Ferrari has an MOT

Finally felt well enough, and it stopped raining, and I had time to sort the MOT out on the Ferrari.

Figured I would just take it into the local MOT testing station and see what happens. It was a fifty-odd quid gamble, but actually it should have passed.

First thing then was to run it up after six weeks of being dormant and check for any problems. Italian cars laid up like this just seem to break and need a good run to free up the piston rings to that stop smoking. So I ran it up and round the block a few times and made sure it was properly warmed up. Noted that the handbrake was coming up a little high, one indicator was not working but that was about it.

Sorted the indicator down to a loose earth connector in the rear boot, and fiddled with the rear calliper adjustment screws and cable adjustment until I got the lever down to about 3 clicks - check out Birdman's guide to this job.

Changed the spark plugs for a fresh set of NGK BP5ES. Previously running BP6ES which are cooler plugs, so I just thought I'd give the 5's a try to see how they fowl. Noticed three plugs where dirty to the three mixture screws may need a tweak - summer job eh. Really they all need doing with a gas analyser as I set them by ear, so not bad really as 5 out of 8 are running well and this set of plugs has lasted the longest in terms of fowling since I've owned the car.

Anyway, the car passed it's MOT with no problems so we are back on the road again.