Recent content by cheburator

Supercar Italia - I would not trust them with the steam off my pee... A mate runs a tyre/alignment place very close, so I have seen first hand some proper horror stories... Avoid...

Why would one do that in the first place? No matter how good you think of yourself as a driver you would never change gears as fast as the TCU/hydraulic actuator. Somebody mentioned holding the car on the clutch... Yes, sure, a tiny, almost inertia free clutch mated to a 1.9 tonne car being...

Hey, hey, I ain't dissing the GS - I liked it a lot! :D I said the F1 in the GT is night and day compared to the F1 in the GS... The GS is smaller and lighter car that feels nimbler on its feet. There is more of a sports car to it. The GT turns into a sports car, but you have to drive it hard...

Good that you are planning to keep the GS... Recently I had the opportunity to drive very aggressively a friend's GS back to back with my 2013 F1 Sport... I would throw a cat amongst the pigeons - go and try a 2013 onwards F1 Sport before you buy a ZF Sport. The F1 in the GranTurismo is...

This is a classic case - had the same symptoms with my car - 2013 Sport F1. Read my musings on here. The NCR is bricked up and will brick up the new one the minute your dealer tries to use either SD3 or Maserati Diagnosi to swap NCRs as per the official procedure by copying data off your old one...

I would walk... years ago I set off to buy a heavily Manthey-ed 996TT X50 which had all the bells and whistles, including PCCB, GT2 buckets and Manthey KW V3 CS. I was hyped up, all the reviews were saying that this car was all one could ask for... Had an extended test drive along B-roads...

The remanufactured clutch looked brand new :p It was not a case of just having new friction surfaces rivetted on... The whole assembly must have been properly media blasted. The aluminium "cage" holding the clutch discs/plates was re-anodised, the steel components were freshly powdercoated, it...

I was talking about the single mass flywheel version which they fitted to the N400 cars and now considered a must upgrade if a clutch is done...

I used a remanufactured clutch from Masparts.nl - I have done 10k hard miles since then and the wear index shows 30% clutch life gone. Since then I have been in contact with another outlet in Italy who works with the likes of Lamborghini, Maserati, Ferrari and even the old Bugatti EB110. A...

With all due respect, I think your figures are off by a factor of 1.5x with regards to the costs at a main dealer. The following is based on Emblem/Eurospares prices - 12hrs of labour - book value - which assumes shiny fasteners that come undone easily and that nothing else needs doing at...

It blows my mind that people who have these cars don't buy basic scanners like the Autel or the ThinkDiag+ (phone based version of Launch). I have the latter and cost me £130 for two years subscription covering pretty much any car make. Is it as good as SD3 or Maserati Diagnosi, of course it's...

Running costs would be higher due to the cost of clutch replacement and potentially the carbon brakes. This particular car is on cusp of needing a new clutch - I bought my Sport F1 at 32k miles and the clutch was gone - 90% worn - but it was factored in the price. A clutch done at an independent...

BMW de-stroked the S14 and created arguably a better engine, which revved higher and made the same bhp as the first 2.3 units. The S14B20 was used as test bed/homologation special for several race engines... As for Voicey's recommendation to buy a 360/430 - err, that doesn't work - the build...

That bush is goosed. Just get a set for all fours from superformance. 1/2 the price of the Maserati/Ferrari item. Poly bushes should have no place on suspension components, except simple bushes like anti-roll bar ones... Front bushes are the same design indeed...

Years ago, a mate run his E46 M3 CSL with a 320d badge, while I run an E39 540i Touring with a 520i... Last but not least, my old LHD E46 M3 which I gave to my dad was ordered new with no badge and no boot lip spoiler... It actually looked very sleeper-ish... Except the quad exhaust...