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Please please let this time be the time
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Aug 21, 2014 06:40
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Please please please go efi with more boostu but leave the rest with its 80s "charm."
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Aug 21, 2014 08:34
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mafoose posted:Please please please go efi with more boostu but leave the rest with its 80s "charm." No. I want to enjoy the delicious suffering of a stock resurrection, turbo spiders and all.
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Aug 21, 2014 08:36
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Seat Safety Switch posted:So how much did you pay? I havent actually spoken to the man yet but I instantly recognised the sign in the pictures without even needing the street view to confirm so I went over to stare at it for a while. I know how trite this sounds but it's a lot smaller than I expected.
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Aug 21, 2014 08:40
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General_Failure posted:No. I want to enjoy the delicious suffering of a stock resurrection, turbo spiders and all. Nononono. I want it to go down the road, not go all Italian and self-immolate.
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Aug 21, 2014 09:13
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13 Inch, the very definition of automotive insanity.
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Aug 21, 2014 09:52
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I think we need to set up some kind of kickstarter or something to help him get this pile.
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Aug 21, 2014 10:15
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some texas redneck posted:I think we need to set up some kind of kickstarter or something to help him get this pile. https://www.gofundme.com Probably the best place to start
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Aug 21, 2014 10:23
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:I know how trite this sounds but it's a lot smaller than I expected. They are tiny. I stored mine for the Winter in the front of my garage at the time -- which is the same place I stored my Miata later on. They are very similar in size.
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Aug 21, 2014 10:51
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some texas redneck posted:I think we need to set up some kind of kickstarter or something to help him get this pile. I do have a paypal acct i use now and then I just didnt want to seem like i was panhandling for my fix of misery 
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Aug 21, 2014 12:07
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It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway map—a shapeless congeries of polymeric tubules, frankly quite ominous, and with myriads of temporary splices patching and un-patching around pustules of greenish oxidation all over the bay filling plenum that bore down upon us, crushing bleeding knuckles and dribbling over the glistening floor that it and its kind had kept so evilly full of cat litter. —H. P. Dickcraft, At The Manifolds of Madness
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Aug 21, 2014 12:28
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When I saw the picture This needs to happen. I need it to happen.
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Aug 21, 2014 12:44
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I love these and came close to buying one which sounded like an absolute wreck with stated overheating problems - I still regret not buying it. Make sure you budget for an engine crane to have on permanent standby, practically every job on the Biturbo seems to require the engine completely pulling out (at a funny angle, just to make it more fun). Check the bulkhead for rot as they can go there very badly. And if it's missing the chintzy clock on the dashboard, they cost a lot to replace. Good thing with early carb Biturbos is you don't need to worry about theft, it's unlikely anyone will be able to figure out the exact combination of manual choke and pedal tapdancing required to start it. Hot start issues in particular were a massive problem even when new, just made me want it more.
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Aug 21, 2014 19:06
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Just don't sell the Civic!
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Aug 21, 2014 19:59
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So could someone enlighten me on what makes the Biturbo so awesomely terrible?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:So could someone enlighten me on what makes the Biturbo so awesomely terrible? An Italian-made carbureted twin turbo V6, for one. Horrid electrical issues, very complicated... everything.
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Aug 21, 2014 20:07
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Also they used lovely quality parts from the factory, because they're Italians. Rust is also therefore a major concern.
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Aug 21, 2014 20:11
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:So could someone enlighten me on what makes the Biturbo so awesomely terrible? Check out this clock in the dash: 
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Aug 21, 2014 20:20
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There was also something special about the engines oil pan. Or so I'm told by a guy who owns one with a turbo 13B swapped in place of the V6.
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Aug 21, 2014 20:23
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On a scale of 1-Trabant how bad is it?
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I think Biturbo's belong on a scale all of their own. It's just a circle with two diametrically opposed points, carburetted and EFI.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:On a scale of 1-Trabant how bad is it? Someone find this dude the cross section of the twin intake valves being operated by a single rocker pushing down on an off center hollow bucket tappet
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Aug 21, 2014 20:41
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Presented without comment:
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Aug 21, 2014 20:45
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:I do have a paypal acct i use now and then I just didnt want to seem like i was panhandling for my fix of misery
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Aug 21, 2014 21:02
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I'm in for $20.
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Aug 21, 2014 21:08
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jammyozzy posted:Presented without comment: Heh, count me in for 
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Aug 21, 2014 21:53
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I figure the acquisition of the Maserati and subsequent tears and frustration would be roughly on par with the enjoyment I got out of Kevbarlaz's pdf/book. I got ten bux here do donate to the cause, because the cause is so terrible yet amazing.
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Aug 21, 2014 22:08
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Twerk from Home posted:Check out this clock in the dash: What is the test button for?
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Aug 21, 2014 22:13
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CharlesM posted:What is the test button for?
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Aug 21, 2014 22:16
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Press it, and if the car doesn't catch fire
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At least the valves appear to be diametrically opposed on that poor tappet, so... I guess it won't damage things? Hopefully? Jesus christ. Count me in for or a service manual of similar price if anyone sees one on ebay (I think the abysmal vacuum hose cthulhu and blow-through turbo-carb disaster are more impressive/depressive than that, honestly.) e: oh dear. kastein fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Aug 21, 2014 |
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Lets not get ahead of ourselves just yet, just because i found the car the owner still hast replied to me.
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A couple of years ago, me and my friends were on a camping trip and decided to canoe down the river before they ruined it. My buddy Steve, he was the leader of all of us. As much as we resented admitting it, he was the only one of the group comfortable out in nature and, we admitted later, with himself. Once the trip was well underway, our canoes got separated when these nice men from Seattle came down to talk to us about the problems with globalization and who really destroyed the World Trade Centre. I didn't see Steve's canoe floating away with him and Phil in it, but I noticed afterward that they had been gone a really long time. We proceeded down the banks. The weather had been getting worse all day, and it left me with an inexplicable lump in my throat, as if my subconscious was reacting to some great tragedy of which I was not yet truly aware. We saw them on the banks of the river. Biturbos. Hundreds of them. Their flickering headlights gazed at - no, through - us, their crooked grilles recalling a time when Italian manufacture wasn't just a joke of a globalized economy, with its WTOs and NAFTAs. 80s synthesized banjo music emitted from the car that seemed to be the leader, its poorly designed carburetor backfiring, lips of flame rolling off of the venturi and back into the air cleaner assembly on the beat. I believe they thought we looked like real purty owners with thick wallets. If only that's what Steve had been...
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Just got off the phone with the greybeard that owns the Maserati. He spent about five minutes telling me about what a reliable, solidly built, amazing to drive car it was until I finally said so listen Im specifically looking for a biturbo for their reputation of being about as polar opposite of that as you can get and I asked why it had been parked for so long. I sort of tune out for a second after the words "catastrophic failure of the" and tuned back in somewhere around the crank case completely filling itself with gasoline blowing out seals and now it makes a bad noise that he doesnt like
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So what you're saying is that, for a BiTurbo, it's in pristine condition. What price did you and the greybeard agree on?
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Aug 22, 2014 01:22
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sounds like it is a great fit!
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How dumb does he think potential buyers are? Holy cow, what an rear end in a top hat. Drop some spiders down his pants if you meet him.
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:"catastrophic failure of the" & the crank case completely filling itself with gasoline blowing out seals & now it makes a bad noise Best sales pitch EVER.
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I looked up Biturbo on wiki. quote:The Biturbo is number 28 in the BBC book of "Crap Cars" and in 2007 was selected as Time Magazine's worst car of 1984 Do you plan a new thread?
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