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| erikstoll |
 Aug 19 2006, 12:15 PM
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Just Another Roadside Attraction  Group: Members Posts: 171 Joined: 30-November 05 From: Reno, Nevada, USA - The Biggest Little City In The World Member No.: 5,210  |
What can y'all tell me about the Maserati biturbo? A friend of mine and I are thinking of going to look at one today, good car? bad car? steaming pile of poop?
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| Gustl |
Aug 19 2006, 12:37 PM
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914 enthusiast & historian Group: Members Posts: 11,705 Joined: 16-June 04 From: TIROL / Austria Member No.: 2,212 Region Association: Austria  |
a friend of mine has one
a really beautiful car, extern and especially intern very comfortable seats, lots of leather, and wood it's a rare understatement car, no headturner engine sounds beautiful car runs great and very fast on the highway but it handles terrible on twisty roads, especially through the mountains his car has about 220 HP, but on narrow twisty roads I can hold it with my teener ... with 76 HP (!!!) every now and then he has problems with this very tricky engine and hardly anybody knows how to work correctly on this engine all this may sound a little subjective - but I really don't want such a car ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wavey.gif) Gustl |
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| TimT |
Aug 19 2006, 12:45 PM
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retired Group: Members Posts: 4,033 Joined: 18-February 03 From: Wantagh, NY Member No.: 313 |
QUOTE steaming pile of poop? generally they fall into that category!! But!! I like them they are unique. Kinda powerful engines hard to get parts for etc. |
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| racerx9146 |
Aug 19 2006, 01:50 PM
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good design never goes out of date.. Group: Members Posts: 174 Joined: 1-January 04 From: Sacramento, CA Member No.: 1,483 Region Association: Northern California |
I helped a friend lower his many years ago. It was a very pretty car but a never ending problem child. Faaast once the turbo's spooled but gutless off line like most turbo cars of its era. His was a early one and turbo's blew though a big weber carb. You can imagine how well this worked. The later ones where injected i think. The carb was alway a issue, would not pass Cali smog well, electical problems. Nice soft leather seats though! I always though of it as a italian BMW 325.
Even if you got the car for free budget 2K for turbo rebuilds right of the bat and start counting the dollars spend after that. John |
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| Dr. Roger |
Aug 19 2006, 02:10 PM
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A bat out of hell. Group: Members Posts: 3,944 Joined: 31-January 05 From: Hercules, California Member No.: 3,533 Region Association: Northern California |
same thing happened to mine...
$1700 for a major tune 10 years ago. shimmed valve tappets cost$$$ to adjust yep, they look great from the inside and mine porpoised if i came in hot to a turn from short wheel base i think. i always wished mine ran right all the time but the truth was it didn't. there's many other options i'd rather choose and dump all that maintance cost into something high perf and newer tech. |
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| turboman808 |
Aug 19 2006, 03:12 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,718 Joined: 31-January 06 From: North Jersey Member No.: 5,505 Region Association: North East States |
They are very nice looking cars. I am friends with someone who is pretty much the only maserati mechanics I have ever heard of.
He has many biturbos and knows the cars inside and out. Only reason I would even consider that car is because I know him. Otherwise I wouldn't consider it because no one knows how to work on them. Last time I saw him he had 2 biturbnos and there midengine car which I don't know the name. |
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| Lou W |
Aug 19 2006, 04:10 PM
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"Here Kitty Kitty" my ass...... Group: Members Posts: 4,109 Joined: 9-May 04 From: Roseburg, OR. Member No.: 2,039 Region Association: Spain |
I came this close [] to buying one new in 1985, a blast to drive with those twin turbo's whinning...looking back, my girlfriend thought it looked like a Nissan, sure am glad I didn't buy one, I was also looking at a 944 too, ended up with a Saab 9000 Turbo...I guess I didn't do that well with the Saab either. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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| Boojum |
Aug 19 2006, 04:28 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: 31-July 06 From: Denver, CO Member No.: 6,550 |
Funny, I was just thinking about the Maserati bi-turbo powered 914 that I saw on ebay a couple months ago. Sounded fun, but if that engine ever went wrong... Eek.
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| scotty b |
Aug 19 2006, 05:16 PM
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rust free you say ? Group: Members Posts: 16,375 Joined: 7-January 05 From: richmond, Va. Member No.: 3,419 Region Association: None |
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif) Flaming pile of poo!!! have fun with the belt changes....oh and rebuilding the carb....actually the rebuild isn't that bad but getting the bastard out of the " carb box" sucks a donkey D"#%$ Yeah instead of a NORMAL turbo setup the geniuses put the carb in a box and ducted the turbos to the box! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif) Oh and if you ever have to change the steering pump you had better find a REALLY good priest to watch over you and exorcise the demons that will be coming out of your mouth. I believe I (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif) actually spoke in tongue........4 yeah 4 f'in hours to get it OFF. I told the boss I WOULD NOT be putting that P.O.S. back together. and I didn't ! Oh and I don't like them either. Looks like a F'in Chrysler to me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif)
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