Cougar's Garage - Doing the American thing

Deciced to pull the 240 from its bed and do a full engine rebuild from my garage haha. I bought it cheap because it had a bunch of problems with it, not fully sure on what they are at the moment but thats why I'm taking it apart. Going to be using it as a missile car for now.

Firsts things first, it still has the intercooler piping so I had to remove that.






Got that shit out.



Next thing was to remove the engine, This was a pain to do in a small space. Had to borrow my buddies engine crane to get it out. After quite a lot of swearing and cut knuckles it was out.



Took the rocker cover off and removed the cams.





Removed pullys and belts.



Sump off.




Nice and tidy lol.




The ghetto way to stop my gearbox dropping haha.




Turns out the piston rings were fucked, so the comustion fuel mix stuff was making its way down past the piston, breaking everything on its way down. So I need new pistons, rings and get the cylinder bored out. Going to try and get it bored out before the FC comes back in tuesdsay.

Hey great read but easy on language please

Ah right, sorry dude.

Never knew the 240 was that bad or I would of given it to you for cheaper.

It's all good mate

Small update, only just got off at college so won't be picking up the FC until tomorrow. Also found an engineer who will bore out my block, only thing is I have to have custom forged pistons to fit the new size cylinders. Told me if i gave him the specs he would sort the rings free of charge. I know this guy through a friend so hopefully he isn't to mean with the price.

And I'm currently in contact with Dan over at DCW. He's gonna hook me up with a full custom straightpipe exhaust, good times.

LOL Awesome!

Thought you would like that bit haha.

I'll do the welding

All good dude, be sure to do a good job haha

I'm kidding, I'd be the one to cut all the metal and whatnot, he'd weld it. I only do welding for my car, I'm not that great yet.

What have you welded on your car? Knuckles and stuff like that?


Had a few hours of sunlight left when I got back. So made the most of it and dropped my rear subframe to burn the old bushes out to make way for some solid ones. Didn't have any parrafin so had to syphon some petrol from the M3 haha, not the safest plan but hey! It worked




Then I gave it a coat of black paint, just to make it look nice.



Thats all tonight, arranged to pick up the FC tomorrow morning. So I'll update when I get it back. Got some more plan for the 240's subframe too.

um, so, are you BNB real life? LOL. You finding all these source pics on line???

This is wild, and freaking awesome!

Yeah, infusing it with RL pics. I'm finding them on forums like Driftworks and stuff.

And, thanks man.

Use RX-7 Club for your FC source pics, people do stupid stuff to there cars on there so you can find anything for a good joke lol.

And I've welded my exhaust and the tow hook on my bros car, Knuckles are to precious to mess up on, they have to be perfect.

Nice, yeah I'll have a search now an.

Just bought a cheap radiator and fan off eBay for £100, gonna throw it on the 240 when it arrives.

**Big Update**

Got the FC back this morning from Hayward Rotory, well chuffed with it. Whilst it was there having the engine fixed I had them street port it, going off Alex's advice. Feels much more smoother, and it pulls like a train! Here's how she stands now,



Can't see it very well but there is a Hayward Rotary logo under the door mirror. Next job is to get the exhaust done from DCW and get that installed, looking into a bodykit for it now too. Also getting in touch with Nickson Motorsports about a roll cage being put in there, busy days ahead I think. Will all be worth it in the end though.


Got some more done to the rear subframe of the 240 today, welded in a plate for extra strength.




Going to give it another coat of paint and get some new solid bushes and re-assemble it back together.


Had my brother help me out aswell this morning, got him to take off the handle on the boot and paint that black, didn't do so bad considering he's only 8 haha.



Here's a random drift pic of the E36,





AND!! Sold the SC for 7.5k, all funds will probably end up in the FC lol.

Forgot to post pics of my street ported engine,




Also got the new radiator and fan this morning,

Have DCW do the cage

Might do that, I'll ship the car out to you and get a v-mount intercooler set up too haha. Ant then I'll import it back

In talks with DCW still, thinking of exporting the car over there. Get a badass cage in there and a v-mount intercooler setup.

Went down to the garage last night to tweak the suspension in the E36, and BeeDee was there with his new R33. We was talking about drift events and what not when he told me about Drift Muscle. Being a drift enthusiast I knew what he was talking about, he said the next round was the Tsukuba D1 section, this being one of my favourite tracks despite never driving on it I jokingly said we should both head out there and use the E36. Turned out to be possible, he knew a guy that could get my car flown over there and driven away within a week.

I ran this oppertunity through my head, could I really head out to japan with the M3 and compete. It would be fun. So I bit the bullet and told him to arrange the plane for me, couldn't believe I was doing it. I was so pumped that this was happening. Then I remembered, the E36 wasn't even up to specs for it. It needed a cage for starters, plus BeeDee told me about the awesome talent out there. So I needed more power too.

The 240 and FC are on hold now so I can get the E36 ready in time for Drift Muscle.

So I jumped on eBay and had a look for a cheap bolt in cage, found one for £1500. Bought that and just waiting for delivery, might fully strip it out whilst I'm waiting.

I'll update more soon.

V-mount intercoolers are so sexy on FC's

They so are haha