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    Southern New Mexico help

    Hey folks- I just put my 242 Turbo up on ebay, because my wife made me. However, I have nine days to get it running and salvage my pride. The car burned a valve, I had the head rebuild, and then got into a complete nightmare with a couple shops in Albuquerque. I know for sure that while the...
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    B21fti resurrection, intermittent electrical missing

    Problem: Intermittent miss. Car was dead and is being brought back to life. Done so far: Replaced fuel filter, checked fuel pressures. Timing belt, new belts. Cap and rotor, new coil, cleaned and lubed distributor, set timing to 12*. Runs great, purrs, then runs like crap, stumbles...
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    B230/B23 head on B21ft?

    Is this a bolt-on? A guy wanted to do this to my car, but I read that there might be issues with combustion chamber being too large and generating hot spots and detonation. What say you?
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    Asking for help- '84 242ti decisions

    Hi all- longtime lurker here, with some major questions: I have the titular '84 242ti, dpo added the '85 spec intercooler, and I paid a lot of money to my local shop when the dpo's cheap cherry turbo rebuild failed; replaced with liquid-cooled stock "Volvo" unit. I recently took the car...
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    84 242 ti AW 71 tranny CLUNK!

    Hi everybody, first post here. I'm the new owner of a very clean 84 242 ti with 87k mi. The previous owner just put a lot of time and energy into new parts, and the car is for the most part extremely nice to drive. However, there is one real problem: over certain sharp bumps (expansion joints...
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