REBUILDING AN EX RENTAL FERRARI | PT2

this Ferrari is missing one vital component but even still without the vital component it cost me 60 000 pounds which may sound expensive but that's for a reason this car comes with a gated manual gearbox and according to google of the 15 000 f430s that were made only 1 500 of them were manual making this car pretty rare and expensive this could turn out to be a pretty good bargain providing we can get this Engine Back Together the engine that I've got with this car came in a million pieces as 11 years ago it was taken apart to fix something but never got put back together but my good friend Tavaris donated me a spare engine but with one problem and that is what happens when you try and compress a fluid so me and my dad have been attempting to rebuild the engine but there was an issue we couldn't get any information or torque specs from Ferrari they won't give you them but that was until today okay we think we have a breakthrough thanks to you guys I've managed to get my hands on a workshop manual but it is for a Maserati but this Maserati engine is also used in the 430 because the Italians like to share and later in the video we find that the French also like to share with the Italians as well the cylinders are now ready for the Pistons but before we do that we need to change the piston rings there's three of them on this piston the lower piston ring is called the oil ring which stops oil getting into the combustion chamber and then the top two piston rings are used for compression to keep a nice tight seal in the combustion chamber and if those were worn out then you'd lose a lot of power and you'd definitely be burning a lot of oil first my dad's using an old piston ring to clean up the recesses of where the new piston rings will go then before we fit the ring into the Piston we're going to slide the ring in the cylinder now you'll notice a little Gap in the piston ring this is called piston ring Gap and this has to be a specific size if the Gap is too big as I mentioned you'll burn a lot of oil and we won't have the right compression but if the Gap is too small then when the engine heats up the Piston Ring will expand and it will have nowhere to go but to score up the inside of the cylinder sleeve our piston ring Gap is all good so now we're loading up the piston rings into the piston and now that they're in the Piston we could begin to put them finally in the cylinders this special bit of Kit squashes the Rings into the piston and then we can knock the Piston into the cylinder and we've just got to do that seven more times [Music] oh it's well every Vietnam Vietnam oh Dad [Laughter] we're moving we're moving and now it's time for the bottom end bearings the funny thing about these bottom bearings is that they make different ones depending on the engine they've all got different sizes different tolerances the only thing we could do is look at the part number on the old ones and match them up easy as that but fairly simple to go in the Big M bearings slide in at the bottom of the conrod wow wow and once they're in the bottom of the conrod it's time for the main bearings these bearings are what the crankshaft rotates on we have an issue and we don't think it could be solved so if this if the engine goes bang and it's because of this reason it's not our fault okay so check out these bearings here the main bearings they slide from left to right which doesn't look right because then it's covering over the sort of oil Gallery there like it if that covers over then the oil is not going to get through onto there but on the old bearings which you can see here they've got a tab on the top here big one to stop it from sliding left to right but on the new ones they've got only a small tab compared to the old bearings so this is going to be a little bit more serious than we first thought and confusing if you go on the website here you can see that the bearing that we're after is 195 307 which is also used in the Maserati engines but if you click on the Maserati one the part number has now superseded so it's changed to 286 832 which is the bearing that we've got but if you click on the Ferrari one there's no super session to that part number the part number has stayed the same which in our heads doesn't make any sense because why would they change it for one engine and not the other when the engines do exactly the same but they might be exactly the same exactly the same in my opinion now we didn't want to run the risk of ruining the engine because one of these bearings is slid over and covered an oil Gallery so instead we went back and ordered the original part number from Ferrari with the bigger tab on it we have got what I've ordered the correct part number from Marinello Parts it's come next day yeah and it's got the big tab on we're going to put these in I don't know why for Maserati have superseded there one but we're going to ignore that and we're gonna put these in at least now we can have some peace of mind that we're putting in the same part number as what came out of the engine and was they were in it's time for the crankshaft to go in we're doing now Tony yeah I don't know and it's back onto the other half of the big n bearings which slide into the conrod cat and then the conrod cap meets the rest of the conrod with some new bolts going in there making sure to match the numbers on the conrod cap to the conrod I'm in charge of talking everything up because my dad can't hear the beep of the torque wrench and the conrod bolts have a torque setting and then an angle you have to turn them to oh yeah I could use that one and once I've talked to all the Conrad bolts up it's time to prep the crank case so the other half of it can join together it stays in the manual to run a bead of flange sealant across the crankcase in before it meets so that's exactly what we're doing and with the main bearings installed on the other half of the crankcase we can now slide it together why we needed the manual because even these washers are machined on one side so they have one way of going on and we just whacked them all on so I'm going to put it all on now the right way all of these stages are super vital one mistake here could mean the whole engine would have to come back out again and stripped completely apart I'm adding all new seals into the oil pump and the water pump which is built as one and it's now joined back together it's all together it's looking good we've got a new rear main seal to go in which my dad's about to put in go on yeah no and whilst my dad is putting that in he has never tried a waifood now we're gonna get him to choose from the fruity range mango peach or I prefer strawberry tropical strawberry oh there is a strawberry [Applause] this should hopefully give him the power to turn over the engine if it's turned over we've made progress if it does Spin and everything now oh you're trying it already yeah inside that there's 26 vitamins and minerals it's high in fiber high in protein it's lactose free it's gluten free and there's no added sugar tastes a bit like milkshake yeah it is actually a milkshake with 500 calories in here which would actually replace your meal for the day it's full of all your goodness you're going for breakfast lunch or even dinner if you fancy it are you ready [Music] good thing about white food as well they do a vegan option and the bottles is turning over yeah how are you saying a 100 recyclable as well and if you guys wanted to try one for yourself if you want a meal replacement rather than having fast food because you're constantly on the go like me you can do with the link in the description and underneath me right now there's a banner where you use a discount code as well where you can get discount on taster pack four go and try the fruity it's summer the nice job foreign okay next on is the cylinder heads right and left but to time this engine up we need to know top dead center of cylinder number one which is this cylinder here top dead center being when the Piston is at the highest point and then we time the engine up based on that now to find this we've got a DTI gauge here and we're going to turn the crank over and make sure we get this absolutely bang on TDC the engine is going to have a little bit of float which means the Piston is going to be at the top even when we're turning it sometimes so we've got to make sure we're bang on that so this is how we're going to do it first my dad's going to turn the engine clockwise and once this piston gets to the highest point it will give me the highest reading on the DCI gauge I'm then going to mark it on our contraption that we've built here on the flywheel side then my dad's going to go back turn the engine anti-clockwise and as soon as it hits that same reading as before I'm gonna make another mark on our contraption the top dead center will be between those two marks which are done with a really thick pen I've not helped myself but there's not much float in the engine so boom time for the cylinder heads of course you can't put the cylinder heads on without the head gasket so on goes a brand new head gasket both sides I put the washers onto a screwdriver first which helps me slide the washer over the stud and I do the same for the nuts as well two heads on head bolts on or head nuts on you know it's serious when the glasses come out now the procedures are taught in the head nuts is 60 newton meters and once that's done you then go back and turn them an extra 90 degrees and this has to be done from the middle working outwards and it is really important that we get this right that extra 90 degrees on the 60 newton meters of torque made these head bolts pretty tight after that I can then put in the valve lifters I hope all of you guys watching are managing to follow along because this is as hard for me to explain as it is for me to do this is the second engine I've ever rebuilt foreign ER heads and the camshafts on we could begin to start thinking about the timing of the engine we've got it wrong so we thought piston number one was here then it worked all the way down but we read the manual upside down um and piston number one is all the way over here which means we've got the timing for the top dead center thing wrong so if we got that wrong and then we timed it up it wouldn't have worked and it would have broke the engine so now we're gonna have to do piston number one which is here work out what top dead center is on there so when the Piston's rot at the top and Mark it here then we can begin time in the whole engine okay two steps forward one step back so we're doing the same procedure as before but this time the cylinder heads are on and Winslet fan top dead center we can now start adding all the chains which keeps the bottom half of the engine in time with the top part of the engine you can see we're using a photo that I took before we took it apart to put this thing back together or genius this is a nightmare there's a really complicated way of how to time this engine and if I try and explain it I'll lose myself but in the most simple terms we've got to keep this piston at top dead center and then if you just come around here the cams here there's a little dot on the cam there and a little dot on the cam there they've got a line these dots have got to align with these little grooves here both sides as well and the way you adjust this top so you wouldn't do these bolts here you're under these bolts and that alert allows you to turn the cam without moving the chain and the whole engine this is so vital because this controls when the valves open to let Fuel and Air in and to let the exhaust gases out and if they open and close at the wrong time they could be hitting into the Piston so we've got to make sure that this is absolutely spot off okay if we've done this right it should turn over now so let's check it all still stays in the right place so it should be coming up now okay keep coming slow slow keep going yeah yeah that's on that's on that song that's on we're on and we're timed up and it works it actually spins vital stages done and it's on to the final pieces I'm about to put on the chain cover I'll put in a new seal on it I've run a line of sealant around the edge and a new gasket on it as well and I could knock it onto the side of the engine there's then two cam variator sensors which sit inside the head and after that I can put on The Rocker cover with the new gasket as well of course I'm happy with that I can't put the other rocker cover on yet because we're missing a sensor over here but for a non-professional and someone who is building cars in a restaurant car park four years ago to put a Ferrari engine back together and now it actually turns over it's a pretty solid achievement I think but now it's gonna get a little harder and of course we have an issue with the gearbox but let me take it back inside here is the remains of the manual gearbox the original manual gearbox and let's be honest unless your rain man this is not getting repaired like I just can't we don't know if there's going to be missing parts out of this we have no diagrams out of this we've got all the gears the selectors the shafts I mean oh I have no experience with rebuilding gearboxes do bit but not when they're in that state no so we we're willing to accept defeat on this until we saw the price of a gearbox from Ferrari it's expensive in my opinion it's expensive a brand new gearbox after v80 will cost you over 30 000 pounds so buying one of them was out of the question so second hand you're looking at 15 000 pounds for a gearbox and they're an automatic one of course we've got a gated manual box but then we figured out that the gearbox that from the automatic and the manual are exactly the same the only difference is the shifter well we hope they're exactly the same so I managed to get a secondhand gearbox for 4 000 pounds there's an issue here it is came off of fire damage Ferrari in Poland and there's a hole in this side we're hoping it hasn't caused any damage to the inside of it but this is the mechanism for the F1 gearbox the automatic one it automatically selects the gears with hydraulic shifters I think if we take this part off and of course the broken part off we can make this into a manual box and we would have a manual box of four thousand pounds providing there's no damage here buying this box was a bit of a risk but so was buying the car and some risks pay off and others don't I'm just hoping that this risk does I hope there's no more damage inside that gearbox doesn't look bad from oh that's been in water is it well how did it get rusty because it's been in water oh oh maybe it isn't good oh it's a Titanic the inside of the gearbox for some reason looked really wet and not with oil with water so we had no choice but to start stripping this one apart to check for damage oh my God well it's a good job we took it apart look at the bearing Oh my days so the fire's gone in there and caused destruction absolute perished do you think the oil set on fire that was in the gearbox ah Max Facts which ain't good news not at all is it really not when you're trying to build a gearbox it's an easy even tan yeah all those bearings in here could look like that I think that was the car got it off that does not look good no no do you know when you're on eBay and you're looking for a gearbox you've seen that yeah well it's four grand as opposed to 15. yeah it's full gun for a reason so nap foreign [Applause] thank you so now thank you so now we have well two bad gearboxes really and I don't even know where we're gonna start or even finish with this I've got to order loads of bearings for this as I've got all of a lot of parts for the engine but before we carry on this I mentioned at the start of the video that the French like to share with the Italian and I'm about to find out whether that's true or not when I picked up the Ferrari it was missing a window regulator and there was only a block of wood holding the window up which was bad news the good news was we have a regulator on this side and the other good news is that we found the window regulator but it's just missing a motor and we've taken off the motor of this window regulator as you can see here and just checked the part numbers on the back and it's a Bosch motor for a brand new window motor for the Ferrari it's 178 pounds and the cheapest one I could find secondhand was 100 120 and that's the wrong side but I copied the part number into eBay and then found out that that motor could be used on a well-known French car in my opinion called a Peugeot 406 and here we have the motor of the French car which there is some slight differences but generally it looks pretty oh in fact that one is a little bit longer it may work it may not work the connections are slightly different but they're only a two pin connection and a two pin connection so we could make that work but this one could possibly work it's not exactly the same but it could work but I guess we're going to find that out in the next video so thanks so much for watching this video If you enjoyed it hit that subscribe button hit that thumbs up button and I'll see you in the next video peace out what you're doing at the moment stood a washer and what else is on there I know [Music] [Applause]

Channel: Mat Armstrong

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Length: 21min 4sec (1264 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 23 2023