Two_Four_Zero;c-153465 wroteSupercharger?
Yeah, I put a supercharger on our 88 240GL (removed it when we sold it). Here’s a link to some historical articles I wrote about it for our Volvo Club magazine. It’s a Toyota SC14. I was running low boost (4-5 PSI) on a stock LH2.2 B230F. Had a rising-rate fuel pressure regulator to compensate for boost. If I did it again I’d use LH2.4 and turbo computers.

http://volvovic.org.au/blog/2003/05/15/supercharge/
Engine is out. Yay! Spent more time than I like sliding around on the shed floor undoing bits. Anyone need any K-jet bits or B21E engine or accessory parts, let me know. AFAIK this car was a runner (had a RWC just before it was “put away” back in about 1997).


bgpzfm142;c-153468 wrote
Great article.

Speaking of your now surplus K-Jet bits - what's the condition of the K-Jet main fuel pump and accumulator?
Not sure about the condition of the main pump and accumulator. I may try it as I need to pump the stale fuel out of the tank. I was trying to get a look at it but difficult to see with the metal shield in place. Will have a closer look.
Well.. if it's a goer and you wish to tidy up your shed, please let me know how many monies to donate to your car fund, so it can take a little trip across Bass Strait and into my stationary K-Jet 145.
Ok got a bit carried away today - whole interior out except brake pedal bracket and steering wheel as I need to be able to steer the car to put it up on the hoist. No rust anywhere which is great. It's tempting to pull the glass and get it re-sprayed but not economical so I'll just give it a cut and polish and touch up the stone chips I guess.




Planning to fit the rear seats and seatbelts from the 93 240 wagon (the EV). Also have a set of the late all black rear window rubbers so will pull the current windows/trim and tint the glass, then reinstall with new style gaskets. Gonna do a full black-out treatment on the trim I think. I like black and yellow together. Still haven't decided what engine to put in it...maybe the B230E running LH2.4 from my donor sedan as that's the easiest to do now and means I don't have to pull apart yet another car. Manual trans is up in Wangaratta so need to retrieve that. Pulling apart a car is a lot easier than putting it back together. I'll have to be a bit more careful when I'm pulling apart the donor car as the order in which things go together is pretty important! :)
quick work with barely a break after the 244.
If any one has a stalled project, following this should get you motivated!
OK, finally got the bleeping petrol tank out. What a pain. Why am I doing this on the ground? The aluminium pipe/filler neck was stuck very tight into the tank so I couldn't get the tank out without the neck coming out as well. Finally wriggled it free. The tank was about half full of stale (Vintage 2001) petrol and about 10 mm of rust particles. What a stench. So if anyone thinks they're going to get a fuel-injected 240 that's been sitting for decades going again without some major work, think again as it's not easy. Neither pump works, although the main pump may just be stuck and I may pull it apart and have a look. Glad I decided to go the route of a donor car on this one. I suppose if you were doing it you might get by with new pumps, sender and a used (good/later model) petrol tank.



17 days later
Been working on cleaning up the engine bay and interior body. Got some paint mixed up (3x rattle cans and a touch-up bottle). Matches well so I’ve started panel-by-panel touching up the small chips. Will have to re-spray part of the engine bay (RH side inner guard where brake fluid leaked and stained/removed paint and LH side up by the battery tray). I think I’ll paint the lower radiator crossmember and headlight mounting surrounds black as they’re not really visible anyway and I don’t want to waste the expensive yellow paint. Going to help @ds245 on his newly-acquired 93 240 wagon (getting it in RW condition) so a short delay on the hoist, then getting stuck back into swapping bits over from the 93 sedan parts car to the yellow wagon. Running out of room as it seems like all I do is pull cars to bits and stack the parts everywhere. I need to start putting Humpty Dumpty back together again so I scrap the 93 sedan body shell and make some more room!

What a sweetheart of a wagon. Good find!
That wagon is very naked! Good work Greg
18 days later
Taking a break from working on @ds245 ‘s 240 wagon and back on my yellow wagon project. Got the gold donor 93 sedan on the hoist now and engine is ready to come out. I was considering dropping the crossmember, suspension, engine etc but decided to pull engine first then pull suspension and crossmember. I was a bit worried there would be too much going on to do it all at once. The end goal is to clean up the B230E (yes, B230E was in the 93 240 sedan as the previous owner cooked the FX unfortunately so a dodgy mechanic put in a B230E) and replace any gaskets/seals etc and timing belt and put it in the yellow wagon, along with the complete 93 LH2.4 wiring harness, suspension, fuel tank etc. Remind me why I’m doing this? LOL!
To give it to me when done!
Ex850R;c-155482 wroteTo give it to me when done!
Right! With my labour even at $10 per hour you won’t be able to afford it! ;)

Anyone else having trouble uploading pictures? I had a message “Server returned 0 code” when I tried to upload a pic to my last entry.
Yeah, same for me as of this morning.
OK I think I made a mistake with wiper pivots. I removed the old clip-on spline wiper pivots and mechanism from the 79 wagon and thought yay, I can use the newer ones from the 93. Now looking at it with the 93 being the post-85 cowl panel that’s higher in the centre, it looks like maybe the one wiper pivot may be longer on the 93. Can anyone confirm this? I haven’t pulled the dash etc out of the 93 yet so can’t measure it. I’m shooting myself now because I pulled the mechanism out of the 81 wagon I wrecked and it had the bolt-on wiper arms...then I turfed the mechanism thinking I didn’t need it as I’d be using the one from the 93...NEVER, I REPEAT NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY! :)
When did they change from clips to the newer ones?
Roinik;c-155493 wroteWhen did they change from clips to the newer ones?
Not 100% sure but I’m pretty sure that 81 I wrecked had the bolt-on arms...maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think I would have pulled it out initially if it had the clip-on style arms. I’m sure somebody here knows! I know all 86-later had the bolt-on arms.
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