Ferrari 333 Sp Engine

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Ferraris Dino project of the late 1956 gave birth to the company's well-known 65 V6 DOHC engines. This Vittorio Jano design formed the basis of the company's modern engines right up through the mid-2000s (decade). Another series of V6 engines was started in 1959 with a 60 V-angle and single overhead camshafts design.

The first Ferrari V8 engine was derived from a Lancia project, used in D50 F1 racecar.The Dino V8 family lasted from the early 1970s through 2004 when it was replaced by a new Ferrari/Maserati design.

Exactly, the 1.5 liter turbo F1 engines were north of 1000hp in certain tunes IIRC. Those intakes don't look like there is any missing supercharger that used to be fitted to it either. I'm thinking it was naturally aspirated, then that 213 is impressive.

I'm just guessing, my Italian skills are a bit lacking... but I think it is a translation error. In Italian, the order of the sentence is reversed to English, so they say "Materiale Plastico" instead of "Plastic material". So I think the wording "Turbo volumetrico" indicates that the engine is built with "cylinder volume for turbo". Perhaps as an exercise/preparation for a rule change towards smaller boosted engines?

If the Italian wording communicates that it is an "Experimental 2-stroke Ferrari engine with 3 cylinders and displacement for turbo", the hp-number makes more sense. Obviously, whoever translated it screwed up the translation from Turbo to "Supercharger". The Italian word for Supercharger is "compressore", like the German "Kompressor".

It's easy to think that "Surely Ferrari has professional people translating this correctly for them", but only if you haven't lived and worked in Italy. It is still common to translate stuff word by word with a dictionary, or (in best case) google translate, even in a corporate environment. It's often just not valued or regarded very important - if someone wants to learn about the little Ferrari engine, they can start with a class in Italian.

Back in 1961, Mickey Thompson built a supercharged two cylinder Pontiac engine (half of a Tempest four cylinder, which was basically half of a full size Pontiac V8) that made 250hp with 91 cubic inches / 1500cc.

The object of the externations is not the classic two-stroke that characterized the MotoGP from the seventies until the early years of this millennium, but the modern unidirectional units which, in addition to perfectly digesting direct injection and exhaust gas turbocharger , are as clean as a four times. This is because they do not combine lubricating oil with the fuel mixture . Thanks to the presence of an overhead drain valve for each chamber with attached cam shaft, which makes the expansion chamber superfluous, the unidirectional 2t is not characterized by the construction simplicity of the classic one but maintains its drive torque almost double compared to a 4t of equal displacement.Furthermore, given the presence of a mushroom valve to manage the discharge of the flue gases, the expansion chamber in the exhaust becomes superfluous . This modern variant of the 2-stroke engines is only slightly more voluminous than the classic, but still much more compact than the 4-stroke. All to the advantage of the weight distribution and the front section of the vehicle in which it is installed.

Two colleagues of mine are arguing. One says that you cannot put a Ferrari engine into another car without being a certified Ferrari mechanic. Well you can do it... but unless the mechanic was certified by Ferrari you will never get this car road or track legal.

The other says that this cannot be true because that would mean a company like Ferrari has power over the law. If you're allowed to build a mechanically safe car from scratch then why would they be able to stop you with just Ferrari engines?

In many jurisdictions, "street legal" is simply a matter of having that powertrain and that chassis previously certified by the transportation regulator, even if they came separately and were never ever sold together.

In other jurisdictions, it's the combination of chassis and engine that needs to be certified. Ferrari and being certified by them has nothing to do with it. People love creating BS stories to use as an excuse why they won't do something.

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This article would not be possible if it were not for the expertise of David Feinberg at Ferrari Service of Bedford in Bedford, NH. I never would have imagined that getting the engine in and out of a Ferrari 308 would be so easy, but I have assisted on several such jobs now and I can tell you that all the work is in disconnecting everything. Actually getting the engine in and out of the car is very easy if you follow David's simple instructions with pictures!

1. Disconnect everything

Start by removing the engine lid. I know that seems obvious, but I thought I would mention it. As for the rest, I know I'm glossing over this, because listing everything to disconnect is a lot of stuff and I'm bound to forget something but you will need to disconnect:

When you lift the engine from the front bank like this, it will naturally rock into the perfect position as you lift so that it comes out of the car. It's very important to cover the roof and rear window so you don't bump into it and dent/break anything as the engine comes out. Getting the strap positioned right so the engine stays level with the floor (doesn't tilt left or right) is important otherwise you will have issues with it catching on the frame. So the engine will rock towards the rear when you pick it up by the front bank (this is desired) but make sure it doesn't tilt left or right.

You can stabilize the engine with one finger! Note how the engine has rocked backwards so the differential is hanging down but the whole thing is level from left to right. This is the perfect position.

3 Putting it back in!

Putting it in is almost as easy. Again, we grab the engine around the front bank. Have a few friends to guide it. It's important for the engine removal and replacement to have at least 3 people. One person runs the hoist and the other two people guide the engine (one on each side of the car) to make sure it doesn't hit anything and to guide those engine mounts into place. A 4th person as a spotter to run around and peek at various angles is a good idea too.

Before you put the engine in the car, place the front exhaust manifold in the engine bay as pictured here. That sucker is pretty much impossible to put in place once the engine is in. So you place it in the engine bay, drop the engine back in, then bolt the header up.

A few more sample images....here's our FFIC gang (David, blue shirt, holding the engine and directing the procedure) putting Fireman's engine back in. This is a carb car. Notice that the carbs are off but nearly everything else is installed and ready to go including the bell housing.

With Verell (left) running the hoist, we drop the engine right down into the car. Note how the rear window is covered along with the roof and sail panels. We truly can put the engine in the car in 5 minutes. It takes longer to set up the engine hoist than to put the engine in.

A few additional pointers:

&#8226 As you can see in the bottom picture, an engine hoist has long legs to support the engine way out on a boom, and those legs have to go under the car. We found that the car is so low that most hoists don't go under it unless we back the car onto some boards to provide a little more ground clearance.

&#8226 As a general rule you are going to need a pretty big garage to do this indoors, with a ceiling at least 10 feet high and a lot of space to roll the hoist around once the engine is hanging from it in order to get it away from the car. You may find that doing this job out in the driveway is easier if you have a paved driveway to work in.

&#8226 Regarding the engine mount spacers--make a note as to which are front and back and the orientation (top to bottom) of the spacers. It's very easy to invert the front ones that are mushroom shaped. The wider end goes toward engine and smaller end goes on frame.

&#8226 Another tip from Fireman regarding the engine mount spacers: It's probably easier to lower the engine on the frame rails without the spacers in place. Then get a floor jack and lift the front, then back of the engine and put the spacers in and align the bolt holes. A tapered drift rod works good for this because you have to align 3 holes; the frame rail, spacer and motor mount. Alignment is fairly close, otherwise the bolt won't go in all the way. Having the engine just off the rails so you can "balance" it and make slight adjustments is the key.

DISCLAIMER: I'm a shadetree mechanic at best. This information is for entertainment only! If you are not comfortable doing this kind of work, hire a professional! If you are a professional mechanic charging a customer to work on a 308 and using this website as a guide, you should be ashamed of yourself!

1.A rotating drum - actuated pneumatically by the engine control unit - compensates for variations in the effective volume inside the two plenums to optimise the intake resonance characteristics and therefore maximise the torque curve throughout the rev range.

2.Actuation of the variable valve timing is guaranteed by a high pressure hydraulic system (20 bar), obtained by using a supplementary pump, an external accumulator and a circuit that works in parallel with the oil circuit for the hydraulic tappets.

Do you know how this is electrically controlled? Is it controlled using an H-Bridge in the same style as an E-Throttle or does it use a single PWM feed with some form of feedback or does it use a stepper motor? Pictures of the mechanism and plugs may help with determining this. My assumption would be H-Bridge/E-Throttle style.

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