Recent content by Tick

Does anyone know how to test this unit without the vadis? ETS light is on, accelerator pedal position sensor tests good.

trying to get this running tonight. putting the cams in and i've got spare parts, one half moon plug, one cam seal and one big seal, possibly crank.. this is the elring set. any help?

Hacksaw? edit 90' 740

Probably going to attack this today if the rain clears. Paid $30 dollars for fifty ml of pink ****. As I understand it this does the upper deck split and the vc gasket? What do the head bolts torque to? Do I need a spring compressor to do hushers? Any reason not to use the copper hg spray?

Going to be a quarter of a century old.. Keg, 'nuff said.

My old 740, rest in pieces.

Is there any difference between the b230/ft crank and the b234?

Chris helped me pull this from the bottom of the ocean yesterday.. Might as well have anyway. For all the rust.. But I ain't skurred. Like all good Volvos it came with the engine in the trunk. Looks pretty good in the driveway.. Looks better after last night.. The plan is to shoehorn the...

Hooray for Cali emissions testing. My question is this; has anyone snuck by with 37#'rs on 2.2 and if so, how? Mine are set up so that at idle the test light says I'm right on, with 330ohms of resistance. But in reality it is pig rich. All I have to do is pass by the numbers. I am considering...

Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I can't seem to get the distributor pushed in except for 180 degrees from where it should or almost at the ground with #1 at tdc. Is the keyway in the cam one way? It didn't seem like it. I'm considering knocking out the pin and turning the little wings...

Sheety pictures, mostly my fault. Thought I'd show off the car anyways. I'm stoked on being able to get any kind of digital picture without having them put on a cd at walmart. #1 hamming it up. Mandatory engine bay. Bondo?! AHH!.. Damn, I almost want to take this...

Point taken, Lucky. So sound off folks.. I'm running four degrees of advance with an IPD turbo cam. I did not feel a noticeable loss in low end torque with the advance but I did notice a little better breathing up top. I am tempted to go run full opposite settings consecutively and see if I'm...

15lbs on the caps and 15thou clearance, right?

The last beach you can drive on in the state. Halfway between the bay and la. Five or six dollars per car per night. I'll bring a keg, Chris doesn't know it yet but he'll bring a truck load of firewood. You show up with an iron liver. And after we all wake up at noon the next day we can take the...

Me and Chris got the new 90+ manifold ported along with my pea-shooter 42/48. Put it all back together and love it, throttle response and mid-high range power is way up. but the car's developed a problem. When you come off throttle hard the idle drops to almost stalling, 250 rpm range for a...