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DET17's "Project cheap thrills" - '92 944T

The stock reg is a boost/vac-referenced one. It raises fuel pressure 1psi per pound of boost, IIRC.

While I cannot find a BOSCH spec. online, the evidence/experience I can glean is the FPR used on LH2.2, LH2.4, pretty much everything since K-Jet passed away, are identical. They are designed to maintain 3.0 bar ABOVE the referenced intake pressure, obviously to the limit of the chassis fuel pump to supply. FCP says that said FPR is good for "25psi to 60 psi".
 
can you flip it 180 degrees?

That actually exacerbates the situation.... the B21F intake "runs uphill" toward the firewall, and the brace is sitting on the plenum while just in contact with the Kaplhenke mounting bolts. When the intake is 100% complete, I'll have a last look at relieving some steel from the brace, but I doubt it will clear the plenum. Not a serious setback.... for my DD duty, the brace probably brings little to the table.
 
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3 inch DP test fit, finally!

For the first time since I've owned this car, it FINALLY has a 3 inch DP!

The DP I have was reportedly a JAO/TLAO unit, although I cannot confirm as I bought it used. Now that it's test fitted, I know whoever built it knew well the available room in the 7/9 engine bay.

I bought a 7cm TD04 flat flange exhaust housing for my 19t build...... and then purchased a 92mm OD V-band flange off eBay (to match the size welded to the DP). My buddy the machinist is one helluva welder.... he bought the recommended 309L rod and TIG'ed the V-band to the TD04 turbine housing. I grabbed some non-locking M8 nuts and threw it together for a test fitting:

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To say it barely fit, is an understatement. Whomever designed/built this 3" DP did it well.... check out the minuscule clearance:

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Soon I'll complete the 19t rebuild (CHRA is balanced and waiting), and plug these bits together. I plan to wrap the 3" DP to reduce the heat in the engine bay. I'll have to replace the 5 year old oil drain hose as I hard to cut it to get it off the old turbo.

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I've got some fuel pump updates to make as well.... replaced the in tank "pre pump".
 
Tip: When you copy the link from Photobucket, you don't have to click on the image icon in tb. Just paste that URL it gives you. Then you won't have these annoying IMG tags.
 
Even though this is a build for a paw paw car ;)....there are tons of useful info here for my soon +T with a T3. Great write up!
 
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Since I am actually a Paw Paw TWICE'T (southern expression), I appreciate the compliment! Laying out tools on the kitchen granite to begin reassembling my 19t.... still need to get the KINUGAWA Turbo WG actuator on order.... coming soon.
 
Still enjoying the wasted spark conversion? My last key pieces (board and bracket) will be arriving soon just can't decide if I want to stay chipped with it or not. Currently running a chipped egr ezk although the chip disables egr. Have a non-egr chippable goldie and a non-chippable non-egr blackbox in my parts stash.

What would you do given the options?
 
For stockish boost levels, I'd run the WS conversion sans the daughter card EZK (non-chipped). However if you plan to run more boost (say 15+), I would run a gold box with a performance chip. My understanding is that additional timing is pulled by the ignition chip..... insurance against boost knock / preignition.

That said as my understanding..... I've never seen the ignition timing table for LH. Only those who have been under the hood (IPdown for example) know what values are in those tables! I give a 2 thumbs up to the WS conversion overall..... removed an ignition problem (misfire) I was having at 5K RPM and with 16psi boost.
 
Grinding out some assembly work today in the USG (Underground Swedish Garage). My 3" DP was rather a short version.... obviously intended to have a piece of flex attached to it. Several years ago I scored a pair of stainless 3" flex pipes off eBay, and decide to use one on this application.

The ID of the coupling and the OD of the DP were pretty much line-to-line on size, perhaps even a slight interference fit. I decided to buff the DP exit (aluminized exhaust coated) with my 90* small disk grinder (high RPM air tool). After about 45 minutes of polishing the pipe, I was able to tap the flange of the flex onto the DP exit.





I'll carry this DP to my machinist welding buddy.... he bought some 309L rod to TIG the V-band flange onto my TD04 turbine housing, so he's got plenty of material left. I know the TIG will do an excellent job of assembling these for the long haul. Likely gonna have to buy myself a TIG once I get educated about the best unit for the hobby user.....;-)



I'll need to buy another foot of 3" exhaust pipe, probably from JEGS as the best price I've found thus far. My high flow CAT will need a V-band attached to it and I've also got to install a new bung for the wideband sensor..... got one laying around somewhere I've got to dig up.

I sure hope the 3" DP and high flow CAT help that 19T to breathe...... it's been a bit of a PITA. Last detail will be to customize a support for the DP to anchor to the original rear trans hanger.... quite different than the stock DP, but I plan to copy the method. My TME CAT back system will be wired up into place, and once this baby runs I'll drive to my local exhaust shop and have him build me a custom connector pipe from CAT to the TME.
 
B21F intake progress.......

After lots of head scratching, postulating plans to move this project forward to completion, finally some progress to report.

Last Saturday I decided to fit check the B21EFI intake again, and sort out WHAT vacuum connections would be made where, and to what device. Made a list of the requirements from the old B230FT intake, and then schemed where to make all these same connections to the old (new) intake. There are actually more ports on the B230FT, as one would expect as technology & creature comforts moved forward.

A couple of the nagging challenges were, what throttle cable to use? How to obtain proper AW71 "throttle pressure" using that cable to properly control the AW (when to downshift, how "hard" to shift, etc.). I actually woke up one night and realized, the nearest thing to a proper cable would have to be the 240 K-Jet cable used on the NA cars. So I searched around for the Volvo P/N, and then found a nice NOS GEMO cable for that application, which was I think 80-82 NON turbo 240. With the old 940 throttle cable removed (a real PITA to extract, you need a special socket type tool to release the plastic snap fingers on the cabin side).... I failed, and just broke mine off. Another piece of serendipity.... a fellow TBer posted in WANTED looking for a 80-82 triple throttle spool for his 240 NA with cruise.... which looked amazingly similar to what I saw in pics of the 740 B23E / B230E in Europa. I contacted him, he provided the source of his NOS part..... and amazingly that guy had another! That baby arrived in the mail, then the NOS GEMO cable, and I decided to fit check them both:



Viola! The damn thing looks like a perfect solution! Front view, you can see how well it all aligns to the B21F intake:





Well the differences between the 2 and 7/9 start at the firewall. Would it play nice there?
The answer again, is yes:



Looks like I'll need to drill a couple clearance holes for the small attachment screws, and bolt the 240 cable thru from the engine bay to the cabin. No problemo! In fact, I'll chop up the original 940 cable and use that seal piece to close off the cabin from engine fumes.

The last riddle was, the 240 cables have a little pin connector in the cabin side, whereas the 7/9 series has a ball end on the cable which is retained to the pedal assy. So I'd have to customize my 940 pedal, I thought. :roll:

THEN I remembered, this past spring I pulled a complete 93 240 throttle pedal and cable from a 100K mile donor (which yielded many parts for my 242 project). I wondered, would it bolt up and play well with a 940?

Amazingly, again YES:



I was almost laughing now! Turns out the 2 series and 9 series pedal geometry is EXACTLY THE SAME. Bolt hole pattern/diameter, lever length above/below the pivot point, SAME.
I'll be damned! I guess those OVLOV Engineers loved that pedal design geometry so much, they carried it forward into the 7/9 series. Good times are here! :-D I'll clean up that total install after it's 100% for final assy., but the good news is the 240 system drops right into the 7/9 to properly actuate the throttle.

OK, back to vacuum. I was short a couple of connections, and had that pesky "cold start injector hole" to deal with on the Kjet intake. When I measured the "as found" hole, I saw it was just a shade larger than 1/2" ID. I had already located these other connection points to all the original tapped ports on the B21F intake:



What remained was that cold start hole and a non-existent 2nd hole (the last 2 connections I need at the cabin vacuum controls; tiny hose special fitting on the BH230FT intake) and another for my boost/vacuum gauge. A thought occured, tap the 1/2" ID hole for 3/8" pipe and reduce bush to use my stock port for the dash HV control. Turns out the 3/8" NPT uses a 9/16" tap drill..... which I bought from Homer Depot, and provided this:



That passage for the injector cleans up perfect to 9/16", and now I'll tap with my 3/8" pipe tap. Homer Depot also had a brass 3/8" to 1/8" pipe in one bushing. Success again!

The easiest location left for my 1/8" turbo boost/vac. gauge is right here.... the boss is already there, just waiting to D&T:



In summary.... I'm pretty stoked! Got my B21EFI intake throttle cable & spool sorted out, and all the vacuum connections ID'd as well. One I didn't mention, is the AIC port. Nathan welded a 3/8" NPT boss onto the underside of the intake, and I'll drill that thru to the plenum to provide the AIC connection. One future detail to design/execute is HOW to mount the AIC using part of the original mount and rubber mount.

A pretty sweet night in the Underground Swedish Garage ;-)
 
Just a tip in case someone else runs into the same snag. B230E-powered 740s used the same intake manifold. Maybe even some were equipped with automatics. Digging those part numbers should get the next entrepreneurial fabricobbler pointed in the right direction.
 
Nice work -- especially like the 'back to the future' approach on intake/cable/pedal, etc. Before I read captions - I was looking at pics and thought 'that looks like my 242 throttle pedal assembly....
 
Just a tip in case someone else runs into the same snag. B230E-powered 740s used the same intake manifold. Maybe even some were equipped with automatics. Digging those part numbers should get the next entrepreneurial fabricobbler pointed in the right direction.

Per DEK2688, who is also traveling this road, the factory throttle cable & triple spool, et al, are all NLA. He was able to purchase the last 740 B230E throttle cable on Earth, from somewhere deep in Latvia. As I understand it, the 740 B23E and B230E are Europa only.... never in North America.
 
Fuel Rail fitting & installation

I showed previously a custom Nathan -06 fuel rail that I bought with the intake.... initially I intended to use that fuel rail. Further investigation showed that the Nathan rail would require a remote FPR, custom fittings and hose revisions for the supply and return. Sweet looking, but not exactly a bolt on solution.

On a suggestion from DEK2688, I bought a B234F fuel rail, which he claimed would fit the B21F intake and allow usage of the stock 3.0 bar FPR (which I already had, purchased with my original restification back in 2012). Found a B234F rail, and completed the purchase.

Turns out, DEK2688 was right:





While the B234F rail will fit, it is not quite centered on the aluminum plates/mounting holes that Nathan installed for his custom rail. I used a dremel to cut the outside edges off the B234F mounting plates; then the rail registered on each inside edge of the mounting plates on the intake. This position located the injectors perpendicular to the bosses fore-aft:



A note on injector orientation into the runner. All info I can find on retrofits to "non-EFI intake runners" says the best injector target is the back of the intake valve. I was concerned about the retrofit injector bosses, not knowing how Nathan oriented them; I decided to check the stock B230F intake for injector orientation, and saw that the actual design aims the stock injector at the inside radius of the runner in the B230 head, rather than the intake valve. Less than ideal according to EFI experts, but what the OE engineers apparently did. Based on that find, I leaned the injectors toward the intake to aim the injectors a bit closer to the valve (a shallower angle to the intake runner). We'll see if I have a vacuum leak in those injector bosses.

I was a bit concerned about the location of the FPR using the B234F rail...... while it's close to the thermostat housing, it clears adequately.

 
Well, Saturday was MIG welding day. I had several tasks to complete/start, and decide to roll with the Miller MIG.

Since there doesn't appear to be an OE AW70/71 trans. "throttle cable" mount for my B21EFI intake, I made one and used the aft set of intake holes for mounting. I know how the AW kick down cable must be adjusted..... as what I did in 2012 worked flawlessly for 5 years of DD duty. I cut apart the B230F intake trans cable mount, and welded it to a piece of steel flatbar of similar thickness (1/8").

CAREFUL measuring twice, thrice, and then tack & weld. Aside from my mud dobber welds which I ground flat, function has been attained:



The proper adjustment has the trans. cable attached to the throttle inner spool (same one that gets the throttle body actuation link) and tensioning the cable until it nearly touches the red rubber bumper. The tweaking adjustments are detailed on the Volvo UK700/900 Maint. Pages: https://www.volvoclub.org.uk/faq/TransmissionAuto.html#Kickdown_Cable_Adjustment

The mount will get blasted, primered and painted (or powdered if I get enough together for the $100 minimum).

While the 1041 rear end was out, I decided to address the 7/9 subframe which is a known fuse for HIGH torque applications. While I don't know that my 250ish lb.-ft. of torque will cause damage, it is an easy upgrade with the rear end out. This subframe in the 7/9 receives the reaction when you apply torque to the tires..... the design is essentially an asymmetric 4 link type. I know TB guys with manual cars have buckled these subframes.... 1st gear torque multiplication is higher than an AW first gear. As I have said repeatedly, this is the "last hurrah" for the DD, and I don't want to be going back in for any reason.

YOSHIFAB makes a reinforcement plate kit for the subframe. Picked one up used (had some surface rust) and began getting the steel ready for MIG joining:





The subframe was around .090" thick, and the YOSHI plates are .062" (1/16th steel). With the MIG set for the thinner of the two, I've begun welding them together. I'm taking care to ensure that the articulation of the pair of axle links are not interfered with. ALSO, you must take care that all mounting point dimensions are held properly before you begin welding on the reinforcements. I confirmed the front cast aluminum mount and the rear rubber bushing widths before welding. SHAME on the TBer that welds these reinforcements into place without confirming these dimensions.... because it likely won't go back together!

In other news, I bought 4 new BOSCH Green injectors, the 42# versions at 3.0 bar. Despite TB belief that everyone who purchases these on eBay will be buying Chi-WAN-ese copies, these are actually authentic:



Bosch, knowing they were being ripped off, created an authentication web link, and you type in the LONG code to find out if these are the real deal. They are..... at $45 each shipped to the door.



This week I should get the subframe fully welded and rustproofed, then reinstalled. There is more intake work to do.... fitting the throttle body and getting the actuation link adjusted. When 100% of the intake work is done, I will paint it before installation. I'm really looking forward to installing that intake for the last time......
 
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