Jason's "built" D24T engine build

[Jason]

The pipe you are seeing I blocked off, it used to have a coolant hose to it that ran to the crappy D24t stock water/oil cooler. Being that you have a factory IC engine you have a front mount oil cooler, which is what I installed on my engine. I did install a block heater as well, it is in one of the freeze plug holes on the pass side of the block. I didn't end up installing it untill after I put the engine in, but man what a difference it makes. It starts up and runs smooth right away even with temps in the teens. Well worth it. My heater is a "Kats" block heater, I don't know if you can get them over on your side of the pond though. I'm not sure you could find a heater thats small enough to go in that spot, the heater I have is the size of one of the freeze plugs, and the element barely fits in the water jacket area. Its 400 watts.

Jason

[Jason]

http://www.warehouseautoparts.com/st...aters.html#968

its the 10420 heater, its on sale for 21 bucks right now!

Jason

[240diesel]

Thanks Jason, for your explanation.
I can't park in front of my home,i have to park on a public street and sometimes it's so busy that my car is standing 50 meters from home.
I know, a extensioncable is a posible option but you know, i come from Holland and there's a chance that i find my car cold in the morning while someone uses my electric power to feed his assimilation-lamps to let his weed grow. :-)

So i 'm building a independable diesel-heater as you can see in the link i posted.Today i made a T-connection to the engine to heat up the engine and the interior in the same time.Right now i leave this beautifull topic and please feel free to delete my postings in this topic to keep it "on-topic".
When the heater is finished i'll make a specific topic on that.

[casioqv]

Originally Posted by Jason

I haven't measured the stock TD cam to compair yet, but I have a feeling the cam difference is a old wives tale.

Ask Tom Bryant about this- I believe he's taken specific measurements on the difference, and even has some data to back up the (minor) performance improvement. There's not exactly a lot of after-market cam options for D24Ts though!

[Jason]

I had brought it up on the mailing list, but never got a response with specific measurements... No big deal taking my own. Either way the new engine runs awesome, if the NA cam is the same as the TD, its not like I downgraded so who cares. If its a little bit bigger than its helping it push a little extra power. The engine comes on so hard now when the boost comes up, I really need to get into the injection pump and mod the gov assembly, and max the fueling out. I'm pretty impatient, but I'm waiting untill it gets a few more miles under its belt and everything is seated in. I'm going to go over the valves as well before I really start running it hard to make sure everything is within specs.

Jason

[MRDART]

Hi! Long time since my last visit to this forum, not a volvo owner anymore :-(...
Your engine rebuild looks great... any video/ pictures after installation??
Would like to here how a "new" D24tic sounds like...
Best regards/ Tommy

[Jason]

There are pictures on the page before this of the engine in the car, but no videos yet.

Jason

[casioqv]

Jason- how did you cap off the stock oil cooler coolant lines? I'm thinking about using a 11x11x1.5" B&M Supercooler for an oil cooler.

[Jason]

Whoops didn't notice the question here.. I used a 3/8" pipe plug in the metal elbow on the head and just welded it in, I didn't like the idea of a hose and some kind of plug with a couple clamps, thats just something waiting to fail or leak. For the larger outlet on the block at the T-stat, I found a larger plug of some kind, just something laying around, and welded that solid as well. Some may not like the welding idea as its permanent, but I can see no reason to ever go backwards and use the stock cooler again. It was also nice to rid the engine bay of a couple more hoses that just clutter up the nice looking paint job!

Jason

[ngoma]

Originally Posted by Jason

One other question... I found some extra wires in the harness that goes under the engine, and traced them up to the fender, to a plug, and down to some kind of sensor in the batt tray??? What is that? The wires were already cut inside the loom and I have no idea where they hooked up on the pass side of the engine.

You probably figured this out by now, but::::::::::::::::::: That would be the battery temp sensor wires. Originally I think the idea was to regulate charging based on battery temperature. I don't know if this was specific to the diesels or not. The orig. Bosch alternator had a socket-type dual bullet connector on the back of the regulator that these wires plugged into.

While repairing the deteriorated engine wiring on my car, I also found these wires cut (under the battery tray). I'm hoping it charges fine without this circuit active.