Volvrat II - Zippy Lea - '97 940 SE

[Crazy_C]

Only cost £80, all custom fabricated by trial and error. Also included cutting the old exhaust off cos the bolts were so rusted they were just crumbling into roundness.

It is awesome, can't wait to hear it when I have the 15G on there too at higher boost!! heheheheeeee

[Crazy_C]

Been having a bit of fun today too.

Fitted a pair of tights on the headlamps, actually wrapped around the glass itself on the main unit too, and not just stretched all over the back so fits much nicer

Also the roof rack is on there, and the painted grill too




Oh, first touch of hawaiian theme for the Retro Rides show with Rat-Look.com

[The Flying Moose]

Looking sweet crazy! Cant wait to see it when its finished! Perhaps you should try the hammerited rear windows look.

[Crazy_C]

Cheers mate Got some different plans for the rear 3 windows on this wagon

[Crazy_C]

So after 8 1/2 hours of hard work, and I mean VERY hard work, I have a new turbo on the wagon

Sounds soooo much better, much beefier now, no smoke, quieter too, and it really pulls well, even though I've set the boost lower cos I still need to sort out the intercooler pipework as it's all jiggled about now, and the air intake was on the top, and is now on the bottom of the snail. Helluva lot of work, but my god was it worth it!

There is a circlip that holds the core into the housing, and it took my mate and I half an hour just to get it back on!!! 4" circlip made of 3mm metal



So here she is, in her shiny(ish) snailish glory!! I give you, the new 15G turbo off Volvrat I

[T5frankie]

nice one mate

[Crazy_C]

Cheers dude. Sounds sooo much sweeter and pulls beautifully. Need to get the intercooler hose sorted though cos it is well and truly squished something rotten at the moment, but that's a job for another day when I have 20 minutes spare in daylight.

[smithy]

you will be losing alot of power with the pipe squished mate.that is why they clock the 15g so the inlet pipe is pointing upwards .

[Happygilmore78]

Nice work mate, always a good read although i prefer pictures as i am simple

[Crazy_C]

Pipe has now been replaced n no longer squished so yay! Had some spare hoses at home n a nice 45 deg bend did the trick

Cheers guys, will need to do a new video of the sound

[Crazy_C]

you will be losing alot of power with the pipe squished mate.that is why they clock the 15g so the inlet pipe is pointing upwards .

I could have had the inlet pointing up but then the actuator would have been in wrong place.

[smithy]

i know mate but they make a bracket to repo the actuator .but not to worry atleast its done weldone now hope to see you at santapod.

[Crazy_C]

Hahaa, yea, but I didn't have said bracket, so I just made do with what I had and what I could make, and it works nicely

Gotta work out how to do that ballast resistor mod you said about before now, and then run slightly higher boost, cos that sorts out the fuel / boost cut IIRC, yea?


Can't really afford to go down the line of blue injectors and FPR so I'll just get my injectors cleaned I think.

[Crazy_C]

You can see how I've done the intercooler pipework here:



Much shorter now too

[smithy]

Hahaa, yea, but I didn't have said bracket, so I just made do with what I had and what I could make, and it works nicely

Gotta work out how to do that ballast resistor mod you said about before now, and then run slightly higher boost, cos that sorts out the fuel / boost cut IIRC, yea?


Can't really afford to go down the line of blue injectors and FPR so I'll just get my injectors cleaned I think.

you will not need to do ballister resister pack mod unless you change injectors for high resistor injectors .but you will need to fit a fpr if you want to fuel the 15g to 15 psi because you will start to run lean mate.

[Crazy_C]

That's cool. Cheers mate. It's running at 8psi at the moment and I'm impressed with this so far, but I will up it to about 12psi though but don't think I'll go as high as 15psi really.

Though after changing the turbo I seem to have developed a bit of an oil leak so gotta work out where that's coming from first really. Doesn't seem to be coming from the turbo, but it may be the drain on the turbo isn't connected properly. It was getting late in the day and me n my mate were pretty damn tired so may have missed it slightly.

[Crazy_C]

New door cards Well, not exactly new door cards, but rather modified ones




Done the steering wheel too, and ripped out the airbag too (I hate airbags, and it adds to the rat look)

[smithy]

your mad lol cannot wait to this car and turn the boost up to 15 psi chicken lol.hope to see you at the pod kicking my 940t into touch .

[Crazy_C]

Hahaa, yes, I am mad, had you not realized that already?


You should see what the other plans I have for her are Lets just say they involve some suspension modification and tyre changes too


Dunno when I'll next be at pod, I work quite a bit so don't often get the free time


Yea, once I sort out the oil leak then I'll up the boost I think lol

[Happygilmore78]

Jesus, 18.7 MPG!!!