God Bless my Son. We had a second day of Father-Son bonding as the 86Maser BiTurbo Converible Saga continues. At least he drove his 164S over to work on Maser. Reason for a second day in same week is he didn't have to work overtime for once in a long long time this weekend and my daughter's soccer team had an open weekend this weekend so we got an 8 a.m. start on Biturbo.
As you can see by pictures his Green 164L Rescue project and my Rosso 93L Rescue project and his 164S have his Maser surrounded.
Interesting Maser project as I mentioned before he found it when working in Hawaii, bought it, shipped it to Long Beach in 2000 and had it trucked across USA to Right Coast about 7 years ago but until this year it has been in que for timing belt change since it has only 48k on odometer but with no real history of a belt change. He last drove it gingerly some in 2003. Until this year when he changed career paths/companys he has been a field service technician for an Austrian Company with an USA local site but always out of state 75-85% of year in CA, Canada, Mexico, etc,. so cars always on back burner.
I finally got him into the 164 with a white one owner running 164L after he bought the non-running green ebay 164L now running after 12 valve replacement rescue project but with now weak lower end. Then he picked up the running 164S ebay running project with a 5k engine overhaul by original owner (nice hot car).
He has a running 85 Maser Biturbo coupe he alternates between driving the 92L and 91S to work.
Anyway, Maser started today with little drama after he reset dizzy one tooth after we did timing belt, cam boxes, valve shims, retofitted to 85 non-progressive 2 barrell pollution MAD dual 42 Weber and intake manifold (another story with valve shim and cam box compressible gasket) aka NIGHTMARE.
Anyhow Maser has (had) pre cats in Y-pipe off exhaust manifolds and then big cat. we got it started and running in a choking mode so he pulled main one big Cat and we found much of pre cats "beds" in big cat inlet.
Guess once he gets remains of failing pre cats cleared out of pipes we maybe on to closing up intake turbo box over carb and reinstalling exhaust system next Thursday.
Did I mention earlier how I feel about Maser engineering of the early to mid 80's as compared to Alfa (Fiat) engineering of mid to late 80s early 90s?
As you can see by pictures his Green 164L Rescue project and my Rosso 93L Rescue project and his 164S have his Maser surrounded.
Interesting Maser project as I mentioned before he found it when working in Hawaii, bought it, shipped it to Long Beach in 2000 and had it trucked across USA to Right Coast about 7 years ago but until this year it has been in que for timing belt change since it has only 48k on odometer but with no real history of a belt change. He last drove it gingerly some in 2003. Until this year when he changed career paths/companys he has been a field service technician for an Austrian Company with an USA local site but always out of state 75-85% of year in CA, Canada, Mexico, etc,. so cars always on back burner.
I finally got him into the 164 with a white one owner running 164L after he bought the non-running green ebay 164L now running after 12 valve replacement rescue project but with now weak lower end. Then he picked up the running 164S ebay running project with a 5k engine overhaul by original owner (nice hot car).
He has a running 85 Maser Biturbo coupe he alternates between driving the 92L and 91S to work.
Anyway, Maser started today with little drama after he reset dizzy one tooth after we did timing belt, cam boxes, valve shims, retofitted to 85 non-progressive 2 barrell pollution MAD dual 42 Weber and intake manifold (another story with valve shim and cam box compressible gasket) aka NIGHTMARE.
Anyhow Maser has (had) pre cats in Y-pipe off exhaust manifolds and then big cat. we got it started and running in a choking mode so he pulled main one big Cat and we found much of pre cats "beds" in big cat inlet.
Guess once he gets remains of failing pre cats cleared out of pipes we maybe on to closing up intake turbo box over carb and reinstalling exhaust system next Thursday.
Did I mention earlier how I feel about Maser engineering of the early to mid 80's as compared to Alfa (Fiat) engineering of mid to late 80s early 90s?
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