REBUILDING AN EX RENTAL FERRARI | PT5

You should buy your dads dream car and do a series on fixing it. And surprise him with it in the end.

i’m not going to lie i like your dad so much man, seeing you involving him in your project is so cool to watch. 😊❤

At 21:30, seeing the time on his phone show “23:04” just tells you the amount of hours and late nights that has been put into this rebuild, amazing commitment

You just can't never get enough of this guy. HIs story telling and upbeating energy is just addicting!

Always put the cabin heater to maximum temperature setting so hot coolant flows through the cabin heater core as well and thus pushes out any trapped air...

So many crazy little things with that Ferrari. Coming along nicely finally though.

Hi Mat, great series there, i enjoyd watching up to this point, if this could be helpful, that ferrari (F-430) was the first one to come out with the "E-Diff", it's basically an electronic controlled differential with variable locking, based on the setting of the "manettino", road condition, tires warn, esp setting and driving style. The "F430 Scuderia" got and updated version of it: the "E-diff 2". The "clutch plate" you found while mounting it, is essentially a real hidraulic clutch that is released or pressed by an actuator connected to a sensor and a pump, that should have it's own circuit (i guess). When a wheel slips under traction, the e-diff clutch is electronically released or pressed in order to adjust the torque, by sending more or less of it to the wheel that needs it, this is done mainly in order to maximize the traction helping the driver to have a better control of the slip angle with the gas during a power-oversteer, also on track it is used to not make you lose too much speed when fully oversteering put of a quick corner and both rear wheels wants to slip. Since this clutch is prone to wear out some owners use a thing called "Smart by-pass for the e-diff", that essentially electronically disconnect the E-diff system letting it to work as a normal open diff. My guess is that some bad pressure/mounting on the e-diff/inner clutch plate could be causing the wheel spinning while in neutral and also could cause while driving around a burning of that clutch/oil, high temps and who knows what else. I say this also cause when you pressed the brake while at idle it sounded like the force the car needed to idle was not enough anymore, like something increased instantly the gearbox drag. I'm really cheering on you for the project and i do hope you read this comment and that could be helpful to prevent some damage to it and useful for some improvement. Watch out that misfire on the right bank (before mounting the capristo exaust) and keep being meticoulus, even if that requires more time, your Ferrari needs to be perfect by carring all the love you put while rebuilding it, you can do it mate! P.S. Love the team you make with your dad, you can see on his face the smile of a young man and the joy of his 30's when the engine takes life and revs out.

that was a small amount of progress but so much fault finding and investigating it makes the video very, very interesting. don't be afraid to make videos like this in the future, i personally really enjoy them as much as the ones where you make loads of progress.

The coolant won't circulate to the front rads if you remove the stat. The stat has a bypass valve which circulates the coolant around just the engine block for quicker warm up. As the coolant gets to temp the wax pushes the main valve to the rads open at the same time closes of the engine bypass circuit. Without the stat the coolant will take the path of least resistance ie around the block and boil. Its not going to force it around the rad circuit, put a new stat in and it will be fine

Get a proper burping funnel and then rev the engine to up to 3k periodically to remove the air lock. Keep doing it until all bubbles are expelled.

love your utter enthusiasm and utter happiness even in the event of severe travesty! Your bubbly personality and down to earth persona is what makes your channel GROW and keeps us all coming back !

I don’t even have a huge interest in cars. But I binged the entire Ferrari series this morning on a rare day off… love the attention to detail, the passion for what you do and the commitment to your cause. Looking forward to the next ones and to see it on the road 👊🏽

I haven't seen anyone mentioning it, but in the future you can take the return line from the coolant reservoir and use brake bleeder to suck all the air out of the system as you fill the reservoir at the same time. Then you know that the system is air free when there is coolant coming out of the return with no air anymore 🙂 Also works if you have some extra bleeding nipples but that I believe is normally not the case.

Officially gassed, stradman and now Matt all uploading on the same day is always a good day👌👌

I can only admire the effort, the patience and the commitment from these guys ! Waiting for part 6 and hopefully seing the car ripping through gears outside and of course not overheating. This is just amazing.

i remember when I changed my first head gasket, felt on top of the world when it fixed the issue. This however is a whole different level. Excellent progress! Can't wait to see it drive.

Loving the build Mat, excellent workmanship and hopefully in the next episode you can sort out the coolant issue! 😊

You didn't pull enough vacuum before filling. You should have it around -25 before filling. Also, when filling, have the bucket higher up so you can pull more coolant in with less work due to the height difference

...probably one of your best...since the last best. The logic and process you take to fault analysis and rectification is reidiculously good

10 years ago this would have been a smash hit TV show on the BBC or something and now we get it for free on YouTube.