That's hilarious, and sad. More sad.
Fram oil filter Ferrari 308 GTB cut open
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Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
Yeah. . . spend $200,000 for a sports car and then spend $3 for an oil filter. Typical stuff rich people do.
It was the original filter for the car. On old Ferraris, you expect to see two orange cans on top when you pop the hood.
As said numerous times in the thread, it was a failure of the pressure relief valve and/or bypass valve, neither of which is the filters fault.
All things considered, the filter did well.
Yeah. . . spend $200,000 for a sports car and then spend $3 for an oil filter. Typical stuff rich people do.
It was the original filter for the car. On old Ferraris, you expect to see two orange cans on top when you pop the hood.
As said numerous times in the thread, it was a failure of the pressure relief valve and/or bypass valve, neither of which is the filters fault.
All things considered, the filter did well.
Originally Posted By: Bud
Originally Posted By: spasm3
I'm trying to figure out who would even put an orange filter on a 308!! At least use an ultra on that!
Couldn't afford anything else due to the high maintenance costs on the 308.
There I corrected the post.
Originally Posted By: spasm3
I'm trying to figure out who would even put an orange filter on a 308!! At least use an ultra on that!
Couldn't afford anything else due to the high maintenance costs on the 308.
There I corrected the post.
Originally Posted By: rooflessVW
Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
Yeah. . . spend $200,000 for a sports car and then spend $3 for an oil filter. Typical stuff rich people do.
It was the original filter for the car. On old Ferraris, you expect to see two orange cans on top when you pop the hood.
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These people don't want to hear that. They only want to complain/troll.
Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
Yeah. . . spend $200,000 for a sports car and then spend $3 for an oil filter. Typical stuff rich people do.
It was the original filter for the car. On old Ferraris, you expect to see two orange cans on top when you pop the hood.
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These people don't want to hear that. They only want to complain/troll.
Even Ferrari can make a terrible OEM decision that haunts them for decades later.
Here's a 365 GTC/4:
Car should be valued at around a half million US.
Car should be valued at around a half million US.
Originally Posted By: PeterPolyol
Even Ferrari can make a terrible OEM decision that haunts them for decades later.
They probably chose by colour.
Baldwin might have been a better idea.
Even Ferrari can make a terrible OEM decision that haunts them for decades later.
They probably chose by colour.
Originally Posted By: Garak
Originally Posted By: PeterPolyol
Even Ferrari can make a terrible OEM decision that haunts them for decades later.
They probably chose by colour.
Baldwin might have been a better idea.
My friend with the 328 uses the Baldwin filters. The maintenance is still too much, I did the cam belts on the car and what a pain in the you know where. Everything I have done on the car has been extra pain .
Originally Posted By: PeterPolyol
Even Ferrari can make a terrible OEM decision that haunts them for decades later.
They probably chose by colour.
My friend with the 328 uses the Baldwin filters. The maintenance is still too much, I did the cam belts on the car and what a pain in the you know where. Everything I have done on the car has been extra pain .
That is a clear mechanical failure that resulted in failure of the filter.
I have seen this exact issue before when the in-block bypasses failed.
There isn't a filter made at any price by any company that would have survived that.
I have seen this exact issue before when the in-block bypasses failed.
There isn't a filter made at any price by any company that would have survived that.
Also, that filter does not look like a recent model filter to me. How long has it been since Fram made a filter with that design can? Everything I see seems to be from the 90s.
This blows my mind how someone can run cheap filter like that on Ferrari lmao.
So here's what I want to know..
How is it that a circular cross section (the strongest shape) center tube get crushed into the essentially triangular shape we see in that picture, with oil pressure basically uniform around it?
I'm no mechanical engineer, but it seems to me that this is either due to some very strange confluence of mechanical failures, or intentional damage to the filter.
How is it that a circular cross section (the strongest shape) center tube get crushed into the essentially triangular shape we see in that picture, with oil pressure basically uniform around it?
I'm no mechanical engineer, but it seems to me that this is either due to some very strange confluence of mechanical failures, or intentional damage to the filter.
Looks like some handy work of the typical "Ricky Racer" type. Filter didn't fail, the pressure relief valve didn't fail, the operator failed.
Originally Posted By: funflyer
Looks like some handy work of the typical "Ricky Racer" type. Filter didn't fail, the pressure relief valve didn't fail, the operator failed.
The filter actually did fail. You can say that it was used in an application it wasn't suitable for and you would be correct but it did fail. However I wouldn't use it on Volkswagen bug haha. Not suitable for a try cycle
Looks like some handy work of the typical "Ricky Racer" type. Filter didn't fail, the pressure relief valve didn't fail, the operator failed.
The filter actually did fail. You can say that it was used in an application it wasn't suitable for and you would be correct but it did fail. However I wouldn't use it on Volkswagen bug haha. Not suitable for a try cycle
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