Alpa from France, biturbo addicted

alpa

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Hi,
I recently learned about your forum when LDM68 posted a thread on Maseratitude about the suspension arm weaknesses on 3200gt.
I saw few interesting discussions here, so decided to register.

Some of you may know me, I've been active until recently on Maseratitude and for years on BiturboZentrum (as Alexis). I've also been active on turbominis.co.uk years ago (an excellent forum), I had a 998 turbo MPI car (sold it 3-4 years ago, it's still being used).
I know well FI biturbos until QP4. I think they were very well designed, they are robust and reliable if you take care of them as you should.
I know a lot about the distributor biturbo injection system, I'd even claim more than anyone the planet. I made BTIM: a diag system for the ignition part.
I own 9 cars, 4 of them are biturbo: 430 18v no cat, 222E (bought in Switzerland), 224 no cat, Ghibli GT. The 222E is my everyday car, the 430 is going to retire (210k km on the clock): too many mods and the rust is spreading over. I owned an automatic QP4 v8 Otto a couple of years but the dashboard took fire and I was actually happy to sell it : boring to drive, even though very nice inside.

I like modifying/improving cars. The 224 is a track project which is on hold (like few other projects). The Ghibli GT was an opportunity (after the burned QP4) to buy a biturbo so far allowed to enter cities in France, in very nice condition except the engine which is completely toasted (freshly rebuilt 1400km before, I can reuse the water pump, conrods, valves, flywheel, that's it !). So GT will be back on the route with my own version of the biturbo engine: a 2.5 24v with lots of improvements. The 224 will have an improved version of the 2.8 18v.
Unfortunately as many of us I need to work to live, so time is rare. Fortunately I'm well payed and my kids are adult so I have time and money to invest to my projects.

I prefer technical discussions, never wash my cars, use biturbo to go to the supermarket and vacations, do all the work myself (except changing tires).

Alexis
 

safrane

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Welcome

Are you suffering Folie à deux
owning that many Bi-Turbos? or do you like financial pain?

On a serious note great to read that you use the cars in the way you do... except maybe not washing them!
 

alpa

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I own biturbo because they are cheap to buy and cheap to maintain. I owned a few cars and biturbo are the most reliable I've owned. The worst was the Audi A8 D2: a disaster. Never Audi again.
Not washing my cars is probably the only ecological action I do with my cars. Well, I also don't use electric cars.