I bought this car off Ebay for £800 in April 2006, in fairly good standard condition.

Following a mishap involving some contaminated petrol in Holland resulting in a blown head gasket plus also discovering during the XR4 Register 2007 rolling road event, the centre viscous coupling was dead, I decided to replace the engine and gearbox. It seemed like the ideal opportunity to fit the Turbo Technics kit rescued from my previous DOHC 4be that was eaten by the tin worm. This involved replacing the sump. I drilled the sump to accept an oil return for a breather/separator set up.

Whilst the engine and box were out I replaced the air con blower as well as it was not working. At the same time, I replaced the front and rear diffs with 2.9 items to raise the final drive ratio from 3.92 to 3.62 to suit the increased power output. I fitted Konis and lowered springs all round as well. This was a busy few weeks as I also replaced the wastegate actuator, fitted a TT frequency limiter to the original MAP sensor, a Modine oil cooler and fitted the Bailey breather/ separator. I made & fitted a boost operated ignition retard unit to improve off boost performance and topped it off with a K&N cone filter.

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