1983 Volvo 244 transformation from D24 to D24TIC

[anders]

I thought I should start a build thread on my 1983 Volvo 240. Little history on the car: My brother bought it from the original owner in the early 90's. I got it from him when I was 15 . I sold the car when I was 18 to my brothers friend for $2000. I got the car back for free because it would not start in 2006, I did all the work needed for the car to get it back on the road. Drove it for a year and sold it again (2007) for $1600 (sold it because I did not have the time or money to fix the car up, it had 175,000 miles on it and had some blow by). Several years went by missing the car. I searched craigslist for a year or so and found it up for sale for $2000 in 2010. I made the deal for $1200. Engine is now toast because of WVO, It has just under 200,000 miles on it. I pulled engine and looked for a d24t to install.
I found my engine, a low mile rebuild D24t. Got it home and started it up and blew it up (look up kibbles and bits thread) on to plan B. I bought a totaled 1983 760. I pulled engine from it, and did the valve adjustment as several intakes had negative clearance, installed head studs, water pump, timing belt, modified 240 D24 pan for turbo drain. Installed engine with new mounts, transmission mount and carrier bearing.
I'm using the NA intake and the original D24t exhaust manifold mated to a Turbonetics turbocharger. Turbo drain is via a turbowerx scavenge pump controlled by a wolsten tech TDR. I bought a intercooler for a RX7 and mounted it in front of the radiator using custom brackets. Piping is 2.5". That's where I'm at right now.

[anders]

Pictures of the intercooler and some of the piping so far.

[michaelovitch]

Nice job.
Need to shoot the whole car !
May i suggest you to relocate the IC.
like it is the airflow is a bit fucked up for the engine cooling

i'm interested by the scavenge pump
have you got pics ?

[anders]

Well I will just have to see about cooling the core on the intercooler is fairly wide and is spaced 2" in front of the radiator. I think it will be just fine as the temps here barley get to 80 most of the time during summer. The scavenge pump is on its way, hopefully I will have it by thursday. Yeah I need to get pics of the car up, I just haven't yet as it is covered in dust. There will be pictures soon.

[v8volvo]

Looks great so far!

Looking forward to seeing it at the XXX Swedish show if you can get it on the road by then.

Was the car originally an automatic, or just ended up with an automatic rad in it?

Did you see the '83 760 TD w/ manual trans for sale for $900 over on your side of the water? Looks like a good deal...

[anders]

Well here is a picture of my dusty car, the finished intercooler piping and the turbowerx scavenge pump. I'm on track to having the car running/driving by the end of the month.. Hopefully so I can put some miles on it before the XXX meet. I need to finish the exhaust, wiring, mount the scavenge pump, put power steering pump back on, re-boot the steering rack, and hopefully fire it up! I'm hoping I will have most of it done this weekend. I'm still waiting on some parts to finish the gauges I'm installing (tach, boost, and EGT).
V8volvo- The car was originally a manual, I think the last owner put in a new radiator, and its copper! The 1983 760 I bought, I missed my 86 740. I think this 760 can be fairly nice with some work, In most aspects it's in better shape then the 740 I had.

[michaelovitch]

Nice that's smell good !

Is that a ball bearing turbo ?

[anders]

I wish it was a ball bearing turbo. I could not find the setup I wanted from Turbonetics in a full ball bearing.

[anders]

Well my 244 now has 500 miles on it, runs great turbo seems to be a great match- it spools up better then the stocker. The only problem I'm having is that it burns oil, a quart every 100 miles or so. Time to start building a new engine (fully balanced, ported head, ARP head studs)

[michaelovitch]

Have you got blow by ?

Are you sure it's not a leak ?

that's sucks

i would like to hear it running !