The project starts with owner seeing a rendering of a Ferrari 355 with a custom made wide body, then a conversation with the builder about his ideas on a 348, talks of SEMA… Fast forward to finding an engine in Belgium to rebuild with upgrades and arrange its shipping to Automotive International. Enjoying a glass of wine a 1995 Ferrari 348 appears on e-bay, the owner cannot resist, the bidding is about to end, a week later the 348 appears at AI and the journey begins.
The 1995 348 arrives with an engine in it. The engine from Belgium is already disassembled and at the machine shop so this one is coming out.
The engine was not bad, just a little tired, and one cannot have too many engines in the garage.
Stripping her down in preparation to drop the engine cradle.
Safely free from the car body and sitting on the engine dolly.
This is also how you do a major service on Ferrari 348 or 355 engines! But this one we will be relocating to a perment engine dolly of storage.
Cleaned up the engine bay! The blank canvas being prepared to accept the new, upgraded engine we were completing.
Build in progress, slow and steady to make sure it is just right.
While out of the car it is time to clean up and detail the suspension, half shafts, brakes…
Everything properly painted and being assembled.
Complete engine is installed in the cleaned, painted and detailed cradle. Ready to get it back in the body.
A thing of beauty on the outside and inside, ready for the road.
Tucked back into the body, everything double checked for proper alignment and torque on all the fasteners.
First fired her up with just these straight pipes! Awesome sound, ready for the track!
But she will be a street car too so we went with the complete FabSpeed exhaust solution. Still sounds awesome!
