No real updates on the new white one, have done a heap of Ks with no issues now, such a good tow bus - have loaded it up massively with construction timber, scrap metal runs, cobbers, everything and not a single issue. It's been halfway around the state and still no shudders or engine issues at high speed. No police issues just a few upset commodore owners... haha. A lot of mates have been in or driven it and agree the thing drives like factory except the welded diff, would love to go to a nice locking LSD eventually but its all cash and time I don't have at the moment! Have a bit of a chance right now to tidy up a few things that have been pestering me since the reshell/build;
Need to modify a sway bar and brackets to bolt back on to the front to get rid of a little turn in slop, thinking about spacing it down slightly to clear the 1UZ sump or getting a falcon bar similar to what
@SirNemesis used to clear his LS (really similar front sump bowl clearance issue)
Random power steer leak from the pump
Rocker cover gaskets
A combination of the modified volvo shifter and lexus selector on the gearbox is not allowing manual selection of the 1/L gear, think I need to dremel the plastic shifter stepping mechanism and bend a few things underneath to sort that out.
A few of the exhaust welds (there is lots of them to craft two pipes around the box and right back through the tunnel) have pin hole leaks that we'd like to pull back out and touch up - easy to identify now with little carbon patches!
Just generally tidying things up, once I'm super happy with it we are all keen to sneak a turbo or two onto it, low boost with stock fuelling wound up with an aftermarket reg, should really get the old brick moving - not that its slow at the moment!
We've been playing with 240s a lot lately, my house mate picked up a cheap stock 92 or 93 wagon as well that we are tidying up and may look at turboing the b230fx in it later
And my pop has picked up this project 86 240 sedan which is factory manual!
Finally today in my v8 Volv I have all of the stock gauges working after building a tacho booster as per this link (
http://www.toymods.org.au/forums/threads/22574-How-To-Tacho-Booster/page2)
Also adjusted the TPS up to cruise better on decel + better response at <5% throttle
Really chuffed that I can see this thing revvvvv now;
Hope to keep some more updates and pics coming as I add things, and as always keen for suggestions on normal volvo upgrades - Sway bar, diff centres, better seats, interior/electrics etc.
Also if anyone has any Virgos (will look at other factory volvo alloys) and or GLE gauges to sell I'm keen to hear from you (prefer in tas) - Cheers!