I bought this car off Ebay for £800 in April 2006, in fairly good standard condition. It was a 2.0 DOHC.

I had previously been running the car with a Turbo Technics kit rescued from my previous DOHC 4be that was eaten by the tin worm. Unfortunately the engine dumped all its oil on the way home from The Restoration Show at Stoneleigh Country Park in October 2008. It was time to start thinking about fitting the twin turbo kit and 2.9 engine I had lying around in the garage. Looking back, it was a lot of work. Firstly a top end rebuild, refurbishing the low compression Turbo Technics heads and smoothing and capacity matching the combustion chambers. A new oil pick up was fitted as the original one had fallen apart and had been sucking down onto the bottom of the sump. The bottom end was inspected while the engine was apart. All was in good condition, there are still signs of the cross hatch honing in the bores. The engine is a remanufactured unit and had had a 0.5 mm overbore, raising the capacity to 2966 CC so I can call it a 3 litre! Whilst off, the sump was fitted with the turbo oil returns as well as a breather tank return and oil temperature sensor. The gearbox was treated to a Quickshift kit and the gearlever cradle was poly bushed. This was then mated to the engine with an AP Racing uprated Cosworth organic clutch.

I had previously replaced the front and rear diffs with 2.9 items, so that didn't need doing. I fitted two rather large 76 mm core twin pass intercoolers which necessitated moving the radiator back 70 mm. Then the original radiator top hose fitting fouled the power steering pump pulleys. I had to fit an efi Pinto radiator as the hose connections are reversed. I then mounted the twin electric fans and shroud to the radiator but had to fit them upside down and move the motors round so that it wouldn't foul the pulleys and belts.

The induction and cooling systems were then plumbed in with a plethora of silicone hoses and aluminium pipes. Two Bailey recirculating dump valves are fitted, dumping back into the compressor intakes. The air filters draw cold air straight through the inner wings.

The following things have also been fitted/changed in no particular order: