Italian engineering

well now, that is a big 'whoops'... actually, if it was turned around as the high energy wrench head had described, there still would be a potential problem as the edge of the band would stick out possibly rubbing/cutting the fuel line.

In this case, one of those PITA 'chrysler' compression hose clamps may be better, if oriented correctly and one could get enough room to squeeze it.

I hope that's authorized now that Chrysler doesn't own Ferrari, anymore...

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** I'ts sad but true that expensive, status symbol products are often riddled with such dumb problems.

While budget, mass produced ones have none.

..... Phil

Sure, their as-new owners don't care that much. Wreck it buy a new one.

For the more budget-conscious owner who gets it post-marshmallow a later video shows the engine cleaned up pretty well and should be salvageable:

I've heard (definitely second-hand here) that Ferraris tend to be relatively easy cars to work on, perhaps the designers aware of their shortcomings and expect that a car with a $200,000 sale price will surely be repaired if it at all can be. like they put the fuel pump behind a panel in the trunk where it can be quickly pulled and swapped unlike a 1990s Chevy where the fuel pump is mounted on the top of the tank and basically have to dis-assemble the whole undercarriage to get at it. Or even one of the recent Chevy Malibus where to access the headlamps you have to remove the front bumper.

Yeah the Chevy fuel pump costs $50 and the Ferrari's cost $1800 (and there are probably two) but at least they're easy to get at they know they're gonna break.

The story as of last week seems to be our hero chose not to rebuild the probably-salvagable engine simply due to parts cost and availability on the car. that job plus the required body and interior work breaks the bank.

So he's going to put a three-rotor Wankel in it instead

last month, rather:

They wouldn't have that problem if the driver didn't wind it up to 10,000 RPM just to hit 35MPH.

RPM just to hit 35MPH.

the main purpose of such an expensive toy is the glorious sound of that flat plane V8 when you gun it ...

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iddled with such dumb problems.

it's a car they stopped making 20 years ago, and it looks like you can easily find one for ~$70000

In the US when the insurance adjusters declare a vehicle a total loss the vehicle then gets issued either a "salvage" title or is declared "destroyed" and is un-title-able. Even pretty heavily-damaged cars I see with salvage titles on auto auctions but the adjusters judged this one "destroyed" and the guys here had to fight with them to change it back to "salvage." But it would seem the adjusters knew what they were talking about...

Hopefully in better nick.

Needs a tunnel to set it off, though, as in the video.

Firefighters gotta check the car for hot-spots with an axe afterwards!.

Many hotspots are known to arise just about anywhere after a fire in one of these high-cost supercar-deals, front, back, in the tires, in the glass, dashboard or side mirrors really just about anywhere

Reminds me of what the townie cops up in motherfahkin' Reveah Beach Massachusetts would do back in the day when some townie kid outran them on his fahkin' shrieking crotch-rocket.

Now, young punks love to brag and the cops had fahkin' informahs in all the townie bars and hang-outs. Word would get back on who the local kid was and where he and his crotch-rocket biker buddies lived, usually a number of them in the same general area.

Few weeks would pass and the episode would be generally forgotten by the kiddos. And then one night at 2 AM the police would roll in to the kid's neighborhood and absolutely smash the fahkin' shit out of every Japanese motorcycle they could find parked on the street. Just wail on them with sledgehammers and trash them.

Except the one bragger-kid who outran them they wouldn't touch his. Let his buddies with the wrecked bikes take care of him they'll know what to do.