Well pretty much since I've had the car I noticed it was a bit tappety on the top end of the engine and recently it started getting worse. After researching etc without actually looking at the engine apparently 16V lumps are common for the tappets to become a little noisy by becoming blocked up or failing.

So after talking with Bennett on here I didn't feel confident enough having a crack at them on my own as i'd never done them before so last week I took the car to him and he started taking the top apart and talking me through how to go about it. Although he realised when we got to taking the cams out Bennett noticed that there was an oil starvation problem in the exhaust side of the head which was the answer to the tapping. So it was decided we were gonna pull the engine out and do a rebuild on it!

So we put some thinner oil in just for the week and I used to car as little until today. I drove back down to Bennett where he started cracking on the engine ripping it out and pulling it apart, I helped out where I could along the way and now the engines on a stand and beheaded!

Plans are to rebuild the engine cleaning up the parts and replacing whatever needs replacing. I don't feel the need for anymore power so i'm not uprating anything, just want a nice reliable bit of poke . The heads going to be sent away to be checked and refaced and Bennetts on about doing a bit of headwork where possible the engines gonna be all painted back up as it goes back together!

How the engine originally looked in the bay (not great pic I know)



So as it is from today!


Nice hole in the engine bay lol!


Engine fresh out about to be jetwashed off


On the stand ready for playing with!


Beheaded bottom end


Head waiting to be sent away

During this my Minilites are going to be put on, got some rear pop out windows (thanks to Volvo360GLS) my passenger side bucket seat refitted now the floors painted up and fitting the passenger side 4point harness newly acquired

Watch this space

cool! hopefully you'll be learning loads about the engine to for the future. Reminds me I need to take my block to machine shop to get it honed....

Jason B wrote:cool! hopefully you'll be learning loads about the engine to for the future. Reminds me I need to take my block to machine shop to get it honed....

griffo learn lol

nice!!

i should have my stand soon. my engines almost ready to go in it draws closer each hour i work on it..

Found out today it turns freely as well which im glad about

well mine turns freely, doesn't mean there wasn't some nasty surface rust in the bores when I took the head off

im leaving mine as it is for now stripping the un nesscercary stuff, and getting it in and running first lol then it can come out when i do the tuning.

griffo yours will be like this monday

shot blasted and looking like new.

thanks lee

Good luck with it Griffo! Bennet are you starting up a Volvo 16v tuning business?

Nikdev wrote:Good luck with it Griffo! Bennet are you starting up a Volvo 16v tuning business?

slowly i am trying but not just 16v volvos

todays jobs.

block in primer

face of block cleaned and inspected to see if level. all ok.

sump removed now all cleaned and inspected. all ok.
head sent off today inspected and reface waiting on results.

tomorrow paint block and fit shot blasted sump engine mount.
start custom rocker cover.

Did you just pressure wash the block to clean it before painting or somethign else?

used degreaser and tfr and a hard brush with plenty of elbow grease.
thnaks lee

Bloody excellent dude top job! I shall get pics up tomorrow of various components being sprayed up to keep up with Lee's awsome work!

griffo I need gaskets iwant this back together by friday???
thanks lee

Just bloody wait lol! They'll be here