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There is a company (http://www.unobtaniumsupply.com/) that rebuilds them with all new plastic parts. I have had several rebuilt. It is not cheap but it is permanent. I only say because now you will design and 3d print all your own parts and fix it.

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Wade Williams
Master Ferrari Tech
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Before I suggested 3D printing, he was going to cast new ones in aluminum by melting down soda cans.

Unobtainium looks like a really cool supplier. Like you said, not cheap!

So after much thought I decided to see if I could just zip-tie them back together....as in weld them back together using a soldering iron and nylon zip-tie as filler.  They seem fine now.  I did switch from zip-ties as the filler to ABS which was easier to work with, a little lower melting point so I could keep the base material a little firmer, I kind of blended it into an alloy in the fill zone.  

Next I'll make sure everything is working before I torque the main nut down....but it looks good and probably 10 or 15 cents including the spray paint I dressed up the levers with.

Well of course you did. Why didn't we think of plastic welding with ABS and soldering iron?

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Wade Williams
Master Ferrari Tech
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Engine Machinist
Fabricator
Racecar Driver

I'd forgotten about unobtainiaum. Verell bought the 24psi supercharger setup from me back when I was starting the V12 adventure....I need to shoot him a note and see how he's doing.

Right now I'm just trying to get what I can to at least a functional condition so when the block comes back and the engine runs I can maybe drive it around the block for the 1st time in 13 (or 14?) years....I remember when I started on the V12 but not when I 1st pulled into the shop for the ECU upgrade that led to the V12, but its been parked a LONG time now. But until the engine is running properly there really is no budget for anything else, hard to explain to the CFO why I need to spend money on a car with no engine so hopefully the welded stalks hold together for a little while.

Today I'll start putting fusses in and see what works and what doesn't...and call the machine shop, forgot to do that yesterday......well not completely forgot but at this point I've pretty much resigned myself to the idea that I'll be honing the cylinders so I'm partly looking for other things to do to avoid that

Filled the fuss box and everything electric seems to work....mostly.  The fuss panel is all new so I was a but nervous.  Haven't seen the lights up or on in many years.  All the column switches seem to be working so that's good.

It took me about an hour to figure out why the radio was on but silent...I'd rewired the main power the amps to be neater so I assumed I buggered it somehow, turned out to be pin pulled out of the harness in the radio itself, probably when I pulled it to run the new wires to the dash.  

Then there is the power windows which do "work"...as long as I pull firmly up while holding the switch.....its past time I pull them apart to clean and grease them.  I guess that will consume the weekend.

Then there is just the issue of no engine......

the first door is in bits....





Dynamat goes in way easier than it come out





pretty sure the rear window guide is supposed to have a bolt





Pretty sure they wires are supposed to be attached ....

This is probably not that exciting to any non ferrari 308 owner but after about 10 hours of disassembly, cleaning, greasing, reassembly and adjusting, I got th the driver side window to go up and done without manual assistance.   This one had stopped completely, even assistance no longer moved it.....the "grease" was much more a hard wax like substance than grease.  I decided foolishly to pull the whole window which meant pulling the front frame....which meant cutting a couple bolts to get it out then extraction them so it could be reassembled.  but it works now and just needs the door panel back on.  I decided to let the broken power window go for now and jut removed the power lock stuff that has never worked....I think its suppose to unlock the passenger door when I unlock the drivers side but...I can live with out that







https://www.youtube.com/embed/9JQIBuEimow?rel=0

http://rodneydickman.com/index.php?cPat ... ca89cf7d32

He has a couple of AFAIK unique Ferrari parts. The power window accelerators are sold for a variety of cars.

yeah, no doubt they could be made better......but they (1 anyway still need to do the other) do now function while the engine does not so right now my focus is elsewhere.

I do now have 5 empty relay slots now so rewiring to add relays is something that could be done neatly, I'm out of the clip-in spade connectors but other than that its just time unless I want to also add a voltage converter to send them 18 or 24V. ...$50 and the windows will move like modern windows.
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The whole interior will need to come out at some point which is when I'd prefer to deal with issues like this but I needed them to at least go up and down again.