HMC 4 door saloon bought.

[N Dentressangle]

  On 23/03/2025 at 13:07, Matty said:

I still have bad thoughts about building a quick one (standard looking) but it's one out one in here 😭

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Would be a fine use for a rotten MGB 🤔

[Matty]

  On 23/03/2025 at 13:08, N Dentressangle said:

Would be a fine use for a rotten MGB 🤔

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That's my thoughts. Twin SU B and od box. Uprated suspension but standard ride height. Wider steels and hub caps. 

I'll not lie I'm pretty turned on right now 😂

[Yoss]

  On 23/03/2025 at 13:11, Matty said:

That's my thoughts. Twin SU B and od box. Uprated suspension but standard ride height. Wider steels and hub caps. 

I'll not lie I'm pretty turned on right now 😂

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Can you also fit the front discs from the MG too? I sure I've read that somewhere. Or it could be the smaller cars, Midget on to A35, something like that. Plenty of room for a brake servo in that engine bay too. 

[Matty]

  On 23/03/2025 at 16:15, Yoss said:

Can you also fit the front discs from the MG too? I sure I've read that somewhere. Or it could be the smaller cars, Midget on to A35, something like that. Plenty of room for a brake servo in that engine bay too. 

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I've midget hubs and lower arms on my A40 farina. Straight bolt on then you can have discs up front. I've never gone for a remote servo kit as I quite like the standard set up but servo kits are freely available for surprisingly cheap. 

I'd imagine the same being true for the bigger Farina. Our resident expert @morrisoxide will probably know.

[yes oui si]

  On 23/03/2025 at 13:07, Matty said:

I still have bad thoughts about building a quick one (standard looking) but it's one out one in here 😭

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Maserati running gear is already in the vicinity... 

[Matty]

  On 23/03/2025 at 17:51, yes oui si said:

Maserati running gear is already in the vicinity... 

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My God I can only imagine the remedial engineering work needed to make an A60 cope with a maser v8 🤣

[yes oui si]

  On 23/03/2025 at 17:55, Matty said:

My God I can only imagine the remedial engineering work needed to make an A60 cope with a maser v8 🤣

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Handling and stopping weren't in the brief. Client only asked for 'quick'. 

[Matty]

  On 23/03/2025 at 19:08, yes oui si said:

Handling and stopping weren't in the brief. Client only asked for 'quick'. 

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The ideal car for the autobahn

[wuvvum]

  On 23/03/2025 at 19:10, Matty said:

The ideal car for the autobahn

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Until you need to brake from 155 to 60 when some dawdling giffer in a Polo pulls out to overtake a truck.

[Matty]

  On 23/03/2025 at 19:47, wuvvum said:

Until you need to brake from 155 to 60 when some dawdling giffer in a Polo pulls out to overtake a truck.

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I have much the same problem now. I just live on my nerves

[lesapandre]

Taken from the 'old adverts' thread. Written just for you.

[HMC]

ThIngs to send shivers down your spine #231

Dash display “TRANSMISSION FAILURE GO TO WORKSHOP” 💩💩💩💩

I did a ctrl alt delete (for me that meant shut down, restart) and all has been fine since. Little electrical gremlin / sense of humour from the display or an imploding transmission? ill let you know.

[morrisoxide]

  On 23/03/2025 at 17:14, Matty said:

I've midget hubs and lower arms on my A40 farina. Straight bolt on then you can have discs up front. I've never gone for a remote servo kit as I quite like the standard set up but servo kits are freely available for surprisingly cheap. 

I'd imagine the same being true for the bigger Farina. Our resident expert @morrisoxide will probably know.

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Don't think anything is a bolt on swap for the bigger Farinas. @seth has done it with MGB disks but you have to muck about with the  kingpins iirc. I have a few bits that I want to try but never had the bottle.

Edit Link to Seth's conversion over on the blue forum.

https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/36042/1970-morris-oxford-more-door?page=4

[Matty]

  On 24/03/2025 at 21:00, morrisoxide said:

Don't think anything is a bolt on swap for the bigger Farinas. @seth has done it with MGB disks but you have to muck about with the  kingpins iirc. I have a few bits that I want to try but never had the bottle.

Edit Link to Seth's conversion over on the blue forum.

https://forum.retro-rides.org/thread/36042/1970-morris-oxford-more-door?page=4

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Jesus. That's all a bit involved right enough. Probably better to just buy one that someone's already built 😄

[HMC]

Took the QP to university today. No messages on the display and gearbox behaving normally no slip, selecting normally etc. Maybe it was the now 19 year old italian electrics having a moment? 

Anyway, Reading online in various places and using logic there seems to be a few thoughts about ways to  to try and reduce clutch wear. Where possible ive been experimenting.

Drive it in manual mode and sport mode (Faster changes, potentially fewer gears shifted as you can anticipate upcoming gradients and changes in road speed and imo more fun )

Avoid reverse (most slippage of all gears particularly uphill )select neutral when not moving.  

Avoid lingering about in gear with the engine under 1500 revs. When pulling away do so decisively to minimise the time spent when the clutch not fully engaged. This rather than trickling along with the engine at  or  just above idle and the clutch slipping. Not that hard to avoid as you can sense when the ECU is adding slip.

In stop start conditions it just meant paying close attention to the flow of the traffic.

Anyway, its got me here and hopefully back too!

[MAF260]

  On 25/03/2025 at 12:33, HMC said:

Took the QP to university today. No messages on the display and gearbox behaving normally no slip, selecting normally etc. Maybe it was the now 19 year old italian electrics having a moment? 

Anyway, Reading online in various places and using logic there seems to be a few thoughts about ways to  to try and reduce clutch wear. Where possible ive been experimenting.

Drive it in manual mode and sport mode (Faster changes, potentially fewer gears shifted as you can anticipate upcoming gradients and changes in road speed and imo more fun )

Avoid reverse (most slippage of all gears particularly uphill )select neutral when not moving.  

Avoid lingering about in gear with the engine under 1500 revs. When pulling away do so decisively to minimise the time spent when the clutch not fully engaged. This rather than trickling along with the engine at  or  just above idle and the clutch slipping. Not that hard to avoid as you can sense when the ECU is adding slip.

In stop start conditions it just meant paying close attention to the flow of the traffic.

Anyway, its got me here and hopefully back too!

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You'll find everything Maserati you need to know and more here https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php. Decent bunch of enthusiasts who are very helpful and responsive. You're pretty much guaranteed somebody there will have experienced whatever oddities you may encounter and know what to do about it.

If you need any parts in the future (if you keep it long enough!) I have some useful sources.

[HMC]

Well i made i back. QP behaving normally, and with a mix of stop start, cruising and the occasional (ahem) bit of through the gears acceleration, it was a good shakedown and all was fine. 

Although this earlier “duoselect” model is less liked/ panned than the conventional auto, I love the silly spec. Dry sump, manual transaxle. All of which were progressively changed to make a more rounded package for the luxury saloon motorist. But at the time of development and launch ferrari were the parent company and i guess they were paying the bills and approving of the exotic technical details.

Apparently Harry Metcalf talked to Ferrari CEO luca de Montezemolo (spelling?) at launch and he was insistent italian politicians had an exotic italian saloon to be transported in rather than the BMW/ Mercs they were using at that point.

[RoadworkUK]

That car has a similar effect on me now to that of Debbie Gibson when I was 9.

My passenger was finally able to snap the QP that I regularly encounter on the A12 on my commute. Turns out it lives in the next village over. I swooned when I first saw it and am still fully tumescent.

 

[HMC]

  On 25/03/2025 at 18:06, RoadworkUK said:

My passenger was finally able to snap the QP that I regularly encounter on the A12 on my commute. Turns out it lives in the next village over. I swooned when I first saw it and am still fully tumescent.

 

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I approve of the “uk” sticker. It gets used.

[RoadworkUK]

  On 25/03/2025 at 18:08, HMC said:

I approve of the “uk” sticker. It gets used.

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Since I was quite a lot younger, my idea of sophisticated living has been a country house with a long, gravel drive and a Maserati Quattroporte, bought new, driven in all weathers and for all distances, that would be passed down through the generations like a cherished heirloom. I'd love to imagine the above being that car.