355 Evoluto 355 restomod...thoughts?

Looks like a bad tuned car to me.

Not everybody is able to do what Eccentrica did with the Diablo.

THIS is a good restomod:
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Ugly. Reminds me of 993 "restomods" -- they always make the design look worse. Not hard to figure out. The 355 (and 993) original designs are gorgeous. Pretty much anything you change makes them look worse.

 

I told you!

 

Overall it's not bad, but a lot of the added on details just don't need to be there.

This is a case where less would have been more on the exterior.

 

As a fan of restomods in general, I love it! Why should Porsche have all the fun?

 

This is, of course, a no from me. Why would you want to mess with perfection?

 

Cheesy.

 

lighter and more powerful than the original with a cool interior, nothing not to like!

 

“All the carbon fiber used on the car is meant to keep the end product's weight as low as possible. Whereas the original F355 tipped the scales at 3,300 pounds (1,497 kg), the reworked version does the same as 2,776 pounds (1,250 kg).”


Roughly the calculations I have for a light weight 355. Unfortunately, it appears a ton of effort went into making this thing look as ugly as possible. Not a single piece changed on the car looks better than original.

 

@PaulK beat me to it.

 

Absolutely!
Aesthetically this is a total failure (and this is from someone who love modified cars much more than stock ones usually, not from a purist).

The F355 design is so close to perfection that there isn't really room left for improvement.

 

I kinda like the GTO vents. Not gonna lie.


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I think they used a set of 348 GT Competizione kevlar doors for this car, hence the door handle. They’re still available from Ferrari.

 

The base car they started with was a 348 from early talks with them. Its just a 348 door opener orientated sideways.

 

If they did use a 348, they did a great job integrating the 355 rear nolder lip.

 

Is the bodywork all new? Carbon fiber presumably? If not, I don’t see the point of starting with a 348.


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The only reason would be to have less development costs as the 348 is alot cheaper to buy in the UK especially.

 

What stands out to me is the rear "diffuser". It's clearly not connected to the underbody tray. I know our cars were very early in the aero development days, but I think it matters that our little diffusers are continuous with the underbody tray. They bragged that the 355 spent 10,000 hours in the wind tunnel, and was the first production car to make downforce via the underbody. Obviously the 360 took these lessons and ran with them, with much larger volume diffusers. Maybe the engineers out there can chime in to clarify this part.

Keeping the airflow underneath the car laminar from undertray to diffusers means it must follow the curvature of the diffusers upward as it exits the underside of the car, and therefore contributes to actual downforce. Once the air ceases to remain laminar and attached to the undertray of the car, the air does not flow into/through the diffuser. The volume of laminar air through the diffuser determines how much downforce the car makes from the underbody. This is why race cars have all the little aero appendages on them: to increase the percent of air remaining laminar as it passes underneath the car.

Turbulent air won't stick to the underbody of a car. Which is why the diffusers must attach to the underbody. This restomod has a big-appearing diffuser at the back, but it clearly stops at the muffler/bell housing. Which means the diffuser is not continuous with the under tray. Which means to me that the big diffuser won't bend any air coming through the underside of the car, because that air will have already become turbulent, not laminar. Which then means the diffuser is merely cosmetic, no different than those we see on slammed Civics. Non-functional but "cool" looking diffusers are nothing but fake to me.

That's what I see when I look at the pics.

 

I'm curious to know what ignition system they used.
This + porting + cam = +40hp. That is not bad.

 

Like it. Nice wheels.

 

I don't think it's all bad. I like the vents in the rear fender and on the hood above the lights. I don't mind the skirts. Front bumper is way too busy, I don't like the wheels, and the rear lights don't look good pointing up. Interior wise I like the seats, doors and center console, but the wheel doesn't look good and the vents really don't look like they belong. -600lbs and +40hp are great. Dial back that front bumper, put some challenge speedlines on and use the morimoto rear lights instead, then just leave the stock vents in the interior or do something different there, and use a different wheel and you've got a winner.

 

Hard pass from me...especially considering the price tag could buy 3 maybe 4 VERY nice 355s.

 

I wouldn’t let them do this to my 355 if they paid me and I’m no purist.