GabAlmighty
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Winfield eh, gotta rich friend who lives there.
This is going to be an entertaining build, keep it up!
This is going to be an entertaining build, keep it up!
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SR20DET is probably a similar price to get hold of in this country as a redblock in the same sort of condition, and so considering that a whiteblock isn't a simple drop-in the SR20DET is probably going to be cheaper than a whiteblock. And then you've got all the aftermarket that doesn't exist for anything with a Volvo badge on it.
The only reason not to do it is to be obtuse, really; that's the main reason I don't have an SR20DET in my 242.
I guess I just would rather put my work and time into engine building than making brackets and doing a crapton of rewiring. A redblock with B234 heads isn't hard to build and is capable of much more power than an SR20. However, as I said, different strokes for different folks. Props to anyone who actually does what they are talking about instead of talking on the internet about it. I suppose I just feel, when it comes down to it, there are few advantages to building a Volvo 240 over other similar RWD cars. However, the one advantage we do have is the strongest 4 cylinder engine ever put in a production car (with maybe the exception of the BMW M10/S14...not sure who would win that one). So, when I see someone rip the engine out and swap it for something else, I just wonder why they didn't start with a better platform. The assumption then is that they just want to be different, which is cool...but why not go all Volvo then. I think I will stop talking now, as its late and I am rambling everything that comes to my head.
What? Who? Where?A redblock with B234 heads isn't hard to build and is capable of much more power than an SR20.
What? Who? Where?
In what reality?
Even the megabuck Swedish builds you see are only around the 650hp mark, and that's barely a "B230" any more.
What? Who? Where?
In what reality?
Even the megabuck Swedish builds you see are only around the 650hp mark, and that's barely a "B230" any more.
SR 500 hp is a few grand of parts off the shelf. 500 hp 16v redblock is time and engineering.
This is my Volvo, It was slow and could barely do a one wheel peel, but I was successful.
I'll believe that hasn't been doubled for effect by the dyno operator when I see it ... sorry, but it's a little hard to accept that.Seems the average 16V build that has some money put into it and a good turbo/manifold combination makes 850.
I'll believe that hasn't been doubled for effect by the dyno operator when I see it ... sorry, but it's a little hard to accept that.
The DOHC heads don't flow that well standard, and the bottom-end design is from 1975 ... I accept it can be done, but I don't accept it can be done easily or cheaply - hence I don't believe it's actually common to have a daily-driveable redblock-powered car with that level of power.What's so hard to accept that a large 4 cylinder with an outrageously strong bottom end and some of the best flowing 4 cylinder heads ever put on any engine can't make more power than your average built 4g63?