F430 New owner diary inc. maintenance & upgrades

[Mike01606]

Great work as usual Mark....
I’d never noticed that crash feature on my car but just looking it’s there....

Did you attend VMax or was it autobahn?

[MWStewart]

Cheers Mike

Testing was on an autobahn, two up and fully laden. I'd like to see what it would really do but I now don't trust the flimsy looking Fiat catch! I'll have to investigate further.

[Modificato]

Cheers Mike

Testing was on an autobahn, two up and fully laden. I'd like to see what it would really do but I now don't trust the flimsy looking Fiat catch! I'll have to investigate further.

-131kg is a seriously good number especially for a soft top that retains all its creature comforts.

I can see that Ferrari struggled to get 80kg out of the standard car for the 16M and recently only 90kg out of the Pista yet journo’s called it a ‘whopping’ 90kg so they were impressed.

Your thread has been brilliant to de-mystify a lot of the Ferrari ‘secret sauce’ and I think you have ended up with a better car personally.

Do you think you will be able to leave alone now and enjoy the driving?

[MWStewart]

Thanks Chris. I have some suspension tuning to do but the big jobs are out of the way now, or at least I thought so - my engine man just emailed to say that he's picked up a good donor engine for £1k and is ready to run some simulations for me. This would make an engine build very convenient