Quattroporte III catch-all thread

Well said!

I loved reading the articles! So glad Thor is taking such good care of my old "baby"

Thor, when I had the car I also had an issue with the cats's glowing red. Maserati of Seattle traced the issue to the air pump. The air pump was stuck open and dumping too much air into the exhaust manifolds causing the air/fuel ratio to be way off. Once they replaced the air valve, the issue went away.

Mike

 

Ha I did not get it. I usually renew when I order parts if my membership has expired. $125 or so for me. I did think I would get "comped" as I put together the article and twisted Thor's arm (not hard by the way). Anyway, no pay no play for me so I have to get my subscription in

 

Yeah. No comp. I had to pay for an issue containing a tech article I wrote a while back.
Tony

 

Thor,

I thought you'd appreciate this. I was digging through my archives and found the very first picture I made of your car. I took this the day it was delivered back in October of 1988. Note my '78 Alfa Romeo Sprint Veloce in the garage too.

Mike
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Hey guys!

Just a short update. Now clocking 12000kmtrs since November
And not one single hickup during that time.
Been a dead reliable car, love it to bits!

Still doing about 1.2/3 on 10kmtrs.

Oil consumption seems pretty normal for an old car.

 

Congrats!
Tony

 

Has anybody seen this?
Bonhams: Maserati Quattroporte III 1981 - SPRZEDANE | Gie?da klasyków

 

Help! My 1982 QP III needs inner tie rods and I haven't been able to locate any.
Is anyone parting out a car with good ones?

Thanks
Stan

 

have you called Eurospares?

 

rare parts. Calif. they will do a perfect job for a reasonable cost

 

will be at Ault Park Concours this weekend. in parking compound at entrance along with my 430 and 02 spyder. QP 1 in show

 

Hi Best place for this is MIE. I believe they are the same also as the Porsche also but don't have the cross reference handy.

 

Been super duper busy lately with work and other commitments and haven't had much time to work on the car or post here, but finally got a break, so I put a few updates on my blog, and will see if I can do a longer post, maybe with videos, outlining the carb teardown and rebuild.

Still haven't received my copy of VCM, but am looking forward to seeing it.

Thanks to William for organizing a QP3 registry, please do have a look and give some feedback on what you think, and register your car (or cars you know of)!

It will be interesting to see how many cars are out there.

 

Nice Mitchell!

We all want to see pics!

 

Let me address a few other things while I'm here...

Mike - the headers glowing red may be due to the air pump as you state, but I think the problem is elsewhere. The reason for that is that the engine is idling very roughly, hesitates on acceleration and backfires. It sounds an awful lot like it's only running on 4-6 cylinders instead of all 8, and only one of the cats is glowing, not both.

Oh, and thanks for the picture!

When I finally started her up yesterday after getting the new starter motor, cable and freshly charged battery installed, she idled fine. I will keep an eye on the vacuum lines as GLB suggests, and might just replace the older ones. At some point I hope to remove all the smog stuff from the engine bay anyway.

Question: will a very low battery affect the spark getting to the plugs via the coil? I seem to recall when I first got the car and took a longish trip that the same thing happened, and buying a new battery cleared it up. Could the coil not be generating a complete/strong enough spark consistently if the battery is low, resulting in only some cylinders getting a spark? Just wondering out loud...

Charlie - you said you'd be doing a tune up/check late spring/early summer, and would read and post your timing and valve settings here. I'm looking forward to seeing your numbers, as I'm still getting 1.8/9 every 10km or so, pretty abysmal compared to yours, and I'm guessing there's all sorts of power I'm missing out on as a consequence.

Stan - Jacques of Maseratiresource (eBay) sells suspension parts, including tie rods, ball joints and the like. I picked up a complete set a few years ago for next to nothing. Unfortunately I can't say if it's the same as a Pantera or 928, but it would be nice to know for certain. So far I've heard a lot of rumor and opinion, but no one who's actually cross referenced the part numbers or had both in front of them and measured them.

Mitchell - congrats on the QP1 and let us all know how things go at the show!

 

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Originally Posted by Mexico074 View Post
Hi Jorge...

Can you supply the part number for the Porsche 928 ball joints you used??
Could be useful to some of us down the road...

Thanks...

Mike
Try this: http://www.mailordercentral.com/928i...347%20322%2002
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And from another site:

I just learned that thet Maserati QP3 and 78'-84' Porsche 928 use
the
> exact same Bosch ignition box (Bosch part# 0227100008) and in the
past
> I learned that Porsche 928 tie rod ends will work for a QP3. Do
any of
> you know of any other parts that the QP3 and 928 share? It would
be
> nice to find out and add these to the QP3 parts interchange
database I
> created as 928s being parted out are plentiful and could likely be
an
> inexpensive source of parts for our Maseratis.
>
> Also, I have also been told that the ignition set-up on the QP3 is
also
> very similar to the one found on 1980's BMWs-can anyone confirm
this?

LInk is old but the part was used and is picture on the threads above

 

what an awesome profile!!!

 

Thanks Mike. Hope You'll appreciate this one, bouncing from 1988 up to 2014, this afternoon:
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Right angle on the front shocks makes all the difference too!

 

I just took a look at the QPIII registry site. It looks very nice and it has tremendous
potential! Congratulation to the founder!! I will be posting the info on my car in the
next couple of days...

The best think was the following disclaimer found on the bottom or the web page:

"All information in this site has been donated by weird people over the internet and is not guaranteed to be correct."

hmmmm.. weird people...

I laughed when I read it ... Very nice touch!

Mike

 

Thor:

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!

Your paint looks 100 times better than when I had the car!!!

Thanks for sharing!

Mike

 

transport was sideswiped on the way last night. jammed the cars and could only get one off. the QP1. it got a small ding in a fender. very lucky. QP1 won, 'Special Recognition' ribbon. I very happy. that was one out of 240 cars! here are the Judges. they started with mine first.
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Congrats, Mitchell!

Sorry about the fender bender, a shame after all the miles she's travelled to get to you.

 

FYI I just attempted to register my car and after clicking on the submit button I got an Error 404
Page not found.
:-(
Tony

 

Hi Not all the bugs out yet. We can thank Dimitrios who is doing all of the work. I uploaded the brochure etc and Thor has agreed to help out. I am not too tekkie about loading things up so we have not yet officially "launched"