Euro F40 differences year to year?

I'm not aware of any. But I am by no means an expert... am interested to hear if there were any...

 

cats aren't exactly visual IMO.

The most major I can think of would be all early cars had lexan side windows, with standard roll-ups being offered soon after.

 

Prototypes vs production cars had a number of visual differences but I guess this thread is not about that (has been discussed before).

Sliding windows = red inner door panels. I have never seen a sliding windows car with the later carbon inner door panels or the other way around.
You are very right on the fact that a lot of late cars (91 and 92) have the earlier sliding windows and early inner door trim, but I cannot confirm if these were factory fitted or later swapped by the owners. The overall accepted "rule" is that the first batch of F40s all had sliding windows and red inner door panels, whereas later cars (from late 1988/early 1989 onwards) had the roll up windows and carbon inner door panels.

Very early cars had different side mirrors, attached at the base of the sidewindow on the A pillar, but I'm quite sure these were all prototypes or pre-series.

Cats were added somewhere in 1990, but I guess Euro cars could be ordered without. A cat equipped car can easliy be identified as they had very different looking turbos compared to non-cat cars.

 

didn't they, at some point, go from having a cable to open the door form the inside to a handle?

 

Nope. All have the cable inside (unless the Sutan of Brunei car/nigel mansell car have something special)

 

True. Mirrors were moved during prototype, but not during production.

 

I read something about the rear plastic (?) window / engine cover, went from 3 openings to 2 (or vice versa). Did see this difference on same F40.

 

just few words to confirm that even this F40 ("sold" first to nigel mansel) was same as the others, excepting ugly leather seats ordered by nigel. This car was registered last year in France, sold to Lille Ferrari dealer against and F430 by the owner who was not having enough space in is garage to secure also his F50 and his brand new Enzo (the last sold in France). So the car is still available (engine problems as far as I now). have a look on the pic presenting both this car (on the left) as well as mine (on the right) at this time.
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I have had a chance to look at a number of F40's including mine (a 1992 model), and I have noticed that many models have small differences, which is not surprising since the car is a hand built, not on a production line.
ie differnt panels blacked out under the car, and under the rear lid.

But the consistant changes are as follows;

The way I quickly recognize a late model car, is to look at the air filters through the rear lid. The later models (91 and 92 I think), have a silver coloured air filter housing, and the box is mounted longitudinally. The older models have a black box mounted across the car.

If you really know F40's, you will notice that the later cat cars have a different arrangement of heat shields around the engine.

A real F40 expert will notice that the very late model cars have a more complex arrangement of air injection hoses and devices at the back of the engine.

The late model cars have 3 manifold vacuum sensors mounted above the removable cabin engine cover, while the older cars have only 2

I would assume that the later cat cars would have a different ECU (engine management computer), or at least a different chip. The computers look the same externally, but I wonder if they have a different part number. Does anyone know?

 

Didn't the very early cars also have some rectangular lights on the rear grille apart form the 2sets of double round lights?

 

I am fairly sure about the Euro spec cars, but I am not sure about the US cars, which have many differences that make them about 150 kg heavier.

I'll try to find some pictures. and post them.

 

I think these red lights are just the 2 rear fog lights positioned higher up than usual for certain markets.

Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper if all governments could agree on one safety standard for the world, instead of different cars being built for each market?

 

Am I right in thinking all cars odometers read in KM's only?

 

Spoke to a main dealer today here in the UK, about any differences/things to look out for between UK supplied cars and Euro supplied and he said all exactly the same including odometers all in KM's.

So guess he was talking BS!!

 

The brake rotors changed on Euro F40s as well during the production run as well. From Chassis number 80733 is when the changed happened.

Steve