Noble M500 Upgrades & Overhaul

[Peter Gidden]

It's going to be a busy winter for my Noble.
Tasks for the winter include:

Remove engine and:
Replace pistons, cams and heads with modified items. Run engine in, then fit bigger injectors and remap.
Design and fit twin or triple plate clutch.
Fit custom track pan baffle kit.

In addition:
Stripdown, prep. and paint front chassis.
Fit high downforce M400 front clam and carbon front undertrays.
Fit quad OEM Hella 90mm HID lights from Wiseman GT.
Fit front mounted engine and gearbox coolers.
Convert PAS air-to-oil cooler to water-to-oil cooler.
Fit fully plumbed-in Lifeline extinguisher system.
Replace heater box.
Replace wiper motor.

So to the dirty work. Front of chassis is showing its age and its 50K miles, so old clam off, and remove all chassis components in front of windscreen.

Front clam removed



Radiator removed. Yuk!

[timlowthian]

Can't wait to see this develop! Hope it all goes well peter!

[pistol pete]

watching this one with great interest
and fully looking forward to my trip out in it next year

[Magic Beans]

Glad you decided to create a thread for this. I'll be following with interest and no doubt seeing it in the flesh over the winter

[craig]

Good thread Pete. I remember other day stood in front of your noble as it is in the pics above with you telling me the plan, and thinking "bloody hell this lads got his work cut out here"

All the best with it, gonna be awesome!

[Donato]

A thread for it, Finally! Enjoy your 3 day engine removal

[hkwc104]

This is going to be one truly spectacular car when it's finished.

Will definitely be keeping my eye on this thread and look forward to seeing how it's coming along when I come up.

[Magic Beans]

How are things progressing Peter?

[slipping clutch]

He's much to busy telling me how to fix my car than work on the Nobel Phil

[Magic Beans]

That doesn't sound good.

[Peter Gidden]

Update coming soon. Everything removed from chassis and been stripping back to bare metal... Dirty, horrible work...

[Magic Beans]

I have zero envy of this part you're doing. Looking forward to seeing the results

[pistol pete]

ohh looking forward to pics..

yeah bets its a pig of a job, but think of the results

[pk_090]

preeeety. I Looks forward to updates on this Peter!

[craig]

Update coming soon. Everything removed from chassis and been stripping back to bare metal... Dirty, horrible work...

Was coming along nicely when I last saw it, but gotta agree with Phil, I too have zero envy on the current workload

[Driftlimits Performance]

Here's one of my last 'back to chassis' jobs. Less to take off I reckon





Go quaife diff and 6 speed if you're not already

[Peter Gidden]

Here's one of my last 'back to chassis' jobs. Less to take off I reckon

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Errrrr, yes, i has just a tad more to remove,

Go quaife diff and 6 speed if you're not already

Yep, already installed. And had gearbox internals fully shotpeened, polished, and reassembled with metal caged bearings etc.

[Peter Gidden]

Progress... About 30 hours so far...

New tunnel end plate fabricated. As built, tunnel is low pressure area, causing hot air from front turbo to fill tunnel making cabin uncomfortably hot and handbrake lever and gear lever hot to touch.

New tunnel end plate will accept two hoses from front intakes, creating a high pressure area and will assist in rear clam cooling. Temporarily in place whilst waiting for rubber edging to arrive.



Front chassis stripped of all bolt on bits. Taken back to bare metal, and given one coat of POR15. Two coats of POR Chassis Black still to go on since POR15 is senstive to UV light.

Wishbones away for powder coating and rack components being sourced.

New front floor cut and drilled for 120 or so rivets. Currently held in place by cleco pins whilst i jig the first of 3 new oil coolers.

[Magic Beans]

Nice idea with the tunnel.

It seems to be a trait of many UK cars that they like to heat up the driver in some way

[Peter Gidden]

Progress seems painfully slow, but it's all coming together slowly.

Lower wishbones have been replaced with brand new. Upper wishbones are very light used, grit blasted and powder coated. Had a set of 90 shore poly bushes made with stainless inserts. All new nuts and bolts.





Cavalier ball joint machined to fit Noble wishbone, and pressed into place.

New track rods, track rod ends and boots.

Wheel arch scrubbed clean, painted in satin black, and old steel screws replaced with stainless.

One side fitted: