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Never thought the day would come...

D.E

D.E

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Sep 15, 2010
Location
Mora, Sweden
...when I bought a 740 for my own hard earned money.

Well, actually only about $100 of it. It's ugly, it's rusty and it pretty much sucks but it does have a B230/LH2.2 that seems to be running just fine and an M47 that shifts like it should and that is really all that matters for this one.

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Oh, and it's going to die. :) Updates to follow when shenanigans ensue.
 
I bought a 740 once. It was free. I drove it once. I never had a title, nor had a title in my name, so I technically never owned it. I sold it 3 weeks later for $500. Never again.
 
Did the most ghetto-tastic camber mod ever.

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I just punched the bolt out, pushed the strut top in as far as it would go and drilled a new hole. Should work.

I also welded the diff but no pictures of that. I was busy being wet, oily and uncomfortable at the time.
 
towerymt said:
I bought a 740 once. It was free. I drove it once. I never had a title, nor had a title in my name, so I technically never owned it. I sold it 3 weeks later for $500. Never again.
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Pretty much the story of my 760. Except I put 2 motors in it and sold it for 1800. Of which I used 1200 to buy a proper 245 Turbo.
 
No A/C from the factory on Euro delivery 740?
Didn't know that. Thought they all had it.
 
Far from every 7 series had ac from factory in swedenland, more common in 9 series.. afaik it was a $900 option when buying a brand spanking new car :O
 
No A/C, no power windows. :) A/C is pretty uncommon on 7's but most 9's have it, at least the later ones.

Did some work today as well and I think it's about ready for action. First, I drained the 2 liters of pitch black oil that was in it and put in some nice new fully synthetic.

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Then I decided I might as well change the cam while I'm in the garage anyway. Usually doesn't take more than an hour to do on 240's at least. So I threw in some old VX stick I had laying around.

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Didn't exactly go as smoothly as I'd hoped because of some small issues with the distributor. God I hate 740's... Also had some issues with my little timing belt ziptie trick there. Usually works, but now it skipped a few teeth. Oh well, it runs now and seems a bit happier at the revlimiter than before. :)
 
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