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A strut brace had to made, and with the information in this thread, maybe you can make one for yourself as well. The car in question is the most beautiful Volvo of all times, the classic Volvo 240. Previous statement excludes the 700-series, which is naturally even more beautiful. There are...

I'm helping out in a basic +t project. It's a basic setup where a low kilometreage NA B200 engine gets a turbocharger. This block is a 1989 block, and that is one of those annoying years where you can't really be sure which rods you have, the 9mm or the 13mm ones. The track record of the 9mm...

Are there any online shops that sell and list Garrett turbocharger parts for the T3 and T4 family turbos? Looking for shafts, housings, compressor wheels etc. There is a semi-local shop here selling these things, but the guy running the shop is somewhat of a personality, and i've pretty much...

I have a question about repairing paintwork. With a single stage paint, where you just lay down paint without a clearcoat on top, the fixing of flaws on the paint is pretty easy. This i've done a few times with OK results. After the prep work just lay the paint over the section with a small...

I bought this car towards the end of summer 2008. It's a 1989 model and it was delivered into this world with a turbocharged, and intercooled B200ET engine and a manual M46 transmission. Here's the only picture i seem to have of it: By the time i got my hands on it it had travelled around...

I assembled a block after having checked that everything is ok (or so i thought). Later when i had it all together i started to wonder that what did i set the ring gaps to be and checked my notes... Hmm, such a foolish mistake to make, but apparently i did not check the ring gaps at all. :oops...

A little while ago i made a bastard crank shaft hub piece, so that i could use the B23 pulleys on the B230 crank shaft. Thread of that work can be found here: http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=121607& The reason for making that was that i wanted to adapt a 36-1 trigger wheel to...

I was busy with the lathe last weekend trying to solve a problem. I begun by searching through my garage for suitable material and found one cast iron crank shaft pulley for a B230 engine and a chunk of aluminum. Right. I butchered the B230 cast iron pulley and lathed the o.d. of the aluminum...

EDIT: Ok. So i decided to change the layout a bit. This way it's easier to compare the transmissions. The driven wheel diameter used in these tables in 62cm, 24,04 inches. gear change rpm is 6800 rpm. The first set of tables will tell you the difference between the gears, the rpm drops and...

Does anyone have a 700 series rear axle laying around? If so, could someone tell what the lenght of the drive shaft is as shown in the picture? The 700 and the 900 series have the same rear axle, right? Are there some differencies in the splines in different year models? Generally they do fit...

I made one because i couldn't find my old one. Just print it and glue it on top of something sturdy, like sheet metal or some such thing. So here you go:

This thread has basic information of Redblocks which at least newcomers should find useful. Volvo Redblocks! Volvo B18 and B20 Over Head Valve engines. These are found in Volvo Amazon, Volvo PV, Volvo Duett, Volvo 1800 "The Saint", Volvo 140 and Volvo 240. Stroke: 80 mm (3.150 inches) B18...

Recently i was carrying out some fork lift maintenance work in a local bearing wholesale company. Once we got the job done an employee of the said company was kind enough to give us a tour around their warehouse. Oh boy did they have all sorts of nice things. Anyway, i needed some bearings for...

So, what's the common agreement on using engine block fillers? I've been thinkin about using Moroso Engine block filler on a B23 block, the coolant spaces filled up to the water pump hole. I've seen this done by some really big boys with their really big toys, and it supposedly does make...

Does anyone know the resistance that the fuel level sensor gives when the tank is empty and when it's full? I'd need to buy an aftermarket fuel level gauge, and i'd like to use the std. sensor if possible.

I'm going to have to upgrade my brakes on my 200-series some way. Im not looking for a monster brake setup, just something a bit bigger than the std stuff on 200-series turbo. The brake calipers on the 700-series volvos are of a different design that those of the 200-series. But according to a...

So i got these in the mail: And i had a 531 head laying around, so i decided that something should be done about it. Here are pictures of unmodified ports: And here's how they look after modifying: The intake valve is the standard 44mm valve. The exhaust valve has been...

I'm rebuilding my struts on my 244 turbo and i'm planning on replacing my old lowering/sport springs with something a bit more stiff, but i have no idea of the spring rate i should aim for. I read from Dave Barton's Turbo Volvo site that he's using 200 lbs in front and 175 in the back on his...

I remeber reading this article back in 2000 for the first time. Ever since then i have thought of this one as the Brick. Although i do like the original, factory look flathood 240 turbos very much too. But if it has to be modified, then this is it. I haven't been able to find any info on it from...

I recently had a film developed which had been laying around my apartment for some time. I had totally forgotten what it contained and to my suprise it had a few good pictures of my pride and joy. Since this is a showroom and because i have not shown any of my cars before i thought that there...