1stRavens 1989 740TI - The 700R

Old and new together



kept the old dp so fitted an enlarger into the 3" pipe


Straight pipe to over axel bend


Over axel


Custom Hanger


last, a video of it. The noise level is too high for the mic but you will get an idea.

http://www.ryanniblett.co.uk/video/new exhaust.avi

A few problems with it.

First, the crossmember below the rear seats is a tad close to the exhaust and it bangs over every bump. I need to find a way of sorting this so if anyone has any ideas.


Second is the back pipe is about 3" too short so is hidden from the back when you look down. Also makes it very noisy in the car

Third is the noise. OMG this is loud. I was going to try it without boxes but I will be ordering one next week to go on the back.

Update

Some genuine polaris came up on ebay but under a strange title. I watched them and in the end, bid and won them!

some pics :

Before :



During:




After :




And the best part, I paid less than ?150 for 5 wheels, 4 of which have almost new tires.

And daytime pics.

Shame the sun wasn't out. The wheels have also been cleaned.

Finally got round to washing the car and thought I'll pop out and snap some pics.

The new parts from Thailand (VBS) arrived this week. I got them sprayed up myself and put them on the car.

New parts

Snow cap


Clear Lenses


Sprayed up the cap and bottom of the lenses. The paint bubbled a bit on the bottom of the lenses but after a few coats, came up fine.


Painted the bulbs to make them amber for legal reasons. These came out way too dark so redid a spare set of bulbs a lot lighter. Didn’t look as good but provide the right colour of light.


The parts installed.


They do look a little strange but I think this is due to how clean they are compared to the rest of the car. They should look fine in a month or so.

Awsome work, makes me want a 760T.

Quite the turn around. Makes me want to ditch my 240 a little

Wow. One of the best looking 740's I've seen in a while.

and from last weekend

We took a look at the task ahead. Firstly, evidence that the 90+ manifold
has a very small hole in the flange.

We then compared the wastegate housings / turbo outlets. The ATP has such a
massively better flow path for the WG hole [imghttp://www.ryanniblett.co.uk/images/744/blackpool/blackpool_housings.jpg[/img]

The ATP also has a honking huge outlet!

...and the flapper can open a lot further, too.

Since the exhaust side of the head was wide open, it would be rude not to
try out the SSAutocrap header. We noted how it actually leaves the turbo in
quite a sensible location. And how it's held together with lady's welds.

After a combined effort from myself and Mr BB-Q, the 90+ had a T3-flange
sized hole in it.

Shiney!

The WG hole on the 'Chinese special' T3/T4 hybrid was TINY given the size of
even the standard flapper, so we set about porting this out too.

Wait...what do you think this is BB-Q, a Turbobricks meet or something?

Ah yes, zipties for teh win!

A slightly more respectably sized WG hole.

The oil drain had to be modified to fit the different spacing created by the
move to the 90+ manifold. We also switched to the Mitsubishi actuator, as
the Garrett one is huge, and makes turbo removal most tricky. However, this
made clearance seriously tight.

After that was all bolted up, it was time to get busy with the MIG

...and some more...

...and some more...

....until we had a very smart looking open downpipe.

The arrangement at the turbo end was super-neat

Close-up:

Old vs new:

New, close-up

The system was re-hung, and after a few tweaks which dictated a second
overnight stop, declared completed. The end result as seen primarily by STI
and Evo owners ...a very highly polished just-under-3" tailpipe...


Boost control is now solid, and there has been a notable improvement in
performance (quite literally) pound for pound. The DP is virtually a work of
art and thanks again to Mark and family (especially the highly patient
Tina!) for their help and hospitality. Top folk

Written by foggyjames

Fitted a set of hova tail lights to the car.



Nb The amber bulbs have been replaced with clear led bulbs just to complete the look.

A bit of an update on the car.

After being off the road for six weeks due to new pas rack being fitted (long story), the car made it to a meet in oxford last weekend. On the way down, it was noticed that while under boost, lots of blue smoke was coming out the exhaust. It made it back (using 4 litres of oil to cover 240 miles) and is now (again!) off the road as we move house.

Plan is to get a 940 lpt block (with 13mm rods and squirters) in, get a t3 and rebuild it, fit my t4 compressor and wheel onto the t3 and put the whole lot in place of the current engine. Should hopefully fix the oil burning issue and the multiple oil leaks that I currently have.

and following on from the last post,

We got the block on monday, and got it onto the stand last nght. I'm planning to start working on it tomorrow but this made change looking at the forecast.

B230FK shortblock. Bores look fine with a very slight lip.


Inlet manifold came with the engine so I managed to get a cruise control throttle spool and 940 tps (if anyone wants one, the tps is for sale)

and summit racing have just delivered the parts for my turbo oil drain (2 sets as BB-Q wants one too)


Just waiting for fcp to delivery their parts now.

ive always wanted a RHD dash to hang up in my garage... good work i like it alot

and another update, mostly taken from the thread in showroom

531 is off my old car




New block has been cleaned and repainted


Grind out the oil drain hole to ~23mm with a carbide burr, then cut a thread in it with a 3/4" NPT tap.


Fit 3/4" NPT to -10AN male/male coupler.


Add -10AN to -10AN terminated braided hose. (I had to cut this another 3" shorter)


Parts from FCP


Cleaned up 531


Repainted sump and valve cover




B230ET removed




Bonnet Dented


new seals going in


Waterpump and 531 fitted


the old block - oil leak possible?


New block with manifolds and turbo attached


New engine in place


Just need to put the car together again

Nice work bud.

yeah, nice one ryan.

Looks like its going to be very quick.

What I/C do you have?

Stock one at the moment. I want an Iveco one but struggling to get hold of one.

I've just seen how out of date this thread is so time for a big update.

After fitting the engine - it turned out the head bolts were torqued wrong (long story) so one snapped.


Stump came out fine though


After refitting the head, another problem came up - low oil pressure. So, we had to remove the engine again


had a bit of fun with the engine 2 foot up in the air


In the end, got it all back in. Oil pressure issue was down to the oil filter boss so this was replaced.



The car as it stands now


and it has crossed over into the 200k group

Andy (stuntman on v3m) popped round this weekend to put a tint on my car.











Also, Fordy-88 helped me recover my headliner, fix my sunroof and fit my new pillar pods to the car. (its quite hard to get decent pics of a headliner in a saloon)

Just had a re-read through the entire thread, I'm totally envious of your clean and shiny engine

How's the MS install going?