Old Volvos can also take a Ford 5.0 with very little work from what I hear.
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Old Volvos can also take a Ford 5.0 with very little work from what I hear.
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If I was gonna mess around like that they make some pretty nice kits to put LS motors in 240Z's. That would be fun.Originally Posted by Irving
I mentioned the blue wire mod and the road surge shift box in my first post. Ill go into detail on that a little bit.
This car is FWD auto for those who arnt familiar.
The blue wire mod increases the line pressure in the transmission to eliminate the slip that normally happens when the trans changes gears. This causes some abrupt, sometimes tire cherping gear changes but the trans never slips even at the 25psi its seeing now.
The road surge shift box is just a manual gear selector, black for up, red for down.
Right now its mounted in between the seats by the e brake. I want to move the display up into the dash for easy viewing and mount the buttons in the wheel for a full on ghetto paddle shifter setup. Still have to figure out the wiring on that though.
Fixed a couple boost leaks over the weekend and found one more. Boost gauge gos crazy at WOT, jumps around between 20-25psi. I think the next step is fixing the next boost leak and shimming the wastegate shut.
Getting back around to this project.
I have been fixing a bunch of little things, making timing adjustments in link.
Found a guy who converted his button box to paddle shifters using two cruse control stalks and some extensions from a VW.
Ghetto paddle shifters make me smile
Built a couple of these back in the day, not quite this nice looking, but scary fast.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/courtes...7633382346760/
The really nasty one I set up was a radically destroked 400 with roller valvetrain that was stable to 9500 rpm. 670 HP on a rear wheel dyno, in front of a Doug Nash 5 speed...
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Nice! My uncle is all about Z cars.
Not sure if this link will work but heres an older video showing the auto in action, no lifting, no slipping, full spool till you lift.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...99906008708585
At 25 psi boost, I gotta wonder how long that engine's gonna run before it goes pop... I remember the Omni GLHS 2.2s having horrible head gasket problems.
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Hahah.
This motor is on borrowed time. Its is a swap car, so its built off of an NA cast (not forged) bottom end with 160K on it. The guy who swapped it just added 2.0 turbo cams to the head and slapped a turbo, supporting ECU and fuel mods on it. Balance shaft delete, fresh timing set and OEM metal head gasket.
At 300ish hp it should hang out for a while assuming nothing catastrophic happens (sudden loss of fuel pressure, burnt plug at WOT, etc)
But, it WILL crap rod parts out the side of the block one day, I knew that going in. Ill probably pull all the goodies off and find a better, weirder DSM to mess with.
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