So... Once again, my S60R ate all my money. As of 10,000 miles ago, it has a 2.4l engine in it and it runs really strong, after I replaced the parts store mystery coils with genuine Volvo. Before that it would detonate/break up over 14psi boost. It makes 18psi...

Anyway.

I'm cutting the Gordian's ...

Yes i was thinking staged as well. I just have a hard time visualizing how much fuel an engine consumes. Thanks for the input!

Quick and dirty ballpark estimate is every horsepower for E85 needs about a pound of fuel per hour, a gallon is 7ish pounds, so 500hp wants roughly 70 gallons per hour or ...

369 whp? Hmmm... Makes me wonder how close I could get haha.

Do it! Give me a higher bar to limbo over, or something :)

What is super funny is the person who holds the 369hp record did the dyno tests at altitude and claims that it was actualy 460something corrected.

Correction factors do not ...

The Volvo is beefing coolant into and out of cylinder 3. Getting most depressed. Driving the shop loaner Honda Fit is making me question my choice of cars. On the other hand, a good used second gen Fit would cost about five times what doing another engine in the Volvo would cost, plus there isn't ...

The Volvo calmly ate a head gasket, that in a roundabout way ended up costing me pretty much my entire Quantum budget.

However, while I had the head off, I made some block shims to shore up the one weakness with Volvos, the cylinders cracking out at the top.

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DE80q wrote:So this got way worse in a hurry!

What would you guys do? I'm beginning to lean towards parting this thing out, but I really didn't want to.

That's like what a 4 year old Nissan looks like around here.
Zip-screw some sheetmetal over the hole, hide it with spray undercoating, drive it.

I dont know how many miles are on this engine, but the ring ridge is worse than my 350k+ mile MC1. The pic doesn't do it justice, but you can see the difference.
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The bottom end that came with the car has almost no ring ridge, so l be putting the head onto that one ...

New plans afoot.

My Volvo needs a catalyst in order for me to re-register it in fewer weeks than I care to think about. Catalytic converters don't die, they are killed. If I pull the old cat off and find a bunch of oil residue, I will be using my K24-7400 as a replacement turbo for the Volvo ...

Ports on the 2-piece manifold are GIGANTIC compared to the one piece manifold, even after extensive porting! (And brazing, because it was cracked... they are all cracked)

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2020 goals, VW Quantum:

After the RX-7's 12A is no longer powering the engine stand, remove Quantum engine, install on stand, and pull cylinder head to verify that things didn't rust up in the last five years. (If they did, al of the following is moot. If not, then Install new head studs, since the ...

The Audi rally cars had 1-2" spacers under the subframe, I assume to make transmission swaps easier. The transmission also bolted to the body instead of the subframe.

Audi wasn't all that concerned about handling, they weren't really a "rally company", so making the roll center even worse than ...

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Less than thrilled with the 60-2 wheel I welded to the harmonic damper, and the craptacular bracket that came with it, and the fact that I had to cut away a lot of the lower timing cover ...

The [s]hemhorraging[/s] spending of money continues! This time with a forum sponsor.

Keen eyed stalkers will already know what I bought.

Acquired a 26x16 Griffin radiator from Summit marked down from $260 to $80. Was expecting a 50% Black Friday scratch and dent discount, but nope. Is okay, $80 is still a great price. I intend to use this for the RX-7, but it looks like if you flip it up on end and move a coolant outlet to the other ...

Acquired a 26x16 Griffin radiator from Summit marked down from $260 to $80. Was expecting a 50% Black Friday scratch and dent discount, but nope. Is okay, $80 is still a great price. I intend to use this for the RX-7, but it looks like if you flip it up on end and move a coolant outlet to the other ...

I only took a picture of one layer. It was shrinkwrapped and then cocooned in progressive layers of cardboard and garbage bag.

It did make it here from northeastern Europe without issue. All of the studs are intact, which is more than you can say for many 20vt manifolds. When every gram is billable ...

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Doesn't look very used. I didn't think these had cracking issues due to their flexible design, but I looked carefully at the images and it looks good.

Just bought a super rare 2 piece 20vt exhaust manifold.

I may, in fact, be drunk. But drunk eBay purchases has never done me wrong before.

Granted, this manifold cost me about what two 07ks would have cost me, but they don't have the panache, the egalite', of a 20vt. Plus, I already own a 20v five ...

Congrats on the job upgrade! But don't be so stingy on these new engine management details!

Spilling the beans: Motronic M4.4 from a distributor-type Volvo 850/S70 turbo. They also use a Hall effect type single-tooth distributor for cam position sense, and a 60-2 crank trigger.

This is altering ...

Just bought a spare K24-7400 for the S60R. This may possibly find its way onto the Quantum with a ported WK exhaust manifold.

Also now have a set of 4x108 Compomotive rally wheels. Somewhat debating on adapting them to the Quantum with Audi 100 strut housings turned around backwards for geometry ...

The sensor for the petrol cars is looking at the 14th tooth after the missing teeth at TDC #1.
There is another version I've seen for diesels that is different.


That is both good news and not very good news.

The good news is that the PCM that I am investigating also expects TDC #1 to occur on ...

As set up per VW's OE specs, how many teeth before TDC is the -2?

The stock 034/035 oil pan is just a big long stamping, no baffles or anything.

I don't understand how a transverse pan won't work... transverse cars can corner a lot harder, and longer, than longitudinal cars can accelerate or brake. And cornering would put the pan in a beneficial orientation.

Cut ...

Wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just modify the subframe.