Fred's 1988 Volvo 240 Sedan 16v (#43)

[Fred]

The tune, for lols:

[Fred]

Daily driving ever since, 7 days a week.

Only one significant issue so far: Ripped left engine mount! And I didn't even really abuse it. Much.

Have a replacement that's stronger to install, so will get that done sometime in the next month or so, I suppose.

Only limitation is inability to floor it in 1st without cam cover and brake booster doing the load carrying!

80% throttle in 1st is okay, though.

Still no tune. Still no wideband. Currently just into full tank 2.

So it had:

20l of random 91 RON from a bottle
20l of random 91 RON from another bottle
40l of fresh 95 RON from a pump (to prevent pinging on no-tune)
50l of fresh 98 RON from a pump (because handier than 95 RON station, and similarly priced)

Trying to log distances for this 98 tank so here's so far:

gas station to city to collect mrs
city to home
home to work to home

more tomorrow :-)

[Fred]

Things are great up to 4450 RPM, then turn to custard:







I really should dig into that a bit more closely. But tonight I back ported some tune changes into source in preparation for removing the ECU for use in the hotel. Took the old girl for a spin, tested a few things, richened up the top end a lot, made no difference.

In another log pull it went to 5200 almost cleanly then stayed there, as if it was on a limiter, but yet not.

Logs continue at seemingly full speed. Seems like there is CPU power to do the job. Just relative timing issues to resolve.

[Fred]

Well, on Friday night around 1230am (technically Saturday morning) I ripped the hotel firmware off using the "karma" laptop and loaded up the last rip from April, and drove the car for the first time in nearly 3 months!

It was nearly out of fuel when I parked it up, and between that, being broke, and having only one ECU to share between the Hotel and this, I just abandoned it. But not anymore.

I took it and filled it with 98 RON 10% ethanol fuel (hmmmmm) and it's been getting some solid usage over the weekend until just a few minutes ago when I parked it back up.

First start was easily as if it had run yesterday. First key on I heard the dry pump gurgling and pulling fuel back into the lines, then stable/quiet like normal. Lifters didn't clatter like they did in the donor car and like they did after storage. One of them still has a bit of stickiness and clatters sometimes and goes away. I guess the amonia filled nulon lifter cleaner has mostly been doing its job. Good :-)

I'll have to put one of my other ECUs together for this car, or the hotel, so I can keep them both alive/available with ease. Both have the infamous motherboard molex connectors in them, so I guess it'll be my 0.7 Jaguar that goes in. Both also have water ingress issues, but neither are a big deal now with drainage in place and summer on the way. https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 2159396866







Pic from Friday night at the gas station before taking the long way home via the motorway :-D https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 1325240320 & https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 4053487616









Also, someone damaged it while it was parked for 3 months: https://twitter.com/FredCookeNZ/status/ ... 9647717377

[Fred]

ECU-less as of Sunday night, time for the hotel to get some love. Need to put a second ECU together so I don't have to play swaps all the time.