Mbeas96
Member
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2017
- Location
- Charleston
Current mods:
Suspension:
2 1/2 coils off the back
2 coils off the front
Ipd anti sway bars
Ipd chassis brace
Ipd strut brace
Ipd engine damper
960 control arm braces
25mm 5x114.3 wheel spacers
17" mustang bullitt wheels
Mach III 235/45ZR in rear
Mach III 215/45ZR in front
Engine:
RSI H-beam rods
ARP head studs and fasteners
Egr and cold start delete (swapped manifolds)
Ported 90+ manifold
19t with kinugawa oil/water stainless steel flex lines
58mm 6+6 Blade compressor wheel
7cm Angled exhaust housing
3" downpipe
Yoshifab oil drain conversion with 10an stainless steel drain hose
A/c delete (all associated parts removed as they havent worked for a long while)
Fuel rail without cs valve
S60r Green Giant 42lb fuel injectors
Wastegate from TRITDT turbos @ 17psi
012 AMM
NPR intercooler
Trans:
Aw71 with accumulator mod
Ecu/interior:
Turbo fuel chips from sbabbs
954 fuel ecu
Pioneer 6x9 door speakers with modified door panels from previous owner
Triple pod A pillar
Aem UEGO wideband w/ o2 sensor
Glowshift boost/vacuum gauge
Glowshift water temp gauge
LED cluster light conversion
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/bNxRUed' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/bNxRUedl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
Its about time I start an ongoing build thread for my 1990 745t daily driver, my name is Austin. Im 22 years old, and since I got my license I've driven a 99 jeep xj that I got from my grandmother. Its got 274k miles on it now and lets just say, being young and broke it definitely made a mechanic out of me. So while learning and fixing things that broke, I obtained a love for working on cars and very much wanted to have a turbocharged something.
About 6 months ago my oldest brother, soclosenotnear on here, had a 1990 Volvo 745 lh2.4 turbo w/intercooler. It had 2 and a half coils off the back and 2 in the front, and some ipd suspension braces. He gave it to me pretty much, for only 700 bucks. CEL was on for the ECT sensor, so a rather easy fix and we were good to go!
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/e3TqQ7s' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/e3TqQ7sl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/E38JRTf' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/E38JRTfl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
I drove it for about 2 weeks after fixing the ECT and putting a fresh intake manifold gasket on and it started leaking oil pretty severely. Rear main was dripping, as was the breather box and the oil filler cap. We (my brother and I) figured it was a pcv problem, I got new o rings from the dealer and a new oil filler gasket. We swapped the aftermarket nonsense breather box for a Volvo oem one my brother had. Cleaned everything real nice and ensured there were no blockages. The leaks got worse...
I did a glove over my fill cap and posted it on here, some people said there was too much blow by , others said it looked fine and I should just replace seals top to bottom. I drove it one day and it lost 3 quarts of oil in a 20 minute drive...I parked it in my brothers driveway till we decide what to do next.
My brother just so happen to have a freshened up b230 block and head, the original plan for this engine was a holset, my brother had problems with the car, kept the engine...crushed the car. He says, lets put it in your car.
It has RSI H-beam rods, machined head, ARP head studs and hardware, new pistons and it has less than 5k miles since the rebuild. There was one condition for me getting this engine. Its gotta get fast.
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/SiACrnL' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/SiACrnLl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
Never having done anything major like an engine swap before, this task seemed very daunting...but, with my brothers help I was confident it could happen.
The process for this was very long. For a couple reasons, financially I'm not equipped to just empty my pockets for car parts...we wanted to get everything right the first time. Lets try to not have to learn the hard way and we also only have Sundays off at the same time, so 1 day a week is all we have. With that being said, I started acquiring all the necessary seals that are needed. The more pain in the ass ones I ponied up the funds for dealer seals. Oil pan, valve cover, rear main, breather box seals and oil return hose. FCP euro supplied all the other smaller, not so difficult/annoying to access ones.
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/yeHsS0o' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/yeHsS0ol.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/7F8CzLM' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/7F8CzLMl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
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<a href='http://i.imgur.com/J2HgICQ' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/J2HgICQl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/96NmqST' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/96NmqSTl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/uZQ9J49' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/uZQ9J49l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
The plan is to ditch the stock 13c and get something a littler bigger. So while at a local jy, I found a nice rear end totalled 01 v70 t5 with a 16t. No shaft play, and an angled housing...great. So for 70 bucks it was mine
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/Djpt2qJ' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/Djpt2qJl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
my old 13c
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/RDyR9ri' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/RDyR9ril.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/ZMO2J7E' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/ZMO2J7El.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
"New" 16t
Ditched the angle housing, bought a straight housing from a board member but ended up using a conical housing my brother had as a spare. Will get to exhaust eventually...
Hard lines are aggravating, so I bought a kinguawa oil/water stainless steel line conversion kit, and a 10 an stainless steel hose for the drain. Plus the oil drain conversion from YoshiFab.
We started assembly of the new engine, a stock T cam was used for now, all seals replaced, and we decided to not use any sort of sealant. We cleaned everything meticulously and torque everything down to spec. Lets hope this was the right decision
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/6ySahLJ' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/6ySahLJl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/hah7646' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/hah7646l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/rgflq8f' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/rgflq8fl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
The disassembly process of the old engine started to take place, in about a days work, we got it to the point where we could finally pull this 28 year old worn out redblock. For the mean time, I spent about 4 hours total porting out my 90+ manifold. The outlet and I gasket matched the runner openings.
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/q9TNIiA' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/q9TNIiAl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/clgi0lW' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/clgi0lWl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/zLCLJoQ' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/zLCLJoQl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/YUG9DqE' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/YUG9DqEl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
Now we have access to parts off my car. Everything but the water pump was swapped over, and a cps from the jy. My brother had a set of round tooth gears from a 95 940, so I got a timing belt for that and we set the engine to TDC and installed the belt with a new tensioner from FCP euro. New exhaust gaskets, then installed the manifold, torqued everything down to greenbook spec. Oil filter relocator arm one with 2 square edge seals and a MANN filter. Oil and water lines are ran in the general area for the turbo.
(At this point I didnt have the turbo yet, so it is not installed till after engine goes in)
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/iMm7Wy8' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/iMm7Wy8l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/gl8vph4' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/gl8vph4l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
Now, back to the old one. We put her on stands and marked the driveshaft to separate from transmission. All linkage disconnected and OD solenoid was bypassed previously. Soon enough, the engine/trans combo was at our feet. We decided to pull both because we wanted easy access for the accumulator mod.
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/vNsDtIz' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/vNsDtIzl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/gWzytaB' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/gWzytaBl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/y7f5agV' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/y7f5agVl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/VwOvThr' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/VwOvThrl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
With the trans we cleaned about 50 percent of the casing with a wire brush attachment and a drill. After we decided that sucked. We borrowed a pressure washer and it did wonders. I'm not gonna explain the accumulator procces, I'm sure there's plenty of info on that on here. But here are the pics from the process. Cleaned the filter as well
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/MSBI3hk' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/MSBI3hkl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/AQ1DVq9' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/AQ1DVq9l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/Czd4hFu' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/Czd4hFul.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/NZ85pZ1' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/NZ85pZ1l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/rUs6PCc' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/rUs6PCcl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
Cleaned the engine bay before new engine was ready to install
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/kgofeYL' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/kgofeYLl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
Suspension:
2 1/2 coils off the back
2 coils off the front
Ipd anti sway bars
Ipd chassis brace
Ipd strut brace
Ipd engine damper
960 control arm braces
25mm 5x114.3 wheel spacers
17" mustang bullitt wheels
Mach III 235/45ZR in rear
Mach III 215/45ZR in front
Engine:
RSI H-beam rods
ARP head studs and fasteners
Egr and cold start delete (swapped manifolds)
Ported 90+ manifold
19t with kinugawa oil/water stainless steel flex lines
58mm 6+6 Blade compressor wheel
7cm Angled exhaust housing
3" downpipe
Yoshifab oil drain conversion with 10an stainless steel drain hose
A/c delete (all associated parts removed as they havent worked for a long while)
Fuel rail without cs valve
S60r Green Giant 42lb fuel injectors
Wastegate from TRITDT turbos @ 17psi
012 AMM
NPR intercooler
Trans:
Aw71 with accumulator mod
Ecu/interior:
Turbo fuel chips from sbabbs
954 fuel ecu
Pioneer 6x9 door speakers with modified door panels from previous owner
Triple pod A pillar
Aem UEGO wideband w/ o2 sensor
Glowshift boost/vacuum gauge
Glowshift water temp gauge
LED cluster light conversion
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/bNxRUed' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/bNxRUedl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
Its about time I start an ongoing build thread for my 1990 745t daily driver, my name is Austin. Im 22 years old, and since I got my license I've driven a 99 jeep xj that I got from my grandmother. Its got 274k miles on it now and lets just say, being young and broke it definitely made a mechanic out of me. So while learning and fixing things that broke, I obtained a love for working on cars and very much wanted to have a turbocharged something.
About 6 months ago my oldest brother, soclosenotnear on here, had a 1990 Volvo 745 lh2.4 turbo w/intercooler. It had 2 and a half coils off the back and 2 in the front, and some ipd suspension braces. He gave it to me pretty much, for only 700 bucks. CEL was on for the ECT sensor, so a rather easy fix and we were good to go!
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/e3TqQ7s' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/e3TqQ7sl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/E38JRTf' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/E38JRTfl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
I drove it for about 2 weeks after fixing the ECT and putting a fresh intake manifold gasket on and it started leaking oil pretty severely. Rear main was dripping, as was the breather box and the oil filler cap. We (my brother and I) figured it was a pcv problem, I got new o rings from the dealer and a new oil filler gasket. We swapped the aftermarket nonsense breather box for a Volvo oem one my brother had. Cleaned everything real nice and ensured there were no blockages. The leaks got worse...
I did a glove over my fill cap and posted it on here, some people said there was too much blow by , others said it looked fine and I should just replace seals top to bottom. I drove it one day and it lost 3 quarts of oil in a 20 minute drive...I parked it in my brothers driveway till we decide what to do next.
My brother just so happen to have a freshened up b230 block and head, the original plan for this engine was a holset, my brother had problems with the car, kept the engine...crushed the car. He says, lets put it in your car.
It has RSI H-beam rods, machined head, ARP head studs and hardware, new pistons and it has less than 5k miles since the rebuild. There was one condition for me getting this engine. Its gotta get fast.
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/SiACrnL' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/SiACrnLl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
Never having done anything major like an engine swap before, this task seemed very daunting...but, with my brothers help I was confident it could happen.
The process for this was very long. For a couple reasons, financially I'm not equipped to just empty my pockets for car parts...we wanted to get everything right the first time. Lets try to not have to learn the hard way and we also only have Sundays off at the same time, so 1 day a week is all we have. With that being said, I started acquiring all the necessary seals that are needed. The more pain in the ass ones I ponied up the funds for dealer seals. Oil pan, valve cover, rear main, breather box seals and oil return hose. FCP euro supplied all the other smaller, not so difficult/annoying to access ones.
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/yeHsS0o' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/yeHsS0ol.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/7F8CzLM' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/7F8CzLMl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/NoOcsRh' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/NoOcsRhl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/J2HgICQ' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/J2HgICQl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/96NmqST' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/96NmqSTl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/uZQ9J49' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/uZQ9J49l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
The plan is to ditch the stock 13c and get something a littler bigger. So while at a local jy, I found a nice rear end totalled 01 v70 t5 with a 16t. No shaft play, and an angled housing...great. So for 70 bucks it was mine
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/Djpt2qJ' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/Djpt2qJl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
my old 13c
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/RDyR9ri' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/RDyR9ril.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/ZMO2J7E' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/ZMO2J7El.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
"New" 16t
Ditched the angle housing, bought a straight housing from a board member but ended up using a conical housing my brother had as a spare. Will get to exhaust eventually...
Hard lines are aggravating, so I bought a kinguawa oil/water stainless steel line conversion kit, and a 10 an stainless steel hose for the drain. Plus the oil drain conversion from YoshiFab.
We started assembly of the new engine, a stock T cam was used for now, all seals replaced, and we decided to not use any sort of sealant. We cleaned everything meticulously and torque everything down to spec. Lets hope this was the right decision
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/6ySahLJ' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/6ySahLJl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/hah7646' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/hah7646l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/rgflq8f' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/rgflq8fl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
The disassembly process of the old engine started to take place, in about a days work, we got it to the point where we could finally pull this 28 year old worn out redblock. For the mean time, I spent about 4 hours total porting out my 90+ manifold. The outlet and I gasket matched the runner openings.
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/q9TNIiA' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/q9TNIiAl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/clgi0lW' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/clgi0lWl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/zLCLJoQ' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/zLCLJoQl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/YUG9DqE' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/YUG9DqEl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
Now we have access to parts off my car. Everything but the water pump was swapped over, and a cps from the jy. My brother had a set of round tooth gears from a 95 940, so I got a timing belt for that and we set the engine to TDC and installed the belt with a new tensioner from FCP euro. New exhaust gaskets, then installed the manifold, torqued everything down to greenbook spec. Oil filter relocator arm one with 2 square edge seals and a MANN filter. Oil and water lines are ran in the general area for the turbo.
(At this point I didnt have the turbo yet, so it is not installed till after engine goes in)
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/iMm7Wy8' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/iMm7Wy8l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/gl8vph4' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/gl8vph4l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
Now, back to the old one. We put her on stands and marked the driveshaft to separate from transmission. All linkage disconnected and OD solenoid was bypassed previously. Soon enough, the engine/trans combo was at our feet. We decided to pull both because we wanted easy access for the accumulator mod.
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/vNsDtIz' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/vNsDtIzl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/gWzytaB' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/gWzytaBl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/y7f5agV' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/y7f5agVl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/VwOvThr' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/VwOvThrl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
With the trans we cleaned about 50 percent of the casing with a wire brush attachment and a drill. After we decided that sucked. We borrowed a pressure washer and it did wonders. I'm not gonna explain the accumulator procces, I'm sure there's plenty of info on that on here. But here are the pics from the process. Cleaned the filter as well
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/MSBI3hk' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/MSBI3hkl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/AQ1DVq9' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/AQ1DVq9l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/Czd4hFu' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/Czd4hFul.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/NZ85pZ1' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/NZ85pZ1l.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/rUs6PCc' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/rUs6PCcl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
Cleaned the engine bay before new engine was ready to install
<a href='http://i.imgur.com/kgofeYL' title=''><img src='http://i.imgur.com/kgofeYLl.jpg' alt='' title='Hosted by imgur.com' /></a>
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