MR STANCEWORKS IS BACK WITH ANOTHER INSANE FERRARI PROJECT - AN ENZO V12-SWAPPED F40!
At the end of 2020, the main man behind the massive website dedicated to the world of low cars, Mike Burroughs from StanceWorks, announced his ambitious project car. The man had always wanted a Ferrari 308, and after finding a 308 GTBi in Fly Yellow, he bought it with a few decent modifications in mind. The plan was to chuck the motor from the classic Ferrari and replace it with a modern high-revving powerplant in the form of a Honda K24. Of course, not in OEM-spec, but rather a fully-built, fully-forged and boosted K24 with a very healthy 1,000 hp on tap. When the man builds a project, he documents every aspect of it, and the coverage of this project has been the most detailed ever. Head to the StanceWorks YouTube channel’s playlists. You’ll find more than 120 videos that comprehensively document the build from when the car was bought up until the most recent ones documenting the tuning, the first drive, the car’s first on-track testing and then its track time at the World Time Attack event in Australia. We love this, building a trailer queen is one thing, but building a car so meticulously and still risking it is a legit flex. The car did well at the event, well it did well as a car, but some serious technical gremlins entered the mix. The stupendously expensive Quaife transmission gave up the ghost and the man had to beg, borrow, barter and steal to get a replacement unit into the car to carry on with the event. It cost a lot, but luckily the chaps from Quaife in Australia helped a lot too. While that GTB project was absolutely amazing and good enough to collectively annoy the world’s Tifosi, Mr Burrows has managed to top that by purchasing another classic Ferrari for a different kind of project.
Even though the budget went tits-up and the man had to do some recouping of costs, it looks like the collective tally of views on YouTube has done wonders. While this is merely an educated guess, it does seem pretty logical because the latest classic Ferrari to undergo the Stanceworks treatment is nothing other than the hugely popular, iconic and properly rare Ferrari F40. The project has been dubbed the Ferrari F40 Evo, and to get the car to the state that Burrows wants, the project requires some intricate and custom fabrication. The plans are ambitious, but if anyone can pull it off just right, it’s Mr Stanceworks. The original Ferrari F40 was launched in 1987 and it was one of those cars that was way ahead of its time, especially in the performance stakes. Built to celebrate Ferrari's 40th anniversary, it was Enzo Ferrari's swan song and the first production car to break the 200 mph barrier. Just 1,315 units were produced between 1987 and 1992 and various websites say that there are still over 1,000 of these left. It was powered by a twin-turbocharged 2.9 litre V8 that generated a very healthy 352 kW with 577 Nm of torque, and with a dry weight of just 1,100 kg, the car had some mental performance. It ould hit 100 km/h in jut 4.1 seconds and ran on to a top speed of 342 km/h. But this isn’t good enough for a complete rebuild of an F40, so Burrows has opted to power his F40 Evo with an F140 V12 powerplant. It’s a ridiculously powerful normally-aspirated lump, and with a capacity of 6.5 litres, it generates as much as 840 hp - as it does in models like the FXX, the Purosange and the iconic Enzo. As you can imagine, this means hella fabrication - and all of that is already underway in a series of six build videos - and there are more on the way because there’s a lot left for the project. This is a great series to follow - do it!
Take a look at the YouTube video that kicks off the detailed build on the latest Stanceworks project - swapping a modern Ferrari V12 from an Enzo into a classic F40 - along with all the custom fab work that's needed for such an ambitious project - this is one we're watching without any fast-forwarding: A Real F40: The most mental project you've ever seen begins now. | Stanceworks
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