FrankenFerrari - V12 Ferrari 308

The oil tank needs to connect to the oil feed pump

There needs to be an oil tank

There needs to be an oil filter somewhere other than the top of the engine in the V where the 400 put it. I had a similar problem with the supercharged 308 engine, so similar solution.

My god. Every time I check back in here, it's gotten crazier. We gotta get Mike a specialmade tshirt. On the front,   Pinchvalve's by the book post (which I am thankful I'd put my coffee down BEFORE seeing). On the back, "Hi! I took a Sawzall to a Ferrari V12 block!"

Don't take this wrong Mike, I mean it in the nicest way.

Your obituary is gonna be *epic*. Legendary. 

Oil pickup in the sump.  I used the 308/400 screen and made new housings to hold them

Keeping the windage tray seem useful...bugger, I can't kind the rest of the pics..

edit, found them.

I did find the pics of the oil filter relocation adapter on top of the engine...tight fit

i was also reminded that while I showed the pic of removing the unhelpful oil return stuff from the cam covers I negected to show you what I did to connect the TR heads to the 400 oil returns, and yes it involves welding.

I found 1 pic that shows setting up to move an oil feed from the 400 side of the block to the TR side....it meant drill ever so carfully through the deck surfce witrhout ending up in the water jacket.....

BrianA said:

In reply to mke :

It is amazing that you find time to post here never mind actually work on your engine.

I was trying to exp[lain it to someone but there is no condensed version to point to so I figured I'd make one.

Exhaust is always a challenge...I reached out to Vince at Burns stainless for design help and he came back with this

I plugged it into dymomation5 and the software HATED it. what the ?????  DM 5 doesn't have a tri-Y modeling option (DM6 now does) so I was not exactly sure how to enter it and it was honestly 2 frikin years before I finally realized how this thing is supposed to work.  Once i realized what was going on and entered it correctly into DM the software says it works great.

I asked for a wide power band because when I race these days its autocross and this is mostly a street car.   Normally the header primaries on on the 3rd harmonic, maybe 4th for a shorty and the collector is in the 5th.  These aren't.  Here at high revs the first collector acts as an extension of the primaries putting it on the 2nd harmonic but still allowing it to flow well because it now looks like a big step header and the collector is on the 6th but that doesn't matter much as the collector is mostly for midrange.  For lower rpm the primary ends up a bit long so tuned to a slightly lower rpm and the collector end up a perfect 5th harmonic...really clever way to broaden the power curve.  DM6 that let you enter triY designs had no issue seeing it work right but  in DM5 I had to enter low and high rpm versions...once I understood how.

Still had to build it and I'm not exactly swimming in engine bay room....lets see what the noodles (with 1/8" alum weld rod inside)  say....that will do I guess

When burns does the design, which they don't charge for,   you are supposed buy the collectors from them.  Stuffing this in the car put most (all?) the collectors on bends which means fab in place not pre-fab collectors.  I did buy everything else I could from them and got a huge pile of 18g 304 SS.  Flanges I made. Ready to roll.

I've only done a couple sets of heads over the years so there's probably a better way but this worked....figure out how to get the tube to fit the flange I left tube wall thickness space when I made them) then copy the noodles as best I can with tubing.

Then continue

Collector.  for the 3-1 I took  a section of bent and slit itm then pounded the outlet pat to a dia.   

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Incredible work! 

I may have missed it somewhere earlier in this whirlwind of impressive machining work, but how long of a project has this been to date?

artur1808 said:

Incredible work! 

I may have missed it somewhere earlier in this whirlwind of impressive machining work, but how long of a project has this been to date?

11 years and counting.......

I took some little scraps to make the filler thing between the pipes

Then weld up and weld on the collector

Then make more.....I added a slip-on piece as the end too

The 2-1 collectors should be easy.....they weren't of course.

The front was maybe not as weird

This is without question the 'Project Binky' of drivetrain projects.

The design has a wave termination choke of 2.375" then the system needs to expand to about 3.5" to handle 900hp of flow.  So new pipe of bigger pipe.  Normally you just buy an expander and weld it on....unless it falls on a bend of course.