Readily availble, cheap, high quality Volvo performance parts!

[the poi]

Ford parts.


http://www.pbase.com/765ti/image/99595458.jpg

Auburn Pro LSD, 4.56 gears. ohhhhhh ya.

[blkaplan]

that ring gear is massively thick

[740ATL]

are those sesame seeds?

[Homer]

Where's the tablecloth?

[gsellstr]

So you're going 9" now?

[the poi]

8.8" irs!

[pooprah]

are those sesame seeds?

sensimilla seeds?

[kyote]

Sensimilla = without seeds. Mota = with seeds :)

[amargill19?]

dammit use a coaster, son.

[norcal505]

now don't you go about scratching that fine wood table with that here american fine limited slip techno-ology

[Homer]

sensimilla seeds?

Sensimilla = without seeds. Mota = with seeds :)

Stoners be gone!

[Lord_Athlon]

Momma said knock you out

[Alex Buchka]

What car is that for? Do you even drive your car hard enough to break anything? :-P

[pooprah]

Stoners be gone!

your just egging me on

[2fast242gt]

What car is that for? Do you even drive your car hard enough to break anything? :-P

i thought he didnt drive.:e-shrug: jk poi lol

[blkaplan]

What car is that for? Do you even drive your car hard enough to break anything? :-P


+1

when is this thing gonna get to a trackday or something beyond the garage

[Lord_Athlon]

what car is that for? Do you ever drive your car, let alone hard enough to break anything? :-p

+1

[the poi]

+1

when is this thing gonna get to a trackday or something beyond the garage

2012

[Lord_Athlon]

Its in my calendar. July 2nd, 2012. Chris Wiita takes his bumpercooler on its first ride out of the burbs.

[amargill19?]

has it been, like, on the road yet?

[pooprah]

has it been, like, on the road yet?

yeah the poi drove with swiffer in hand to davis. I gotta say its one of the best sounding volvo ive heard

[kyote]

Stoners be gone!

What crawled up your ring gear and died?

[PRVersion]

has it been, like, on the road yet?

yeah but only at like 15% throttle

[Lord_Athlon]

He knows im just kidding

[stray]

yeah but only at like 15% throttle

I dunno about that... the flyby past Sean's house before last year's Socal Euro meet sounded like at least 3/4 throttle. :-P

[the poi]

I dunno about that... the flyby past Sean's house before last year's Socal Euro meet sounded like at least 3/4 throttle. :-P

I checked my datalogs and it looks like it was somewhere between "offending the neighbors" and "shock cone"

[the poi]

Oh man. I sure wish I could get a cheap rebuild kit containing every single feasible wear item shipped to me in a week, manufactured by the OEM supplier, for my 450ftlb rated 6 speed transmission.

Oh:

http://www.pbase.com/765ti/image/99639021.jpg

And I'll just chuck it together following the factory rebuild manual. How the hell does not everyone with a passing interest in cars with a domestic have a 900hp daily driver? This **** is so ridiculously simple. You just buy parts and put them together. Holy christ.

[Lord_Athlon]

Ive always wondered that myself. I see kids with stock camaros and firebirds, and wish I had it that easy (but i like my interior, ride quality and build quality)

[domox]

Sensimilla = without seeds. Mota = with seeds :)

Sin semilla = without seeds. Silly pot-heads.

[the poi]

Step 1:

http://www.pbase.com/765ti/image/99953111.jpg


Step 2: MAGIC!



Step 3:

http://www.pbase.com/765ti/image/99953126.jpg

(F/A-18 doing flyby for scale)

http://www.pbase.com/765ti/image/99953131.jpg

Revolutionary air-based adapter plate

[dieselboy]

is this going to be done for socal euro? It is magic..

[the poi]

is this going to be done for socal euro?

Not a chance:-(

[dieselboy]

bah.. are you going to go though?

[PRVersion]

so wait what sort of tranny is that? t56?

[the poi]

I dunno, I'm not really planning on it. Godawful amount of gas to get there and back...

edit:// /\/\ you betcha

edit2:// easiest shifting t56 in the whole world ever

http://www.pbase.com/765ti/image/99953128.jpg

[Group A]

How much was the rebuild kit? (yeah, too lazy to look one up on google :oops: )

Nice and clean as always. ;-)

[the poi]

How much was the rebuild kit? (yeah, too lazy to look one up on google :oops: )

Nice and clean as always. ;-)

~$470 for all new wear items and Timken bearings

(if I was made of money I'd have bought new synchros [the selector, obviously I got new cones]. I'm kinda regretting not replacing the 3-4--its teeth are acceptable, but I guess just barely)

[Lord Tentacle]

~$470 for all new wear items and Timken bearings

(if I was made of money I'd have bought new synchros [the selector, obviously I got new cones]. I'm kinda regretting not replacing the 3-4--its teeth are acceptable, but I guess just barely)

did you upgrade the shifter forks from the crap aluminum up to steel while you were at it?

[Vee_Que]

I envy you, as your much further ahead on your plans then I am, like a motor with power, I'm still at the stage 0. But I'll be working from the middle.

[the poi]

did you upgrade the shifter forks from the crap aluminum up to steel while you were at it?

They're not crap aluminum, just the normal kind. They're actually very beefy shift forks compared to other trans. I don't intend to powershift the everliving **** out of my Volvo station wagon!

[Lord Tentacle]

They're not crap aluminum, just the normal kind. They're actually very beefy shift forks compared to other trans. I don't intend to powershift the everliving **** out of my Volvo station wagon!

they are beefy but they still bend easily for a hard 3-4 shift
this is the reason that there is a steel 3-4 shift fork available

edit:

the steel 3-4 fork is actually standard in the viper
"Replace your weak aluminum shift fork with a much stronger steel fork. This is the upgraded T56 3-4 steel shift fork used in the Vipers and will fit all T56 transmissions."
http://i13.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/e9/62/2a02_1.JPG

[the poi]

I know, I just don't intend on breaking it.

[Ruckus]

I know, I just don't intend on breaking it.

Since no one else is saying it... does this just apply to the transmission or for the whole car? ;-)

[Lord Tentacle]

I know, I just don't intend on breaking it.

this is why i cant be bothered to clean my ****...
i know i'm going to break it and break it hard
so whats the point of having pretty broken things....

when it goes a year of getting thrashed i will pull everything out and make it pretty

[500dollar744ti]

so you can no longer say the ford thunderbird did nothing for you?

[Lord Tentacle]

Step 1:

http://www.pbase.com/765ti/image/99953111.jpg


Step 2: MAGIC!



Step 3:

http://www.pbase.com/765ti/image/99953126.jpg

(F/A-18 doing flyby for scale)

http://www.pbase.com/765ti/image/99953131.jpg

Revolutionary air-based adapter plate

so just a drilled and shaped aluminum plate and have the input shaft tip shortened a bit?

are you going to do something fancy with an internal piston driven clutch or just use a m90 bell housing with a normal fork?

[500dollar744ti]

so just a drilled and shaped aluminum plate and have the input shaft tip shortened a bit?

are you going to do something fancy with an internal piston driven clutch or just use a m90 bell housing with a normal fork?

that's not an m90 bellhousing, it can't be because m90s are all one piece. 10 bucks says that is an aw30-43 bellhousing.

[the poi]

10 bucks says that is an aw30-43 bellhousing.

And it is! I'll be using the T56 hydraulic TO bearing thingy, with 850 clutchnet cluth and PP, albeit with new splines. Hopefully, I can set the input shaft depth to a good depth with an adapter plate, otherwise I'll have to space the flywheel out.

[84 Blue 240]

8.8" irs!

I have that same diff for my Rx7!!

[Lord Tentacle]

And it is! otherwise I'll have to space the flywheel out.

how would you space the starter into the bell housing to compensate so you still had good mesh for the starter gear?

aka fail on moving flywheel away from crank shaft...

I'm betting the nipple off the end of the input shaft past the splines is going to have to be trimmed back a little

[the poi]

how would you space the starter into the bell housing to compensate so you still had good mesh for the starter gear?

starter bolts to bellhousing

edit:// oh sorry, caffeine just kicked in. just some milling, i suppose

[Lord Tentacle]

starter bolts to bellhousing

edit:// oh sorry, caffeine just kicked in. just some milling, i suppose

seams simpler not to mill down part of the block....
but thats just me;-)

seriously i love what your doing with all of this...

[Alex Buchka]

seams simpler not to mill down part of the block....
but thats just me;-)

seriously i love what your doing with all of this...

You need to use your brain some more. Why the hell would he mill down the block?

[pooprah]

cuz hes an uber engine-neeeeeer

[linuxman51]

You need to use your brain some more. Why the hell would he mill down the block?

oh come on, everyone knows thats the easiest and best way to do it, and think of the weight savings!

[Lord Tentacle]

You need to use your brain some more. Why the hell would he mill down the block?

cause i was not using the brain and forgot the block does not sit between the starter and bell housing...
total fail on my part...

you could get a ring machined to move the bell housing out and away from the block 5-10mm and space out the flywheel the same
but i still don't think its a good idea...

[Alex Buchka]

you could get a ring machined to move the bell housing out and away from the block 5-10mm and space out the flywheel the same
but i still don't think its a good idea...




You might want to re-think that strategy.

[the poi]

I could space the flywheel out like 12 feet and then space the transmission out like 12 feet and the I wouldn't even need a driveshaft!

[Captain Bondo]

I love how tbricks can turn adapting a transmission into a process similarly complex to that of launching a space station. :rofl:

Great work on the trans Chris. Does it look like the tunnel will need to be modified? I suppose the 960 has a fairly large tunnel vs. a 240... maybe you're good to go as-is..

[badvlvo]

8.8" irs!

Which 8.8" center? Cobra? T-Bird?

yeah the poi drove with swiffer in hand to davis. I gotta say its one of the best sounding volvo ive heard

He was in Carlsen last year too.

I could space the flywheel out like 12 feet and then space the transmission out like 12 feet and the I wouldn't even need a driveshaft!

That would eliminate any driveshaft vibration issues. Good idea.

[the poi]

I PMed Dug strickler a while back and he said he didn't have any trouble fitting it in. I think it should be fine, it's not much beefy around the top than the autobox, it's just big because of the countershaft wart that's underneath the trans, where it won't cause any issues. The annoying clearance is in the back--I have to fit the diff snout into the narrow cage provided in the IRS, the gas tank is snug all around it :run:

edit:// /\/\ Lincoln Mark VII. ****'s aluminium!

[Volvorules]

I love how tbricks can turn adapting a transmission into a process similarly complex to that of launching a space station. :rofl:

Don't blame all of turbobricks...just Mike aka Tiebird aka Tentacledude.
:-P

[PRVersion]

this started as another of the poi's "oooh look at how cooooool i am" threads (:-P) but it has now become truely great :nod:

[DaButcher]

I could space the flywheel out like 12 feet and then space the transmission out like 12 feet and the I wouldn't even need a driveshaft!
Like on the volvo 360? lol :p

[Lord Tentacle]

I love how tbricks can turn adapting a transmission into a process similarly complex to that of launching a space station. :rofl:


If it was my car, i would build and adapter and have the bell housing + clutch in the front and then the output from the clutch would connect directly to the driveshaft and run that back to the rear transaxle where i would make a C6 vette transaxle fit with the nice T56 and the **** would even STILL have the amazingly awesome fiberglass leaf spring:-D

easy to work on, far better weight distribution
and a lovely shifting system that would make the one in a VW combivan seam simple:lol:

but the poi would never do anything nearly that awesome:grrr:

[Fivehundred]

The annoying clearance is in the back--I have to fit the diff snout into the narrow cage provided in the IRS, the gas tank is snug all around it :run:

edit:// /\/\ Lincoln Mark VII. ****'s aluminium!

Fit a 940 tank, the live axle tank lacks the bit which wraps round the propshaft, but otherwise fits in the same space. I've got both tanks out of a car if you want pics, but I'm in Spain at the moment so photography would have to wait a week or so.

[badvlvo]

I PMed Dug strickler a while back and he said he didn't have any trouble fitting it in. I think it should be fine, it's not much beefy around the top than the autobox, it's just big because of the countershaft wart that's underneath the trans, where it won't cause any issues. The annoying clearance is in the back--I have to fit the diff snout into the narrow cage provided in the IRS, the gas tank is snug all around it :run:

edit:// /\/\ Lincoln Mark VII. ****'s aluminium!


THe MKIII alum unit should hold up as long as you don't decide to put slicks on it. Then there's the explosion problem.

I look forward to seeing the progress on this.

[The Aspirator]

Chris exactly what car is that T56 out of? A friend of mine was storing one exactly like that at my house for a while, he said it was out of a corvette but I think they're all transaxles, right?

[the poi]

Chris exactly what car is that T56 out of? A friend of mine was storing one exactly like that at my house for a while, he said it was out of a corvette but I think they're all transaxles, right?

Camaro, 2000 I think, not sure. The c5 corvette ones are transaxles, but very similar nonetheless. I think they look prety similar when not bolted to a torque-tube or bellhousing