new year's progress

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new year's progress

January 27, 2010, 01:13:26 AM

The garage is cleaned up and ready for action.

All four tires are back on the ground, finally. New rear gears and speedo gear are in the car, front wheels are spaced properly after the suspension travel mods, so it's finally ready for a 4 corner alignment. I might even change the stance a bit, drop the front ~.5" lower than the rear.

Driving it during the transition period (before the new motor) should be interesting, 410s are a big jump from 355s.

The new motor is home from the machine shop (finally). I'm still trying to figure out the transmission, so in the end I may have to change the rear gears again.

Next time, a professional is doing it. Pulling the pumpkin was not too bad, but getting it back in there solo was a PITA. On top of that, I probably spilled as much diff fluid as went in.

I know most of you guys are V8 fans, but here's a pic anyway. This is a mock up of the motor. The short block is complete but the head isn't torqued. I may even drive it without a turbo for a while so as to get some things sorted, ie turbo controls, turbo, ecu, accessories.

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Reply #1 – January 27, 2010, 01:16:18 AM

Volvo head? I know nothing about 2.3Ts

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Reply #2 – January 27, 2010, 01:16:38 AM

cool, what head is on your 2.3?

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Reply #3 – January 27, 2010, 02:21:25 AM

yup, that's a volvo twin cam head. twice the cams, twice the valves, twice the boost hopefully equals four times the power. we'll see.

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Reply #4 – January 27, 2010, 07:21:27 AM

I've thought about a Folvo set-up myself, but in the end I would just have no place to put it :p

Which route did you go on the oiling? Internal or external?

Some of us can see and appreciate engines with less than 8 cylinders, so keep us updated on the progress.

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Reply #5 – January 27, 2010, 08:10:16 AM

Quote from: Chuck W;308102

Some of us can see and appreciate engines with less than 8 cylinders, so keep us updated on the progress.

Amen!

I think that the car will be real unique in the end. Are the Volvo headed 2.3's pretty good or just different? I'm kind of curious what sort of Hp gains one stands to benefit from.

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Reply #6 – January 27, 2010, 08:49:47 AM

Nice work...keep us updated. I remember reading about the Volvo head swap in the past. Remind me, does it bolt right up or is there some extra work involved?

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Reply #7 – January 27, 2010, 08:54:27 AM

Quote from: 50tbrd88;308108

Nice work...keep us updated. I remember reading about the Volvo head swap in the past. Remind me, does it bolt right up or is there some extra work involved?

There is some extra work involved, but nothing catastrophoic. There are a couple ways to go about things to get it done.

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Reply #8 – January 27, 2010, 12:42:59 PM

oooo oooo tell me more!!!!

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Reply #9 – January 27, 2010, 01:39:22 PM

i think ford should have done the twin cam head on the 2.3.
look forwards to hearing how she runs!

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Reply #10 – January 27, 2010, 04:12:22 PM

I'm just about ready to complete the summary. Yes, the dreaded powerpoint presentation! Hopefully it will make things really easy to follow, as most of the changes are best explained visually. I'm documenting as I go, and it's been slow going.

Regarding power and sound. There are a few running conversions. At least two different youtube videos, one of them the impressive Phil Marshall XR smoking tires on a dyno at Carlisle.

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Reply #11 – January 27, 2010, 05:24:08 PM

Sweet! That's deffinately different!

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Reply #12 – January 27, 2010, 06:04:50 PM

glad to hear you are making progress! i was wondering today actually, how things were goin for ya.

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Reply #13 – February 01, 2010, 11:13:12 PM

Chuck, don't you have one of those boxy Volvos? Wouldn't a transplanting a ford shortblock be a possibility?

Rancheronut, Ford did prototypes I think. Too bad they didn't do it.

1Bad88tbird, thanks

Gumby, once we get our cars side by side, I'm hoping to convince you to do the head swap (if you haven't already by that time).

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Reply #14 – February 02, 2010, 12:17:47 AM

Quote from: t3skidoo;308937

Chuck, don't you have one of those boxy Volvos? Wouldn't a transplanting a ford shortblock be a possibility?

Rancheronut, Ford did prototypes I think. Too bad they didn't do it.

My Volvo has the 8V B21FT engine. The car is my driver, and it's going to stay mostly unmolested. At least it's not going to get a drive-line swap.

Ford did do a couple prototypes. The "problem" was it would have out-performed the 5.0. And we know that couldn't happen. Rivers would have started to flow backwards, and there'd be dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. :rolleyes: