Ferrari 360

The company offers solutions which were tuning for a variety of vehicles. Fans of “old” may be a luxury car body kits will be pleased with “sample” for the BMW E30 and Golf II. Since 1999 new cars Mini Cooper with convertible soft top were offered for our clients. The program includes all the tuning which is usually offered jobs, but to force the engine. Maybe that’s why experts suggest more efforts to change the external image of cars. When one becomes acquainted with all models, which are designed for tuning body solutions, emerges whole vision of the designers Koenigseder their products. All machines acquire a pronounced trapezoidal silhouette. On each machine you will find bumpers with huge skirts, almost touching the ground, which cover the body and sides to the wheels. In the program finishing cars may be included work on the chassis: a decrease in ground clearance, installation of sport shock absorbers and springs, upgraded brakes. We fix one more feature of the company – it offers easy alloy wheels with incredibly complex, open-work “weave” jumper, which makes the appearance much “flared” special body style. A visual impression that the “pyramid” to strengthen the car even more tips on the exhaust pipes made in the form of parallelograms with two rounded corners and two sharp-pointed. One of the brightest and win-win work was finishing the car body Ferrari 360 Modena.

It would be more logical to start to get acquainted with German company Novitec from any model Alfa Romeo or Lancia, after all in the world of tuning it is known as closer company FIAT batch production. But some years ago in Novitec found expedient to start the program of operational development of Ferrari, having chosen two models most popular at that point in time – 360 Modena and 575. At present Novitec has two divisions – Sports (tuning of mass models of concern FIAT) and Rosso (Ferrari). It will be a question of complex operational development 360 Modena – the most accessible model in industrial scale of Ferrari.

In all big Europe practically nobody is engaged in high-grade tuning of Ferrari. Porsche models improve all who feel like it, leading up capacity of their engines to magnificent values, and here Ferrari remains as though without guardianship. Probably, business in enough difficult highly accelerated company engines – turbines at them isn’t present, and consequently motors don’t manage to be “inflated” to transcendental indicators at the expense of trivial increase in pressure of forced aspiration (and some inevitable, but not so big mechanical interventions). With atmospheric motors of Ferrari all much more difficult and, so, more expensively. On this expensive and difficult way there is company Novitec which establishes two compressors on the engine of Ferrari 360 that cardinally increases sport car possibilities, and without that is far not the most weak-willed.

In all three companies in Germany are known for their applications for cars Ferrari. But only in the Novitec Rosso have been able to create a finished product, which was built according to classical laws of German tuning.

Back in the late 80s due to its extreme experimentation with cars Ferrari studio Koenig Specials earned fame throughout the world. It was a glorious era of life “without limitation” – many have tried to create tyuningoviki only the fastest, brightest and, consequently, more expensive models in the world. In Koenig were able to bypass all, putting the turbine engines to Ferrari Testarossa and 348 models, and having achieved a record output in 1000 forces. Simultaneously, Koenig designed and unique styling package turns the Ferrari in the broad and winged monsters. There is still a mystery exactly how much these cars have managed to build in Koenig. The company now offer the installation of turbines at various, including modern, model Ferrari, but great attention of the public and potential owners are not in use. Continue reading →

Ferrari 360 Modena is one of the best and technically perfect cars in the world, but it appears, this perfection not suffices all. And precisely there is much to do to tuning firms.
Known German company Koenig has finished “Modena”, having transformed it in a monster, capable to “make” even Porsche 911 Turbo. It not boasting: characteristics of «tuning» Modena are close to bolides of Formula-1. Koenig KS360 Modena is 3,6 — liter 40-klapannyj V-shaped, eight-cylinder engine which can be seen under a glass cover of a motor compartment. Standard buckets are replaced with facilitated Mahle’s firm, which, besides, depress a compression ratio as on the motor are established two especially adjusted compressor turbo T4 Garrett’s firm. Specially invited master Konrad Gruber from the Austrian firm Motoren Technologie Gruber (MTG) was engaged in engine modernization. The exhaust system is also specially made. These modifications allowed raising capacity without that not sickly V8 to 600 horse powers (!) That makes 165 h.p. from liter. The twisting moment impresses too: 570 Nanometers. According to data Koenig KS360 Modena about 100 km/h for 3,3 seconds are dispersed and has a maximum of 340 km/h!
Suspender of the car didn’t touch: Ferrari uses the active system steered electronics and changing ruggedness depending on road conditions. On updated “Ferrari” others are put a spoiler and, at will of the owner, new disks of the size 9J and 11Jx19 with tires Pirelli P-Zero Assimetrico.

The first sports car “340 America” ​​was built on the basis of race engine for Formula 1: The chief designer of the engines “Ferrari” Lampredi (Lampredi) increased center distance of 108 mm, making the engine dlinnoblochnym, and did not embed cylinder liners, and screwed them into the housing unit, he also changed the timing mechanism and channels for oil and water.Engine capacity of the new car initially was 4.1 liters, which formed the basis of marking Car (340 – roughly equivalent to the volume of a cylinder). Engine power, making the 6000 rev / min. As high as 230 hp On the oval section of pipe mounted 5-speed synchronous transmission. Sports car character support as hydraulic brakes, double wishbone front suspension with transverse springs and rear dependent – on longitudinal semi-elliptic leaf springs. Which went successfully start, “340 America” ​​began its triumphal march across America and Europe, and the first 24 cars, dressed in a body known Italians found their admirers. The next model, “342 America”, has already established itself as the car category GT, but these cars were produced only 6 pieces, and four months later she was taken out of production. The mechanics of the car was not materially different from the previous model was reduced to four the number of gears and up to 200 hp - Engine power. Major changes have been wheelbase – is increased to 2650 mm – and weight of the car – up to 1,200 kg. Despite the fact that the body of the six machines were manufactured by various companies, their united line “Ferrari” – heavy, but in its own elegant rounded shape, two air intakes on the hood and grille bulging elliptical form. In 1953 in Paris, was represented by “375 America”, which received a new engine capacity of 4.5 liters and 300 hp Wheelbase of the new machine has been increased to 2,800 mm, while making her body was preferred Pininfarina, built eight coupe and convertible. Appearance of the model resembles the design of the previous car and presented in the same year to the public “250 Europa” with a three-liter engine.  Continue reading →