turbomatic2010
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- Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Welcome to my build log or pipe dream
1993 Volvo 945 turbo assembled in Halifax Nova Scotia
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A little background on the car;
320,000 km on the odometer
Purchased by my father in August 1992 from Sudbury Fine Cars,
It was 2nd Volvo of 4 Volvo that my parents owned, before parents switched to Toyotas after Ford purchased Volvo.
The first one was a 1988 blue 744 turbo, however my younger brother rolled that one at 140 km/h and walked away. Actually he pulled a lawn chair out of the trunk and watched the towing company pull it 20 feet out of the bush. The police, the towing company and insurance company was surprise that he was unhurt.
3rd one was a used 1991 965 POS with that PVR excuse of a engine that constantly burned its oil
4th one they bought a s70 much to my chagrin it wasn’t the t5. My aunt decide to go deer hunting with it one night. The insurance company decide that it was a write off.
The parents wanted to trade the 940 in when they purchased their new Toyota however, the dealership offered them 100 dollars for it. I thought that was ridiculous since the junkyards would give you at least 250 dollars for it. So I gave my dad five twenty dollar bills for it, since he was going to take the $100 deal from the stealership
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The body was a little rough, since both my brother and I moved away and my dad had to wash it himself.
It had the usual problems a gas gauge that didn’t work , an faulty coolant cap that would burp coolant, fuel filter that was clogged and needed replacing and back door that didn’t work from the outside. Yet when I did a compression test the deviation between each cylinder was nominal and well within specs. Cylinder two was 170 psi and the other three where 172 ish
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990743234/" title="04 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/5990743234_a635e27367.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="04"></a>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990184151/" title="07 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5990184151_a56d84c6bf.jpg" width="500" height="376" alt="07"></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990184135/" title="06 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6025/5990184135_c9bcb2fac3.jpg" width="500" height="376" alt="06"></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6084187003/" title="945 3 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6070/6084187003_68b7b9503c.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="945 3"></a>
dirty engine pic
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From what i understand the L means she a she is a squirter
I guess I won’t know for sure until I’m elbows deep.
Started on the cutting the cancer out of the doors because the junkyards wanted way too much for the doors and I'm cheap.
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990183549/" title="09 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6002/5990183549_eec9a5a500.jpg" width="387" height="500" alt="09"></a>
However I found these in the junkyard
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990742794/" title="11 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5990742794_67388b5a8e.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="11"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990183577/" title="10 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6139/5990183577_61715bbe2e.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="10"></a>
The funny thing about these, is that the junkyard proprietor had no clue that there was two b234f in his yard. When I was inquiring about the price the sole b234f head that they had listed on their website, he said "I won’t separate the head from the engine to sell it because, it’s my only one and someone may want to buy the complete engine for $900"[sic]. (I would someday like to meet these people, maybe I can sell them my used 13c for $400)
Disappointed and perplexed, I decide to start popping hoods looking for big injectors and other small stuff could use. I found my way to the back corner where the 8 Volvo were put to rest. I wanted to see this 900 dollar, twenty year old engine for myself. I started popping the hoods and to my amazement there were two b234f in the yard one of them was a Cadillac Fleetwood according to their computer tracking system. Using the skills that I recently acquired from A Jedi online academy (and yes it a real website) I manage to talk him down to a reasonable price.
Pulling the head took longer than expected but I did right and got everything I need except the fuel rail which was fubar’d and yes it had its belt was intact
Body work finished just in time for the snow and the cold. I just have say I f**king don’t like doing bodywork
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6084730128/" title="pirate 058 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6084/6084730128_5c4b707267.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="pirate 058"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6084184859/" title="pirate 057 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6198/6084184859_e6a50e465a.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="pirate 057"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990742874/" title="14 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6123/5990742874_a1b907fb44.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="14"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990742848/" title="13 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6146/5990742848_f40295edaa.jpg" width="460" height="500" alt="13"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990183653/" title="12 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/5990183653_4e9658eb1d.jpg" width="500" height="424" alt="12"></a>
Cutting the springs
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990742926/" title="16 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6023/5990742926_e8c887019a.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="16"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990742904/" title="15 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/5990742904_1ca22cf0f1.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="15"></a>
While I was foolin’ with the suspension I decided to paint the callipers. Sources say that it makes you go faster. I settled on black, the red or yellow was too fast for me.
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$35 cone intake made from 2.5 to 3 inch exhaust coupler, 2.5 inch Kenworth reinforced cooling hose and a El cheapo Canadian tire cone filter and lots of swearing trying to stretched the hose over the coupler and the amm . Not the prettiest but it sounds cool.
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Aem wideband, boost and oil pressure gauges ala princess auto
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I would like to thank those who wrote the sticky on hacking the stereo harness, the cassettes that where gifted with the car where getting old also the speakers would cut in and out. Tried the contact cleaner tricks, it work for a while each time. I dug out an old deck and vola no more contempt for adult contemporary circa the 1990’s and I still have room for a turbo timer with a water temp, oil temp and volt gauges New speakrz JBL up front Sony in the rears
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About this time my other car was involved in an hit and run so I decide since I have all the tools needed to fix it myself for less than my deductible I would drive the wagon in snow daily until the DD was good to go. painting was fun at -25 Celsius but that for another forum. The mbc that was installed shortly after the wideband and boost gauge was put in was turned up to 10 psi. I forgot how much fun it was to drive a rwd car in the winter so i kept turn that screw on the mbc tighter and tighter until I blew the oil seals on the 13c turd thus oil consumption started and Puff started puffing oil out the tail pipe hence the name
Bought the vag cable and eprom writer off of chinabay and followed the instructions to wire it up. let the shenanigans begin, then I bought a set of brown tops of ebay for next to nothing, was thankful that they weren't leeky for the price i bought them for
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6084911428/" title="P6080003 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6072/6084911428_23ac6e5be5.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="P6080003"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6084910518/" title="P6080002 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6086/6084910518_cc99949d1f.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="P6080002"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6084909550/" title="P6080001 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6084/6084909550_bec4145feb.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="P6080001"></a>
started saving for a bigger turbo and waiting for spring to arrive to pull the engine
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990743128/" title="25 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6022/5990743128_8e4b33c0e1.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="25"></a>
I found this for cheap when i mean cheap the he almost paid me to take it
soon after Roger-Dee was selling his adapters for the not vg version so i bought it.
made a strut tower brace from some liberated steel plate and a old bar from a maxima that my brother wasn't using
this turbo is huge
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6027357682/" title="sub build 017 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6202/6027357682_45694de6fe.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="sub build 017"></a> and heavy.
One day I was driving down the 416 (freeway)in the center lane and the idiot in front of me looses a empty a cardboard box from his pickup, nowhere to turn because of cars to left and right and can't brake hard to avoid it because of cars behind I have no choice but to run it over with the right wheel. thinking that since the spiltter is held on by zip ties in that corner and the wheel will compress the box allowing to pass under the car without causing it to get caught was sound judgement in that split second i had. Boy i was wrong.
Like planned the zip ties did there job to break instead of the plastic box is crushed by front wheel, all is good, box has tape which manages to find my hot exhaust pipe on my lowered wagon, tape melts to pipe, box is dragging under car, box punch hole in rusty silencer. I know this because of sound of car exhaust. box manages to wedge itself between tire and rear spring which snaps the over the axle bend in the exhaust pipe pull over to the side of the freeway curse the pickup truck owner, the cars surrounding me, my luck wait until exhaust pipe is cool enough to remove. start car turn up stereo to drown out the unmuffled exhaust, inhale burning plastic, turn around at next exit head home, scare kids and small animals with loud exhaust, make everyone around upset with the noise, and the smell, feel a little better. ponder cheapest solution to problem. Eat a can of beans cut can with tin snips weld in can to muffler use muffle cement on weld ,sand off plastic off pipe, buy a piece of pipe at crappy tire and a exhaust clamp.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6084445093/" title="sub build 021 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6209/6084445093_0cf1be61e7.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="sub build 021"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6084445995/" title="sub build 024 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6076/6084445995_00ac35fb21.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="sub build 024"></a> A true turbobrick bodge
1993 Volvo 945 turbo assembled in Halifax Nova Scotia
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A little background on the car;
320,000 km on the odometer
Purchased by my father in August 1992 from Sudbury Fine Cars,
It was 2nd Volvo of 4 Volvo that my parents owned, before parents switched to Toyotas after Ford purchased Volvo.
The first one was a 1988 blue 744 turbo, however my younger brother rolled that one at 140 km/h and walked away. Actually he pulled a lawn chair out of the trunk and watched the towing company pull it 20 feet out of the bush. The police, the towing company and insurance company was surprise that he was unhurt.
3rd one was a used 1991 965 POS with that PVR excuse of a engine that constantly burned its oil
4th one they bought a s70 much to my chagrin it wasn’t the t5. My aunt decide to go deer hunting with it one night. The insurance company decide that it was a write off.
The parents wanted to trade the 940 in when they purchased their new Toyota however, the dealership offered them 100 dollars for it. I thought that was ridiculous since the junkyards would give you at least 250 dollars for it. So I gave my dad five twenty dollar bills for it, since he was going to take the $100 deal from the stealership
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990742688/" title="02 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6008/5990742688_aaffd01dd0.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="02"></a>
The body was a little rough, since both my brother and I moved away and my dad had to wash it himself.
It had the usual problems a gas gauge that didn’t work , an faulty coolant cap that would burp coolant, fuel filter that was clogged and needed replacing and back door that didn’t work from the outside. Yet when I did a compression test the deviation between each cylinder was nominal and well within specs. Cylinder two was 170 psi and the other three where 172 ish
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990743234/" title="04 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/5990743234_a635e27367.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="04"></a>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990184151/" title="07 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6029/5990184151_a56d84c6bf.jpg" width="500" height="376" alt="07"></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990184135/" title="06 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6025/5990184135_c9bcb2fac3.jpg" width="500" height="376" alt="06"></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6084187003/" title="945 3 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6070/6084187003_68b7b9503c.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="945 3"></a>
dirty engine pic
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From what i understand the L means she a she is a squirter
I guess I won’t know for sure until I’m elbows deep.
Started on the cutting the cancer out of the doors because the junkyards wanted way too much for the doors and I'm cheap.
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However I found these in the junkyard
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990742794/" title="11 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6018/5990742794_67388b5a8e.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="11"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990183577/" title="10 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6139/5990183577_61715bbe2e.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="10"></a>
The funny thing about these, is that the junkyard proprietor had no clue that there was two b234f in his yard. When I was inquiring about the price the sole b234f head that they had listed on their website, he said "I won’t separate the head from the engine to sell it because, it’s my only one and someone may want to buy the complete engine for $900"[sic]. (I would someday like to meet these people, maybe I can sell them my used 13c for $400)
Disappointed and perplexed, I decide to start popping hoods looking for big injectors and other small stuff could use. I found my way to the back corner where the 8 Volvo were put to rest. I wanted to see this 900 dollar, twenty year old engine for myself. I started popping the hoods and to my amazement there were two b234f in the yard one of them was a Cadillac Fleetwood according to their computer tracking system. Using the skills that I recently acquired from A Jedi online academy (and yes it a real website) I manage to talk him down to a reasonable price.
Pulling the head took longer than expected but I did right and got everything I need except the fuel rail which was fubar’d and yes it had its belt was intact
Body work finished just in time for the snow and the cold. I just have say I f**king don’t like doing bodywork
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6084730128/" title="pirate 058 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6084/6084730128_5c4b707267.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="pirate 058"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/6084184859/" title="pirate 057 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6198/6084184859_e6a50e465a.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="pirate 057"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990742874/" title="14 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6123/5990742874_a1b907fb44.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="14"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990742848/" title="13 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6146/5990742848_f40295edaa.jpg" width="460" height="500" alt="13"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990183653/" title="12 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6127/5990183653_4e9658eb1d.jpg" width="500" height="424" alt="12"></a>
Cutting the springs
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990742926/" title="16 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6023/5990742926_e8c887019a.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="16"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65872230@N08/5990742904/" title="15 by Puff the magic wagon, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/5990742904_1ca22cf0f1.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="15"></a>
While I was foolin’ with the suspension I decided to paint the callipers. Sources say that it makes you go faster. I settled on black, the red or yellow was too fast for me.
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$35 cone intake made from 2.5 to 3 inch exhaust coupler, 2.5 inch Kenworth reinforced cooling hose and a El cheapo Canadian tire cone filter and lots of swearing trying to stretched the hose over the coupler and the amm . Not the prettiest but it sounds cool.
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Aem wideband, boost and oil pressure gauges ala princess auto
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I would like to thank those who wrote the sticky on hacking the stereo harness, the cassettes that where gifted with the car where getting old also the speakers would cut in and out. Tried the contact cleaner tricks, it work for a while each time. I dug out an old deck and vola no more contempt for adult contemporary circa the 1990’s and I still have room for a turbo timer with a water temp, oil temp and volt gauges New speakrz JBL up front Sony in the rears
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About this time my other car was involved in an hit and run so I decide since I have all the tools needed to fix it myself for less than my deductible I would drive the wagon in snow daily until the DD was good to go. painting was fun at -25 Celsius but that for another forum. The mbc that was installed shortly after the wideband and boost gauge was put in was turned up to 10 psi. I forgot how much fun it was to drive a rwd car in the winter so i kept turn that screw on the mbc tighter and tighter until I blew the oil seals on the 13c turd thus oil consumption started and Puff started puffing oil out the tail pipe hence the name
Bought the vag cable and eprom writer off of chinabay and followed the instructions to wire it up. let the shenanigans begin, then I bought a set of brown tops of ebay for next to nothing, was thankful that they weren't leeky for the price i bought them for
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started saving for a bigger turbo and waiting for spring to arrive to pull the engine
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I found this for cheap when i mean cheap the he almost paid me to take it
soon after Roger-Dee was selling his adapters for the not vg version so i bought it.
made a strut tower brace from some liberated steel plate and a old bar from a maxima that my brother wasn't using
this turbo is huge
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One day I was driving down the 416 (freeway)in the center lane and the idiot in front of me looses a empty a cardboard box from his pickup, nowhere to turn because of cars to left and right and can't brake hard to avoid it because of cars behind I have no choice but to run it over with the right wheel. thinking that since the spiltter is held on by zip ties in that corner and the wheel will compress the box allowing to pass under the car without causing it to get caught was sound judgement in that split second i had. Boy i was wrong.
Like planned the zip ties did there job to break instead of the plastic box is crushed by front wheel, all is good, box has tape which manages to find my hot exhaust pipe on my lowered wagon, tape melts to pipe, box is dragging under car, box punch hole in rusty silencer. I know this because of sound of car exhaust. box manages to wedge itself between tire and rear spring which snaps the over the axle bend in the exhaust pipe pull over to the side of the freeway curse the pickup truck owner, the cars surrounding me, my luck wait until exhaust pipe is cool enough to remove. start car turn up stereo to drown out the unmuffled exhaust, inhale burning plastic, turn around at next exit head home, scare kids and small animals with loud exhaust, make everyone around upset with the noise, and the smell, feel a little better. ponder cheapest solution to problem. Eat a can of beans cut can with tin snips weld in can to muffler use muffle cement on weld ,sand off plastic off pipe, buy a piece of pipe at crappy tire and a exhaust clamp.
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