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Chiquita - What Jordans been up to

Jordan

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It's not done quite yet but here is the progress so far...

I traded Bergen a set of BBS RS wheels for this car with a hole in the engine.

I took the engine out and painted the engine bay Detroit Diesel Green (one of my favorite colors. A large charter/fishing boat I spent a large part of my youth in/on had a Detroit Diesel painted in this color.)



I bought a whole mess of suspension parts from Ben Weaver off of his old car "Vurbo"



Cleaned up the coilovers and painted them to my liking.



I removed the interior for some FatMat sound deadening. Its really cheap. 100sq ft is $130 shipped. My girlfriend herself how to install the stuff. She cleaned the floor boards and laid down the mat.



For seats I recovered some Recaros from a VW or BMW or something. They were pretty ugly in the blue cloth. I think this suits them better.



I wanted A/C in the car but to make the engine bay look neat and to keep me from blowing my brains out I opted for a much simpler (albeit less effective) A/C option... Its a KoolAir Swamp Cooler. I'll refinish it in silver and modern cooler media inside.



I had a nice electric fan and a good radiator but had no shroud that looked cool. So I had this one custom made.



I bought some pretty rare wheels... Oscam Turbo wheels. They are pretty sweet.
Got the lips polished and the center stripped down. Still not quite sure how I want to do the centers. But I am waiting on o-ring information so I have some time.






Car -
1977 Volvo 242 DL

Engine -
1993 B230FT Oil Squirter Block
RSI Waveguided Pistons
RSI H-Beam rods
38mm stainless exhaust valves
46mm stainless intake valves
530 head with mild porting
RSI ARP Headstud Kit
RSI Stage II Turbo Camshaft
RSI 8V turbo header with external wastegate
ARP exhaust manifold studs
Holset HX35 turbocharger
Nathanmade intake manifold.
ARP intake manifold studs
3" intercooler piping
4" intake with BMC CDA filter
"Ebay" intercooler
Derale remote oil filter and oil cooler with thermostat
Electric fan with custom aluminum fan shroud
42 Draft Designs Ultimate Oil Catch Can

Ignition & Fuel -
MS3X w/MAP Daddy barometric pressure sensor
Sequential ignition using DIYAutotune's RA-1 Race coils
Innovative MTX-L Wideband controller and sensor
Yoshifab DSM CAS adapter
DeatschWerks DW300 intank pump
Bosch 044 inline fuel pump
Skunk2 (Grams) 1000cc injectors
Nathanmade AN-6 billet fuel rail
Aeromotive adjustable fuel pressure regulator
Custom MSD wires

Exhaust -
RSI 3" mandrel bent stainless steel turbo back
Single Magnaflow muffler
No catalytic converter

Suspension-
Short Strut Bilstein HD coil overs
Adjustable rear spring perches with Suburban HD's
Camber plates
Kaplhenke Roll correction/quick steer spacers
Kaplhenke Strut brace
Kaplhenke rear trailing arm spherical bushings
iPd 28mm front sway bar
iPd 25mm rear sway bar
iPd lower chassis braces
iPd adjustable panhard rod
Yoshifab front control arm boxing plates
Yoshifab Adjustable torque rods

Drivetrain-
Getrag 265
RSI Getrag adapter kit
Spec Stage 3+ clutch kit
Hydraulic Clutch Conversion
Modified G80 LSD differential
AKG Stage II short shifter

Interior-
Custom recovered front Recaro bucket seats, and custom recovered rear stock bench seat by Duncan Speed and Custom
FatMat
Sound mat over FatMat
new carpet with floor mats
Wood MOMO steering wheel and OMP hub adapter
BMW E30 dashboard
SpeedHut GPS speedometer and Revolution Series gauges

Kenwood head unit
Kenwood amp
Kenwood front (4") and rear (6"x9")
Kenwood 8" subwoofer
 
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Bad ass seats. Did you use suede in the center portion? And I love those colors.


Also where did you find those wheels? Are they 5x108 or are you going to need adapters?
 
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Bad ass seats. Did you use suede in the center portion? And I love those colors.


Also where did you find those wheels? Are they 5x108 or are you going to need adapters?

The seats are all heavy vinyl.

The wheels are 5x108. Made for Volvos, sold by iPd back in the day.
 
The wheels are 5x108. Made for Volvos, sold by iPd back in the day.

I have another shell I'll trade you for those wheels. haahahhaha

I love what you're doing to the car mang. Stoked to see the finished product.
 
Would you mind if i painted my valve cover that color? I was going to paint it something like hunter green, but i think that detroit diesel green would be nicer :)
 
Would you mind if i painted my valve cover that color? I was going to paint it something like hunter green, but i think that detroit diesel green would be nicer :)

I don't own the rights to the paint brotha. Paint on my wayward son!
 
Absolutely awesome. I was in a diesel shop a few years ago and they had a Detroit diesel on a stand. I instantly thought the greenish blue would be an awesome color for a car. Glad someone agreed at least on the engine bay!

I'll be watching this, definitely gonna be a very cool build.
 
I was going to use the penta green on my block but I couldn't come up with any in time so I had to go with red. Maybe on the next one...I do like that general shade of green.
 
Really psyched to see this build thread, always looked at your sig pictures and wanted more ahahaha.
Can't wait to see those wheels on there and those seats <3<3<3
 
Everything looks awesome man. Can't wait to watch the progress and see it in person. :nod:
 
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