Gransport Mods?

I've lowered my Maser. coupe by 2" and it looks awesome. The exhaust on the stock G.S. is made by Tubi but is not as aggressive as the mid. level Tubi exhaust most people buy. Another option is to do what I did, change the mid pipe leading from the cats. to the exhaust to straight pipes ie. remove the resonator. This will give you about a 20lb weight saving (atleast the case for the coupe) and a much more aggressive sound all for less than $400.
Otherwise not much out there in terms of mods other than the Euroteck chip with should add about 50hp. I think there is another company that does the same thing.
Love my Maser....it eats the Porsche in looks, sound and exclusitivity.

 

The chip is $2500 and can be found on ebay or do a google search for eurotek.
I have the skyhook and it makes lowering very easy because of the moveable ring inside the coilover. Some have lowered their cars in their own garage.
I too was shopping for a 996 TT but the bland interior and the ho-hum exhaust note just didn't do it for me.

 

You can see all of the Gransport factory options, and "build" your ideal car with them, at:

http://www.maserati.com/

Beyond that I would strongly recommend not modifying the car at all, at least during its 4yr/50k factory warranty period. You don't want to risk voiding the warranty on a car whose parts/service are that expensive!

Where the exhaust note is concerned, the OEM exhaust on a Gransport is already glorious, and of course you can button-switch it to muted or loud mode.

 

Yes sir, that is correct. . My Spyder has the drop.

 

According to the company the chip is not detectable.

 

I'd listen to the GS's exhaust first. It has TUBI, stock. (Sort of...). MUCH more agressive than the coupe. If you want loud, buy testpipes.

I'm surprised you don't like the wheels. I think the 19in Trofeo wheels are AWESOME.

 

If you do lower it, esp. if you do it in your garage, make sure you bring it to someone to have the car corner balanced! It's bad enough from the factory, if you're just arbitrarily dropping the car by visual aid, you may be seriously upsetting the handling. Any good local race shop should have scales to do this.

 

Here is the car lowered.
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TheBK,

The car is not detectable chipped by dealers from what I understand. I just became a Eurotek dealer so as soon as I start learning more about their products and testing them, I will gladly recommend you and help you.

HRE wheels I can get them at a great deal also. iForged makes some good wheels also but I've never seen them on a Maserati. If you let me know what style you're interestedin I can provide you with some pictures.

The 50hp claimed with eurotek was done with an exhaust and BMC air filters.

I'm not sure if I missed any of your questions but if you want to please give me a call at 405-410-8149 at your convenience and we can talk this over much quicker. I'm sure you have many questions and I can get them answered in just minutes over the phone.

I attached a picture of my Spyder lowered. I really do urge you to lower your car, these cars look really ugly when they're not lowered, the wheel gap is massive.

Regards,
Kevin
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You can contact me before you get the car, I don't care whether you buy parts from me or not that's completely up to you. I just don't mind helping fellow Maserati owners out with their questions or anything I can assist with.

I'm about to head out right now to take care of some things but when I get back tonight if I find the time I'll send you some pictures of HRE's on Maserati's to give you an idea of how the different styles will look on your car. And I'll do some more research on the software upgrades.

Regards,
Kevin

 

BMC air filters are about $100. Pretty reasonable.
Kevin, do you sell any of them? I tried buying one from the BMC web site but putting my credit card info. and approval seemed liked a daunting task.

 

I do actually, give me a call one Monday I think I might have some laying around. I usually have random BMC filters.

 

Regardless of what others say an exhaust won't yield big horsepower gains in the Maserati. I'd be suprised to see more than 10. As stardoc stated above no upgrading the air filters are not an expensive venture at all. By the way I forgot to email HRE about the wheel pics. I'll send them an email right now and as soon as I get the pictures I'll post them up in this thread.

Regards,
Kevin

 

If you buy a Maser definately call Eurotek and speak to Philip, his ECU tuning is awsome, it's a different animal.

Christian

 

Still waiting on the email, will post as soon as I receive pictures. I'd say hopefully by the end of the day, if not I'll call. They have to take care of orders and whatnot first before getting to picture requests.

 

They have only sold a couple of sets to Gransport guys so he has not received any pictures back.

Here are some pictures of Coupe/Spyders with HRE wheels however. Hopefully this gives you an idea. I have more if you want.

http://store.yahoo.com/nonturbo/mawihrewh.html