AshDVSDelrin subframe bushes are much nicer and far more predictable than a worn out oem bush with a urethane insert. Nice work!
This car wasn't feeling too bad but my other car had the full 'driving on ice' front end floatyness.
They also pressed easier than the xc90 ones I put in my other car. Those had to be perfectly lined up or else they Flexed.
Those delrin bushes look a lot better than the oem set up . I went with the inserts but thinking now I've seen yours to go with those ? hhmmm
Stevo I have a set I recently fitted and they are a good thing?
Started on replacing my fuel pump and wiring the other week. The awd design is a bit harder to fit especially since my old housing had been modified/broken and the filter sock was torn. Using extensions and the sock that came with it, I came up with something that works albeit not perfectly fitted (car is running atm with only 10l in it).
I had to resolder and run new wiring since it had been poorly stripped. I used seal all (fuel resistant) on the wiring pass though and deutsch plugs for the pump and level sender.
Unfortunately someone's replaced the high pressure hard-line with a pinched soft line and its started pissing from the top of the tank when running above idle. I will come back to it and fix it but don't have room to drop a subframe atm so it'll just sit a while. I'm sure I can just drop tank a little and be able to thread it through. If I did drop the subframe, I will be wanting to weld up hole in floor and fully rebuilt the rear control arms and subframe bushings, possibly chuck in a different Diff (mines a little noisy) and maybe even do wheel bearings.
Have got a fuel line that I have run under the seat in case I need to move it a short distance.
I was thinking of rerunning a nylon braided fuel line in place of where the hard line was given hard-line is NLA. The current replacement soft line was routed in the wrong spot so that's why it probably split.
I needed new rubber strut spring mounts since one of mine is cracking but decided to just rebuild the whole front suspension while the cars off the road.
I ended getting some koni orange strt (I didnt want it too much more sporty) and some 2nd hand springs (p/n: 3546640) from @AshDVS
I also had all the new hardware needed since I wanted to originally be able to drive around and fully rebuild these in the side. Went with pretty much all Volvo bits but the spring mount is Sachs xc90 ones and the bearing is INA/FAG. Even bothered to get the little crush gasket?. Most part numbers should be visible in photo if anyone's doing the same
All in all, it was pretty easy to assemble. Springs seems a little curved when in assembly but I expect this is fine since it is fully seated at each end (correct me if I'm wrong) .
Look forward to eventually chucking them in and driving the car.
Finally got around to swapping my turbo out.
Basic list of stuff I swapped was :
19t (mellet core with mamba housings and new wastegate and cbv)Green bosch injectors (low kms off xrt6) Aem wideband (ecu runs on wideband only) 3 inch stainless down pipe with resonator Vast ecu ( mods factored in and base tune atm) R manifold (new hardware)Was an okay job but took a few weekends since it has been hot and needed to order stuff halfway through.
Had to cut out the bash guard in order to fit the downpipe (adding heat shielding later to pipe and manifold) .
The turbo is a bit of pain to fit all lines to on AWD and the downpipe needs to just be attached to catback.
Primed turbo and it started straight away and Idled okay. Still have to fix some routing, thoroughly check for leaks but a success so far ?
What downpipe did you use?
Thats a really nice dump pipe
Drwillishttps://ozvolvo.org/discussion/comment/200527#Comment_200527
Aaron from Vast tuning made a batch of awd ones and I grabbed it (was expensive but the dollar was a bit better then). Preferred to pay a bit extra and not have to mess around too much.
Ah, gotcha. it's really nice. well worth paying for.
TL_V70Thats a really nice dump pipe
Agreed.
@AshDVS I have added the measurements to your thread ? thought about doing it before but saw that 1998 is meant to be different
Made a cable to switch between aux and CD changer. Basically just separates the audio left and right from the CD change cable to a 6 pole switch.
The issue was that i couldn't get the semi proprietary female and male sockets and used regular 8 pins instead.
Unfortunately the hackjob sockets are a bit finicky so I don't think it'll hold together too well with actual driving. I also made the cable a few cms shorter than ideal length?
However at the moment it works well and the switch instantly switches between CD and aux. the sound is the best auxiliary input sound I've heard for the stock setup(I've hard wired into sc805 in other car, used tape ad peters etc.).
Will I had something very similar in mind but I haven't got around to making it yet I think I got these plugs from Altronics i thought they were the correct type or would do lol.
Well done you need to knock up few and sell them on here.?
TL_V70Will I had something very similar in mind but I haven't got around to making it yet I think I got these plugs from Altronics i thought they were the correct type or would do lol.
Well done you need to knock up few and sell them on here.?
https://cdn.ozvolvo.org/uploads/GV6I8533LIFH/20220129-192505.jpg
Yeah so they fit - kind of. The male side is modified easily but the female side needs the ground/ring to be larger. Most the reliability issue is really the poor quality of stuff from jaycar and altronics tbh
Although it's all Alpine stuff it's still going to be hard to get old Alpine stuff too I'd imagine....
I held on to one or two of those cables for years but everyone went digital/MP3 or new HU and that guy that converts the old HUs to run inputs whoever he is/was I never knew only heard about it.
Good luck!
