Ok guys - I haven't been loafing off too much. I mentioned that I would try to get the dash in on the weekend and I didn't post yesterday. Well, that is because I ran into a couple more things with the dash and I took a jaunt up to CJ's place. Awesome guy and an awesome 855!!! SO notice this cracked up defrost vent panel. You know... if I have the sucker out and I've done all this work, I just can't put it back in there and stare at those cracks. So I took another day to do something a
Today's update... Once again I got nine solid hours in today. "Miller Time" Ok - First thing I moved on was to finish laying all the Sound Deadening material so I can get the interior somewhat back in order. Took me about 2 1/2 hours to knock this part out correctly. Have a looksy! Here I have worked in the floor padding over the SD material, reinstalled the floor vents and the shifter assembly. Note custom stereo cable assembly provided by BING on both the driver and passenger s
Thor - I took you advise on this one. I mixed a batch of ABS pudding using ABS shavings and MEK. YOU ARE RIGHT - that MEK is some seriously nasty stuff, but it gets the job done! Here are a couple of pictures of me just trying to setup what pieces I could salvage. Once I have once complete, I can try to replicate the position, height, etc. for the others. Again - I'm just setting these up and plan to reinforce the whole area better than stock. The consistency of this stuff if perfect f
Today was another 9 hours at it!!!! 9 am to 6 pm with a small break to jam half of a cold chicken quesadia and a coke!! Let's get right to it. I finished putting SD material around the roof area first. Then I got the sun roof assembly mounted back up again. For those of you who have never tried this alone - I suggest that you don't try. It is very painful on your head (holding the assembly in place) and your shoulders (trying to bolt in the corners while this thing is resting on your
Sound Deadening of the Interior. Well, this morning I woke up nice and early, drove to Krispy Kreme and scored a half dozen assorted and a large coffee. The Breakfast of Tuners! So at 9 am sharp I embarked on applying the Damplifer Pro from Second Skin Audio. I figured I would cut me teeth on one of the rear doors first. Ok -the panel was already off. But hey - you know me... I want the job done right and sound dampen the INSIDE of the doors. It too me a while to figure out how to remove
Scott - I'm not sure on the part number. Even if it is riveted on, would it be a seperate part number??? I'm headed up to VolvoSaab early tomorrow to be there when the open to get some "stuff". I'm going to ask while I am there. I'll print out pics of the dash. I thought I would share some pics of what I've been trying to describe to everyone. Below are the four broken points. Tomorrow (when my arms get tired of putting sound matting on my roof), I'll break out the fiberglass and try to c
OK - so here is a slight update... I finally got my Black Jeweled headlights in today from the SAM Sweden GB. It took 3 months... but hey, I got no dash... I'm not going anywhere!!! So - take a look guys. What do you think I should do with that Bi-Xenon projector sitting next to it??? Scott C.
Project has just entered the "OH CRAP" phase. You know... the phase of a project where you are heading into areas you just know you shouldn't be headed!!! Well - definitely this dash has been removed at least once in its lifetime. Found that all the spring-nut points where the bolts from the firewall side (4) attached, were broken off. Thus, not much holding the dash in place. SO, out it came. Here are pictures of the chaos that ensued. Sans dash... talk about lightening up!!!
I figured that I would post and update. I'm about 1 week away from receiving in the Venolia pistons. Once that is in, I think I have most everything needed to send out for port/polish. Then the fun will start So - I haven't been idly sitting around drinking beer. Well, at least not sitting. I have the interior of the car removed and 100 sq ft of FatMat should have been here by today - it's not. I figured I would post picutres of the sound matting process in case anyone else is intereste
OK - most everything external has been removed. Now for the fun fun stuff! Ladies and Gents - boy and girls of all ages... this is what my pistons look like after 105K miles of service. The cylinder walls are actually in really good shape probably due to all that good ole Alaskan Mobil 1. Here is an interesting part. I confirmed today that yes indeed, I was running NA cams unbeknownst to me. Anyway, when I removed the head I found that #5 cylinder exhaust valves were hitting the piston
Today's Progress; Learned a couple new things today... like how to strip cheap sockets on Swedish head bolts. But there was some good too! The FEDEX man kindly dropped off my brand new "R" bumper - many thanks for George for making this available. I might even be tempted to paint it black
Someone has been in my CAMS? How does on visually determine an NA cam from a Turbo cam? No real part numbers on them. Here is the reason I ask. The cam gears have written on them (painted) AND inscribed with both "E" and "I" which tells me someone was doing something. Then I'm looking at the grind and it looks pretty aggressive and I have painted bands on the cams. Any ideas? Also - just for giggles, I slapped the S60R Ex. manifold on to see what is looks like. This is much b
S60R Exhaust Manifold finally arrived!!! I just love when FEDEX leaves gifts on my doorstep! These are a much better design that the 850 stock manifold. Now. Where is my Dremel??? Another score - $118 brand new - SHIPPED! Scott C.
Ok guys - you're keeping my honest. I said I'd do it... albiet I'm an hour late. But I scored some free 2nd row hockey tickets so my priority changed. I did get up the gumf to get in the garage at 11 pm after the hockey game and give this a whirl. So - GOOD NEWS!!! IT FITS!!! Tight, but no problemo! Here are some pics. I always thought the original color of my subframe was BLACK??? IN!!! Notice I have the front engine mount bolted up. Sorry - need more light in ther
OK - so today I got the engine block cleaned up a bit so I'm not spreading grease around the garage, etc. The wife is not really speaking to me lately... but that means I can spend more time in the garage - right? So - I got the M66 bolted up to the block today. IT FIT LIKE A GLOVE!!! Here are some pictures of it. Tonight I will try to clean up the engine bay a bit as I've not touched it since the engine came out. I still need to get a few things outta there. Tomorrow I will try to pre
I also traveled to Dallas earlier this year to take a look at an S60R (M66) that dyno'd 540 WHP and the trans was not the issue although he had a stage V clutch. He did put enough torque into the front wheels (was in FWD mode) that it tore the entire passenger side shock assembly out and the wheel proceeded to enter the fender and door area. So - his problem wasn't the trans! Yes - I even work on Christmas so here are some more pics! We've all lost a knuckle or two while working on our engin
Some of you may have heard this already but I just officially kicked off this project. To put the M66 six speed into a '97 850. Top that with an engine build up that will hopefully push past 500 HP. So - Started the engine pull this week and I got the auto tranny off. Here are some pics, hope we can make this a running thread. I'll accept pic requests if they are within reason. Almost there. Also made sure there was plenty of ice cold beer within reach for this project! OUT!!!! So
