Ah, that smaller lower pulley makes a big difference in total blower speed!

The reinforced brick is cheap to outsource (~$100), and even cheaper to do yourself (~$30 for a kit). That being said, it's boost that kills the brick and 8-10lbs should be okay. If it does deform, it typically just dents inward without leaking, and hampers cooling. IE your IAT2s will creep up as the coolant flow is impacted, but there aren't a lot of reports of catastrophic brick failures AFAIK.

I'm running 16lbs of boost with a stock LSA longblock and a 2.4" upper, and my brick is still fine. That being said, I only street drive the car and never see 4th and 5th gear pulls that you'll see on a road course.

Have you looked at flex fuel? I pick up ~100rwhp at ~E50 over 91 octane.

In fact, you could potentially run 91/93 octane for autoX and speed stop, then ethanol for road course and probably be faster at both events based on fuel alone.

Also, do you have AC installed on the car? If so, using an interchiller to cool your blower coolant in the staging lanes will give you a lot more predictable power versus a heatsoaked blower by the time you get to the starting line, and unknown timing pulled during the run as your IAT2s creep up.

Your trunnion upgrade is a nice addition compared to the stockers, there's a good thread going on over at LS1tech about this.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/generatio...failure-7.html

On another note I need some info on your pressure PS line if you don't mind sharing. I'm going to be using LS1 accessory spacing and your pressure hose looks like it might work with whats needed. Any vehicle application or numbers?
Thanks in advance.

**whew** :D Happy to help out.

Havent touched the car in almost a month and its been a nice break. When I was down at OPTIMA Invitational LSX Magazine contacted me about shooting some photos of the car for a write up.

I had no idea that it was going to be some of the best photos I have ever seen of the car.

Check it out if you get a chance

https://www.lsxmag.com/features/car-...983-volvo-240/

Here are a few of the photos that Nicole shot of the car.

https://i.imgur.com/Izo9Gjfh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/YSAfqClh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Wihs7Cph.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/oD85C9Jh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FL1US3zh.jpg

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https://i.imgur.com/IWwDR0vh.jpg


I honestly never thought this thing would get this kind of love from people but its pretty awesome.

Last summer was simply outstanding for how many events we went to and all the amazing people we met.

Looking forward to the new setup being even better this year.

Sean

Congratulations Sean!

Congratulations! Lots of well-deserved attention!

Fantastic pictures...

Thank you!!

Thanks man, much appreciated

I totally agree, some of the best I have seen of the car. Kind of wish it was without stickers =)

Well, been pretty tied up with other stuff lately and to be honest its been a great break from a solid almost 2 years on this thing. Built a pretty snazzy lifted t56 swapped 940, bought a new daily, sold the old one.

Been tinkering on this but not a ton of progress really.

I had nothing but issues getting these parts, from Summit saying it was 2 days out to being almost 2 months before I finally received it to the Setrab order on Amazon getting lost, then the package getting lost. Finally had everything in hand.

Wasnt cheap but bad ass parts.

SETRAB oil cooler, Russel -10 an fittings, Russel braided stainless -10 hoses, Earl's Thermostatically controlled Oil Cooler fitting from oil pan.

Install went well, I trimmed the backside of the front apron to get as much airflow as possible through the cooler.

https://i.imgur.com/I45PvFDh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/MFUuJj3h.jpg

I ran the stainless hoses as I am worried about heat and abrasion on oil lines. It just makes me nervous to run something that is just rubber and cloth or PTFE or something so not really the look I love but should be strung and durable.

https://i.imgur.com/OIt615Xh.jpg

The only snafu....

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I had my drill stop move and hit the supercharger heat exchanger and put a mother f ing hole in it.

Not pretty but local rad shop repaired it and you will never ever see it. Pressure tested to 20 lbs again never will get close to that.

https://i.imgur.com/sk1axmYh.jpg

I have switched over to AMSOIL on just about everything and now this. I had great luck with Mobile1 the last year but there is a few benefits to the Amsoil stuff and it made huge differences in trans shifting in both the JK and the 940.

One of the biggest good side effects of the oil cooler is the extra oil capacity, I added in an extra 2 quarts between the cooler and the lines. Full 7.5 quarts to full now. Super happy about that.

Amsoil 5w30 signature series full synthetic going in

https://i.imgur.com/mkGnJgah.jpg

So far no leaks, need to get it up to operating temps and check it all out but going to work on building some extended front control arms to help with gaining some camber before I drop it back on the ground.

Next round is more camber, bigger front sway bar and new tires and should be about good to go for another round of beating the snot out of it.:omg:

Managed a little bit of time to work on the car this weekend. All of my friends in the south area already racing so I figured its time to get a move on.

With most of the engine work buttoned up I turned to the other part of the winter upgrades.

I am burning up the outside of front tires, the front of the car has way too much body roll and not enough negative camber to keep the car planted in the turns.

I am maxed out on the Kaplenkhe camber plates and am at 2.5 degrees. So the plan is to extend the lower control arm out and gain some camber that way, then fine tune with the camber plates up top. Is going to cause me more tire clearance issues but Ill deal with that.

I know that Sellholm sells a lower control arm for the 240's but ordering parts from them is difficult at best and the KL Racing ones widen it too much and add way too much caster.

So I decided I was going to chop up a set of stock ones and add in .75" and patch them back together.

I used some .75" x1/8" strap so I knew that I was going out exactly square and .75" Bent up to match the shape of the control arm, chop grind and tack together.

http://i.imgur.com/Jjmxuqqh.jpg

With the basic concept working out how I had imagined, I went ahead and buttoned it up. Added a bunch of reinforcement to make sure that the arm was solid and had no fears of it failing at the extension.

https://i.imgur.com/uoxglZXh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/iG70tnMh.jpg

Not pictured is the Yoshifab boxing plates for the underside. I wish that they were thicker metal, they are thin gauge sheetmetal, I was thinking 1/8" would have netted a stiffer arm.

All in all the one turned out good. I ran out of Argon so the other side waits.

With that one buttoned up I turned to a few other things that needed attention under the car.

I have been running a 25mm drop bar up front. I somehow managed to acquire a 28mm non drop bar from the twins some time ago. Our fear was that it would hit the oil pan so they had some 1/4" shims lazer cut to drop it down. I only needed 1 per side and the 28mm bar was a bolt in deal. I was pretty surprised to see how much beefier the 28mm bar was than the 25. I have a feeling this is going to be a much needed improvement from the 25mm drop bar. Unfortunately no pics... Its a sway bar, but bigger =)

Onto the last round of my cooling upgrades. Many people have mentioned that the factory front air dam is supposed to have a little plastic diffuser that directs air up from the lower air dam up to the radiator. With so much being different on this car and speeds of well over 150 mph I figured that something of more substance would likely need to be built.

I had some 1/2" thick UHMW left over from my buggy from a few years back and love working with it.

So I had the wife help with a template, some jigg saw action to cut it out then routered all of the edges for a nice finished look. Then it got bolted into the same place the splash tray goes and tucks in behind the front lip. It will get bolted in the front to make sure that it stays planted at high speeds.

Pretty happy with how it turned out and hope that all of this work to keep things cool has a positive effect this summer.

https://i.imgur.com/eT4W8tMh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ad6Hk8Dh.jpg

I am hoping I can get the other arm buttoned up in the next few days and get them off to powdercoat.

I still need to get the rearend looked at, get new tires mounted up and get a proper alignment on it before its ready for another summer of beating on it but feel I have done a pretty good number of changes in the off season, hoping for some good results to come of it and a little faster this year.

Sean

After much consideration after the steel plate extension approach I continued on with my project. I like the idea of the lower ball joint being bolted directly to the control arm with nuts and washers. Having a plate that is threaded with a super low profile bolt holding it all together just didnt give me that Comfortable feeling. I am sure it would be fine but its not what Ill be doing this go around.

2nd arm went much quicker than the first, and I think it turned out even better.

https://i.imgur.com/xNLslTRh.jpg

For the bottom......I initally tried tigging this together and it worked, but it wasnt pretty. Still fairly new to the TIG game I found that the super thin boxing plates I got from Yoshi would melt away super quick when trying to weld to the 1/8" thick control arm material. It wasnt pretty, it wasnt fast so I put that away and got the squirt gun out for the bottom plates. Was so much easier and although not tig and stitched together I know 100% that this is beefy and should hold up no problem to whatever I throw at it.

https://i.imgur.com/5FkRPUgh.jpg

If I did it again, I would cut out my own boxing plates out of 1/8".

Now I gotta figure out how to remount the sway bar to the arms and get them coated with something.

Sean

Finally had a little time this week to get some work done. It seems like I spent the entire week on those dumb control arms.....oh yeah that and work.

New arms painted, new STS Machining delrin bushings and sleeves installed, Delrin rear bushings and welded cups put back in. I noticed that the fasteners on these rear cups had come loose so I installed a thick grade 8 washer, lock tite and torqued them down.

For a stock setup its damn good looking

https://i.imgur.com/zO9yZ3Gh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/gDx5Mb9h.jpg


Straightforward install surprisingly enough they went right on. I have messed with the front suspension so many times that I know exactly what I need to swap these out....if you recall I had lots of issues when I first put the car together with the front end.

So with the new arms on, we had a couple issues, fenders needed more work to clear the tires with an extra .75" of width. Drivers fender got rolled a bunch passenger a little bit.

Then onto figuring how to make it steer. I adjusted the outer tie rods and they probably would have been ok as far as thread engagement but I just wasnt comfortable with the minimum thread engagement I was getting. Checked with some folks and they said 2002 focus outers work...the ones I got were no longer.

So I started digging. Turns out that the 740 inner tie rods are 30mm longer than the stock 240 inner tie rods, this was gonna be close and they use the same outer. I had bought some new inner and outer tie rods for the 940 and they happen to be the same rack.....surely this wouldnt work.

https://i.imgur.com/q6PgSGKh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/mx0OFSFh.jpg

Sure as ****, these bolted right in, 30mm longer, same boot and everything worked. Stoked. I have full engagement of the tie rod and an OEM product on there with the right taper.

I buttoned that all up, adjusted the coilovers, sway bar ends and got the car at ride height and set the camber at 3.9......best I could get before was 2.5 so I am heading in the right direction.

https://i.imgur.com/P0QgtAJh.jpg

Got the slam panel on, adjusted the hood latch, grille back on and buttoned up all of my loose ends on the frontend work including drilling and tapping the UHMW air dam so its fastened to both the lower air dam and the skid plate. Should have no problem staying on at 150+

https://i.imgur.com/8mROun3h.jpg

Its hard to see it, but before there was nothing to stop the air from going under the car, now all the air going through the speed holes and the air dam opening should get directed into the coolers and radiator.

https://i.imgur.com/L5BAgNrh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TmKefmWh.jpg

Very much needed garage cleaning session with the old turd out enjoying some daylight.

https://i.imgur.com/eocx9Nsh.jpg

Its rowdy, doesnt sound like a truck anymore as my buddy Asher says about all my ls swapped cars =)

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Very base tune on it, drove around my neighborhood it dies once and throttle needs some sensitivity adjustment but its a whole new animal thats for sure.

:-P

Cool stuff, Sean. It's hysterical how much utterly useless information we come across in the perpetual building of these things. If only Jeopardy had questions regarding obscure Volvo part fitment or C4 Corvette frame components . . .

On a fun note, one of my new neighbors is a pipefitter with a Dynasty in his garage. Maybe one day I'll have some welding on my car that looks like you did it . . . Another interesting change is that the Cars & Coffee here is so big that they put it on TV on some NBC cable channel (less obscure than MavTV, so I'm told).

Here's to a bit less rain going forward.:bur2:

Here you go...

Thats awesome!!! Gotta watch out for those pipefitters (Thats what I am by the way) Appreciate the props but I am a total rookie at best.

I still cannot believed that you moved across the country, so crazy. Is all your stuff out there?

Very much hoping for less rain and the car stuff to pickup again, up here in the PNW it pretty much goes dormant from September to May or June. Lame.

Thanks man, not sure why it didnt work, posted up just fine on my Volvo forum. Appreciate the help.

:drive:

Tone of Volvo idling is absolutely perfect; it's not at all what one would expect, even with the hellaflush wheels. Then again, it's kind of like the prostitute with the adam's apple and a strangely deep voice, if you've had enough alcohol to appreciate the uniqueness . . .

All of our stuff is indeed out here; I think I did the drive (2500 miles) three times between Nov. and Jan. I could do without another hotel stay for the next year or two. The old 12-valve hauled Fritz the 524 out without an issue, aside from the headlights not working after Phoenix . . .

Things are astoundingly cool here, from beer to mountain bike-specific parks to three road courses within two hours of driving (Road Atlanta, Atlanta Motorsports Park, and Barber Motorsports Park). You also get a bit more house for your dollar.

Gratuitous threadjacking pictures follow.

Pushed the ****box volvo to the side of the shop and started on this little project. Started out as a something to just get seat time in and snowballed a little bit. Nothing major but should be fun.

Basher started on it a while back and had a great start going, I picked up where he left off and ran with it.

http://i.imgur.com/HPjbLGWh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/yElCRAdh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vkfRDxUh.jpg

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Plan is boosted 4 cylinder.

I dont think it really fits in with the big dollar cars on this forum but thought I would update the thread with what I have been up to.

Cheers and hope everyone is going well with this Covid Crap

What??? :D

All is well here, except a sick car and a sick pooch.

Hopefully both are back on the mend again soon.

When are we going wheeling?

Awesome on the Fox. Love it. Glad Basher let you have it so something could actually get done on it. :poke:

turbo 4 banger huh....... :D

Been following along with your Fox body build on Instagram. Love the attention to detail on all of your builds! Thanks for keepin up updated.

Yeah, kind of eyeballing the GTC Class, car could be 2595 lbs, boosted 4 cylinder and proper suspension. Car would be a riot.

Sorry about the doggo man, what the story? My schnauzer got Cancer, broke me and have not been able to get another one.

Let me know when and Ill be there......after the BS is settled down. On a side note, my mother in law just retired and moved to Goodyear, how far is that from you? Ill be down there often....

Thanks man, its been fun, started out easy and like everything I went too far. I dont blame him, life stuff happens and he is doing what he should spending time with the boys while they still enjoy hanging with dad =)

Thanks dude, your car is outstanding I have really grown to love the 3rd gens. I got to see the Detroit Speed one at SEMA and Optima and was blown away, I would love to check yours out in person some day. This one is definitely going to be less pretty than the others though. I want to beat on it and not worry about chipping engine bay paint.

Good to hear from you guys, glad people are doing well.

Sean

Yeah I am just messing.... I always wanted him to get moving on that Fox when I had mine.... but I sold mine so I can't say much either. :)

Keep plugging away.... there is such a strong Fox body following out there I with some cool cars. Check out the FB group 79-04 Mustang Road Race / HPDE / AutoX if you haven't already.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/i-2..._091713-X2.jpg

8 year old Australian terrier tore her back left ACL (CCL technically) which was surgically repaired Monday. This was on way home Tuesday. Shes doing good but has to be kept quiet for a LONG time. Hopefully we are past the worst part.

Goodyear is SW Phoenix and we are in NW Phoenix. Plenty close enough!!

So what do you have now to track with? Ill check that group out, facebook seems to be killing forums and I think thats lame but Ill give it a go. Thanks for the recommendation.

Oh man I have a soft spot for Doggos!!! Saw you posted a vid of her up and walking around the other day so she must be doing better now?

Dude, we will have to connect when I get down there and shoot the ****.

Got the flares on and fender done, MM K member in so I had to roll it out to clean up the filth once it was bolted together.

http://i.imgur.com/VQW2P9Dh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/H1REcBPh.jpg

Clean garage for the first time in months.

http://i.imgur.com/Zde3Giih.jpg

Time to get my ass in gear on it, I have one week to get it all done and ready for autocross.....wish me luck.

Sean

This kinda fell in my lap - a local retired car that I got for a steal - so the Fox had to go. I like the Fox body style a little better but this one had everything and the track bug has bit me, so there you go....

https://photos.smugmug.com/04-Cobra/...BMD7116-XL.jpg

100% agree on the forums vs FB groups, but the information in the specialty groups is so good it's worth a browse.

That is a wide body Fox! What is your outside of tire to outside of tire measurement there? I think I was at 71" on mine....

Wow! That fox is wide. Those tires are monstrous too. Have fun with it.

Killer work on the flares! They look great.

Could not not think of you when I saw this today!

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-...-LH7v45w-L.jpg