Bob's right. This restoration/conversion is irrational, financially speaking. but I am so glad that #484 turned out this way. Did Mike mention a 430 4V donor...
Do you have a test meter with an Ohms scale ? You can test these sensors in a water bath Water temp sensor should give these readings (Blue cap Weber Marelli...
Hi All The 430 was imported from the USA in 1996 (checked with carfax and it had been in Hawaii at one time and last emissions check in Nevada 1996). All the...
Hello everyone. I just purchased an 1988 Biturbo SI over here in Germany, and need some parts for the steering rack. The steering is a little loose on my car...
As seen in my previous post, I recently got a 1988 Biturbo Si. Unfortunetly the tachomoter does not work. I took the dashboard out and cleaned all of the...
i put the 85E parts car up on ramps (which is only possible because i removed the broken air-dam and front clip) in an attempt to remove the stock exhaust for ...
update: i could not get the stock exhaust off my 85E parts car, so i wound up at the local Midas shop (my wife takes the minivan there. decent chaps) for a new...
while messing with the carb this weekend i noticed a familiar hissing sound from behind the manifold. the main vacuum line was slightly split. i wound up...
In addition to fixing a leaking, loose fuel line at the pressure regulator, I took off the carb plenum and found a puddle of fuel. (My BiTurbo would flood out...
sorry for the barrage of posts, today. guess you could tell i had a long weekend of biturbo fun... when i last left it, the 425 cut-out after a test drive and...
either that, or go to radio shack and buy a package of 470 ohm 1/2W resistors. you could put two in parallel to simulate a warm engine or just one to fake into...
I use a pair of flex drive shafts 3/8" in series and that allows me to get in there much easier. Lots of liquid wrench first. ... i removed the ... exhaust for...
You know the other option on this car is that it was a grey market import into NZ from UK, somebody took the VIN / papers from a crapped out 430 and cut & shut...
Thanks for all the help on fixing my non--operational trunk! It was a broken cable. I moved on to the fuel leak this weekend... So I tightened one leaking...
Oddly, this is exactly what a fellow at the auto parts store recommended when I brought my battery in for testing (at the time, I was hopeful that the battery...
Hi All, We have lots of grey cars here in NZ, it is very common practice and all the authorities are very wary of the importation of these cars in damaged form...
You forgot the second pair of hands to help hold the extensive array of flex joints in place. I ended up with a special all the way around when I tried this...
First, you need to be using a pair of good stiff industrial grade 3/8" flex drives, certainly not 1/4". Second, if the exhaust has never been removed then it...
I got my decision to become an Engineer in my mis-spent youth as a technician when I had a couple of hours on the night shift with my head stuck inside of a...
Hi All, When I turn the climate control on the engine fans run constantly. I can understand this when the airconditioning unit is set to cool but when i crank...
Hi Mike The fans on my 89 2.8 do exactly the same, I think they just come on regardless of the call for heat or cooling so long as A/C is called for. I don't...
Hi Graham, Thanks for the reply, Yes i did read one post in the archive that said the fans ran when the climate control was turned on but you never know for...
Sounds like it needs re-gassing... My Audi did this last summer . Pump ran and everything (along with the fans even in winter) it just didn't get cold ! ......
I need advise on hot start flooding. Knowing little about carbs, what typically causes flooding in Weber carbs? Is it a fairly simple repair that a neophyte...
Hi Mike / Graham, I believe if you use the Econo setting it turns the fans off. I have an 89 Spyder and I recall it working that way, for the heater anyway. I...
Today as I was driving past on old sleazy used car lot I spotted an early Biturbo I decided to have a look and when I pulled into the lot noticed that there...
... Or buy mine in the SF Bay Area!!! '84, 70K very good body, paint ok. Almost no rust (3 tiny spots). Interior very good except drivers seat. New starter, ...
Hello! The other day, while driving the steering intermittanly got heavy, then light again. Ok, a little while, then getting heavy again. 1. Is this the belt...
Hi Jarle I had those symptoms on an old Chevy truck I have and it was just low fluid level, so every so often it was sucking air and the steering became heavy....
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