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Re: Fred's 1990 Volvo 740 GLE Sedan
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2017 1:45 pm
by Fred
Re: Fred's 1990 Volvo 740 GLE Sedan
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 9:29 am
by Fred
Re: Fred's 1990 Volvo 740 GLE Sedan
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2017 4:43 am
by Fred
This was the first of three cars I took out yesterday after arriving home from a 2 week trip away just before noon. Started sweetly and purred down the road. Only one issue:
There had been a rain storm while I was away and the small leak around the boot seal at the back had manifested itself as a full passenger foot well again:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 0965148673
A temporary solution would simply be to park facing uphill instead of downhill. This cured the 245 leak, too. Or seemed to.
In other news, I have most of the parts required to turn this into a 500-750hp 16v turbo monster/sleeper! More news in the engine building thread shortly,
this is the post above: viewtopic.php?p=43927#p43927 click and scroll down to the next one, if present (will be soon). EDIT:
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Re: Fred's 1990 Volvo 740 GLE Sedan
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:32 am
by Fred
No pressure cap upgrade required on this beast, she already had 150kpa in disguise:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 5913366530
Re: Fred's 1990 Volvo 740 GLE Sedan
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:56 am
by Fred
Re: Fred's 1990 Volvo 740 GLE Sedan
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 1:45 pm
by Fred
Might be getting an invite to a private drift session mid December... so if I'm to attend I need to turn one of my RWD cars into something of a drift queen: LSD, or in the case of this 740, Eaton G80 locker.
A list of things from essential to optional:
- G80 locker from caravan installed
- Rear tyres swapped to front and vice versa
- Pulley swapped for non-slipping one from spare B234F and belts tensioned
- Upgraded front sway bar installed
- Front end urethane all installed
- New front rotors and pads installed
- Oil changed to proper PAO/Ester synthetic (nearly due)
- Trailer wiring made more proper (have dodgy lead that connects to a tail light harness)
- Bring all dodgy Volvo wheels/tyres back from storage, and borrow both caravan wheels
And maybe other stuff. I have about a month to achieve some subset of that. But it's a busy month in other ways. 145am, time for bed!
Re: Fred's 1990 Volvo 740 GLE Sedan
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 12:57 am
by Fred
A colleague just suggested that I just weld the open diff that's in it. I hadn't considered butchering it like that.
I guess the only down sides are being caught to/from, possible axle breakage (though I doubt it, they're fairly stout), and having to change it for the proper piece before WOF which is due mid April, so no major drama there. Though I do usually park it in a quiet cul de sac, so it'd be obnoxious to pull in there. I could mitigate that by reversing up to the usual parking spot though :-)
It's also something I can do last minute if I fail to do the proper swap in time.
I enjoyed having the MIG-locker in the R32 for a year, will be good to have another crack at it :-)
The ute has a MIG locker in it, too, but I'd prefer that was LSD as it screws your low-speed cornering completely without specific setup for it.
So this will be my third personal MIG-locker if I do it. I think I did another for someone else at some point, too. Can't think who that was, though.
Re: Fred's 1990 Volvo 740 GLE Sedan
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2017 1:11 am
by Fred
And another suggestion from the same guy, weld-in plates to ease diff-locking welding:
Re: Fred's 1990 Volvo 740 GLE Sedan
Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:46 am
by Fred
After a weekend of Nissan, my body needed some Volvo:
https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 9797392384
Re: Fred's 1990 Volvo 740 GLE Sedan
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2017 9:28 pm
by Fred