The spirit of hot-rodding is alive and well: Honda-powered Ferrari 308

[Ace-Garageguy]

 

[Carmak]

My wife's uncle had a 308. The service and maintenance issues with the engine kinda made the car suck. The Honda is a major improvement.

[Ace-Garageguy]

18 hours ago, Carmak said:

My wife's uncle had a 308. The service and maintenance issues with the engine kinda made the car suck...

Yup. In the past I've done repair and maintenance on exotica including Ferraris. 

Among other issues, the 308s and their derivatives (Mondial) required fairly frequent and expensive timing belt replacement. There were other niggling problems, but that's always kinda been the nature of exotics in general...especially secondary systems, and difficult access to just about everything.

Edited June 23, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy

[Carmak]

5 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Yup. In the past I've done repair and maintenance on exotica including Ferraris. 

Among other issues, the 308s and their derivatives (Mondial) required fairly frequent and expensive timing belt replacement. There were other niggling problems, but that's always kinda been the nature of exotics in general...especially secondary systems.

Nailed it! The Timing belt replacement cost, frequency and down time was the nail in the coffin for his 308.

[iamsuperdan]

Did he say that little 4-cylinder could pump out 1000hp? That's crazy. And pretty awesome.

 

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

33 minutes ago, iamsuperdan said:

Did he say that little 4-cylinder could pump out 1000hp? That's crazy. And pretty awesome.

The bottom end of even the little B16 was good for around 700 with the addition of forged rods, pistons, and possibly a forged billet crank. Not too shabby from 1.6 liters.

The B16 was the production engine that really put Honda on the "tuner" map. At 160 HP stock, 300 on the street was a relatively easy accomplishment.

Honda engines' tunability is...much as I hate to use the word...legendary.

https://tuningpro.co/honda-b16-engine-guide/

Edited June 23, 2023 by Ace-Garageguy

[Brudda]

On 6/22/2023 at 2:32 PM, Ace-Garageguy said:

 

This is cool!!!. I have had experience with the exotic’s and they are very expensive and you need very deep pockets to service these cars. I remember my dad ‘s friend who owned a lot of older Ferraris said  “ if you want a ferrari with good ac, buy it in the summer, if you want a heater that works well buy it in the winter. “ That’s the way these cars were. The Honda power plant is actually sooooo much better. Love this video! Cool to see people being creative. 

[Brudda]

I just thought of something, he turned this into a beautiful NSX!