Right, I looked and there is AC502 vert (green) spray paint sold in Europe, Not sure about shipping that to USA however. I did see a very good heat resistant, chemical resistant paint made for engine bays from Seymour (see pic), not sure how good a match it is, but in looking at all the various hydraulic bits both rebuilt and NOS at MEI, there appears to be some variation in the shade so perhaps like hand grenades and horse shoes close is good enough. I found the stickers for the top at a Citroen shop in France and ordered that already. Have to see if my translucent hose is already cooked or can still see through it. Dean
I upgraded my translucent hose with a higher temp resistant one because of all the heat cooking and melting on the way home with my car. Find something at McMaster. Mine is not clear it's milky but it works. I also have a heat shield protecting the tank, from the extreme conditions I encountered so that helps too. There is no direct radiating heat from my headers that is allowed to cook anything. But it's still hot as hell back there. I did mine 34 years ago so I just don't have any specifics.
Thanks I will check for that tubing once I get a size. Theres other transluscent tubing in the engine bay, including the green tinted tubing to the charcoal canisters. at the website I posted above they have so. many types of heat shields I'm sure I can find products to shield the starter, gas tank, brake lines, exhaust pipes, they even have big sheets of wrap to wrap entire mufflers with.
I hope you car is above the potential flood level for what's coming towards you hours from now(hurricane Milton)?
I hope so too. I’m in central Florida. Not near the shore or any rivers. My iPhone says I’m 130 ft above sea level.
Good for you, 130 feet if correct is far above any widespread flooding danger, the storm will go right above you though, hope your roofs etc hold, Godspeed to you.
Thanks. The screen room/patio is only designed for 75 mph winds per code. I may be out there slicing some screens to save the structure if there are gusts greater than that. Not positive but I believe the main house is designed for 3 second gusts up to 150mph. Having lived through Hurricane Andrew in Miami in the 90’s I have great fear and respect for nature.
Maserati/Ferrari of Central Florida may be able to work on your and order parts as they're owned by Classic Coach in Elizabeth NJ and they work on all maserati classics going all the way back. Onofrio (frank) owns and runs Classic Coach. His son runs their dealership in FL Mention my name and it could get you thrown out of the place. His son will remember me by my Giallo Ghibli Open cup. He drove it around the streets of Elizabeth years ago. He's also a Challenge race champion so he knows how to drive.
Very cool. I take my Quattroporte Sport GT-S there for certain things. The former service manager Rocky is only involved with classic Maseratis I hear. Last visit I saw a 3500GT in the lobby.
Had a great time in the Bora this morning ... and the drive made me reflect on the work you are putting into your Bora, Cepat, and I want to make a suggestion. Stop working on it and drive it. Unless it's not driveable, inspectable? My position is that you will learn a lot about the Bora by driving it. You will smell, see and feel what kinds of things it needs.. and the experience of driving a Bora, as was reaffirmed for me today, is absolutely astounding and validates the effort put into it. Driving it will also reveal things that need attention and keep it running smoothly. Go out, find some twisty roads, or highway. Drive it a while and warm up the engine, transmission, then downshift and redline it. What you'll hear is the sound of the engine voted by Classic & Sportswear Magazine as The Best Sounding Vintage Engine in Automotive History. (The Alfa "Busso" V6 came in second). You will also grow to love it even more, and appreciate what you are doing to improve it. It is really hard to believe that such a well-mannered, powerful, balanced, smooth, sorted, exotic Grand Tourer was developed and produced over 50 years ago. Anyway - I'm rambling. Point is, I hope you get out and drive it more and soon. And post more pictures of it! LOL Cheers, - Art Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Cool pics. I’d drive it if I could. It’s waiting for the carrier to pick it up and bring it to me. Just as well the hurricane and tornados and floods here right now. The questions I asked here are for my future reference. And when the car was on BAT earlier this year there were some criticisms and I consider those a kind of to do list of little projects I can do slowly while I drive and enjoy it over the next many years. I’m super excited to just sit in the thing and soak it all in. Last time I saw a Bora in the flesh was my dad’s back in the 70s. It will be a nostalgia overload to be sure. Dean PS we survived the hurricane thank God (the Quattroporte and me). don’t think we had any gusts over 50mph.
Glad to you hear, Dean. You will enjoy it for sure. The color on my Bora's LHM reservoir is an unusual metallic/translucent green with the information stenciled on it, not decals - as far as I can tell. Might be a replacement at some point in its life. The spheres and pump are all solid-pigment enamel. - Art
here she is: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/xMoFGqfK9T4Z2Bze/ still awaiting the carrier to pick it up.
Hello Cepat, Glad you are ok after Milton. I second what Art said in his post about driving, one thousand times over. Driving is the heart of ownership, too many tinker endlessly, often on things that are not needed, and never drive which is totally missing the point. The problem is where you live is not a very nice area to drive ( I was years in Ft Lauderdale and drove/flew up to Orlando numerous times), you need gently twisting traffic free roads and Florida except for the north does not really have that. I suggest that when your car is all sorted you plan either a trip to the Apallachians or a touring rally there (or further north or in the western US) to REALLY drive it on the roads it was made for because here is the key; with any car the right roads are half the driving pleasure. It is 50% of the ingredient of driving pleasure. I once had that contrast illustrated very vividly within 4 days. I had a ride with a very slow driving concours type in Riviera beach on A1A, dead straight very slow speed limit, two cop cars around...and it was very boring...the car was a Miura, supposedly very exciting, yes...on the right roads. It was just sad....I drove two in the French Alps decades later, as if avenging that day Then less than a week later I was in Modena and drove to Florence, I decided to take the Mille Miglia mountain passes of Futa and Raticosa, some of the best challenging roads in the civilized world, (think Dragontail road in the Apallachians) the actual roads where Maserati, Ferrari Lambo etc have tested and developped their cars for over half a century. I had the time of my life, yet my rental car was a tiny gutless Lancia about 10 foot long....you see the point? Let me give you a reverse example. Once during a Cavallino classic in Palm Beach a young fairly uncouth guy who had a 360 Modena said something unbelievable. "Driving it gets boring." Shocked, I asked where he had driven it. It turned out he had only driven it in south Florida, paradise for outdoor sports but hell for driving; only straight roads on dead flat terrain, crowded by incompetents with massive police presence and very low speed limits...so he had zero clue about real driving on the right roads which make all the difference. food for thought. Sorry of I belabor the point but I have seen that countless times. I wish you much pleasure with your Bora! By the way there used to be Michael Brooks in Palm Beach gardens who had a white Bora, a very tech minded guy, I visited him 20 years ago...but he would be quite old now...
True what you say. Roads in Orlando are mostly straight and flat. North of Tallahassee is a nice place to drive. Drove those roads when I was a student at FSU (when dinosaurs roamed the earth).
Boring straight roads are indeed sports car death. Las Vegas, just about anywhere in the midwest, Florida in general, far too many boring states with just about zero great roads. I'm absurdly lucky in north Georgia as the base of the Appalachians has to be some of the best driving on earth.
You can see your car on page of this link from Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/photosbyjohnwiley/53559705362/
Also interesting is that you have the vents in the hood and yet it's hinged in the back as well as a 74 MY. That's something I don't remember seeing.
Maybe vents were added. I'm not sure what MY that started. Boras seem to sometimes have random specs at times.
Ivan is there a way to prevent the hood popping open at speed and smashing the windshield? That happened to my dad’s Bora.
Well this is the first I remember that your dad had one of these cars. Worse yet is when the rear hatch catches the wind at speed. That happened to the poor and severely abused #1046. All I can suggest is to be vigilant with the catch assembly, it's proper adjustment and closing.
Make sure the secondary safety catch is working properly. I’ve seen many where the safety catch does not work including my car when I purchased it. Ivan
Cars here. Has one major issue right off the truck. White smoke billowing out all the rear grills. Took a look on the side of the road. There was green hydraulic fluid on the frame near the header. There was brake pressure so I drove it one block home to my garage. Turned off the engine and hit the brakes. Like 36 times. It was still releasing fluid so I don’t the the high pressure side is leaking. I think Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
