Step 1, remove turbos.
Step 1, remove turbos.
Ah, she is a seductive temptress! Begone, you brazen hussy!
Good quote, "you shouldn't buy this if you need a car to drive to work every day."
In this case, removing the two turbos actually seems like a pretty good idea. And it doesn't look like it's ever caught fire. That's probably a fair price.
^^ Yeah, I loved the dog bus too. Dogdogdogdogdog...
What does "the turbos don't work" mean anyway? I mean, they're still there. It is a nice, solid, tidy looking Biturbo for that price though. I'd be interested if it were near me.
Edit: wait, E36 M3, it is near me.
I would totally scoop that thing up. Throw in a VG30DETT and continue on.
Its only 20 minutes from me, I truly have no interest in it but would be happy to check it out for you out of towners.
In reply to Kendall_Jones:
If that close, I would go joyride it just so I could brag that I've have actually driven one (that moved under its own power.)
The windshield is worth one large, so the rest of the car is like $750. Swap in a 1UZ....
I have driven one before, they aren't really anything too exciting. It surprisingly had almost 180k miles on it though. I still want a quattroporte 3 though.
Woody wrote: In this case, removing the two turbos actually seems like a pretty good idea.
The three rotor Mazda Cosmo made 255hp with twin turbos.
Strip the turbos off and it will make... 250hp.
Speaking of converting twin turbo rotaries to nonturbo:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/r4efvIx5cVU
350hp N/A FD. Because Anniversary Racing Factory.
Knowing nothing about the basic engine..... I wonder what kind of power it could make with some careful port work, a moderate cam, matched with some high comp pistons.
In reply to Knurled:
Somehow I think that may be a result of/the king of the "gentlemen's agreement " among japanese manufacturers of the time.
Someone needs to buy it, fit it with an electric blow off valve, and run it in lemons. If they don't know the turbos don't work and just think that it's dreadfully slow and it manages to hold together for a race your team would go down in legend.
Kendall_Jones wrote: Step 1, remove turbos. Maserati nonturbo
And another optimistic sucker finds the maser biturbo to be a E36 M3 sandwich and decides to sell. Even without the turbos. It's still junk. When will you people learn? It's not even cool enough for an engine swap. It's just junk! Run!
Kendall_Jones wrote: Step 1, remove turbos. Maserati nonturbo
Good god I want that so damn bad 
If I had a bi-turbo I'd get a thread going where I drive it to work every day and we all take bets on when it's going to lunch itself. Winner gets the trophy pistons or something 
Hungary Bill wrote: If I had a bi-turbo I'd get a thread going where I drive it to work every day and we all take bets on when it's going to lunch itself. Winner gets the trophy pistons or something
We had a forum member do that a while ago. IIRC it didn't last overly long, like 6-8 mos. I forget what brought it down though, may have been the timing chain.
You're not referring to M4ff3w are ya? IIRC it was an AC belt that broke and flew into the timing belt, jamming the cogs, and... well you can guess the rest 
crankwalk wrote: I would totally scoop that thing up. Throw in a VG30DETT and continue on.
I think a VQ would be a better choice.. and yes, I have looked into it
Hungary Bill wrote: You're not referring to M4ff3w are ya? IIRC it was an AC belt that broke and flew into the timing belt, jamming the cogs, and... well you can guess the rest
LOL, yeah that was who I was thinking of. Did he ever get it going again?
In reply to Jay:
Entertainment is taking a biturbo that moves under it's own power and seeing how long it will continue to do so. Insanity is taking a non running biturbo and attempting to get it to be self motivated again.
Can you sell the interior for enough to get this into a LeMons budget?
In reply to travellering:
It was, but it wasn't a fake number. They tapered the boost down to near nothing by the horsepower peak.
codrus wrote: Can you sell the interior for enough to get this into a LeMons budget?
If I were updating the interior of a BiTurbo, there's no way that I would replace it with more Maserati stuff. Those seats were hideous when they were new and they haven't gotten better with time.
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