Radtap's 1980 242

[Superhans240]

Bye bye kjet

And out it comes

What's the easiest way to remove the computer harness from under the dash and the firewall? It run's from the passenger footwell over the airbox into the main harness wrapped in electrical tape behind the cluster, not too keen on unwrapping that. I'll be removing the unused wires from the engine harness, just leave the under dash wires?

It’s a bit different but kind of similar to my 940 but I pulled the dash and removed everything I deleted, spliced into what I needed and added what I needed and wrapped it all back up again same with in the engine bay. I kept the factory connectors for some funny reason and spliced it all up and used junk yard relays and receptacles as well as all the oem Volvo fuses I could. If I was doing a 240 I’d grab a junkyard fuse box and use that somewhere nice.

 

[Radtap]

It’s a bit different but kind of similar to my 940 but I pulled the dash and removed everything I deleted, spliced into what I needed and added what I needed and wrapped it all back up again same with in the engine bay. I kept the factory connectors for some funny reason and spliced it all up and used junk yard relays and receptacles as well as all the oem Volvo fuses I could. If I was doing a 240 I’d grab a junkyard fuse box and use that somewhere nice.

I'm going to get a nice fuse and relay holder to mount everything with the computer in the passenger footwell where the original computer went and make a hole in the firewall in that area. The kjet/lambda wiring is all of 8 wires from the computer, just have to track them down.

 

[Radtap]

Huh this ain't right

 

[Radtap]

Filthy!

That's a little better, also kjet injector plugs

Needed a TPS for my microsquirt conversion and figured the easiest route was adapting a 960 TB onto a b230 intake, got the adapter idea from 2turbotoys.

Need to open up the intake to match the adapter and 960 TB

Careful as it doesn't leave much of a sealing surface, if you can see the faint sharpie line

With the TB mounted up the TPS connector will run into the kick down cable bracket, I don't need it so I cut it

Then stuffed a map sensor in the bottom of the manifold

That looks much nicer

 

[Radtap]

Put this together last weekend

I need a label maker, my handwriting isn't pretty, should look nicer once mounted in the car and everything ziptied neatly

 

[Radtap]

Kinda wasted my time with the LH manifold cause I got this now

My father's a photographer and got a few pictures for me, manifold done by Viking Fabrications

 

[Radtap]

Figured I should pop the head off and replace the gasket before trying to boost this thing, intake and exhaust were already off. Well turns out its a SCP 398, so I check the date code and its a 1985 head, guess it was replaced at some point.

I also made a turbo manifold and I'm working on the downpipe, pics coming soon. Finally getting something done with the car.

 

[Radtap]

The manifold I made kinda sucked, runners took up to much room and the downpipe would've been cramped so I pulled the trigger on the high mount Kangaroo manifold, pretty nice part and the TurboSmart wastegate bolts up. I'm amazed that it made it from Belarus to Arizona in 4 days.

 

[brendon_ak]

Nice progress, looking good!

 

[Radtap]

Started getting motivated to get this going again and then badly injured my left hand this week rendering it somewhat useless for the next few months. On the bright side it wont be 105 degrees out when I'm healed.

 

[DET17]

That modified K-Jet intake from Viking looks great. I ran a Nathan version on my old 9 sedan, liked it. However I kept the stock size throttle body (rather than the large 960/850 size) for throttle response. What size is the TB on that intake?

Was that intake a one off, or do they produce them as a standard product? I don't know of that company.

 

[Radtap]

That modified K-Jet intake from Viking looks great. I ran a Nathan version on my old 9 sedan, liked it. However I kept the stock size throttle body (rather than the large 960/850 size) for throttle response. What size is the TB on that intake?

Was that intake a one off, or do they produce them as a standard product? I don't know of that company.

I currently have the larger 850/960 throttle body on it but I have a couple of the smaller 850/960 throttle bodies along with the plastic chunk on the throttle plate so I can play around a bit if I want. Viking Fabrication is mostly on facebook I believe, he was producing these for a little while but I also asked him to modify the back of the manifold so I can use a surface mount map sensor. The large barbed fitting is for an IAC but I'm going to block it off temporarily*, uses a -10 or -12 fitting welded to the manifold iirc.

 

[DET17]

I currently have the larger 850/960 throttle body on it but I have a couple of the smaller 850/960 throttle bodies along with the plastic chunk on the throttle plate so I can play around a bit if I want. Viking Fabrication is mostly on facebook I believe, he was producing these for a little while but I also asked him to modify the back of the manifold so I can use a surface mount map sensor. The large barbed fitting is for an IAC but I'm going to block it off temporarily*, uses a -10 or -12 fitting welded to the manifold iirc.

If he retained the 4 bolt flange on the bottom of intake for TB attachment, there is a small / standard diameter 850 TB which bolts right up. Most of them are the large version, but I sourced one from east Europe and rebuilt for my Cheap Thrills Sedan. I suspect you will find driveabilty issues with the large size IF you are going to drive this car in traffic. For high RPM use exclusively, the large TB will work, but it doesn't in stop & go driving. TB details are in my old build thread if you are interested.

 

[Radtap]

If he retained the 4 bolt flange on the bottom of intake for TB attachment, there is a small / standard diameter 850 TB which bolts right up. Most of them are the large version, but I sourced one from east Europe and rebuilt for my Cheap Thrills Sedan. I suspect you will find driveabilty issues with the large size IF you are going to drive this car in traffic. For high RPM use exclusively, the large TB will work, but it doesn't in stop & go driving. TB details are in my old build thread if you are interested.

I'll take a look, like I said I do have the smaller ones as well. Gotta let the hand heal and then put together all these nice parts before I can even worry about how it's driving. OD clutch or the actual clutch was slipping before I parked the car so that will need to be addressed once it's running again.