You guys are nuts. Very amazing.

I simply can not get enough of this thread! Updates don't come quick enough, haha. Not only do I love the departure from a traditional pro-touring platform, but the skill and talent I see in here is incredible... and thats an understatement! Truly unbelievable engineering and fabrication going into this Volvo. I'm looking forward to future progress!

Thank you so much for the kind words guys. It's always much appreciated.

Not much of an update today, but every little bit help. Trying to get closer on some of the bellhousing stuff.

Co-axial indicator and a hacked up XC90 trans, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the DRO.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v...0/IMG_0408.JPG

We drafted up a list of which gauges should be on the dash and the list was long. A dash display would be a welcome addition that would save weight, dash clutter, and wiring. Both my brother and I have always liked Stack products except for the price; $1500 for a base model and several hundred dollars for options makes it a hard sell for a couple of broke college students. Luckily we both value our time at zero so we decided to roll our own.

I'm doing all the electronics and Alex is taking care of the mechanicals. The entire assembly is now finished in Solidworks so he started by machining a couple of molds for the housing:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_...1024/photo.JPG

This is the mold for the rear part of the housing after way too many hours of wet sanding, with many hours of sanding and polishing remaining. A sympathetic friend who also happens to be a magician with carbon is going to lay up the housing in pre-preg carbon fiber for maximum fake race car status.

The PCB is taking shape and I'm burning the midnight oil to finish up the layout. The white blob on top is the stepper motor to drive the tachometer needle and the big white box is the LCD.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-s...24/dashpcb.PNG

It will be connected to the Megasquirt via CAN bus and will also support an AIM compatible serial data stream. It also has support for additional analog inputs.

freaking awesome!

Let me get this straight, you are MAKING your own gauges? simply bad ass. :thumbsup:

Yes it is!!! :thumbsup:

I am simply blown away. Keep up the good work!

holy fuc....k your building skills are amazing and your project... this will be Volvo that we dont see every day.:peepwall:

and the bar gets raised again!! way to go boys