The return of SNJ5

About 18 months ago I bought SNJ5's old Mondial. I'm not exactly sure when he sold it. I bought it from a nice guy in Chicago. But the Mallary distributor that James Patterson at Norwood came up with had failed and new ones were no longer available. That's OK, I'm not exactly a distributor and carbs kind of guy. I knew the car had some great modifications (including a forged piston motor built by Norwood), it's probably the best documented Ferrari Mondial in the world thanks to Russ/SNJ5.

So, sorry Russ, but the carbs, euro style headers, mallary single distributor, and custom muffler all came off. In their place we installed/fitted/tuned stock exhaust manifolds, stock 3.2 intake and runners (I ported the runners to match the heads), a Link G4+ Extreme ecu, coil-on-plug ignition using Toyota coils, and a throttle by wire system using a Maserati pedal and Toyota Tundra throttle body.

I built a custom exhaust J pipe that feeds a Precision Turbo 6266 journal bearing turbocharger with a T4 .82 ar exhaust housing. I also built a custom straight quad tip exhaust system after the turbo and installed a water to air intercooler system with an intercooler core in the engine bay and a Ford Lightning heat exchanger mounted under the trunk.

Some of you might be familiar with my turbo 308 that runs on E85. We wanted the Mondial to run on E85, but wanted the option of pump gas as well, so we installed a flex fuel sensor that detects the amount of ethanol in the fuel. The Link G4+ ecu has dual fuel mas, and a custom blend table so I can run any mix of pump gas or ethanol.

We just finish the power part of the pump gas tune today. We still need to street drive it to get the best driveability out of the setup, but so far it's amazing. We made 500 horsepower on 93 octane pump gas. 409whp at the wheels on my Dynojet 248. For comparison a stock Ferrari 328 makes about 216whp on my dyno. We are close to double that figure, and will more than double it on ethanol hopefully later this week.

Here are a few pics that show the car as I got it, plus progress on it, and finally what it looks like today.
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And the dyno graph
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Italian Car Fest in Grapevine in September.

 

A mild bolt on turbo kit is planned for the Mondial 8 as well.

 

Is it too late to change the topic name to 650 horsepower Mondial?

Just finished the E85 dyno Tune (technically it was E77) and made 650 horsepower/523 wheel horsepower.


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Yep, that’s a stock 3.2 way down at the bottom of the graph. Haha

 

Yep, that’s basically what I did.

 

I don’t know if Matt Farrah is coming to Texas anytime soon. I haven’t kept up with him every well. I think he handed one takes over to another guy? Maybe I can tempt him to come out.

The Mondial 3.2 Turbo is doing great. I got the AC working (a connector under the passenger floor was disconnected). It’s a really fun car. It’s not as flashy as my 308, but people really do a double take. They know it’s an exotic, but don’t quite recognize it.

Italian Car Fest is coming up in about two weeks and we plan to have it in the show.

Aaron