When I was going to Italy, I called Vader in advance and made an appointment to go to Ferrari's headquarters, as I was the one who owned Rafa.

I heard that there is a Ferrari museum, and you can enter it by buying a ticket for more than ten euros. The target was the Ferrari headquarters in Maranello AbetoneInferiore Street, where the first French racing car was born in 1947. Not only is it home to the factory, the Scuderia team and the F1 garage, but it's also a paradise for Ferrari enthusiasts all over the world.

Soon to reach the reply, you can visit at any time, the headquarters to the outside world announced that no one is allowed to visit, only the official designated dealers and some customers can be fortunate to be visitors to the Maranello headquarters, this kind of deception can be heard.

As soon as I got out of the airport, Vader specially sent a car to pick up the airport and deliver it directly to the destination. There are many rare editions parked at the gate, and die-hard fans like to stay the most.

When you enter the Ferrari factory, the first impression is neat and clean, of course, the classic red color is indispensable: red road signs, red tooling, red signs, as if penetrating into every corner of the factory......

The roar can be heard passing by at any time, and even at low speeds, the Red Devils can't suppress the wild inside. Even the roads in the factory are named after famous drivers in history.

Enrico Galliera, the sales director, received him personally, and when he heard that he wanted to visit the workshop, he led the way without saying a word. It's not so much about the world's leading technology, it's more like an art studio that makes classics.

Witness the whole process of how a Ferrari is born in the order of foundry, machine shop, engine assembly, body-in-white welding, paint shop and final assembly shop.

Arriving at the foundry, the sales director explained the various processes in fluent English, and Alice was in charge of translating: "Light metal alloys are the top priority of Ferrari casting, the main raw material is aluminium, and the engine parts are cast with gravity-activated molds to ensure the best mechanical properties of the individual parts......"

SC Johnson looked curiously at the various high-tech production lines, where the complexity of cylinder heads, cylinder blocks and other components required extremely precise handling to create the narrowest liquid cooling channels for the design.

The shape of the part is smelted by casting the mold on the front side, then filling the mold with sand and curing it using a catalyst depending on the type of mold.

The mold is then irradiated with an acetylene flame to increase the fluidity of the cast liquid metal before being sent to the area where the molten metal is poured.

The temperature of the smelting furnace exceeds 800 degrees Celsius, and it can smelt 900 kg of metal at a time. Different components are added to the metal to form the final alloy.

The metal is then poured into a furnace and, after a fierce operation, is transferred to a second furnace, called a holding furnace. Maintain a temperature of 750 degrees while preparing the sand core.

This kind of thing is enjoyable to see, think about it with your toes and know that it is the core secret, come to the mechanical workshop, 15,000 square meters of fifteen areas, each performing its own duties, interlocking.

The most distinctive feature is the engine assembly shop, a pair of robotic arms called Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is responsible for taking a valve seat the size of an engagement ring and placing it in a liquid nitrogen container down to minus 300 degrees Celsius, which is slightly reduced in size according to the principle of thermal expansion and contraction.

Juliet picked up the cylinder head and waited for Romeo to remove the valve seat from the cryogenic environment and put it in the cylinder seat, and after a few seconds, the temperature of the valve seat that had been frozen by the cold temperature began to rise, and then the size began to expand and expand.

Finally, thanks to the simple natural relationship between metal and temperature, the two can be permanently locked together without any machining.

Hey!

Despite all the high-tech stuff, a lot of manual work remains, as if enthusiasts are obsessed with removing the engine of a car or motorcycle and polishing the valves with their own hands to get more horsepower.

Here, the precision polishing of the crankshaft and camshaft is still done by hand, and each component is subjected to a final inspection in the metrology room to ensure that it is perfect.

The core is naturally engine assembly, and one of the most delicate operations is to set the valve time. With the help of a time adjuster, the camshaft is loosened and placed in the correct position. Then, with the help of a manual tester, the technicians carried out a manual check of the 458 Italia engine.

I saw an old mechanic with gray hair, first installing the engine block on the automatic support for the final assembly, and then installing the lubricating oil nozzle and crankshaft. The piston is then mounted with the help of a cylinder liner. Watching one part after another, the engine gradually took shape......

Finally, the engine was sent to the test bench, and after the trial phase, the group was transported to the body assembly workshop, designed by the famous architect Jean Nouvel, which felt like a cathedral.

Workers test the engine for torque and power at 5,000 rpm, and if any abnormalities are found, with a probability of 2 in 1,000, they will be returned to the assembly line to find out the cause. Once the inspection is complete, it is connected to the gearbox and differential and sent to the final assembly line.

Next is the body-in-white, which consists of the body structure and covering parts including the roof cover, fenders, engine cover, trunk lid and doors, but the unpainted body excluding accessories and trim.

Because it is too precise, it is all installed by a computer-controlled robotic arm. Because the key control hole position directly affects the accuracy of the body assembly, it is also necessary to consider the consistency of the design hole position benchmark and the process benchmark and the assembly benchmark, and the unified reference is conducive to the design of the body welding fixture and reduces the cumulative error in the manufacturing process.

SC Johnson was suddenly curious, the world did not know how many die-hard fans of the Red Devils, including technical masters, as they came to apply, that ......

After hearing this, the other party showed a mysterious smile and explained in a low voice: "Every Ferrari employee must not buy his own sports car, not to prevent them from reselling it for the middle price difference, nor to be unworthy of the noble Ferrari, but to allow customers to receive the best quality service, so only real customers can buy it." ”

This sycophant makes SC Johnson very comfortable, of course, new cars can't be sold, and there are still opportunities for second-hand car internal employees.

The manager went on to explain: "There is one special kind of employee who is allowed to buy a brand new Ferrari, and that is the F1 driver. They are highly mobile and more like a contracted contractor to us. ”

"But don't worry, we don't offer any extra incentives to these riders, so you have to queue up to pay if you want to buy them. Limited edition models are even more unlikely to be able to buy if you want to, so many years because of hunger marketing, I don't know how many people have complained, but now it's not ......"

SC Johnson couldn't help but give a thumbs up,

Hard!