Swedbrick
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- Joined
- Oct 12, 2016
- Location
- Netherlands, Source of Grolsch
Wait!? This car is not beige, and you'd be correct, the start of this thread will briefly explain the history of my brothers project, and the origin of the story. We will pick up on the story of the beige car in the next post
After my brothers first car, a Mercury Colony Park from 1973, he decided to move on to a quick volvo, so the same day the Mercury sold, we picked up this 1986 745.
It had previously been imported from Norway, and had received a turbo swap. This was not done with great care however, as a chisel was used to cut a second hole in the fire wall without removing the previous loom, and as expected it was not registered as such either
Since the loom was not in the greatest state, and the m46 transmission was not perfect, a new plan was drafted and the process of a b6304 swap began.
A supposedly known good engine was sourced from a retired swapped 7 series with all registration available
It received some paint
And was put in with a m90 gearbox and driveshaft
A merge got fabricobbled replacing the cat
To run towards a set of 3 inch mufflers straight to the back
The intake also received some loving
And it was alive!
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To celebrate the car made a long roadtrip throughout the netherlands
For which it received my old wheels before the swap to the gold sirius set
During a trip to the us, we scored this set of quads
That were easily fixed with some 3d printer magic
And got installed
You might ask, why gold quarter panels, and well this is where the trouble starts, rust
The car received a rubber coating once it arrived from Norway, but it turned out, this was applied over a bad shell. Whilst jacking up the car (nobody got hurt luckily) the support folded from under the car, after an inspection, the whole bottom was close to gone
So the descision to move to another shell was made, stripping this shell and selling it to the banger racers for a few final laps
After my brothers first car, a Mercury Colony Park from 1973, he decided to move on to a quick volvo, so the same day the Mercury sold, we picked up this 1986 745.
It had previously been imported from Norway, and had received a turbo swap. This was not done with great care however, as a chisel was used to cut a second hole in the fire wall without removing the previous loom, and as expected it was not registered as such either
Since the loom was not in the greatest state, and the m46 transmission was not perfect, a new plan was drafted and the process of a b6304 swap began.
A supposedly known good engine was sourced from a retired swapped 7 series with all registration available
It received some paint
And was put in with a m90 gearbox and driveshaft
A merge got fabricobbled replacing the cat
To run towards a set of 3 inch mufflers straight to the back
The intake also received some loving
And it was alive!
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vcjuf45XEo4" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
To celebrate the car made a long roadtrip throughout the netherlands
For which it received my old wheels before the swap to the gold sirius set
During a trip to the us, we scored this set of quads
That were easily fixed with some 3d printer magic
And got installed
You might ask, why gold quarter panels, and well this is where the trouble starts, rust
The car received a rubber coating once it arrived from Norway, but it turned out, this was applied over a bad shell. Whilst jacking up the car (nobody got hurt luckily) the support folded from under the car, after an inspection, the whole bottom was close to gone
So the descision to move to another shell was made, stripping this shell and selling it to the banger racers for a few final laps