just read this from start to finish again , awesome car , defo have another in a heart beat
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just read this from start to finish again , awesome car , defo have another in a heart beat
Thanks Woody, yours looks nice as well from what I have seen! The wheels are 17" by 8", not sure on the offset I'm afraid.
Video now in HD so that the flame from the exhaust can be seen properly ;) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvbY2w_unCI
Great thread and super looking motor... all very interesting! :smile:
Well, I thought that I would bring this thread up to date now that I have made a little progress with the engine build.
Here is how the car stands today:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psgorcgdgs.jpg
Bought a set of these (forged H beam con-rods):
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...pskxhc1d0u.jpg
Along with all new gaskets, o-rings, bearing sets, piston rings, oil pump, water pump etc etc etc:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psplu0gyvj.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psbm20prk1.jpg
Fortunately I managed to obtain a low mileage engine for a low price from a performance Volvo forum, and eventually once I had help available from a good friend we began the long process of stripping down the engine and thoroughly cleaning everything especially oil ways and mating surfaces.
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...pslzxhtem8.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...pspw2mxmfr.jpg
Barry in action!
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psb8qhgypd.jpg
Then the block went off to our local machine shop for honing. I am missing a lot of pics from around this time (Spring 2015) but I have all of the following progress pics from this year.
Pistons attached to rods:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psv689wnd9.jpg
New rings:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psv4mjlyw5.jpg
One rod/piston installed:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...pseg3cvtn2.jpg
All pistons/rods installed:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psvuaum5eh.jpg
Crank shaft in:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...pshdo2i3sn.jpg
Liquid gasket application:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psgkk8fhxa.jpg
Intermediate section down:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psxsdkpdzc.jpg
New oil pump and oil pick up pipe installed:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...pshx8im0xh.jpg
New water pump on:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psavhi8bbs.jpg
Would have bolted the sump on, but missing 2 x o-rings! Will install during the week hopefully and then on to the head strip down next weekend.
O-rings turned up yesterday, so decided to fit the sump. Liquid gasket applied to the intermediate section:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psfggggl4o.jpg
This was then evenly spread out before bolting down the sump to the specified torque setting
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psjnaoimro.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psmahkwinl.jpg
And finally, installed the oil cooling jets, new gaskets and backing plates:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...ps04qnyvc0.jpg
That's the bottom end complete! Head strip down commences on Saturday
some good work there bud , glad your keeping the good work going on the car
Cheers Lee. So am I now that I have started with the build! Always planned to and modified the car in every aspect so that it was ready for an engine build and more power. Would be a shame not to finally give the car the extra power that it is crying out for
Looks a nice build out of intrest are you useing a 2.5 bottom end
Yeah you are right - that's the box for the main bearings and they are all the same. Not sure about the shells though. I ordered the bearings from parts for Volvos online. Very helpful over the phone and got the shells and main bearings from them at the same time. Handy that they were available now that Volvo are stocking less and less parts for our cars! Have you done a thread for yours?
Cheers for the info bud ill give them a call. I havent as yet its somthing i keep meaning to do but never get round to lol
Made a bit more progress with the build:
Cam cover and cams removed
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psss1tgew5.jpg
Then began the process of stripping the head completely. All valves were removed:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psvm0vp3uo.jpg
This left us with a completely stripped head - now at the machine shop for skimming:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...pscg1ogfvr.jpg
Will hopefully get the head back later this week in order to start re-assembling it. In the meantime here is a picture of the old exhaust manifold (left of pic) vs. the S60R manifold (thanks to Tim Williams for sourcing a good one for me) that will be replacing it:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psu6wzwxac.jpg
Interesting these s60r manifolds when straight out the box they look a bit restricted where the exit to the turbo exhaust housing is in comparisom to the Japanifold as most call it, I'm going to swap from the japan one to the s60r one in my next round of mods to the olive T-5R, but I have opened up the port to the turbo to match my ported angled housing.
standard japanifold ( this one is about to be ground out and will be soon on an Olive 854 T-5r )
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1607/...a0ac5163_k.jpgIMG_20160415_173541_572 by moleadrian, on Flickr
and my modified s60r manifold (sorry pic quality on both shots is at bit crap compared to my normal shots)
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1520/...4946a06b_k.jpgIMG_20160324_100022_540 by moleadrian, on Flickr
Your S60R manifold is certainly Looking good and will be very interesting to see how much difference it makes to yours. Did you grind that out yourself? As for mine, probably not much different to the Japanifold (and definitely not once ground) but certainly a lot better flowing than the one I removed!
Got this package from Volvo:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psddku6kbf.jpg
S60R Head Gasket, C30 T-5 exhaust manifold gasket, Head Bolts, Valve Stem seals, all new seals and gaskets for the head, timing belt kit, thermostat kit, water temp sensor, spark plugs, rotor arm, distributor cap etc etc
Next, we removed the old valve stem seals. Much harder than it looks..
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psxh8qczew.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psjnfen3tb.jpg
And managed to fit 2x new Valve Stem seals before calling it a day:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psief43mna.jpg
That's it for now. Hopefully get chance to do some more at the weekend
Made some more progress with the engine build over the long weekend:
Ground in the valves:
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psfy4wj3gy.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...pscyn4emrx.jpg
Fitted all of the remaining valve stem seals and inserted all of the cleaned up/ground in valves :
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psjvod70kb.jpg
Refitted all of the valve springs, collets and caps :
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...pslsght9zj.jpg
Installed 15x hydraulic lifters, but 5 appear to have seized? May need to purchase 5 new ones
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psrjp40cjk.jpg
S60R head gasket on :
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psipkfpspp.jpg
New head (stretch) bolts had their threads coated in oil before installing and tightening in sequence over 3 stages
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...psdzvm9vcd.jpg
Leading to this :
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...pszesmhtgu.jpg
Just need to install 5 more hydraulic lifters, cams, cam cover and time it up before I can start thinking about installing it..