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What Cylinder Head To Use For Best Performance With 2.3L Block?


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On dual VVT, we don't really care about the emissions aspect, but that's how Volvo tuned it, and it's why they put it in. It would be much more ideal to vary the intake cam with rpm to move the torque band around to match the current engine speed, and change the exhaust with boost/load.

Advancing the intake cam will improve low-rpm VE, while retarding it will help high-rpm VE, so start out advanced and retard it as the engine speed picks up to shift the power band around as needed.

Advancing the exhaust cam will reduce overlap for a smoother idle and increases the pulse energy going to the turbo for a quicker spool-up, while retarding it will help evacuate the cylinder at higher loads and RPM, so start out advanced, and retard it as the boost comes up.

Obviously a lot of dyno time will be needed to figure out the details of how much advance and retard gives optimal performance, but that is the approach I will be taking when attempting to control the cams. I may just go with a standalone ECU and use some auxiliary outputs to drive the VVT solenoids with a 250hz PWM signal.

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I'm just gonna ignore the VVT, blank off the solenoid ports & set the cams manually, based on -98 cam settings to begin with. TTx module will have VVT support, but I don't think I'm going to go for that. My (forthcoming) TT module is for COP only.

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Last I talked to CJ about the COP package, he told me that it was going to be "too expensive", and was going to be changed. As much as I love the concept of TT, I'm not sure if it will give me the flexibility, power, and options I want.. :unsure:

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Last I talked to CJ about the COP package, he told me that it was going to be "too expensive", and was going to be changed. As much as I love the concept of TT, I'm not sure if it will give me the flexibility, power, and options I want.. :unsure:

Yeah - the COP module I'm getting was dropped in favour of developing the TTx module that will have COP, VVT, data logging, etc... capabilities, it was deemed to expensive to produce.

BTW - can your WHiteblock page be updated to include the appropriate engine designations (B5254T2, 3, 4..etc...)?

Hussein, only the B5254T2 had dual VVT in 2003, and you are right, that is an LPT engine, the same capacity as the S60R and V70R 2.5 engines. The B5244Tx 2.4 engine still had single VVT in 2003. It probably doesn't matter what year it was, if it has dual VVT, it will be interesting to see how it performs. According to VADIS, the exhaust is able to be varied by 30 degrees, while the intake can be varied by 50 degrees of CRANKSHAFT rotation.

So, what models actually got the B5254T2? I couldn't find any VADIS parts listings on '03 V70 or S70 models that showed dual VVT, regardless of engine designation..

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Yeah - the COP module I'm getting was dropped in favour of developing the TTx module that will have COP, VVT, data logging, etc... capabilities, it was deemed to expensive to produce.

BTW - can your WHiteblock page be updated to include the appropriate engine designations (B5254T2, 3, 4..etc...)?

So, what models actually got the B5254T2? I couldn't find any VADIS parts listings on '03 V70 or S70 models that showed dual VVT, regardless of engine designation..

I see. It'll be interesting to see where Adam ends up with that package.

And I'll do what I can to update it, I may have to make a gigantic table to show everything.. :lol:

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The '01+ NA intake cam has 8.65mm lift vs the dual VVT LPT intake of 8.45mm lift.

Do you have the spec listing of these? I understood the dual VVT to have greater lift than the single VVT - but, since I have a dual VVT head, I should be able to use the NA intake VVT cam.....

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From my RN thread:

	               Intake		       Exhaust	

	        Length	Lift  Duration	Length	Lift  Duration

 -98 B5244 N/A		8.45  250		8.45  252.6 (Note: some '93, and maybe '94, N/A engines got more aggressive cams)

1999 B5244 N/A	104.05	8.65  		103.30	8.80 

2001 B5244 N/A	104.25	8.65		103.30	8.80		

 -99 B5234T3	104.05	7.95  242	103.30	7.95  243.5

2001 B5234T3	104.25	8.40		103.30	9.05

2001 B5244T3	104.25	8.45		103.30	9.05

The LPT heads got 0.05mm more lift on the intake than the HPT, 0.2mm less than the NA, but more on the exhaust. These numbers are for the single VVT heads though, I'm not sure if the dual changes anything.

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From my RN thread:

				   Intake			   Exhaust	

			Length	Lift  Duration	Length	Lift  Duration

-98 B5244 N/A		8.45  250		8.45  252.6 (Note: some '93, and maybe '94, N/A engines got more aggressive cams)

1999 B5244 N/A	104.05	8.65		  103.30	8.80

2001 B5244 N/A	104.25	8.65		103.30	8.80		

-99 B5234T3	104.05	7.95  242	103.30	7.95  243.5

2001 B5234T3	104.25	8.40		103.30	9.05

2001 B5244T3	104.25	8.45		103.30	9.05

The LPT heads got 0.05mm more lift on the intake than the HPT, 0.2mm less than the NA, but more on the exhaust. These numbers are for the single VVT heads though, I'm not sure if the dual changes anything.

Dual VVT Part numbers:

B5254T4 ®

B5244T5 (T5) same intake cam 30637410

B5254T2 uses 8670354

B5254T2/T4

B5222T4/T5 same exhaust cam 8642712

Single VVT

B5234T3 Intake cam -01 9207943

Intake cam 02- 6900044

Exhaust cam -01 9207944

Exhaust cam 02-04 9497822

Exhaust cam 05- 8642712

NA Int VVT

All B5244S/S2/S6 same int -02 9497735

same int 03- 8627280

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Do you have the spec listing of these? I understood the dual VVT to have greater lift than the single VVT - but, since I have a dual VVT head, I should be able to use the NA intake VVT cam.....

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For your dual VVT the NA cam might not be that big a difference and you should be able to use them. But for my single VVT the NA cam would give me .25mm more lift. I'd need to use a VVT hub adaptor. I believe this why Aaron made this hub for Nick's Laser Blue '00R to run on NA cams on the intake.

That's a good point, the VVT NA intake cam should swap over to the dual VVT LPT head without a problem, since it's the machining for VVT that makes things incompatible.

Does anyone have duration specifications on these cams? :)

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Here is a link to wizzard_al "quote".

For your dual VVT the NA cam might not be that big a difference and you should be able to use them. But for my single VVT the NA cam would give me .25mm more lift. I'd need to use a VVT hub adaptor. I believe this why Aaron made this hub for Nick's Laser Blue '00R to run on NA cams on the intake.

VVT NA cam won't work in place of Non-VVT turbo intake cam. See Bondo's post

Aaron's hub is simply to delete the VVT.

I was working off the same quote, but missed the "NOTE: B5244T3 engines had 8.45mm lift on the intake! (LPT from 2001-2003)"

and read just the LPT 01-03 part.

At this point, we don't know what the specs of the dual VVT B5254T2/T4 are.

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It might be buried in VADIS somewhere, I'll have a look for the info later.

Edit, this was printed out for my '02 B5234T3, so I'm not sure what years this applies to, but it seems that the 2.5L engine uses the same intake cam 2.4L T2, which is the LPT engine, correct? It is different from the 2.3L HPT, despite being the same specified lift, probably due to the addition of VVT. No idea on duration figures.. :(

			   Intake 		   Exhaust	

Engine			Lift	PN		Lift	PN

B5204Tx (excl T4)	8.40	9207943		9.05	9207944

B5204T4			8.15	9207941		

B5234Tx			8.40	9207943		9.05	9207944

B5244Tx (excl T2&3)	8.40	9207942		9.05	9207944

B5244T2			8.40	9497231

B5244T3			8.45	9497823		9.05	9497822

B5254Tx			8.40	9207942		9.05	9207944	

edit 2, fixed a mistake in the table.

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