I have a 2006 GranSport 4.2 V8. It’s been missed with Larini decats, Tubi exhaust, Firmula Dynamics Drive by wire, ECU tune, lowering springs and beefier sway bars. This car is an animal…for how heavy it is. People fail to realize is that this is a GT and NOT a Sports car. These cars are built for high speed traveling…150 mph +…all day long….sure it’s finicky, but that is just the passion coming out. Porsches are a penny a dozen…it’s like driving a Mercedes/BMW/Audi…..NO PASSION. This gentlemen forgot to mention that this is a 3200 Twin Turbo V8…a classic car. A lot of reviews of these cars are done with poor examples of the marque…because maintenance is so HIGH…but it’s worth it. I always get looks and thumbs up and everyone wants to race me. 0-60 -> 4.4/4.7 top seed 180+ with a normally aspirated V8…no hair dryers attached….just 4.2 liters and 420ish horsepower with my modifications. This car also pulls like a scolded dog and NEVER runs out of breath. So yourself a favor….buy a Maserati, a good example….don’t be cheap, do the maintenance and my GOD lose the boring Porsche/Mercedes/BMW/Audi blahness…..do something different for once. You WON’T regret it.

@passingasgarage2375

Жыл бұрын

People don't realize what true beasts they are. When I had older hard tires on it and you floored in going 20 ish it would light em up!!!! Thanks for watching and please subscribe.

@passingasgarage2375

Жыл бұрын

This car is not a Twin Turbo V8. It is the factory 4.2 liter V8 390 HP and approximately 335 lbs/ft of torque.

I had the 4200 Cambiocorsa before, it has two drain plugs because of the dry sump design. One main plug and the secondary plug is right under the passenger front side.

@passingasgarage2375

Жыл бұрын

Same on my car. The drain plug is not very accessible and very messy. I wanted to show what I believe is an easier method and a cleaner method to change the oil on really just about anything with a dip stick. Thanks for watching and hopefully subscribed..

Great video 👍🏽

@passingasgarage2375

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! 👍

Great Video Mark, thanks for the info, I have a coupe and going to do an oil change on it as I just hit the 80,000klm, didn't know about running a tube in the Dip stick to get all the oil out, cheers for that

@passingasgarage2375

Жыл бұрын

Lee, You still need to take the cover off the bottom of the engine and take out the oil pan plug. There are about 2 quarts if I remember correctly, of oil still in the shallow pan. What it does do for you is that you don't have to take the oil drain plug out of the bottom of the wet sump box........so much easier and cleaner. I feel like it is worth it just in the amount of oil that is not spilled at the wet sump box. In a car with a traditional oil pan and dip stick, like some newer cars like I had a 2008 E350 Mercedes the filter was on top of the engine, so there was no need for a lift or crawling under and it was a spotless change!!!!! Thanks for watching.

Hey Mark - Nice video - learned a thing or 2.

@passingasgarage2375

2 жыл бұрын

Ken, I love the extraction device for fluids. It can make the job easy enough that you might not do at all!!!!

if you're working on the car for an extended time should you lower the lift back down to the lock so if for some reason the hydraulics fail it doesn't drop a few inches before it stops?

@passingasgarage2375

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed, I always lower the lift back down, so that the car and lift is resting on the safety locks. I agree that if the hydraulics were to fail.......well we don't like thinking about it. Once on the locks I also relieve a bit of the pressure that is on the steel cables, but don't loosen them too much.

I've heard of a lot of clutch problems with these cars. Do a clutch change video?

@passingasgarage2375

5 ай бұрын

Not so much clutch problems as the clutch can wear a bit quicker if driven in the automatic mode. If it is driven always in the sport mode and also with the paddles it is fine. When I come up to a stop sign or a light, I don't downshift through each gear.....I put it in neutral and roll to a stop. I leave the car in neutral until it is time to go and then put in gear.

Please tell me what kind of oil you put in the Maserati 4200 engine???

@passingasgarage2375

7 ай бұрын

Maserati calls for a 5W40 Synthetic Oil SL, They used AGIP originally. This car has approximately 63,000 miles on it. I generally use a major oil manufactuer such as Mobil 1 Synthetic in a similar viscosity, but with these miles on it not afraid to use a slightly heavier oil such as 5W50 or similar. These cars red line at 7500 and are hard on oil, so I change it every 2000 to 3000 miles.

Tell me, is this underbody protection made independently?

@passingasgarage2375

7 ай бұрын

The underbody protection I assume you are talking about is a metal screen I would say and it is from Maserati and was on the car when new. Nothing has been added to the undercarriage.

If you did not get out 8.5 Quarts of oil and out in 8.5 Quarts of new oil, you did an incomplete oil change. The 4200 coupe capacity is 8.5 Quarts. That there are two drain plugs is important, each will drain near half the total oil. For this reason I use the actual drain plugs on my 2004 Maserati 4200 Coupe. I have a MightyVac that I use on all five of my Mercedes Benz and it works well for those because they're designed differently. On some BMWs a MightyVac will only get half the oil out, it depends on the design of the oil pan.

@passingasgarage2375

10 ай бұрын

So, on the volume of oil drained. You will see in the video that I use the suction drain type device to suck out the oil in the side oil box on the passenger side where the measuring dipstick is. I agree that if you only drained this it would not be a complete oil change. This is not all the oil in the system, as I stated in the video. Then with the car on the lift I remove the small undertray and drain the remaining oil from the shallow oil pan. It is about 8 1/2 quarts with the filter also being changed which it was. I like the suction technique on this side oil container because the drain plug is in a ......not a very neat space. Thanks for watching and commenting on the video!!!

@janevgeniev585

7 ай бұрын

Please tell me what kind of oil you put in the Maserati 4200 engine???

@passingasgarage2375

7 ай бұрын

The capacity is actually 7.8 liters and since we know that a liter is 33.6 ounces and a quart is 32 ounces , 7 liters is equal to 7 quarts and 11.2 ounces. The .8 liter is equivalent to 26.88 ounces so when we do the math = 8 quarts and 6 ounces. Typically, I will add say 7 quarts and then top it up to get near the full line.

Can you share a link to that suction device?

@passingasgarage2375

Жыл бұрын

I think I bought it at Griots Garage. It was about a $100 and is really good. As long as there is a dipstick it makes life easy. I did have a 2011 BMW that had no dipstick just electronic level checker and it didn't help with that. This might not be the exact one, but is very similar...www.griotsgarage.com/multi-fluid-extractor/

@passingasgarage2375

Жыл бұрын

I was just at Harbor Freight Tools and while they are typically not the most expensive or best quality they do have quite a few tools and they had 2 or 3 different suction devices all very similar to what I used. Once used you will never go back to laying under a car again!!!!