I had a 5-speed 400I.
The best road car I every owned, I put about 25,000 miles on it, it cost me about $25,000 to do that and I did all the work.
I used it as a daily driver grocery getter besides road trips.
Ferrari was bought by Fiat and the Fiat brass wanted a car to compete with the big Mercedes, performance and price point.
So they did a lot of cost cutting in the design, wet sumped the engine, which raised it and made the bad air flow on the heads, did away with a lot of the cam drive gears and went to one really long chain to drive all four cams. Is is a Colombo V12 but a much cheaper one than in the Daytona. This translates into much higher maintence cost and performance lost. The engine has to come out and the heads have to come off every 40,000 miles.
Here is a picture of my engine out for the 40,000 mile service.
I could not afford the miantence and went bought a much cheaper to maintain car in comparison, a Ruf modified 930, and that is not a joke.
