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@@TheJaredsalinsky I drained the compressor, measured and refilled with oil. I replaced the temp switch with a new one. I had trouble finding one that turned the same way as the original one for cold, but the new one at least works.

@@tomyangnet and how did you know was the correct amount of oil? I’m having problems with my AC retrofit and at least one issue is that I did not drain and refill my New York 210…. Might be starting over…😟

@@TheJaredsalinsky the amount of oil was specified on the compressor.

@@LetMrAL1 I think the 360 already has a high torque starter, but I’m not an expert on the later cars. Contact ferraristarters.com and speak to Dave.

since we're taking your car to Cavallino, I would leave the original starter in it for now!

@@theoldmotor4811 Vintage Ferraris supply resistor voltage to the coils even at start up, so if the battery is a little weak, there’s not enough voltage to fire the plugs when the old starter is pulling all that current. These starters tax the battery less and give more voltage to the coil. Win win! Thanks for watching.

There has to be an inlet port to pull air into the compressor. You can try putting some oil in there to see if it'll pull some in to lubricate the internals. If that doesn't work, take it apart and see. Good luck!

honk honk!

Each of these cars have their struggles, but I guess some jobs you get lucky! Thanks for watching.

Starting quickly is an advantage. Instant OP to all bearings. No OP no lubrication.

Spin too much and you are spinning on dry bearings

I think it's a balance. Cranking it at low starter speed doesn't really build oil pressure that quickly, once the car starts, I like to keep revs just around idle until I see oil pressure. Any faster without decent oil pressure is also not good. Thanks for asking and watching.

I miss it too, but it's worse when cranking a car that won't start with everyone watching! Thanks for watching.

I'm with you on this. But its so much easier on the battery and cables. Having said that I have the original starter rebuilt w a new armature ready to go on the shelf, where it will likely stay for eternity.

Those original starters barely fit in those spaces Ferrari provided! Thanks for watching.

I love those starters. Was the first thing I did on my 308 a couple years back. One question though. Do you feel making this change will hurt in concourse judging? I felt it's nearly impossible to see, even with the car in the air so it wouldn't matter, but I don't really know.

@@calebmcdonald8458 the car starts so fast, it would take an extra astute judge to notice, but it depends on what show. It may not fly at Pebble Beach, but I've shown a few cars with this starter at other shows and got away with it. Thanks for watching!

@@indyvignale-wu9qk it’s so rewarding to fix something that’s relatively easy and makes you smile when you hear those horns work again! Thanks for watching!

My favorite! Thanks for watching.

@@tayne5009 I’m 5’10 and fit fine, but am not a big guy. GTCs are certainly roomy for an Italian car, and not cramped like many English cars from that era. That being said, they still have the arms out knees splayed Ferrari driving position! Thanks for watching.

@@BJK1715 the car just arrived at my shop a week ago so the corrections are being done currently! Thanks for watching

@@flashg67 it’s refreshing to see a green Ferrari!

@@theoldmotor4811 I think it’s Zucca or pumpkin. Thanks for watching!

They do make the right noises! Thanks for watching!

Glad you enjoyed it. More to come!

Let me know you username so I can confirm your registration. Thanks!

@@tomyangnet footnfan Thank you sir!

@@tomyangnet footnfan and thank you!

@@dancundiff3316 you’re all set. Let me know if you have any problems.

I'm lucky to have the opportunity to experience a drive in a great Vintage Ferrari. Thanks for coming along!

These old Ferraris can be perfectly rewarding driving them spiritedly at 7/10ths instead of 10/10ths on the road and cause potential harm to others and yourself. There's just enough tire slip and body roll to keep you engaged. Modern super cars don't really require your attention unless they're doing triple digit speeds. That's why I think I like the older cars. There's constant demand between the driver and the car, not just relying on horsepower and a traction control program! Thanks for watching.

@@tomyangnet totally agree with you, Sir !

It's nearly perfection for the carburetor V-12s. That 330 engine provides big torque for such a small car, and the wide comfortable seats make this car a great car for all occasions! Thanks for watching!

The GoPros do that with it's image stabilization programing. There's a little body roll, but not as much as the camera moves. Thanks for watching!

Too many red and silver Vintage Ferraris, so it's refreshing to see a green one! Thanks for watching.

I personally feel these GTCs are the best of the Vintage V-12 Ferraris. The have the best brakes of the 2 cam cars, without the mechanical complexity of the 4 cams, and have the iconic gated shifter mated to the 5 speed transaxle for really good balance. Thanks for watching.

Not sure the official color, or if it's original. Pino Verde metallic if I had to guess. thanks for watching!

@@tomyangnetcorrect it’s pino verde

It's funny how the modern fuel injection cars have to be programed to make those burbling noises that carbed cars do naturally! Thanks for watching.

There will be more about this car in the months to come! Stay tuned!

She sings! Thanks for coming along!

Even it we're heading to the twilight of the Internal Combustion Engine, I am burning fuel in something worthy of a carbon footprint and recording these drives for posterity! Maybe decades from now, they will look at these videos and marvel at these simple little drives. Thanks for watching them.

@@tomyangnet Are you high?

​@@tomyangnet we're not heading into the twilight of the internal combustion engine. The world can't run without the energy supplied by oil and gas. The climate change jokers have got the world convinced that the era of fossil fuels is ending. It's a delusion. Not going to happen. I'll believe it when gas stations start shutting down. It's not happening and it's not going to happen till the oil runs out. And then modern civilization will collapse. There is no electric-only future waiting for us.

You can visit virtually. It's better for us all otherwise I'd never get any work done with people wanting to visit! Thanks for watching!

@@tomyangnet Absolutely, keep up the great work on those gorgeous classic Italian honeys 👍🏻

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks for watching Art.

In Concours Judging, the Judges are only allowed to put one knee on the ground to look under the car, so I am hoping to work that rule to our advantage! It still looks nice under there, but there will still be work to be done! I'm glad you liked the drive, and thanks for watching.

It's all about the air movement! Thanks for watching.

I would tend to agree, but some of my customers would forget and leave that switch running all the time, possibly causing more problems! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the thoughts., I would put a manual switch in my personal car, but don't like doing it for a customer's car because I like to make them fail proof. If they forget to turn the switch off, they risk running the battery down, or burning out the motors prematurely. Thanks for watching.

@@JohnDoe-qh6mg the pusher fans are a good compromise over putting a shroud over the puller fan inside the engine compartment provided there is enough room. Each Ferrari model is different so I have different set ups for different cars. Thanks for watching.

There's nothing exotic about the coolant except it should be basic Glycol 50/50 mix like Prestone. It's the classic green coolant we were using for years before all the other colors now available! I buy the premixed stuff to avoid all the controversy about using distilled water or not. Thanks for watching.

When you say it takes forever, how long is that? With 12 cylinder Ferraris, it can take up to 20 minutes before the oil temperature starts to move. The water temp reacts sooner, but there's a lot of fluid that needs to warm up before everything gets to "normal."

@@tomyangnet If it's cold out (say 40-50F) and I get out on the highway, it effectively never warms up. If I'm putting around in the city it can get warmish but never warm in terms of sitting where the thermostat should control it, if that makes sense. I don't get many cold weather days where I drive the Ferrari so I don't have better data, unfortunately. The 308 thermostat has a "plunger" that is supposed to cut off water from the thermostat when it's cold. Some thermostats I was sold don't even have it. Others it didn't seem to be quite the right size. I believe I have an OEM unit in there now which I did test on the stove, at least.

I don't have an ammeter to precisely measure that much draw, so would have to rely on the inaccurate gauge. Even if it were the same draw, I know for a fact the cooling was not nearly as quick. Thanks for watching.

Big power equals more heat. Modern cars understand how important it is to dissipate the heat. Old cars need a little more help! Thanks for watching!

It's not too obvious until they turn on! Thanks for watching.

Glad your emergency brakes worked! I had to pull over in a 250GTE exiting Concorso behind Laguna Seca one year. It was a show car, so we didn't install modern electric fans. If your still had the Lusso, you could buy two GTCs today and have money left for a 308! Thanks for watching!

@@tomyangnet Dunno what you have read regarding the CA '49 gold rush, but the people who did well were those who sold to the miners (Huntington, Stanford, Crocker, Hopkins, etc.), not the miners. Suffice to say, my company (1/3rd owner) sold to silicon valley businesses starting when they were not yet Silicon Valley businesses, with similar results. As a punk kid, buying the Lusso in the early '70s was a VERY big deal (as was driving it cross-country, and quite a bit later rebuilding a 250 Ferrari engine after the crank let go from an earlier rod loss [I had to make that cross-wrench to get the timing cover off]). By the time it got sold, it was not really a big deal, and we (married, by then) more than recovered any costs. And then some. Wagon-axle car, had to be careful to avoid R on the upshift from 1st, that wind-wing would take the skin off your left knuckle if you weren't careful, worked like hell during the rebop to keep oil around the pick-up in cornering. Any Toyota was a better automobile, but not a one was a 250 Ferrari. I got to live the dream; imagine Santana's "Samba Pa Ti" coming out of the speakers, driving north across the GG bridge in the Lusso, heading for a date with a gorgeous woman in the wine country, summer evening, say '75, hitting 4th as you left the bridge for the climb into the tunnel, and keeping your foot in it... Wouldn't trade it for anything. Including a couple of 330s and the left-over 8-cylinder change. Hot rods have three pedals; Ferraris have 60* V-12s.

@@currentbatches6205 Sounds like a wonderful experience owning that Lusso. I sometimes feel bad for the current owners of these cars, as many of them will never experience these old Ferraris on the road as you did in the 70s. Yes, they can be cantankerous and hard to fix, but when they're "on cam" and pulling past 6K, they're glorious. A Camry might be faster, but it's still not a Ferrari! Cherish those memories, and know that you belong to small group of people that lived it!

Also remember, after 50 years the radiator can also get clogged with debris, making it a little less efficient, add that with inefficient cooling fans and maybe a rebuilt engine with more power, and you can have a cumulative problem with cooling. If the water temps fall immediately when the car is moving, I would look into better cooling fans. It's the easiest thing to look into first. Good luck, and thanks for watching.

I was lucky to have found these fans several years ago. No one else is making them thin enough to fit. I'm glad you like the videos and thanks for watching!

I don't know if the aesthetics of shroud would work on a Ferrari engine bay! The pusher fan I added helps a lot! The original alternators were 45 or 60 amp alternators, but if I add a higher output alternator, it may overtax the wiring and I would have to add a shunt to the ammeter. Thanks for watching.

@@tomyangnet Well again, like your electric pusher a shroud could be removed in its entirety. My personal experimentation (not w/ a classic Ferrari!) has shown that American cars of the '60's, 70's & '80's with factory belt driven fans lose up to 60% of their cooling without a proper shroud. (Typically on the order of 45-50%) but much depends on how close the fan is to the core. Again, with a better (internal fan, integral regulator) alternator you would have much better charging and if you used a fan relay it wouldn't pull any more amps through the ammeter,. Remember, ultimate alternator output doesn't mean a thing. You are never going to see 160A passing through, nor that much swing in the instrument. You're just going to see stable charging system voltage where the old 50-60A alternator had no chance of keeping up at low RPM, and enough reserve that even a helicopter sized electric fan would be okay (up to the power a single belt can transmit, typically 110A) I'm definitely not trying to influence the decisions you make about caring for these magnificent vehicles, I'm just trying to point out that a lot of progress was made between 1964 & 1994. That inadequate cooling should _never_ be a problem another 30 years beyond that, and that none of these 'overlay' solutions aren't entirely reversible. I really appreciate the discussion and consideration you give to my ignorant questions. 🙂

A high torque starter is another mod. Look for it on a future post! Thanks for watching.