JT's 2001 Maserati 3200GT Rebuild! Story, Parts and Advice

[philw696]

To be fair cranking her over and getting the oil around the motor and priming the fuel etc was all for the better so it's BRAVO from me.

 

[JTop]

The next few days was to keep going even though I hit the fatigue wall. I was genuinely realised as soon as I grabbed the black immobilizer chip that I mentally am fried. I had the rest of the front end put together and then I stopped. End of January. Yet to do a road run; but I let the engine run.
Here I realised a few issues, oil seeping through the front and rear covers, I put brand new gaskets, but forgot the theory that stagnant oil wants to flow… Throttle response was also not great, something seemed extremely off. Would not start and idle at the “ideal” 1100RPM warmup, 900RPM idle.


Weekend came and a wonderfully sunny day to take the car for its first spin with Mum and Dad; see if I have more things to sort. And of course, I forgot to tighten the wheel bolts. One lap and it became noisy. Luckily I wasn’t going far. But I realised, OOPS.
Tightened, and next lap only with Mum, just get around the corner and start running down the road before.; POP! Hose clamp bursting off the intercooler line and we halt to a stop on the side of the road. Me knowing exactly what it is just from the noise because I’ve been there and done that enough times in my VW…
Got home; fixed it and continued a few more trips around the block to figure out what is wrong. My thoughts consistently being in regard to the timing. That I did not get this right.



Fiddling with the throttle body adjusting it to the specification that was ideal for the Lamborghini forum, setting it to ~1.15V whilst reading the voltage output from the multimeter and hoping I got it right.
Letting it do the learning process, and then off for a spin.
One lap around, it was ok. Second lap; and as I turn into the side street getting off the main road. Steering got hard; engine switched itself off; brakes were the only option.
A story which I have read about; but it finally happened to me.
Lucky it turned on right away and had no traffic coming the other way, otherwise it would have been a disaster. Turned the car back on and to home I went, trying to not have this happen again. I then switched it back to the original 1.00V and this seemed to be the winner. Running a lot better after this, and finally fine tuning it to the correct value with a comparison unit.

I then went to investigate the throttle potentiometer. This was a wicked discovery because I thought it had a funny feel to it. And yes, someone modified the potentiometer arm because the linkage most likely broke. *I modelled these and 3D printed a bunch because plastic. failure-point. NLA too!
With this, then they welded an extension to collect the arm of the potentiometer, and smoothly rotate it in accordance with pedal depth. This was just wrong.



Anyway.

Kinda done. I'll get back to it in a minute

And then I made my next two mistakes...

 

[philw696]

It's going to take a bit of shaking down so don't punish yourself young man.
Rome wasn't built in a day as they say.
What's with the MK1 Golf I've spotted ?

 

[Spitfire980]

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One original LHS and RHS bonnet vent courtesy of Hashim - @Spitfire980
Same with the A-Pillar vents!
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Running upstairs. Searching my key stash for parts and found the little black immobilizer chip.
Immediately installed it into the key and jumped down the entire flight of stairs.
Key in the ignition, fuel primed, electronics on. Ready
And
On.


Running.
Tear in one eye; for I can finish this project.

Thank God

I totally forgot about this forum until i got mines running again!

Congrats on getting her fired up!