haltechsupra
New member
- Joined
- Jun 22, 2004
- Location
- Texas
16v Turbo Wagon+6speed
-Very picture and video heavy- and a little background on why i am, who i am-
I introduce to you "Black Widow".
She wasn't always like this, so here's how she came to be.....
She started as 1993 volvo 945 turbo, and was a rolling chassis carcass, that i bought From Vince Mccallister in Virginia. She was engineless, transmission less, no headlights, fog lights, and missing some interior bits, as well as a few under the hood bits . She is called "Black Widow , because when i got her there was a black widow infestation behind the gas tank area. Lucky for me i didn't get bit and turn into a super hero. I ended up soaking the whole underneath of the car with berrymans B-12 chemtool, which melts any bug on contact and makes for one of the best degreasers(remove oil stains on concrete, melt wasps and on and on)-however it was a rather expensive and stinky endeavor as they are 5/9 bux a spray can.
Here is a video after spending 4 days cleaning all the tree sap and goo off the car, waxing, buffing, clay bar and repeating the process with a wet sand, I had almost forgot how well she cleaned up. https://www.facebook.com/kris.d.weldy/videos/1220418802165/
I paid $350 dollars for the old girl and with the help of the great guys at Knox Motorsports, i got quite a few pieces i needed to finish her up. Big thanks to those guys they are awesome and helped me far more than just my car when i needed help the most ( a job when my son was in hospital with pneumonia,
And on and on, can't give enough thanks to Lawrence and Billy-super awesome people, very knowledgeable about everything Volvo). I quickly got the car back to near stock configuration, with the exception of a stock non turbo bottom end, and a head with larger exhaust valves.I hated the minivan we had and prior to this car i had many volvo sedans. But my first volvo love was the 1984 242 turbo that i had . My first turbo car in college, and my first Volvo, thanks to Will and Jack Harris for convincing me to buy it. They had souped up 242 gts, and i wanted in that life.
For the adhd of us, like myself-heres a 1hp r/c car in action .https://www.facebook.com/kris.d.weldy/videos/1219733545034/
So here she is with almost shock shiz.
https://www.facebook.com/kris.d.weldy/videos/1231631602478/
Meanwhile i was working iN richmond at Twinstar Bmw /volvo/saab/vw.
Then I went on to work for A local chevy dealer in my home town of Louisa ,where i worked on police cars, firetrucks, and chevys.. I had already worked for Alamo autosports, Titts racing, Metroplex Toyota, Sears, Circuit city, Radio shack and a bunch of other places, i also worked on the equipment that was used to service Va roads -snowplows , sand spreader trucks, Volvo autocars, and a whole lot of other nonsense that required a one inch impact. I get bored with jobs quickly and i don't take much crap from greedy people. Here are some pics, not to brag, just for background purpose, and my personal experience.
Tractor work
Skid steer work
First 16v swap i did in 06 , and basically gave away because of divorce with a turbo regal turbo on it.
Supra i did some work on back in 09 -700 hp
My supra in 09, my dodge 4x4, my trailer and x wifes new car..Headed out to txt2k09-my second time to houston, TX, when i lived in arlington Tx.
Supra dyno, and how i got hired at Alamo autosports, $1 grand of mods got me 362 wheel hp and 373 ft lbs of torx back in o4. 7mgte. Before haltech and 70mm turbo. The dip in the graph is wheel spin on the dyno, look at that useable power curve!!!
Supra meet with everyone around my Halteched supra , scratching their heads, "Is this guy for real?"
Motor i pulled out of then famous grand wagon, an old volvo 245 with a regal hot turbo motor in it, Frank Yee's old ride that ran 13's waaay back in the day
And i ride 4wheelers, so i bought these In 09, and went back and bought a honda 90cc in 2010
at my moms kennel..She raises giant mastiffs.
And i helped build a building with my fam , for my mom, who lives off the grid in West Va.
Me on far right helping out race team for 24 hr lemons, 105 entries and we placed 7th iirc.Widow in background which my a/c actually saved a member from heat stroke that day
Recent pic of Frank Yee record holding 8 second quarter mile BAD ASS race car in my garage for trans work I helped with, for txt2k16, in which he went to semi finals, he won the event the year before.Over 1300 wheel horse of bad assery. Faster and more power now.Record holder.
Two of my older volvos i built way before facebook time, you may remember this one that was the first of few to run 13's back in the day and got published in vcoa when i worked for TITTS racing . Was on front page of tb website for a while. First vo vo with haltech in United States back in 99
And this one back in 02 with haltech and b23ft , 60-1 and a few mods
-Very picture and video heavy- and a little background on why i am, who i am-
I introduce to you "Black Widow".
She wasn't always like this, so here's how she came to be.....
She started as 1993 volvo 945 turbo, and was a rolling chassis carcass, that i bought From Vince Mccallister in Virginia. She was engineless, transmission less, no headlights, fog lights, and missing some interior bits, as well as a few under the hood bits . She is called "Black Widow , because when i got her there was a black widow infestation behind the gas tank area. Lucky for me i didn't get bit and turn into a super hero. I ended up soaking the whole underneath of the car with berrymans B-12 chemtool, which melts any bug on contact and makes for one of the best degreasers(remove oil stains on concrete, melt wasps and on and on)-however it was a rather expensive and stinky endeavor as they are 5/9 bux a spray can.
Here is a video after spending 4 days cleaning all the tree sap and goo off the car, waxing, buffing, clay bar and repeating the process with a wet sand, I had almost forgot how well she cleaned up. https://www.facebook.com/kris.d.weldy/videos/1220418802165/
I paid $350 dollars for the old girl and with the help of the great guys at Knox Motorsports, i got quite a few pieces i needed to finish her up. Big thanks to those guys they are awesome and helped me far more than just my car when i needed help the most ( a job when my son was in hospital with pneumonia,
And on and on, can't give enough thanks to Lawrence and Billy-super awesome people, very knowledgeable about everything Volvo). I quickly got the car back to near stock configuration, with the exception of a stock non turbo bottom end, and a head with larger exhaust valves.I hated the minivan we had and prior to this car i had many volvo sedans. But my first volvo love was the 1984 242 turbo that i had . My first turbo car in college, and my first Volvo, thanks to Will and Jack Harris for convincing me to buy it. They had souped up 242 gts, and i wanted in that life.
For the adhd of us, like myself-heres a 1hp r/c car in action .https://www.facebook.com/kris.d.weldy/videos/1219733545034/
So here she is with almost shock shiz.
https://www.facebook.com/kris.d.weldy/videos/1231631602478/
Meanwhile i was working iN richmond at Twinstar Bmw /volvo/saab/vw.
Then I went on to work for A local chevy dealer in my home town of Louisa ,where i worked on police cars, firetrucks, and chevys.. I had already worked for Alamo autosports, Titts racing, Metroplex Toyota, Sears, Circuit city, Radio shack and a bunch of other places, i also worked on the equipment that was used to service Va roads -snowplows , sand spreader trucks, Volvo autocars, and a whole lot of other nonsense that required a one inch impact. I get bored with jobs quickly and i don't take much crap from greedy people. Here are some pics, not to brag, just for background purpose, and my personal experience.
Tractor work
Skid steer work
First 16v swap i did in 06 , and basically gave away because of divorce with a turbo regal turbo on it.
Supra i did some work on back in 09 -700 hp
My supra in 09, my dodge 4x4, my trailer and x wifes new car..Headed out to txt2k09-my second time to houston, TX, when i lived in arlington Tx.
Supra dyno, and how i got hired at Alamo autosports, $1 grand of mods got me 362 wheel hp and 373 ft lbs of torx back in o4. 7mgte. Before haltech and 70mm turbo. The dip in the graph is wheel spin on the dyno, look at that useable power curve!!!
Supra meet with everyone around my Halteched supra , scratching their heads, "Is this guy for real?"
Motor i pulled out of then famous grand wagon, an old volvo 245 with a regal hot turbo motor in it, Frank Yee's old ride that ran 13's waaay back in the day
And i ride 4wheelers, so i bought these In 09, and went back and bought a honda 90cc in 2010
at my moms kennel..She raises giant mastiffs.
And i helped build a building with my fam , for my mom, who lives off the grid in West Va.
Me on far right helping out race team for 24 hr lemons, 105 entries and we placed 7th iirc.Widow in background which my a/c actually saved a member from heat stroke that day
Recent pic of Frank Yee record holding 8 second quarter mile BAD ASS race car in my garage for trans work I helped with, for txt2k16, in which he went to semi finals, he won the event the year before.Over 1300 wheel horse of bad assery. Faster and more power now.Record holder.
Two of my older volvos i built way before facebook time, you may remember this one that was the first of few to run 13's back in the day and got published in vcoa when i worked for TITTS racing . Was on front page of tb website for a while. First vo vo with haltech in United States back in 99
And this one back in 02 with haltech and b23ft , 60-1 and a few mods
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