Anjo's 340Turbo: EFI conversion

[volvodspec]

cheers Steve.

this morning i fixed the 343 after it broke down last night (wouldn't run idle and ran terrible on partial load), found some dirt in the floaterchamber so i cleaned the carb completely up and all problems were solved.

then it was lunchtime and after that i started drawing out the following, wich i had to do 5 times this afternoon...


i couldn't get a method to weld that 3mm flange to 1mm pipe, preheating the flange worked best; but as soon as it cooled down the flange was warped as f*ck eventually the 5th one went perfectly, just needs a little trimming to be exactly flat

i did found time for an actionpic though :


after the oil return pipe i made a bracket for the wastegate actuator


rolled the shit outside:


said a prayer and got the engine back in:


then i made a jump of joy; what a space left!!!





i'm very lucky; nothing i did has to be redone. this week i'm gonna lay out some parts to get powdercoating, on fridays i may get back to the engine. flatten out the oilreturnpipe, finish the actuatorbracket (mainly adding strength and mounting holes etc) after that i'm gonna start welding the manifold, and when that's done, a bigass bracket from turbo flange to an M10 bolt in the engine to support the manifold; in short words, more than enough to do!!!!

[340GLT]

Good work on the manifold mate, converting FWD turbo manifolds to fit RWD is a real pain. But should be worh it in the end for both of us.
Adam

[volvodspec]

i've been in action today!!



manifold welding is done; just needs a leak test.






actuator bracket is done


and also modified this thingy wich is part of the wastegate actuator assembly


the hole in it was about 2mm too big wich would have made the wastegate operation really stressfull; i've welded a bush in it and after it's cooled i'll drill it back out to a correct spec hole.

next up; ordering another load of parts; finishing the oil return pipe and lifting the cylinder head to get the new camshaft in.

[volvodspec]

done a bit more this morning and the oil return pipe is done:





i wanted a piece of pipe as long as possible with the runners going so wide and deep that it would be to close to where a hose should be.
the alignment of the pipes is spot-on, in real even better than on the pics and as you can see i've made a extra support to damp vibration of the oil return pipe, while keeping a bit of flexibility in it to allow slight movement

[SteveP]

Really, really admire the work gone in to that manifold - it looks absolutely superb!

[volvodspec]

haha, wait till i got it acid polished and everything

more picciez; still doing everything by myself:




the manifold-support bracket






quite strongly build and along with the one yet to be fabricated to support the downpipe it all should be more than enough to keep the weight and stress off the cylinder head and turbo.

from above:




and with the first piece of downpipe attached to it;




i could just leave it like that and turn it into a sidepipe hahaha


i've allready been busy collecting some parts over the last few months,

the new paddle clutch, uprated headgasket, uprated manifold gasket, sparkplugs that will handle boost over 14,5 psi and uprated fuel filter.


uprated distribution chain and all Pipercams camshaft, adjustable pulley and high lift valvesprings


the new HKS dumpvalve; with special "high frequency" fan, i'm a big fan of the sound these things produce so i just had to have one hahaha.


no taiwanese copy shit, it's the real deal.


then there's the 4pot wilwoods wich i initially ordered for the front.


turned out they fitted the cossie disks perfectly so 4pot on the rear it is!!! now i'm a bit on the hunt for new 6pot Wilwood calipers for the front

now i should be able to get it tuned above 200bhp with ease after i installed all that but to make it even more fun; this isn't the end!!! i'm going further with an injection system and will try to get as close to 250bhp as i can. how about that for a 1.4 OHC 8v engine wich was develloped in the 60's

[mat_91]

haha cool what you gunna do about gearbox at those power levels
or is it fix/beef up when it breaks something

[volvosneverdie]

how do you make even parts sexy Anjo?

[volvodspec]

well i reckon the diff holds
i don't need clutchkicking for drifting and i found out that that helps very much in the life of the parts!!

diff is properly welded so that ruled out one of the weakest pieces in the driveline; just leaves the aluminium driveshaft. me and 2 other dutch guys sent Reco-prop out to get us a uprated propshaft, those were made and perfectly balanced but under the car they can't handle the torque for some reason. if you drive with it the entire car starts vibrating like crazy... so a uprated propshaft will definatly be build but how/when is the question.

i don't know why Ben, it must be a talent of me then or something

[mat_91]

yer the diff will take the power its the gearbox i think wont be to happy haha
but if your no clutch kicking it it should last longer

[volvodspec]

the gearbox can definatly handle very, very much!

Wim Lemmers has this setup; http://www.volvo300mania.com/forum-uk/v ... =8&t=10253 still on original driveline, and he does definatly not drive like a granny with that B23ET!!!!. gearbox is the same as 340's so i reckon that besides the welded diff an uprated propshaft should be enough to handle that kind of power

and if it does break down too much, i might go the porsche way; since adam allready chose the corvette's setup but tbh i'd be more happier to do that kinda work on a 2.5 16vT redblock for a next project....

[volvodspec]

took the engine apart today;








still nice hone pattern


"nearly new" hg


to the left the stock cam; to the right the new cam.


surgeon style cam installation


timed with the renix wheel and base setting for cam; tomorrow the final tweek using a protractor.


then moved on to the cylinderhead, left = old; right = new


and in place:


tomorrow i'm putting the rest together

[Chris_C]

I like the emergency stack of Grolsche for when it goes wrong Good work as ever dude

[volvosneverdie]

I like the emergency stack of Grolsche for when it goes wrong Good work as ever dude

Ha ha ha. My thoughts were

"Youre not using that beer correctly!"

Great work dude.
As always.

[trabitom99]

That car is coming seriously close to perfection

Tom