thelocalspoke
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Here's the mod first, in case you don't want to also get to know me. 7/940 turbos seem to me to use up the torque rod bushings first (along with the easy to get track rod bushing) out back, so it's odd that those are the hardest to find in poly. Pay attention to the TB group buy, I say. There are some UK guys--whose link I can't find--that sell green poly everything including the clamshells that this mod addresses, but they are expensive and a long way off, and I think this might be good enough:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffslotkin/sets/72157644334656538/
I've been screwing around with 2's and 7's for about fifteen years, ever since we bought a rusty '86 244 and drove it 'til I was afraid it would break in half.
I built MXSlotkin's b23 motor and rebushed his chassis with him back when he was young enough to believe everything I told him. He's turbo'd and t-5'd and MSS'd it now, and I still help some.
I had quit the bricks myself because most of them need everything, until I drove a turbo and realized what I was missing. Now I'm drunk on the KoolAid.
I now drive a 93 945T that was not worth the 1200 I paid for it, and is now not worth the other couple grand I've spent. It needed everything chassis-wise, and had been run so hot the plastics melted off the head. It ran OK, but when we investigated the chirpy cam we found everything right down to a bore that MIGHT be cracked. I was still scratching my head about it when Sam (oops...MXSlotkin) let his friend wrap his 90 or 91 945T around an unlucky tree.
So, we built my car with that, new seals where needed and all other rubber replaced. I've got an IPD cam coming, the rest of the poly, lower chassis brace, looking for a PSIC...etc.
And I've got two squirter blocks, an NA and a maybe-useful T my car came with. Eventually gonna go for <300 hp with a T5, but not on the old motor and aw71 I'm using now.
Here's the mod first, in case you don't want to also get to know me. 7/940 turbos seem to me to use up the torque rod bushings first (along with the easy to get track rod bushing) out back, so it's odd that those are the hardest to find in poly. Pay attention to the TB group buy, I say. There are some UK guys--whose link I can't find--that sell green poly everything including the clamshells that this mod addresses, but they are expensive and a long way off, and I think this might be good enough:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffslotkin/sets/72157644334656538/
I've been screwing around with 2's and 7's for about fifteen years, ever since we bought a rusty '86 244 and drove it 'til I was afraid it would break in half.
I built MXSlotkin's b23 motor and rebushed his chassis with him back when he was young enough to believe everything I told him. He's turbo'd and t-5'd and MSS'd it now, and I still help some.
I had quit the bricks myself because most of them need everything, until I drove a turbo and realized what I was missing. Now I'm drunk on the KoolAid.
I now drive a 93 945T that was not worth the 1200 I paid for it, and is now not worth the other couple grand I've spent. It needed everything chassis-wise, and had been run so hot the plastics melted off the head. It ran OK, but when we investigated the chirpy cam we found everything right down to a bore that MIGHT be cracked. I was still scratching my head about it when Sam (oops...MXSlotkin) let his friend wrap his 90 or 91 945T around an unlucky tree.
So, we built my car with that, new seals where needed and all other rubber replaced. I've got an IPD cam coming, the rest of the poly, lower chassis brace, looking for a PSIC...etc.
And I've got two squirter blocks, an NA and a maybe-useful T my car came with. Eventually gonna go for <300 hp with a T5, but not on the old motor and aw71 I'm using now.
I may look into those links, fixing to drop some bucks on my 74o in a few months
