Crazy Swedish Hot-Rod Shipping Container

[Kevin Hawkinson]

John V put this article up on specialstage.com,
I'm reposting it here, coz it's about a Volvo. A sick, sick Volvo.

Warning! Lots of pictures, and it's in Swedish.

http://www.pukema.com/bilsport/container09-1.html

[linuxman51]

John V put this article up on specialstage.com,
I'm reposting it here, coz it's about a Volvo. A sick, sick Volvo.

Warning! Lots of pictures, and it's in Swedish.

http://www.pukema.com/bilsport/container09-1.html


that last picture in the series looks erriely familiar for some odd reason...

[John V, outside agitator]

John V put this article up on specialstage.com,
I'm reposting it here, coz it's about a Volvo. A sick, sick Volvo.

Warning! Lots of pictures, and it's in Swedish.

http://www.pukema.com/bilsport/container09-1.html
All I can say is OI!
http://www.pukema.com/bilsport/container11-1.html
http://www.jvab.f4.ca/volvoduds2.jpg

Great article, but it does highlight a clealry different preconception on literacy, and attention spans and humor.

[John V, outside agitator]

Why can't the piccie thing work??

[smallbhpboy]

looks great but being english speaking only i was a little confused, sure some of the mods i could figure but would it be possible for someone to do a write up on the mods and times its done etc,????

[JW240]

I think its a great writeup, but I don't understand much of it..
5000 $ for a 12 sec car is very good..

[Alex Buchka]

if you guys want, i can translate the list of mods and the most important stuff...

[stylngle2003]

please do, i really enjoyed looking thru that last week when i first read it, i'd like to know what they did to the car

[Zeeall]

I think its a great writeup, but I don't understand much of it..
5000 $ for a 12 sec car is very good..

yah, it stopped at 12.000 $ :)

[HRPufNStuf]

Please translate........ Interested in lots of the mods and problems encountered . Also, what they were up to with the AMM conversion..to a larger diameter + adjustment??????? Were they running LH 2.2 or 2.4 or motronic??


if you guys want, i can translate the list of mods and the most important stuff...

[NickP]

Please translate........ Interested in lots of the mods and problems encountered . Also, what they were up to with the AMM conversion..to a larger diameter + adjustment??????? Were they running LH 2.2 or 2.4 or motronic??

They're running motronic; you can see the ecu around the page where they're inserting the custom chip.

[Dr. Volvo]

They're running motronic; you can see the ecu around the page where they're inserting the custom chip.

No they are running an custom-tuned LH2.4, but they are using a very rare ECU from '95 940 and it's almost the only ECU from Volvo with a replaceable chip.

[stylngle2003]

they also put their AMM in a larger housing

[Neil Peart]

Fuel cell, rear mounted battery. This car looks sweet.

[boosted]

that exhaust is the sex!

[242GTMD]

Until I went to SE 3.0. This is how I pictured Kenny.....
http://www.pukema.com/bilsport/container12-1.jpg

[stylngle2003]

:rofl:

gosh, looking thru that article, im seeing more and more stuff i really like

[BoxDriver2]

Yes please.

[RYRY745]

The usual big garrett, custom manifold w/ external waste gate, big amm,metal end tanks on intercooler, broken gearbox or diff.....


All nice stuff.... That has been done before.... I am waiting to see a big custom equal length manifold that places a big holset or garrett gt series where the air box used to be..... with both a medium size air to air up front and a laminova air to water in the pipe between the air to air and the intake manifold..... and a big intake manifold with secondary injectors... maybe even with individual throttle bodies..... hog out the exhaust ports as big as possible..... That is magazine worthy.....

[InferiorWang]

if you guys want, i can translate the list of mods and the most important stuff...
that would be much appreciated

[Alex Buchka]

for simplicity’s sake, i’m going to translate this in one-page segments. This is mostly to keep my head from exploding during the translating.

Note: this will not be a word-by-word translation. I don’t have the time or patience for that. I will give the basic gist of what is being said along with details I see are necessary. This article has most of the important information in the captions, so I’ll focus on those in my translation. Lets begin shall we?

Page 1:
The author outlines that because of a bet, they are going to attempt to make a 12 second pass for 50,000sek or less (at time of writing, 04/11/2005, equals roughly $7,000). Stefan Andersson and Jompa Wallin of TTR fame (very famous Volvo performance duo who contribute largely over at TPC) chose a 760 turbo with a b23 as the car of choice.

Page 2:
They come to the conclusion that 760’s are next to free and have a stout turbo engine to build from. The idea of swapping the engine into a lighter chassis is tossed around, but scrapped. Some guide lines are set: the car must pass inspection, run on DOT tires and be able to withstand road trips. This is to preserve the “street-car” mantra, even though they gut the interior for weight saving. Two guys from a shop called turbocenter agree to tune the car if TTR builds the engine.

Page 3:
They find an ’84 760 turbo for 6,500sek, but soon realize the projected budget will never hold up. They decide to build an engine with a ported head, K-cam and a custom header with a crank hp goal of 400. the weak link will be the rear end, but its decided just to weld it up and hope for the best.

The captions talk about gutting the car and fixing all the rust. The blue panel is about how getting cheap horse power is all about getting “hook-ups” from friends.

Page 4:
Nothing of importance

Page 5:
This is about the engine build. The caption translations will start top-left and go clockwise.

1: the five circled holes originate from the old Gr.A. heads and yield substantially increased coolant flow.

2: before and after. I don’t really understand this part, but is says Jompa traces the desired shape of the combustion chamber with a specially made plastic outline that is inserted into one of the valve guides. The outline of the cylinder is traced onto the head by placing the head on top of the empty block and scribing a circle onto the head.

3: Jompa massages the combustion chambers to lower compression. His head jobs typically give a volume of 58cc. make sure you finish porting before you send the head to be decked. If you’re not sure what you are doing, give the head to someone who does, or practice on scrap heads. Aluminum gets ground away faster than you think and you usually end up removing material where you don’t want to.

4: the exhaust side is kept mostly stock except for the valve guide which is lopped off completely. Jompa reassures that there is plenty of guide left above to steer the valve correctly

5: the intake side gets the most work, but still not very much. Jompa moves the top of the bowl area up a little bit and cleans up the area around the valve guide for better flow. It’s important not to touch the bottom of the port.

Page 6:
The article contains nothing of importance. The caption translations will start top-left and go clockwise.

1: original valve springs don’t make anyone happy, especially when they are used. There is no reason to use double valve springs with an astronomical spring-rate. Dalhem racing’s “bugpack” springs (part nr. 4014-001) can safely rev to over 9000rpm with a decent cam but we’re not revving past 7000 anyway. We measured an installed pressure of 45kg compared to the stock spring’s 20kg. make sure you check all the springs before installation – there can be some deviation and shimming may be necessary.

2: after porting and a valve job, the head was sent to get decked. With original 44mm/35mm valves and a mild port job, this is hardly the most extreme head out there.

Text-box: our head was a crack-free 405. even porting it can seem like overkill for this project, but we sent jompa in with the grinder anyway. He gave it his standard port job along with a 30 degree valve seat grind. This gives us a slightly better low-end. The only bad thing about this is that it may rattle and run a little rough at start-up. But it’s a race car, so what the hell!
The cam of choice is the standard k-cam, nothing spectacular here. We used standard valve lash and removed the rubber “mushrooms” (valve damper) to aid in adjusting lash. Because the k-cam isn’t for turbo applications, we had a friend of TTR fab an adjustable cam gear. At TDC, cylinder no. 4’s intake valve should be open 1.8mm. If we'd chosen the a-cam, the same measurement would have been 0.8mm. according to TTR the a-cam is no good after 320 horsepower.
All gaskets under load from pressure or heat are oem Volvo gaskets. Cheapo gaskets are **** for that. We chose a 72 degree thermostat, other than that, the head is completely stock.

3: The rods got shot-peened for strength. All sharp edges were rounded off because cracks always start at sharp edges. We weighed the whole package including pistons, rods, wrist pins, rod bolts and rings. Then we adjust the weight to within one gram of each other. Before the engine was together we knew the rods are the weak link. Who knows, maybe there’ll be Verdi rods in there next summer.

4: after a thorough cleaning and inspection, the cylinders are checked for round and wear. Usually, there are no problems with these overbuilt red blocks. TTR tells us that they sometimes build engines with 350,000+ mile blocks out of taxis. Be smart and follow the green manual. Since we’re planning on extracting a lot of power, Stefan increases the clearances by a few hundredths of a mm.

5: if you’re really thrifty (like us) you don’t even get new rings unless absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, if your rings look like this, replacement is a must. We stick to Volvo oem rings.

Page 7:

1: sharpening the edges of the piston skirt may seem pointless, but it eases the path for the oil going under the piston. It also aids in cooling and lowers friction. Oh, and it looks cool too!

2: the oil holes behind the oil ring are 2.5mm stock. After a round with the drill press they’re now 4mm even. Now it’s time to weigh and adjust the pistons. Volvo engines typically have three pistons very close to each other in weight and a fourth one that can deviate up to 20 grams. Try to find as many grams as possible under the top of the piston. If your mom has a kitchen scale, steal it and try to stay within one gram of weight difference.

Text box: The B23ET is a good starting point for building an engine because they were more generous back then. Volvo sprung for forged pistons which saves us money in the long run. Stupid ideas like low-friction engines hadn’t reached the production line yet. The pistons, rods and crank were used for without any big modifications. A small reduction in compression was deemed necessary, and while the pistons were mounted in the lathe we did some minor additional mods.

3: Piston jig: There’s no point in chucking the piston straight on the lathe since the pistons aren’t perfectly round. It’s a better idea to make a tool like this where you attach the piston with the wristpin and tighten it down with a nut on the back plate of the jig. Then you can chuck the jig and be 100% sure the job is being done right.

4: While the oil pump is apart, we took the time to shim the pressure relief spring with some washers, adding up to 2mm. We also have an oil pressure gauge to keep everything in check.

5: During the entire assembly process we trust the green manual for torque specs. We don’t need to stress the importance of a calibrated torque wrench along with clean and lubricated fasteners.

6: The crank is washed, inspected and plasti-gauged. An undamaged crank without scratches is usually ok, but it feels cheap not to double check the measurements anyway. It just makes you sleep better at night. Shot-peening isn’t expensive, so we went for that too.

7: When your bearings look like this, it’s time for new ones. We use oem Volvo bearings, nothing special here. Don’t use any strange brands no one has heard of. “There’s plenty of trash on the market” says Stefan.

8: With the piston mounted in the lathe, we milled the dish 2mm deeper until it was 4.3mm. This adds about 10cc’s to the combustion chamber which will lower the compression from about 8.7:1 to 8.0:1. This is perfect because it means we can boost more!

[END TRANSLATION]


this is the first two articles. i'll be posting the other ones as my time permits.

[`pr0digy]

Thank you very much jag_e_fattig! It's greatly appriciated, must take awhile... thanks mate :)

[Zeeall]

Bilsport has started the turbocontainer project again, aparently the whole engine is rebuildt

[grebnut]

:urgod: jag_e_fattig

Thank you! keep up the oh so good work if you please. :)

ben

[Magnum TE]

yes!

Thank you I got a lot out of that artiucle, I totally apreciate it.

-Thank you, look forward to the next part.

[JW240]

awesome translation, I really like it.. Thanx very much!

[Morley]

They're building a new engine now! SPM rods and a lot of other goodies, GM rear end, powerglide........

I'll be scanning and posting as I get time!

[shaved240]

12 seconds on stock internals.

[brick_lover]

just saw a speedlife.se video...called actionmeet revivial...

this car was in it....but it was running welds and it had an automatic

it pulled a low 10 second pass at 222km/h....not bad!!

[BDKR]

Nevermind.

[Hank Scorpio]

All I can say is.. the swede's as a whole are hot women and very bizare looking me.

Im moving there... I think my odds are better there ;-)

[Morley]

Nononono, move here, I still need a new kitchen.

[Evan780]

No front air dam?

Removed because the advantage of having less weight won over the advantage of better air flow? :e-shrug: Just curious.

[BB-Q]

Would anyone be kind enough to translate the roll cage part of the article for me?

Please?