Just bought a shamal

Hey Phil. I like those a lot. Didn't know you could get them in the USA.
Post a few photos and tell the story of how you came to acquire it.

PS: Now Bob @staatsof will have somebody to talk to around here.

 

I always really liked the design! One or two have popped up on BAT too. Enjoy!!

 

Congratulations. Fun fact on the Shamal is the flat plane crankshaft V8. This engine was the forerunner for the one used in Quattroporte 3.2 and 3200GT. The Shamal was the only one of these models that got the flat plane crankshaft. Hence the different exhaust sound compared to the two others.

 

Phil and I have already met several times at cars & coffee events in the Morristown area though not for several years.

 

Phil I run the Biturbozentrum forum on groups.io you should join. https://groups.io/g/Biturbozentrum/messages International help on there including a few Shamal owners.
There have been a handful of other Shamals in the USA and at least one I know of in Canada. That owner and I are very familiar with each other but I think he's sold his now. Like you he goes through a lot of cars though not nearly as exotic as the ones you dabble with. He brought his Ghibli Cup to the Le Belle Macchine d'Italia event that used to be held in the Poconos one year. That's how we met. His car broke down at the track event and he had 4 adults he needed to get back to the Toronto area. That didn't happen ... But he had it repaired at a shop in the Poconos not much over the NJ-PA border by a shop that many on this forum like a lot. https://www.poconosportscar.com/

He fixed my friends fuel pump issue and got his car back. I don't know that he really "knows" these biturbos as they never really came here so you're going to be training a mechanic ...
It does have the same ECUs (two of them) that are utilized in an F40 which he services but that's about the only thing those cars share.

There's also Classic Coach in Elizabeth which is a lot closer. I haven't dealt with them in a long time. They used have tech who was quite savvy and young. He did all the F40 tuning, has an eeprom emulator and the software to tune those ECUs. He also did all the MC12 federal certification modifications for the cars that came here. But I don't know that he's still there. Classic Coach was a very different place back then.

Most of the practical experience for everyday things probably isn't going to exist at these shops.

Once Covid settles down and I've had my shots LOL maybe we could get together. In the mean time you can PM me if you want. I haven't been to a Cars & Croissants in at least 3 or 4 years.

 

Is that another name for a Flux capacitator Bob;-)?

Phil best of luck with the car, great to see a Shamal in the US!

 

http://www.tunerpro.net/FAQEmulation.htm

It allows you to tune a car's engine ECU when doing tuning on a chassis dyno, especially for dinosaur vehicles like the F40 and all the Maserati's that utilize the same ECU for their engines.

 

Thanks, one learns everyday. Now if you call an F40 a dinosaur what do you call a Tipo 26? You run out of appellations at that point.

 

So it's your fault! You are spreading the Biturbo virus!

 

You could only hope that Covid goes away as fast as Biturbos have. The truth though is that they really are nice cars and supremely comfortable.

 

Not really, dinosaurs were around for a very long time and were terribly successful but reptiles pre-date dinosaurs and are still around ... Humans are but a recent fly fart on the time scale.

How about a croc @ 200 million?

 

Nice thread!! I had several Shamals, at the moment I own the prototype.. It is slightly different from the production series. Unfortunately I am new here and can't post pics yet. Still have some parts (also the covers of the rims which I see are missing on the pic) Also have the Shamal workshop manual. If you need some specific technical info let me know! Keep in mind the car is very rare, as well because lots of them are wrecked due to the high torque and short wheelbase.