February 2008

Volvo Night, Video2

Nothing to explain here, haha just watch

Volvo Beater Day 1

Corey and Ryan picked up another beater car to have some fun with, a 1979 Volvo 242 GT. Timmy came with us and took the car for a drive, we had plans to beat it up in the feild, but didnt know how muddy it was, haha we didnt get very far haha.

Here is the video from today.

turbo kit cleanup

After installing the new wastegate and getting all the welding finished, we took the kit up to the sloppy northern facility and glass beaded the turbo kit, to clean off the rust and welding dirt, and started spraying it down with some fresh coats of BBQ pit paint. the turbomustangs secret high temp coating haha.

Synapse Gate

The welding and hard work is all done, everything fits and double checked. Next is to glass bead, and clean up the pipes and re coat them and then install!

Bike has a Boo Boo

Well, appears the bike has a boo boo, after a quick tear down, it appears i melted a piston strait thru, blew the ringlands, and welded parts of it to the head and barrel. Awesome.

New Wastegate

Well Ryan got the new wastegate about a week ago, and after some of the other jobs are out of the way its time to start working on the 5.0 again. Putting the wastegate on the top so it gets priority over the turbo and routing it back into the exhaust to make it quieter, also helps with scavenging excess gas out of the wasgate. I cant wait to hear it without the dump, should have a nice wicked turbo whistling sound. Here is the start.

Bills Oil pump

Oil pump replacement on bills 99 A4, apparently its fairly common that they wear out and start loosing oil pressure. I dont have much pics of this but its really not that exciting.

More Tank Sump Stuff

ryan got around to cleaning up the holes we drilled out for the sump, and fitted and tacked on the sump.