Project 244 Turbo Conversion

[charlesboya]

Coming along beautifully, what a great build idea.

[oblark]

The axle is back in the car all painted up, as the cover is aluminium so it got polished, The suspension was loaded so all the suspension bolts could be torqued up to the correct settings.

The stainless Magnaflow double offset silencer arrived in the post this this week along with a couple of stainless 90 degree bends, there shouuld of been a couple of 45 degree bends but I was let down by a well known ebay company. The silencer was positioned on a axle stand to comfirm it was in the right place, it misses the diff by 25mm
The two 90 degree bends then where offered up to get the exhaust over the axle, I`ve put a flange between the bends so the exhaust can be removed. I started car up and was very surprised by how much the straight throu silencer reduced the exhaust note, on idle you it sounds like a standard exhaust but rev it and it has a nice throaty sound. The turbo makes some nice noises with the recir blanked off and running standard 940 lpt boost.

[Ettienne]

Looking good, your making a better job of it than the 850! (Body work aside)

[oblark]

The exhaust is all finished apart from the tail pipe, The jobs needed to finish this project ready for the MOT are now down to single figures.

[kmb]

That exhaust looks fantastic, any chance of a sound clip/vid once she's up and running?

[oblark]

The exhaust is finally finished picked the freshly lengthened prop shaft up day.

Got a busy weekend fitting the prop, new number plates, ecu chip, boost gauge and respraying the headlight buckets.

[Ettienne]

Be able to move under its own steam, first port of call mot.

[kmb]

Going to be a little cracker this one, I think cars like this brought back from the dead are the future, going to worth a lot too... this has got me scouring the smaller free papers for old Volvos, shame I don't have any of Rob's talents

[oblark]

On today list of jobs, fit prop shaft, spray head buckets and fit clutch master.

The prop didn`t take long to fit so it was on to fitting the clutch master, now that was a differnt story. The master dosen`t have captive nuts in the bulkhead it uses good old fashon nuts and bolts which makes lif fun trying to hold the bolt in place to get the nut on. But got they in the end then it was on to bleeding it, that was a mixture of sucking the clutch fluid through the system then pumping it with the pedal. Once the clutch was bleed I discovered the bitting point was on the floor. So in to the man cave to make a longer push rod. (it`s only a temp measure until I can get some 8mm bar)



Then it was on with the head light buckets, I brought some chrome spray from ebay to do this.

BEFORE


AFTER


It`s not as good as new buckets but should give off enough light for the MOT.

All most finished



Then this little problem showed it self.

http://www.vpcuk.org/forums/showthre...lls&highlight=

I no what I`m doing tomorrow.

[oblark]

After sorting the stalling problem out it was on to the passenger door central locking fault.

The door wouldn`t lock with the central locking but if I locked the passenger door with the key then unlocked the car with drivers lock it would unlock. Took the door card off and sprayed the lock and linkage with WD40 and all sorted. The inside of the door card looked like fungs breeding ground, this due to the fact that the plastic liner had been removed from the door so out came the duck tape and a bin bag and 5 mins later door had be sealed.

[Ettienne]

Not long now!!

I see what you mean about the clutch bearing pushrod, I've read about it when reading about the conversions, has to be extended quite a bit

[oblark]

Fitted the boost gauge this morning, looks a bit lonely.



Then this afternoon gave her a wash (first one in over 10 years) the paint work on the bonnet & roof is a bit rough, it was like sand paper and it can stay that way. Just wanted to wash the grim and tree sap off didn`t scrub to hard so moss is still growing in certain areas. Where the paint work has worn throu on the boot I`m just going to lacquer over it (it called character )

[kmb]

Looking good, comparatively it's certainly less of a brute than the T5-R in the pictures, it's certainly going to surprise people.

When is the MOT? Will you be applying some light tuning? I suppose it doesn't need a cat with the age of the vehicle which is a nice bonus.

The marks are true provenance, or whatever the antique collectors call it.

[oblark]

Looking good, comparatively it's certainly less of a brute than the T5-R in the pictures, it's certainly going to surprise people.

When is the MOT? Will you be applying some light tuning? I suppose it doesn't need a cat with the age of the vehicle which is a nice bonus.

The brute is my T5, the green bitch

Light tuning it`s already got the 3" maf & 2.5" stainless exhaust, after the MOT I`ll be fitting some ME7 blues and winding the boost up from 3 psi to 12 psi. Later on this year I`ll be fitting my 19T once I`ve rebuilt it.

[kmb]

Patina might be the word I'm looking for

[kmb]

The brute is my T5, the green bitch

Light tuning it`s already got the 3" maf & 2.5" stainless exhaust, after the MOT I`ll be fitting some ME7 blues and winding the boost up from 3 psi to 12 psi. Later on this year I`ll be fitting my 19T once I`ve rebuilt it.

I wish I had RWD again, there's going to be a lot of fun had post tuning!

Just a question, do these cars have a decent balance and weight distribution, or are they tail happy straight from the factory?

[Ettienne]

Glad for you it's all back together, just need the mot now

[oblark]

Glad for you it's all back together, just need the mot now

Just needs a air filter and a new fuel line, which are all on order

[Ettienne]

Tbh it's been done in pretty quick time considering the condition it was in when you got it, 4 months ish

[stribo]

It needs a massive boot spoiler.