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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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![]() So I've had this 1991 745ti since about 1997. Love the car madly. I'd done most of the usual mods, IPD suspension, 15g, MBC, Thelostartof chips, RSI Stage II cam and adjustable cam gear, Unorthodox Racing aluminum crank pulley, etc. Finally put an M90 in the car about 5 months ago and loved that, then my trusty old B230FT went all soft and squishy (read: leak down that would make a porn star blush). Now our other car is a yellow T5-R, and I LOVE that motor, but just don't like the FWD platform. I have been threatening this conversion for years, but as life works, I had the time, but never the $$ to get the job done right. Peter Lissens has been mocking my progress towards this goal for at least the last 2-3 years. Well, I'm finally in a place where I have the $$, but absolutely 0 time (I work between 80-120 hours per week), so enter RSI. Jonathan, the unassuming evil genius, Eric, the only guy with dirty hands in the shop, Pat, who I'm sure does something there, and Mitch, who BBQ's a mean weenie and accepts payments, and tolerates abuse admirable.
The requirements: A reliable DD that uses as many OEM Volvo parts as possible (ancillary bits at least, hoses, motor mounts, etc.) With the hood down, the car should look like something a sporty grandpa would drive Power under the curve before peak - it's a daily driver after all As much power and torque as we can possibly stuff under the 400 WHP Curve The plan: Stage I - Mule motor phase Transplant a stock, running 5-Cylinder white block into said '91 745 For convenience and cost, we're using a white block M90 New header, turbo, IC, intake, fuel rail, injectors, COP ignition (all being set up for a later built motor), 960 cooling system MSnS See what breaks/fix Stage II - Stupid slick stuff and catchup phase Slick Stuff: Teach MSnS how to run Volvo's variable cam timing (I got your V-Tec right here, yo!) Run the variable exhaust from a +T car and the variable intake from an N/A car (if you're gonna do stupid stuff, you should be really stupid) Set up MSnS to run a Ford Flex Fuel sensor (hey, E85 is green fuel and lets you build really really stupid motors) See what breaks/fix Catch up: Need better suspension - convert the car to RSI coil overs Need Moar brakes (most likely an R conversion) Starch and press drive line - as soon as the car has more than 225 rubber under it, PARTS WILL FLY - not sure what rout we're taking here yet Daily driver style cage to remove flexy-flier quotient and add safety Subtle first gen M3 style flares so we can actually put some rubber under a grandpa series Paint? See what breaks/fix Stage III - Stupid motor build RSI internals Head work Custom cams Balanced within an inch of its life Dry-sump oiling - cause we can, and if you can, shouldn't you? Richmond Gear 5 or 6 speed Relocate motor even further down and back as possible See what breaks/fix That's the nickel tour of the project that's only been in the works for about the last 12 years :D. The following images may be inappropriate for younger viewers, however, be assured that the vehicle in question is over 18 years of age, and is subsequently a legal, consenting adult. Last edited by YellowT5-r; 03-28-2010 at 11:30 AM.. |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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![]() What it is:
![]() What it was: ![]() What it shall be: ![]() Step 1 - Remove defunkt Soviet-era tractor motor: ![]() Step 2 - Start with a good boneyard white block - Sexxay Part A: ![]() Step 3 - Select additional sexxay parts: .60 A/R GT30-R with a new ubersexxay Tial cast stainless hot section capable of efficiently supporting 500HP and sexy enough to give the dead wood. Yes, that's V-band everywhere since there's no pulse pairing joy with a 5-lunger. ![]() Step 4 - Use protection to keep love stains out of said sexxay turbo (Pat is no longer allowed to take this turbo into the bathroom with him :shock: ): ![]() Step 5 - Insert sexxay part A into Brick: ![]() Step 6 - Enjoy convenience of weak-sauce OEM transmission and chassis that has mounting points for EVERY transmission option, even if Volvo never put in the car: ![]() Step 7 - Employ highly skilled fabricator to channel the Fab-fu of Jah hisself: ![]() Step 8 - Figure out a nice way to introduce sexxay part A to sexxay part B - tacked together at this point, some minor tweaks still to be done, but you get the idea: ![]() Step 9 - Introduce sexxay parts A, B, and C to brick to see if they like each other - its love at first sight: ![]() ![]() Step 10 - Realize that this intercooler (invisible in this picture cause it's too smaaallll) won't fit around new-ish 960 radiator - order bigger intercooler, 'cause hey! (Observe that 5-cylinder goodness only hangs 1-1/2 cylinders ahead of front axle line - so close to front-mid engine goodness!): ![]() Step 11 - Decide that even though the 5-cylinder is only .2 liters bigger than the old red block, it needs a 75mm throttle body: ![]() Step 12 - Tune in next week! Last edited by YellowT5-r; 01-05-2010 at 09:07 PM.. |
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Santa Cruz CA
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![]() Awesome!
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Turbo, what?
Join Date: May 2004
Location: OR
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![]() Kick ass.
One thing though, that whiteblock doesn't have a timing belt on it... Are the valves still good?!?!!?
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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holstrich 2.0
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Austin TX
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Isaac ![]() 1995 940 Turbo: 531 head, Holset HE351 @ 20 psi, Emusa External Wastegate w/screamer, Mild Steel Header, 4" Downpipe, Ostrich Emulator, IPD Turbo Cam, TTR Cam Gear, Big Piping and Intercooler, 3" Exhaust, V8 T5 soon, Synapse Synchronic BOV, AEM Wideband, 18" Pegasus, B&G Springs, Billy HD's, Chassis Bracing, Sumimoto HTR ZIII 225/40/18 |
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Mahalos
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Virginia Beach
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![]() that header is awesome.
like the pegs on the wagon |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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![]() Sadly, they'll only last a little while (at least until driveline upgrades) 225's should help to keep the car from hooking up and breaking too many parts.
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staring at my desk
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: South Wales, UK
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![]() Awesomely awesome
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Kelowna BC, Canada
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![]() beautiful!
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244 with suspension stuff 244 with turbo stuff OBS F350 CCLB Powerstroke GenI Legacy Wagon EJ22T R50 Pathfinder VQ35 |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Middle of Oregon
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lacking enthusiam
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: England, that little island that everyone fled except me.
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![]() Looking strangely familiar there.
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![]() ![]() ![]() 87 745 Turbo & 88 744 Turbo & 96 945 Sport Turbo 1 RIP, 1 750R and 1 Sold Many moons ago!!!! 05 Jeep Grand Cherokee for DD Duties these days. |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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![]() Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Port Moody, B.C.
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![]() That looks wicked!!!
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Broadway, NC
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![]() Hell yeah!
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Venice, FL
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![]() Looks like the beginning of an epic build.
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Australia
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![]() awsome build! Cant wait to see the finished result. Top work!
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![]() WANT!!!
It will be nice driving a car with parts making sexaay time with each other as they go. |
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA (SGV); Chicago, IL; San Diego, CA; SF Bay Area, CA
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awesome ****ing wagon.
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Exklusiv Zubehör Klub
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![]() Looks tasty.
Make a heat shield for that exhaust side motor mount though or that sucker is done for. Ready for IPd? ![]() |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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Definitely gonna be at IPD, if all's going well, we should be well into Stage II stuffs by then (after fixing various parts that will invariably break ![]() |
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: DFW & STL
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![]() Nice build!
I noticed you mentioned using the variable cam taming? Not sure what year engine you are going to be using but the guys at Race lab fabrications in Houston have dynoed a 2000 V70R engine that they swapped into a '98 S70 T5M and if I remember correctly there was no gain with this. Do some searching on Volvospeed. It's HTownturbobrick's car.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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![]() For once I actually agree with 94txabc etc etc whateverhisnameis.
![]() Perhaps you can get some gains running dual VVT but all I can say based on my testing (about 20 pulls on the mustang dyno modifying cam timing in my case, and a few months of street testing) is that generally the settings that gave best low end boost response pretty much gave best peak power as well. It may be that my boost threshold was so high that it was making change sin the lower rpms that didn't really register on my car, but I did find on the street as well that really agressive settings that gave more peak power and made the car feel like doodoo elsewhere in the rev range didn'ty actually make much more power than the settings that gave the best bottom end. But, as you know, you've got some work to do before you even need to worry about this i think. ![]() |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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Either way, some idiot's gotta give it a try, and I'm game to be just that idiot ![]() As you so rightly say though, we've got a few bridges to cross before we worry about that. ![]() |
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