Around 10 years ago, I picked up an '81 244 from @Spac for @powder_hound as a fixer-upper, and this led to Nina finding The Passion for 240 ownership.
Around two years ago, the car was totalled when someone reversed out of their driveway into it while it was travelling at speed. ðŸ˜
Billie's thread: https://ozvolvo.org/d/1945-1945/
This did not deter Nina. They took the payout from Shannons and exercised salvage rights on the wreck. They then found a new 240, a '92 model with 120,000km on the clock and a B230FX, all in good running order, and named it Crowley.
For the past two years, Billie's wreck has sat in Nina's car park with a vague plan to swap the freshly built B230FT turbo setup from Billie into the new car.
Billie (RIP):
Crowley:
Over the June long weekend, I finally got the ball rolling on the swap. We pulled the turbo package from the wreck. Engine, transmission, intake and exhaust systems. I'll be back in the next week to pick up some electrical items, including the turbo ECU/EZK and the AMM extension harness. Because Crowley is a '92 model, I am going to retain the factory LH-2.4 harness and just modify the AMM sub-harness so I can relocate the AMM to the driver's side.
We started Friday night, and by Saturday afternoon it was at home in my workshop. Thanks @Maximus @powder_hound and @VolvoHordz for all the help!
While Max and I worked on the mechanicals, Brendan and Nina got stuck into the interior. We are moving the blue interior from Billie (which ironically is originally also from a '92 240) into Crowley, along with the S40 seats we ran in Billie. Brendan did a heap of work swapping the interior just so he could get some seatbelt hardware.
Today some parts from FCP arrived, I have some new seals and o-rings and gaskets for the transmission (AW71 with a modified valve body) as well as some fresh spark plugs. I'm also going to replace the freeze plugs in the block as some of them are leaking, and give everything a clean and a once-over, replacing anything that's tired.
Welcome to the build thread!
