Hackster's Need for Swede 😁

[hackster]

Originally Posted by ScotI

Very well. That is clean.

Thanks man.

FINALLY!!!!











And a few just for the hell of it. New cell phone takes some surprisingly nice photos.









Going to work on tidying up the VSS tomorrow and see if I can make that work just some little stuff here and there, gotta order up the rest of the exhaust so I can button that up as well.

Happy Friday all!!

Sean

[gofastwclass]

I still can't get over how factory this all looks, I love it.

What are you using as a hood latch and where did you get it? - Actually looking back it appears to be the factory latch. Is that correct? What year and model is the Volvo?

[hackster]

Originally Posted by gofastwclass

I still can't get over how factory this all looks, I love it.

What are you using as a hood latch and where did you get it? - Actually looking back it appears to be the factory latch. Is that correct? What year and model is the Volvo?

Thanks, thats kind of the idea behind my builds, how would the factory have done it but cleaner.

Its a 1983 volvo 242 DL. Yep, chopped down factory latch to work with the flathood.

Tinkered with the car this weekend a fair bit, did a lot of little **** that nobody cares about. Got the wiring redone for the VSS directly into the Racepak as well as pulled the wiring from the dash for the oil pressure sender. Apparently you cannot get oil pressure through can bus on this particular racepak dash.......even though everything I read says you can. I also can get oil pressure on HP Tuners so I know its available on the can network. Frustrated with that.

I went to the junk yard and had a great day there. Found a bunch of stuff I needed. But Cheek cover for passenger trunk, a bunch of bolts to get plated for the front fenders and apron so they all match, a great looking antenna and 2 rear decks in amazing uncut condition all for $15.03



Got the antenna cleaned, painted and installed. Built a matching panel for the trunk to cover the drivers side hole and got the rear trunk carpet all installed, turned out good, but forgot to take pics.

Fought getting the IPD aluminum skid plate installed as it will not clear the drop bar, messed with that for a few hours. I have some ****ty spacers in there but it needs something more better, will work on that this week.

Pulled the pinstipe off the rest of the car to clean it up and have it match the fenders, buffed as much of the remnants off of it.



Messing with stupid VSS......still no luck.



Took the car for a spin, got fuel.....have a stinky fuel system I gotta fix, pretty sure I need to figure out a proper vent as my system doesnt really work how I thought it should.

Took it to Red Door Meet on sunday for a few hours. Car starts lots of conversations, its pretty fun. Got on it for the 1-2 shift for the first time, its got great power and the torque is incredible, as soon as you get into 2nd it just pulls.

The howl and rearend noise got worse and worse, weather is garbage up here and the gear guy is wonderful at gears but gravel road, rain so it would be a huge mess so here we go...

5:00 last night when I got home from work.



6 pm last night, loaded up and ready to drop off.



He took one spin of the pinion and was like what the hell? So its getting all new bearings, seals, solid pinion spacer if he has the right one and an Eaton True Track.

As long as it doesnt need gears it will be back in the car tomorrow night, we got **** to get to now.



Sean

[rustomatic]

Great progress, Man! I could swear that 50-75% of (the value of) this hobby is just getting that first or second drive after a crapload of obsessive work . . .

As I recall, I think (not fully sure) the e38 computer, at least in some applications, only sends a basic oil pressure signal that amounts to some or none, but not how much. This is why I went with a mechanical pressure gauge instead of trying to use the computer's input.

[hackster]

Originally Posted by rustomatic

Great progress, Man! I could swear that 50-75% of (the value of) this hobby is just getting that first or second drive after a crapload of obsessive work . . .

As I recall, I think (not fully sure) the e38 computer, at least in some applications, only sends a basic oil pressure signal that amounts to some or none, but not how much. This is why I went with a mechanical pressure gauge instead of trying to use the computer's input.

Where did you tap off of the engine for the oil pressure? Just curious and seriously thinking about a mechanical oil pressure and gauge.....the sender for the race pack is ****ing giant.

Sean

[SBDave]

Damn this car looks good! Thanks for sharing your projects with us!

Dave

[rustomatic]

I used the G-Plus manifold (much like far higher-priced Mishimoto crud) thingy that goes above the stock oil filter location. Its four ports cover the gauge sender, turbo oil supply, and my oil cooler's in and out needs. It's the absolute pinnacle of Chinese manufacturing and value, and I say this in the most serious way possible. G-Plus stuff is freaking awesome--that's me being a product shill.

I still have the standard oil pressure thing for the computer behind the intake, I think . . .

Originally Posted by hackster

Where did you tap off of the engine for the oil pressure? Just curious and seriously thinking about a mechanical oil pressure and gauge.....the sender for the race pack is ****ing giant.

Sean

[jarhead]

Sean,
So awesome in every way!

[hackster]

Originally Posted by SBDave

Damn this car looks good! Thanks for sharing your projects with us!

Dave

Thanks man, been fun.

Originally Posted by rustomatic

I used the G-Plus manifold (much like far higher-priced Mishimoto crud) thingy that goes above the stock oil filter location. Its four ports cover the gauge sender, turbo oil supply, and my oil cooler's in and out needs. It's the absolute pinnacle of Chinese manufacturing and value, and I say this in the most serious way possible. G-Plus stuff is freaking awesome--that's me being a product shill.

I still have the standard oil pressure thing for the computer behind the intake, I think . . .

I just ordered one before you posted this. I think its some chinese stuff but not sure who, I ordered from Summit. Gotta get the secondary switch installed and wired up this week so the racepak oil pressure works.

Your input is much appreciated.

Originally Posted by jarhead

Sean,
So awesome in every way!

Thank you.


Luckily my parts all showed up last week so I was able to get home after traveling last week and get to it Friday night!!!

Chopped off the tailpipe next to the fuel tank and got to installing some more Vibrant U bends, V bands and the Borla Muffler.

It made a world of difference in volume and tone, there is no more drone and the car is plenty quiet. Sounds good at idle, quiet on the freeway.

I am just learning to TIG and dont have a purge setup yet. Will in the next week though.



Got the brakes bled and rolled the rear fenders a little more for some reason the rear axle creeped forward a little bit so I extended the lower control arms to push it back by .125".

Then I drove it, I put fuel in it and drove it. I drove it to Wilsonville for Cars and Coffee and back home, tweaked the rear a bit, checked the fluids, retorqued the wheels and checked things, ran some errands in it, drove out by the air port for a car meet with the stance kids to check things out. Went over it again to check for things to be tight and normal. I adjusted the shifter to better fit seating position and its dialed now.

Then I took it out and actually "drove the car" its good, torque is really good, pulls to limiter. I have a little bit of a soft pedal, think I am going to go through and rebleed the entire system this week and make sure I dont have any remaining air in there. The brakes work great, but pedal has a little more travel than it had before pulling and swapping the rearend.

This is up near Skyline and Germantown, there are some amazing country roads up there and the car was a blast. Letting it cool down a bit and checking the brakes.



Ran through an entire tank of fuel this weekend, probably have a few hundred miles on it and its getting better the more it gets driven and I get the little bugs worked out. I dig all the small details and getting it dialed in just right.

3 weeks till I leave for Davis and LS Fest weather is turning to crap here so probably not much more testing till then.

Managed to get lots of honey do's done this weekend, cars all cleaned and detailed, changed the oil on the JK, replaced some lights around the house and did some much needed furnace maintenance.

Sean

[DBasher]

Looks good man! I spent the weekend in the Seaside/Manzanita area and thought about running east to come see you, obviously I didn’t. Nice to see that you’re able to put something like this together and have very minor issues, a true testimony of your attention to detail and build quality.