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I came back from Indiana after attending Gencon, i do what every MURCer does, checks the forum for the latest from Doc and the gang and I see this post!
Actually here's the story behind the Biturbos...
After an era or awesome racers and street cars like the Bora and Khamsin, the Mexico and 3500GT's, Maserati was on the verge of bankruptcy. Scrambling to find a way to make ends meet and save the company from sudden death, they came up with the idea of putting parts together to make a car that will compete with the e30 BWM 325e and i.
It was the year 1982 and the first concoction of a vehicle was born, the Maserati Biturbo (in Italian pronounced...bee-turbo) was carbureted and plagued with a few bugs, for example, the carburetor was positioned in a way if you take a hard turn to the left or right, the fuel would not be able to enter the engine and it would starve, this happened so many times on the track, the car would cut out constantly around the hair pins
(note, they only crash and destroy the 1982's to 1985's. not the newer cars 
)
In 1987, two new Biturbo models were created The 425i and the Biturbo SI (In fact I owned both the 425i follwed by the SI which I currently have... one of 1020 ever built).
Now the 1987's did have problems of their own, but manageable. The newer cars like the Shamal and Ghilbli were even more reliable and better overall cars.
In our case, we had a great mechanic who really took care of our cars, there were about 40 people in the Toronto area who owned biturbo's ranging from 1985 to 1992, and they were all pretty much in good condition, I mean we would drive to Vermont, Pocono, Detroit without issues, ok there were the odd one or two, but given the age of the cars and how finicky they were, it was a given. Again it was part of the whole experience
Today believe it or not, I can find brand new parts for my car from MIE in the States ( Maserati International), these guys are awesome and reasonably priced, so I am in good shape in terms of support and maintenance.
To conlcude... YES the 1985's and older Biturbo's were really bad, even Jeremy from Top Gear crushed one
Cheers,
Elie
I came back from Indiana after attending Gencon, i do what every MURCer does, checks the forum for the latest from Doc and the gang and I see this post!
Actually here's the story behind the Biturbos...
After an era or awesome racers and street cars like the Bora and Khamsin, the Mexico and 3500GT's, Maserati was on the verge of bankruptcy. Scrambling to find a way to make ends meet and save the company from sudden death, they came up with the idea of putting parts together to make a car that will compete with the e30 BWM 325e and i.
It was the year 1982 and the first concoction of a vehicle was born, the Maserati Biturbo (in Italian pronounced...bee-turbo) was carbureted and plagued with a few bugs, for example, the carburetor was positioned in a way if you take a hard turn to the left or right, the fuel would not be able to enter the engine and it would starve, this happened so many times on the track, the car would cut out constantly around the hair pins
(note, they only crash and destroy the 1982's to 1985's. not the newer cars )In 1987, two new Biturbo models were created The 425i and the Biturbo SI (In fact I owned both the 425i follwed by the SI which I currently have... one of 1020 ever built).
Now the 1987's did have problems of their own, but manageable. The newer cars like the Shamal and Ghilbli were even more reliable and better overall cars.
In our case, we had a great mechanic who really took care of our cars, there were about 40 people in the Toronto area who owned biturbo's ranging from 1985 to 1992, and they were all pretty much in good condition, I mean we would drive to Vermont, Pocono, Detroit without issues, ok there were the odd one or two, but given the age of the cars and how finicky they were, it was a given. Again it was part of the whole experience
Today believe it or not, I can find brand new parts for my car from MIE in the States ( Maserati International), these guys are awesome and reasonably priced, so I am in good shape in terms of support and maintenance.
To conlcude... YES the 1985's and older Biturbo's were really bad, even Jeremy from Top Gear crushed one
Cheers,
Elie
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