Hackster's Need for Swede 😁

[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.

[OLDFLM]

Car looks AMAZING sans pinstripe!!

[SSLance]

Glad to hear you are getting it all dialed in...I think we need a video with good sound from the inside during one of these "driving it" sessions...

How in the world does this front tire not rub?

[hackster]

Originally Posted by SSLance

Glad to hear you are getting it all dialed in...I think we need a video with good sound from the inside during one of these "driving it" sessions...

How in the world does this front tire not rub?

Getting there. Still some bugs to work out for sure.

Stiff....its really stiff Lance Believe it or not the rears rub far more than the fronts do. Also remember I am not really worried about the paint so a little rubbing is ok with me.

I suck at video, both taking it an editing it. Ill get my nephew to shoot some video for us all =)

Well, some tinkering last night found my first major snafu in my build so far.

In messing with my brake bias and trying to figure out why the car felt like it was must missing a few calipers I adjusted the proportioning valve and the stopping got worse and I got a pull to the passenger side, like rip the wheel out of your hands pull.

So chatting with volvo buddy Asher he pointed out that I have it all wrong. So some testing of his theory by adjusting the proportioning valve out to add in "rear" brakes gained back all of the stopping power and pedal feel and took the pull away from the passenger side and gave me a little pull to the drivers side.

When I built the plumbing for the brakes I did everything as others have, with the exception of the proportioning valve, but in my head it worked.......Obviously I didnt think too deep on this.

Volvo has a cross plumbed braking system in an effort to be the safest car on the road, they have a network of plumbing that essentially has 4 front brake lines and individual rear brake lines right and left. The master cylinder has 2 lines, but really not a front and rear, its really a dual bowl system. the idea is that if one of the systems were to completley fail you would only lose one of the rear wheels braking 100%.

So in effect my plumbing and proportioning valve is modulating one front and one rear caliper :-P

So I either ditch the prop valve and put a straight piece of pipe in there or I re plumb the entire brake system and start over.

I will say that with the prop valve fully open the car has amazing brakes!!! Cannot wait to get some real pads in there.

But here is my derp moment....always learning something new right?

Sean

[Big_dime85]

love this build! Your execution and attention to detail is what puts your build over so many others. I can put a box in a space, but you put it there with such precision and attention to the details of the space that the box becomes more than just a box. Great job sir!!! You are a role model here.