Raebirds S70

Raebird · 2015-11-10T12:20:04+00:00

needs less hubcaps. Have you thought about fitting some different wheels? I reckon something like this would look good.

Raebird

I had a go at fitting my intake with the bigger throttle recently only to realise that it has larger injector holes and my standard injectors don't fit. So I had to put all the original equipment back on and try work out a solution. Also a dodgy photo off my phone as I was admiring the car from the side of the road.

Ex850R

It was an Na manifold?
Na injectors seem to have extra bush around them you could have used that.
Or, bore out the TB hole on the turbo mani and use the bigger TB on that.

Raebird

It is a n/a RN manifold as far as I can tell and the car is n/a. The problem with boring out the original manifold is the pcd for the oe throttle body is a lot smaller also, the RN manifold had the right sized opening and the pcd for the throttle body is close enough for me to be able to use some smaller bolts and the 70mm throttle bolts straight on. It would be much easier to source the correct injectors for this manifold rather than modify the original. However nobody can tell me why the injector holes are different as they should be all the same apparently.

Raebird

So with all the OE intake back on, some of us Brisbane Volvo lovers took to the drag strip and the mighty S70 ran a best of 18.3@really slow. On my last run for the night the MAF decided it was not happy about the situation and packed it in, luckily it got me home. Time to make improvements to reduce the elapsed time and try again now that the MAF has also been taken care of.

Raebird

Today I took the car on the SSVC poker run and it ran faultlessly, although I really do need to get the aircon regassed!

Since the previous intake manifold was playing hard ball, I went out and purchased a short runner manifold off a turbo S60 and will set about getting it on the car in the coming weeks.

I also was gifted some white injectors which I will fit at the same time as the intake and will purchase a larger BMW MAF housing to fit also, then try my hand at flash tuning!

Raebird

Been a while between updates, but I have done a few things to the car lately.
First of all I painted the boot lid and put the wing back on, not a great job of painting but at least it is not silver anymore...
I also added a digital volt meter with 2x USB ports as you can never have too many USB ports really, it fits quite nicely in the slot next to the trip meter selector.
Next I added an ARD light weight crank pulley and euro sport tuning msd coil kit, I was very surprised at the weight difference between the balancer and the light weight pulley.
Then I went for a drive up to Canungra with a couple of mates and due to very low profile tyres, limited suspension travel and terrible roads, I ended up with a cracked wheel and a slowly deflating tyre.
So now I have a different set of wheels that I had in my stash of wheels and tyres, fitted with more rubber (225/40R18 instead of 205/40R18), the handling improvement with the bigger tyres is remarkable!
Anyway, that's it for this instalment, hopefully won't be so long between updates next time.

Raebird

Bought a wideband to see how fuely this thing is and once I sort out this flash tuning business do some fine tuning.

jamesinc

Where do you buy that nice little USB charger that displays volts?

Raebird

I got mine from ashdown ingram james.

Raebird

Update: It seems, like most things I put my hand to, I am going further with this car than I had originally intended. ?
I will let the photos do most of the talking, but I have removed the p/s pump and belt tensioner/idler, so now need to come up with a solution to tension the shorter belt that resides there.
I have also started installing the electric power steering pump (ex Ford Focus), surprisingly the high pressure line is correct and fits the pump correctly. Still to sort out the wiring side of things.
Intake, throttle body and MAF are all mounted up and operational.
I have also relocated the battery to the boot, because racecar? and to make some room to mount the p/s pump.
I installed a walbro fuel pump as well.
Will need to work out some sort of heat shield/cold air induction also, but I'm getting close to driving it again.

Rob

:love:

Raebird

Not sure if serious... ?

Rob

Raebird;117668 wroteNot sure if serious... ?

i am seriously serious.

egads (she/her)

Does the PCV area get super opened up by using that intake? Very interested in how it works out.

Raebird

It free's up a lot of room @egads
Unfortunately I have decided to not go any further with this car now as I want to get into a manual 240, will put up a parts sale post tonight.

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