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Autoblog Night Watch: The Crafting of a Ferrari V12
A twelve-cylinder Ferrari engine isn't simply a piece of machinery, it's a mechanical work of art. Each one is painstakingly assembled by hand by teams of skilled craftsmen at the factory in Maranello, outside of Modena in Northern Italy.
To watch the engine take form – each piston and valve placed into the sand-casted aluminum engine block – is like watching a block of marble take form into a priceless sculpture. Only this one does have a price ($250k with the 612 Scaglietti built around it). And it doesn't just sit there, it goes really fast!
[Source: Carscoop]
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Steve 4:53AM (9/13/2006)
1 please.
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Ayaz 4:54AM (9/13/2006)
The video is very interesting and great...
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.T 4:55AM (9/13/2006)
Nice. Too bad it will inevitably end up 200 yards away from the car after the driver splits the car in half after hitting a telephone pole 200 mph.
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DPC car videos 5:37AM (9/13/2006)
Great video, saw it last week and it is like a priceless sculpture.
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Ben 7:53AM (9/13/2006)
It made me think---when we're all driving electric cars, there just won't be fun videos like this. It'll just be, "plug in batteries, click on."
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DriftPunch 8:42AM (9/13/2006)
I found it interesting that the cast iron sleeves touched eachother.
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Richard Warren 10:57AM (9/13/2006)
Slick film. Oh, Ben, that's not true, we can watch them silde a pre made battery right in. Won't that be exciting? Of course the sound that electric engine will make will get you senses flowing. Huuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmm
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olderty 11:56AM (9/13/2006)
Too bad I can't read spanish, but I'm sure it said "this is how we kick all forms of A."
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jonathan siberry 4:07AM (9/14/2006)
What a wonderful peice of art. Enough said.
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John Thornton 4:24PM (9/14/2006)
Great video. I could watch that 100 times and never be bored. I think you'd want to be able to read Italian, not Spanish, to understand it all. A siamesed block, where the cylinder liners touch each other, is both shorter and more rigid but in the past caused heating problems. What I couldn't tell from the casting cores was if they were wet or dry liners. I'd guess dry from the look of them. There is a similar video available from a restoration shop in GB that sand cast a new V-16 for an Auto Union restoration but I haven't been able to find it in some time.
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