Was told that p/o left it outside for years, just didn't care. Right down tubes had screw holes drilled in them for relays or some other dumb ass reason. I've seen other Testarossa's with left side engine frame corrosion like mine had before, some worse than others. Whatever shop, "technician" or "mechanic" who worked on, or "maintained" this car in the past was completely clueless. Lots of "shops" out there - get it in and get it out - most I wouldn't let work on a bicycle, much less one of my cars. But its all good now, grandson asked me to keep the miles under 100k before I pass it on to him, disappointed when I wouldnt make that promise. LOL Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thank you for the pictures! Beautiful job. What coating did you have done on the exhaust headers? I'd like to do the same.
this filter looks for me like the gearboxoilfilter? but at the left side it is longer than this one in the gearbox
Just found these caliper pics- rebuilt all 4 and then put on Brembo's - LOL Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thank you 69. Found some of my pictures of the water pump keyway failure from a couple of years ago. Made new parts and did a different style keyway. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Todd - Two questions for both you and the forum please... What year is your car? Is your OEM water pump design (keyway etc) universal across all years?
Hi Todd, What brand of precat replacement flow pipes are those that go from headers to sport exhaust? Thanks, Tom
Mine is a 91. The shaft on the 2 piece design seal would be different, different bearing. I made the shaft so it would take a solid hex keyway, didn't want to buy tooling to do a woodruff (round bottom) keyway. Ferrari calls them a feather key, all years are the same # 10202320 PRIME- those are slightly modified stock ferrari pipes off a managed euro Testarossa from Germany. Took me awhile to get them right, they were in bad shape.
Thinking out loud... intuitively, I would not have thought that the load on the OEM keyway would be high enough to cause failure. Any speculation on why it failed?
Eventually they will all fail because the chain tensioner does not keep the chain super taught, my driving style just accelerated the process.
