it hit that subscribe button hit that thumbs up button and I'll see you in the next video peace out yeah [Laughter] [Music] [Applause]

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Length: 22min 22sec (1342 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 13 2023