Auto Upholstery Bay Area - Ferrari F430 Steering Wheel Restoration - Cooks Upholstery & Classic Restoration Redwood City (650) 364-0923

The F430 hails the arrival of a whole new generation of Ferrari V8-engined berlinettas. Every inch of the car was inspired by the engineering research carried out at Ferrari's Gestione Sportiva F1 Racing Division. The result is a highly innovative design characterised by cutting-edge technologies perfected for use on a road-going car.

Two of these innovations are world firsts for a production car: the electronic differential (E-Diff), initially developed by Ferrari for its F1 single-seaters and designed to make the most of the engine's torque to optimise traction, and the handily placed steering wheel-mounted commutator switch (better known to the Scuderia's drivers as the manettino), which directly controls the systems governing vehicle dynamics.
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The F430's light, compact 4,308 cc engine that gives the car its name is completely new ; it punches out 490 hp and delivers a specific power output of 114 hp/l and 465 Nm of torque. Needless to say, performance is outstanding: acceleration from zero to 100 km/h in four seconds flat and a maximum speed in excess of 315 km/h.

 This project is to restore this F430's steering wheel. As you can see in this picture there is excessive wear on the wheel.

We will be able to restore this steering wheel to like new condition.

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