We have showed you some pretty expensive parts and pieces over the years here at BangShift but this Ferrari V12 block, heads, and valve covers pretty much takes the cake. You can order a pair of injector hat to pan, blown Brad Anderson hemi pro mod engines for the price of this block, heads and valve covers. We’re not saying that they’re wrong to ask what they are asking because we don’t know but it is stunning to see the price of $175,000 next to this humble looking lump of aluminum.
Not being Ferrari experts by any stretch of the imagination we looked into what we think this engine is and if we’re right it is a 3.3L V12. We know we have the V12 part right we’re just not sure about the displacement. The mill would have powered a Ferrari 275 GTB according to the seller and by our math there were about 800-900 of them produced over the years they were made in the middle 1960s. The cars are stunningly beautiful and worth scads and scads of money. When you think of that throaty, screaming, angry sound that came to define Ferrari during its years of complete dominance in the world of road racing, this is the engine that made those noises. We have video of several 3.3L V12s working hard below and you’ll dig the sound. We believe that these engines made somewhere in the 280-300hp range when they’re running in tip top shape and as you can tell they are a tight design using a 60-degree V. Judging by the layout of the valves, these must have been hemispherical style heads. Also, when the engine was complete it would have had a phalanx of six two bbl carbs lined up right between the heads. Works of mechanical art then and now, this is cool stuff. But how cool is it? Can you make money restoring a 275 GTB after dropping $175,000 before you even have a crank, connecting rods, pistons, and all of the other necessary stuff just to finish the engine? If you are rich enough to afford it do you even care?!
We were going to go into a bunch of “what you could buy” for $175,000 but the reality is that somewhere there’s somebody looking for this. Maybe the car that the engine belonged to is sitting in a shed somewhere waiting for an engine. The ad has photos with all the serial numbers punched in it so you can look for yourself. Numbers matching GTB with an engine that magically appeared on eBay? That’s the stuff of movie scripts!
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE PHOTOS OF THE BLOCK AND HEADS AND THEN HIT THE LINK FOR THE AD –
That guy has been trying to sell that block and heads for a few years now. I guess it isn’t a good deal at that price.
Kinda worthless without the main caps
That thing looks like it’s been laying behind Mr. Bustamante’s sheep shed for a few years. It would make a nice coffee table, a piece of shatter-proof glass and a string of LED lights strung through the block 🙂
If that was a 4 cam engine, it would have been gone in a heartbeat.
Nicholas cage asks in gone in 60 seconds about a ” 1965 ferrari gtb 4 cam ” at the ferrari dealership. Made me think of this instantly