nordmaschine
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- Joined
- Feb 12, 2012
- Location
- The Balkans, BiH
UPDATE WITH DIESEL ON PAGE 2!
I don't know is this matherial for "projects", since it is a long time project, that is probably never going to end, but there isn't constantly work done on the car and there isn't too much of planning ahead, so perhaps it should stay here. Don't know. Anyway...
This was my first Volvo, bought in May '11, as a non-runner with blown engine and everything else pretty much dead. I wasn't even after a Volvo but a MB W123, but I just couldn't not buy it when I saw how ugly and run-down it was. Wasn't even cheap for a total wreck.
Found in this condition:
The D24TIC was blown heavily, bearings were eaten, piston rings were none, etc. Since I had no experience with Volvos, i.e. didn't know anything about such a thing as a Redblock, I rebuilt the diesel ground-up, for more then I paid for the car originally.
I liked the car, decided to keep it, drove it for about a year, got a B6304F and 944 B230FB in the meantime, but kept this one as the main car.
Then the harmonic balancer went, bent valves, etc...head work, gasket, etc, again.
Again, I drove it for about a year, started boosting it 1.8bar, turning the fuel up, and the usual stuff. In the process I broke the M46, it just blew the guts in 1000 pieces on a 2nd-3rd shift. Swapped an M47 from a 945 B230FD I got as a parts car, then decided to make a race car, then decided to make a daily...and now it just sits gutted in my garage, blocking it. lol
Then i blew the engine. Head cracked in 11 places, but at least it reached 220km/h. However, I got tired of the D24TIC, so I left it in my backyard and got 964 B204FT.
After a couple of months, I got another head and fixed the diesel in intention of driving it some more, untill MOT/TUeV/whatever you call it expires (28th may '14), hoping to decide what will I do with it after. Since reeeally liked the B204FT in the 964, I decided to go that route, but couldn't find a B204FT to start with. Then I searched for at least a B234F to turbocharge it, but again no luck. When I couldn't even find a B230FT, or ANY turbo redblock whatsoever, I just gave up on turbo Redblocks. Too much of an investment to make one and parts non-availability was just killing me. So I sold the B204FT car, got some money and a Fiat Tempra with 2.0 8v TwinSpark swapped in for it, and bought an M50B25, from an E34 525i; iron block, non VaNoS with a Getrag 260 on it, with intention of swapping it in the 965 and turbocharging it.
Have the auxillaries, intake, rest of the wiring and ECU as well, not pictured.
Put the slim brake booster since the original blew, had this one on hand and thought it would be tight under the hood anyway.
This as well, to replace the "Turbo Diesel" on the tailgate eventually.
Since the diesel had some more MOT, I drove it around till May the 27th, when I decided to do the governor mod. Got the lump to rev over 6500 rpm and it seemed happy with it, but then the governor shaft broke, sent pieces of it flying inside the pump spinning at >3000rpm, and then it went silent. Probably forever.
I was actually glad since I finally got an excuse to pull it out and start with the swap.
I have a lack of time and work alone, so it'll take time, but the goal it to get it to work before June 28th, so I can keep the licence plates.
this is where I'm at now:
All the bolts and links undone, hopefully I will be able to get something to pull it out tomorrow.
I don't know is this matherial for "projects", since it is a long time project, that is probably never going to end, but there isn't constantly work done on the car and there isn't too much of planning ahead, so perhaps it should stay here. Don't know. Anyway...
This was my first Volvo, bought in May '11, as a non-runner with blown engine and everything else pretty much dead. I wasn't even after a Volvo but a MB W123, but I just couldn't not buy it when I saw how ugly and run-down it was. Wasn't even cheap for a total wreck.
Found in this condition:
The D24TIC was blown heavily, bearings were eaten, piston rings were none, etc. Since I had no experience with Volvos, i.e. didn't know anything about such a thing as a Redblock, I rebuilt the diesel ground-up, for more then I paid for the car originally.
I liked the car, decided to keep it, drove it for about a year, got a B6304F and 944 B230FB in the meantime, but kept this one as the main car.
Then the harmonic balancer went, bent valves, etc...head work, gasket, etc, again.
Again, I drove it for about a year, started boosting it 1.8bar, turning the fuel up, and the usual stuff. In the process I broke the M46, it just blew the guts in 1000 pieces on a 2nd-3rd shift. Swapped an M47 from a 945 B230FD I got as a parts car, then decided to make a race car, then decided to make a daily...and now it just sits gutted in my garage, blocking it. lol
Then i blew the engine. Head cracked in 11 places, but at least it reached 220km/h. However, I got tired of the D24TIC, so I left it in my backyard and got 964 B204FT.
After a couple of months, I got another head and fixed the diesel in intention of driving it some more, untill MOT/TUeV/whatever you call it expires (28th may '14), hoping to decide what will I do with it after. Since reeeally liked the B204FT in the 964, I decided to go that route, but couldn't find a B204FT to start with. Then I searched for at least a B234F to turbocharge it, but again no luck. When I couldn't even find a B230FT, or ANY turbo redblock whatsoever, I just gave up on turbo Redblocks. Too much of an investment to make one and parts non-availability was just killing me. So I sold the B204FT car, got some money and a Fiat Tempra with 2.0 8v TwinSpark swapped in for it, and bought an M50B25, from an E34 525i; iron block, non VaNoS with a Getrag 260 on it, with intention of swapping it in the 965 and turbocharging it.
Have the auxillaries, intake, rest of the wiring and ECU as well, not pictured.
Put the slim brake booster since the original blew, had this one on hand and thought it would be tight under the hood anyway.
This as well, to replace the "Turbo Diesel" on the tailgate eventually.
Since the diesel had some more MOT, I drove it around till May the 27th, when I decided to do the governor mod. Got the lump to rev over 6500 rpm and it seemed happy with it, but then the governor shaft broke, sent pieces of it flying inside the pump spinning at >3000rpm, and then it went silent. Probably forever.
I was actually glad since I finally got an excuse to pull it out and start with the swap.
I have a lack of time and work alone, so it'll take time, but the goal it to get it to work before June 28th, so I can keep the licence plates.
this is where I'm at now:
All the bolts and links undone, hopefully I will be able to get something to pull it out tomorrow.
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