Need Help Iding This Component On A Ferrari 365 Gts4

[Dr Plastic]

I assume it is the oil fill but I do not know as to what it is connected to or what it does.

The orange arrow is pointing to what I am referring too.

Does anyone know how it is hooked up. Is it connected to a tank under the battery?

What and where do the lines hook up to.

Thanks

[novadose71]

Here are the only pics I have of this part. Probably the oil fill, judging by the cap anyway, but I've never added oil to one either.

[MrObsessive]

That's the tank for the Daytona's dry sump oiling system. Ferrari probably did it this way to lower the hood------eliminating the tall oil pan, which would've made the engine taller.

Where the lines go I have no clue...............I built a '63 GTO years ago with the tank (in the rear on those) and all the lines in place, but their system was quite different I'm sure than on the Daytona.

Here's a pic of the underside of the car I built..............a little crude by my standards today............ but this may give you an idea.

Edited December 4, 2007 by MrObsessive

[Dr Plastic]

Here are the only pics I have of this part. Probably the oil fill, judging by the cap anyway, but I've never added oil to one either.

DUDE! Those are some BODACIOUS pics! Of all the pics I have these two are just about all I needed!

THANKS!

[Modelmartin]

Please pardon me for a slight hijack of this thread but seeing the bottom of Bill's Ferrari reminded me of a discovery I made several years ago when I was doing pattern work for CMA on their 250GT SWB Stirling Moss car. Ever wonder what sense it made for the exhaust to merge into one pipe and then out into two again next to the rear wheels? The real one doesn't! Those are 2 separate pipes and one runs under the other. All of the kit manufacturers got that one wrong. I discovered it in a Ferrari book showing a wrecked 250 laying upside down in the road after a rally accident. Five minutes and an inch of solder and that one is fixed! Back to regularly scheduled programming.

[novadose71]

I don't recall the specific's of this car, but I'm pretty sure the lines (in my pics) go to an oil cooler ahead of the radiator.

[MrObsessive]

FWIW Andy, when I built mine in '96 (that long ago? ), I had a large photo album lent to me by Harold Bradford (Historic Racing Miniatures) of a 250 GTO on the lift undergoing a resto.

It had the exhausts go into one as shown in my pic. I thought it odd too............but those cars had so many changes when they left the factory, who knows what was correct from car to car.

[Modelmartin]

FWIW Andy, when I built mine in '96 (that long ago? ), I had a large photo album lent to me by Harold Bradford (Historic Racing Miniatures) of a 250 GTO on the lift undergoing a resto.

It had the exhausts go into one as shown in my pic. I thought it odd too............but those cars had so many changes when they left the factory, who knows what was correct from car to car.

That's interesting! I would like to see that. The upside down one I saw was pretty clear. I think even in the early 60s Ferrari wasn't as standardized as one would think. I know the 50s stuff is all over the planet and no 2 were the same. I pulled my hair out when I was doing the Barchettas for CMA. 3 Different 166MM Barchettas and there were 3 different shock absorber set-ups, frames, intakes, dashboards, hoods, etc. Before all those cars became over restored thay looked like they were welded up in a high school welding class! A pretty cool welding class but there were globjobs under the skin.