View Inside Catalytic Converter

When I was putting the car back together I took these pictures of the inside of the 355s cats. I did not know what the inside of a catalytic converter looked like and thought they were interesting.

Thanks Brian

A bit over a week ago I received an email from the previous custodian of the 355. Brian. If you recall when I bought the car people kept saying "You bought Brian's car." Brian had the original muffler and solid rear grill which were gathering dust in his garage and he wanted them to gather dust in my garage.

Glad to have them.

I don't think I would put either back on the car. The Tubi sounds great and the Challenge grill looks better than the solid grill but a future owner might want to put them on or just have them.

Clutch is in

I picked up the flywheel at ATD last Friday. The machine shop determined it did not need to be truned, just roughed up a bit. Good news. There is not a bunch of extra material on a Ferrari flywheel and truning it would have reduced its life.

Saturday morning I started to put the clutch back together. First step was to assemble the clutch, pressure plate, and flywheel. I checked my repair manual with said to tighten the boltes to daNM 1.3? Found an online calculator and torqued the bolts appropriately. Requied getting a different torque wrench because the one I had would not reach that torqure setting.

I used my very heavy, very nicley made Hill clutch alignment tool. It worked great and I am glad I had it but I think the folks at Ricambi should rent them. What do I do with it now?

To make a long story short the car went back together very easily. I spent about seven hours bolting various peices back on. I could have done it more quickly but I spent over an hour on the exhaust and bumper. I wanted them to be perfectly aligned.

Verdict, clutch install on a 355 is simple. Glad I did it.