Volvo 740 with Audi V8, Biturbo and Quattro driveline "AWDsome"

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Wibe_

Discussion Starter · 4 mo ago

Hello everyone.

I've been around here for a while now reading on many different projects so I thought it was time to share my own project. I've been building this for a while, so it will be a bit old information in the beginning, but still suggestions are welcome because it isn't finished yet and things can always become better.

I've got this car 19 years ago. It's a 1987 Volvo 740 TIC (turbo intercooler). First thing i did was of course to strip it down, repaint it, body kit, big stereo and such things as I guess almost every 18 year olds do to their first car?
So the color of choice was a Volvo "R" color named "Flash Green Metallic". It turned out pretty neat, and with 3x the factory boost it moved alright too. I think it was one of the quicker Volvos in town by that time.

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Anyhow. I guess for some of us a powerfull engine is fun, so the hunt began for something more fun in this thing. Volvos I5 swap is really common and I6's starting to get normal too, so it wasn't really appealing enough. While doing the swap it would also be great to get enough grip since the oem rear axle almost everytime wants to do one wheel burnouts.

So I had this German imported thing standing in my driveway, not registered in Sweden so I couldn't drive it on the roads.

I guess what's about to happen will probably upset few readers, but I began to strip the front end out of the Audi and took out the subframe, suspensions, engine and gearbox.

It's the older 4.2l 32v V8 lump in this car. Before I got the car from Germany, it was imported from Italy, so it was converted to run on gas/LPG, some of the components are visible on the comming picture.

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After some searching on the Internet and help from a local Audi dealer I got my hands on this information about the fix points of the front cradle.

So, with the tape measure in my hand I started to measure on the Volvos frame rail. It was alot of measuring to get it all centered and so everything would fit alright within the volvos body. First of the front fixing points came to place, just a notch wider than the oem rail but with a little triangulation it should keep it together.

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The other side came along aswell, just copy the first side and it was done.

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When they were done I could start triangulate for the rear points, I had to cut a bit more of the rail and make more of a cup to make the subframe fit, the rail was also wider than the subframe so i had to make a wedge in to the center to support it.

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And as the front one's, when one side were done it was just to copy it to make it work on the other side.

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When the new attachment points were done, the Audi cradle fitted nicely within the Volvo 👍

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I also had to gut the Volvo strut towers to make the massive Audi suspension come through, pieces of cardboard and metal became a model of where I needed to cut out to make place.

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So, I guess this will be the start of this project since I only could attach 10 pictures.
As said, I've come a bit further than this, but I will get there eventually.

I hope you will enjoy this project despite the sacrilegious unity between the car brands 😊

Until next time

Timmy

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Wibe_

Discussion Starter · #41 · 2 mo ago

This is how cool the pipes look when off the car 😎😅 Not much to see more than alot of bends everywhere 🙈

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So, I continued with the pipe going backwards. Drilled holes in the jackstandmount to get the coolant through it, will be a rubber hose there so I can easier attach/detach the tubing if needed to.

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And it goes along the rail all the way right before the rear wheels

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Where it goes slightly inwards before proceeding up over the rear axle.

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I also made theese two cuties. One aolid and the other i drilled a hole in to attach a airvalve from a rim.

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By doing that, and with 2 hoses, I could attach them to my tubing and put pressure within

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Making it way easier for me to spot leaks, and there was many small leaks to fix.

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I also made a new bracket for an electrical waterpump I've purchased. I'm still not sure if the engines waterpump is sufficient when it comes to flow water all the way to the trunk and back front again. It's the Davies Craig ewp150 with the small computer with it, so it will operate on it's own. And, I did a smaller flowcheck to see how much water it flows through when turned off, and it will not interfeere too much if it dies and only mechanical pump work.

I welded the bracket onto rear left jackstandmount.

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And mounted the ewp onto it. The design of the mount is made so I can remove the pump by releasing the three nuts on the rubbers, and slide it out.

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Wibe_

Discussion Starter · #42 · 2 mo ago

Here is how the ewp sits looking from the side, compared to lowest part of jackstandmount, so the ewp is not the lowest part if running over something 🙂

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This is how the aluminium tubing under the car joins together with the radiator in the trunk, longer flexible rubber hose.

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A rubberhose with a bend connected to a shorter aluminium tube up towards the outlet of the radiator

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And from the ewp back again towards front of the car.

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in the jackstandmounts I put in some u-shaped rubber with clamps within (don't know the English word for this rubber trim) all around the edges so they don't get too sharp and eats the hose.

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Then i put on the hoses that goes through the mounts.

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Here is the hose from the outlet of the radiator going beside the fuelline/returnline, just before joining the aluminum tube that goes down to my ewp.

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When all were in place, I hooked up my boost pressure gauge to my coolant system, then I filled the whole coolant system with compressed air from my compressor. I couldn't get more than 1.5bar (21psi) because of the cap on expansiontank opens up at that pressure.

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And I of course found some more leaks. This here is the new fitting on my wastegate that leaks. The old one was the one that interfered with steering assembly.

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So, I tightened the bolt 🤦‍♂️

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And I had to order new parts to get this sorted out.

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Discussion Starter · #43 · 2 mo ago

So, while waiting for a new banjo bolt among other things, I went on with the fuelsystem of the car. I got the main fuelcell on 60l (I guess it is around 13 gallons) sitting centre of car, and I also purchased a 4l catchtank (almost 1 gallon?) Which I'm going to find a place for along with dual fuelpumps and a fuelfilter.

I found a place that seemed good, so I made 4 brackets because I wanted some thicker metal to mount it to. Probably a bit oversized, but atleast the inspectors are happy.

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I welded the brackets in place and drilled/taped 4 holes for the bolts to hold it in place.

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Next up was a jig for the fuelpumps. They are altered Bosch 044 pumps that has been adapted to better accept e85 fuel (a demand for building this car) and from information have the capability of 600hp/pump, 1200hp in total on e85. 340l/hr each (around 75 gallons/hour each)

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The pumps are fitted with a checkvalve each, and a 90° going to the back of catchtank where they join together in a Y connector before entering the fuelfilter. Also visible is the returnline from the engine that goes in to the catchtank, and the returnline from catchtank into the fuelcell.

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I also got some nuke fuelrails for Audi 4-cyl engines that fits good on the intake. I also have purchased 8 new flowmatched injectors, high ohm altered Bosch for e85 that flows 1220-1300cc each, should be capable of 1100-1200hp.

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I also got a new Nuke oil catchcan for the crankventilation. But I had to alter the bracket a bit to sit better in my car where I had room for it.

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There are 3 ports on it, two for incoming crankvent and one for outgoing which is going to be attached to one of the turbos intake, as usual because of Swedish regulations. After registration it might be open to atmosphere if the levels of pressure is good enough within the crankcase.

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I also have a new fuel pressure regulator and it got fitted nicely beside the new catch.

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And some new braided fuellines from the aluminum fuellines that comes under the car to the engine, then from engine to btr and back again to the returning fuelline under the car.

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Discussion Starter · #44 · 2 mo ago

I took out the fuelcell and prepped it a bit with wiring for an internal fuelpump, and welded in the plug for the feedingline to fuel catchtank.

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I made a simple brace that hold the fuelpump within the fuelcell, it's made in aluminium so I will see if it will vibrate too much and break, or if it will hold.

Another angle shows the feeding hose and electrical wiring to the pump.

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when mounted in the fuelcell, the filter to the pump is above the bottom of the tank so it doesn't suck unnecessary shit, but still in the lower part of the fuelcell.

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If I'd be a little smarter, I would have put the feedingline connector more offset and used the smaller hatch for main fuelneck too. But now I'd have to use the bigger hole for that. Another regulation here that says I need to refill the tank from outside the car, and not by opening the trunk and fill it.

Anyhow, this is how it looks on the inside of the tank

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Then I put everything back in the car again

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I also welded in the temperature sender into the coolant pipe so the computer for the eletric waterpump knows how hot the water is.

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I also made some extra mounts for the e-brake cables, they were hanging way to low since my 740 is shorter than the donor Audi.

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I actually put some fuel in the cell and powered up the main pump in the cell, filling up the catch and I could hear the overflow coming back to the cell. Then I started one of the high capacity fuelpumps to test the whole fuel system. I of course found a leak on the feedingline right above the rear axle.

So again I had to remove the rear axle to solve this new issue 🤦‍♂️

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Discussion Starter · #45 · 2 mo ago (Edited)

Well, I found where it leaks.. And the tubing was damaged too, so I had to cut it off a bit

And of to the carpart store and buy another an-fitting, some braided ptfe hose and replace the tubing I had to cut off.

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And then on with the fuelpump again! 😁
And it popped the o-ring on the fuelrail instead 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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And the store told me to use aluminium rings instead, so I bought them, and they also leaks..

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So I had to make it work in another way, I first ordered a 90° angle to replace the banjo, but it didn't really clear things as the banjo did.

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So I tried a 120°, and it wasn't much better of an option.

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neither the 150°, and a 180° wasn't gonna be better either so I didn't even try it.

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A 45° became the best option as I saw it, and make a bend over the intake straight to the fpr.

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While fixing the busted fuelrail under the car, I spotted that I might put the propshaft the wrong way, so I had to check it out, and of course I had done it. So down with it and make a new fixing for the centre support.

This time the Volvo original support actually could be reused, but I had to make a minor adjusment to accept the audi support instead of Volvo support.

The red belt is attached in the front and rear of propshaft, to be able to measure it and make the prop straight.

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Painted it and mounted it on the car again 👍

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Discussion Starter · #46 · 2 mo ago (Edited)

I welded in some support for the exhaust on the new support plate

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Then another guy who thought of something else, came up with that if my prop moves to much, it will git the support. So I cut a pipe in half and replaced some of the support with it, so the clearence got bigger.

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Some scrapemarks on the support while lifting up everything in place, but it was just to put some new paint on it.

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I started a little om the electrical while waiting for more parts that are ordered. This is a 1987 volvo 740 amd it has the electrical harness from a 95-98 940 since I had a engine swap before.

but now it has an Audi dashboard and instrument cluster.

So I got my hands on the eletric schematics for the Volvo harness, and the schematic for the Audi cluster, and the mayhem began 😅 soldering one wire at the time in each new place.

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And it started 😁😁
Yeah, the donorcar is from Italy 🙈 And I don't have the things to swap language in it, so I guess I have to live with it 🙈

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The fuel level sender that came in the tank is a 0-90ohm sender, so I had to buy a new one since the audi instrument wants 9 +/- 4 ohms when full and 166 +/- 7 ohms when empty. The closest I could find was one that had 180ohms when full and 10ohms when empty.

But, if I dismantle it and turn the reader upside-down, the readings will be inverted and have 10ohms when full and 180ohms when empty.

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I also had to twist the arm to clear the other things I have in my tank. I also made some simple measurements of how much space there is in the tank between bottommand top so I could calibrate the level sender travel.

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And in it goes, long screws but it sits where it should and the arm clears the hoses and wire.

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When empty, the sender gives 165.1ohms

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When full, the sender giver 11.7ohms

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Discussion Starter · #47 · 2 mo ago

Made more progress on the eletric and sorted them out one by one

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But with the fuellevelsender I got the meter to work properly. Full tank

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Half tank

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And empty tank with warning light and the "ding" sound.

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After finding the brakepad wear cable and bulb failure cable, I plugged them correctly and got rid of their fault indicators and suddenly I even got a reference as to how far I can travel to empty tank. It's not correct since my tank capacity is 2/3 of the donor cars, but atleast it gives a hint. I also tried to attach the ambient tempsensor, but since it goes through the audis climate control system, the readings didn't work with only the sensor. I even tried a wide range of resistors from 1 ohm to 2M ohm and ended up with no reading at all or -45°C as shown in pic. If anyone has information if this is fixable without the ecc, please let me know 🙂

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After the instrument I went for the levellers behind the steeringwheel, starting with the left side.

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It's one for the lights (off, park, main (is it called dipped??)) and the other is cruise control, blinkers and highbeam (and is this mainbeam??).

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So I got the parking light functioning now.

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Along with main beam (dipped??)

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And full funcion on the highbeam (main beam??)

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Discussion Starter · #48 · 2 mo ago (Edited)

And of course I got the tail lights working 🙂 rear lights with indicators

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rear brake lights with indicators. And also fog and reverse lights were working 🙂

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while doing the electrical I also started to fix the position for my new clutch and brake pedal. Got my hands on an extra torpedowall that I used as a template between the pedals and my car.

Then I cut out a new metalsheet and turned it into a little box for the new assembly

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aIn went the new clutch and brake pedal 🙂

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Then back to the electrical again. I just don't seem to finnish one thing before starting something else 🤔 Well, I got alot of bad readings from the cruise control switch. Sometimes there was contact and sometimes it wasn't in the same position. So I pulled it apart and it was all dirty, so I cleaned it and put it back together again and it was working 🙂

Now the problem was to make it send the correct signal to the Volvo boxes, so I had to combine some things because the audi had more features, like increasing speed while the older Volvo only has set speed.

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I also got the window wipers and washerfluid working, and the Audi ignition lock, so I began to tape it all together

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It even has a fully eletrical adjustable steering wheel now 😁

I also made this bracket.

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which sits on the passenger side door hinge fixing, it's all the relays and fuses for the VEMS electrical, so probably gonna make a little "crashbar" around to keep passengers from kicking it 😁

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And while I was turning over the engine (to see that the Audi ignition worked as it should) I found this leak 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Discussion Starter · #49 · 2 mo ago

So after using alot of thread tape and different other sealing stuff, I got tired of it still leaking and just welded it together. It got a little clogged up on the inside so had to drill/file it up again. So yes, it got well cleaned after this photo.

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But, it leaked again, for the third time, man I was angry 😅 but this time it was my own fault 🤦‍♂️ I had pinched the rubber between the adapter and engine 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ It isn't easy getting this part ff and on the engine while in the car, it is really tight reaching it. So there was no way of seeing this before. So went away and purchased liquid sealant that holds for petrol/oil etc and got it all together again.

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Starting to look more like an Audi than a Volvo on the inside too 😅

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I managed to hook up the Volvo EHPAS to function with the Audi rack. Unfortunately it's canbus controlled so it will only run on full rpm's. But it starts when turning on the car, and has its own fuse 😁😅

I also started to look at the idle valve settings, tried to trim it and work properly, I had the spare one loose and watched it open/close while altering the settings, so I think I got it working as it should.

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while cranking the engine all those times while it was leaking oil, I also discovered that the instrument clusters "low oil pressure" light always was on. Well of course it is when there's no ground to make a complete circuit 🤦‍♂️ So I had to fix this too, made it simple this time. Will probably make a seperate hole for the ground in the future.

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And all of sudden, while trying for the first start, the fuses started to blow. I searched and searched and found this lite prick. It's a small soldering edge pointing out of the cables, way less than 1mm, and shorts into another cable 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Took me a while to find this..

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It took me so long that I had to take a break and searched for a place to put the ecu, and it now sits above the golvebox behind the dashboard, where the airbag once sat.

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And also took time to fix the thermostat, the Davies Craig ewp wants two holes in it, so made them

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And then it finally happened 🥳🥳🥳

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Hope you enjoy it as much as I did 😁

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Discussion Starter · #50 · 1 mo ago

So the engine works and I've been fiddling with vemstunes to make it smoother and so on, not much to post pictures of ve tables, fueltables etc. Mostly not fully knowing what I'm doing 🤦‍♂️ but hopefully I'm smart enough to figure it out. The hardest part right now is tuning in the idle valve. When revving the engine it wants to die before settling the idle.

Anyhow, bodyworks. The donor is slightly wider than an 80's Volvo 😅 so to make the suspension work fully, I need to widen the front wings atleast 9cm (almost 4") on each side 😅

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So I went to a nearby pick n' pull with a tape measure and a magnet and went row by row until I come by a newer golf with something that actually could do as some sort of base for this project. I found many audis with wide enough wings, but they seem all to be aluminium, while the Volvo is plain metal.

I took a spare scrap wing and attached the golf wing on it and it looked rather ok after all

the line toward front is the biggest issue, but I was thinking if I chop it and lengthen it, it maybe could work. I have not worked on this solution more than this, so it's still unfinished.

Rear is slightly less in need of widening, this is measured on the inside of the wing, so it's almost 7.5cm (3") to clear the wheel on travel.

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Bring forth the sawzaw 😅
I gutted almost everything out of it. The plan is to come by a pair of fresh inner wheel wells and weld it on to this making it wider with oem parts

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Not much left 😅

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While searching for parts, I assembled the brakes. Put some level sensors in and when one of the three is low the warning light in the dash lights up 🙂

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Just one problem, the parts sold in this kit isn't made for eachother. I tried threadtape, tredo and aluminium rings with no success.

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so I made me a new bracket for the cups, and had to order new hoses from the cups to the master cylinders.

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So this is where it sits now.

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Discussion Starter · #51 · 1 mo ago

I made a small central for the dual spal fans on the radiator. One 40A relay for each fan along with two smaller relays that makes a function that VEMS may start one fan at a certain temperature point and the Davies Craig Ewp can start the second one at another temperature. And also letting the Davies control both fans when the car is turned of for better cooling.

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this was the preliminary widening of the rear wheel wells, 5cm (2.5") per side, it wasn't enough I found out later on, but it definitely was a start to make the body accept the new rear wheel width.

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Then, all out of sudden. After spending almost 5 years in a carport making this monster

The car was on a trailer going for a way better area to proceed the build

of course I couldn't let it go out of sight on the 10min drive to the new location 😅

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The all new (to me) garage wasn't completely fixed when moving the car, but it was such an awesome feeling to be within 4 walls and a roof to continue tamper with it, so I didn't really care 😅

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so when the floor was dry enough, the car took its new place, in the centre of the garage, to have lots of space moving around it 🙂 Even have me a soundsystem in the garage mounted on the walls/inner roof, so I can listen to any music now instead of birds, pouring rain, wind, trains and other sounds 😅

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Anyhow, this is how the enginebay looks, felt it was a few days ago I posted a pic of it 😜😅

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And this is how the interior looks like 🙂
A bit messy, yes, but it will come in place sometime 🙂

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Discussion Starter · #52 · 1 mo ago

So a few more hours of organising, driving back and forth with trailer, box after box with stuff. Man! One does collect alot of stuff in 17 years 🙈

I welded on some wheels on one of the workbenches, it got 5cm to high (2") compared to the other bench, but its alright, atleast i can move it with ease if i want to in the future. Will put a smaller metalsheet bender on it along with that bench drill in pic and a stationary grinder machine, so I wanted the bench to be movable if the thing I'm working on is to big and hits the garage wall.

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But worktime also needs some playtime. So I started it up and just played a little with the throttle to keep the cleaning motivation up 😊

Lol, bad idea 😅 soooo, cleaning was of the schedule and back to the old place and pack some more boxes instead 😅

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I still haven't emptied my old place completely, but I want to finnish this so badly at the same time, just to enjoy it 😅
So a few days later I started to look at the hoses from the master cylinders and the brakefluid reservoirs. I thought I needed new/longer hoses since I moved the location, but i put them the other way around, with the 90° on the masters and I was good to go.

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I also started to bleed the brakes again, purchased me one of those handpumped vacuum bleeders and think I sorted it all out.

So, now that the driveline is done, I need to start look at the body, so all 4 wheels will be covered in the wheelwells.

I'm a bit lucky at this front, aince I know a guy that breaks car for living, and from him I got a set of rear inner wheelarches in good condition. So I began to remove the outer part of the fender that was left

This is what I removed. The outer layer of metal was of course crispy as they use to be, and the left side (not in pic) was worse.

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Now I had me a "new" arch that I had to get in the right place, which wasn't particularly easy. I had to place and remove the wing several times to measure it in so it looked correct.

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I had of course saved some parts on to help me align it better/faster.

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The C-pillar support will not be the same in the seat, so that will probably get some bracing.

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out to the right I had saved a bit from the old wheelwell that I also used as a guide. I also had to remove the plate I put there earlier since I needed the rear part to be wider than I first thought.

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And then I tacked it in place.

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Discussion Starter · #53 · 1 mo ago

So I welded the piece in place as good as I can. It did differ more towards the old wheelwell than I thought it did, some gaps are visible. I also have some wiring laying there, so I need to move them before welding it completely all way around.

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This is how it looks when the door is shut. So here it shows how much I've widened the arch. Amd yes, it is more widened in the bottom compared to up top, I wanted more of the wheel to be covered than it was from factory.

This isn't 100% correct, but almost. This setup gives me 10mm of space between the edge of the arch and wheel if it would bounce up in the same height which it would morlst probably do sometime. And if one take some quick turns under acceleration the tire hopefully doesn't get shredded by the edge 😁

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I did hang up the rear panel just to see how it looks. And yeah I once actually had a thought of a fuelcap on the right side of the car, it still will be on the right side (right side traffic) but much much smaller than that 😊

So, I copied the right side and did exactly the same on the left side.

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This is the rear passenger door on right side, the arch is widened 86mm in the bottom (3.4")

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And on the "hip" it is 68mm widened (2.7")

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I cut some flares in the wing over the widened part, I also removed a bit of the part that goes down behind the door. I can definitely live with this widening 😁 Just need to do something forward on the rear door to meet up this 🤔🤔 I'm not sure I want to cut the door and pull the metalsheet out just yet, but maybe 🤔🤔 the metal is so thin and big in surface, I'm afraid I'll destroy it with dents all over.

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Discussion Starter · #54 · 1 mo ago

Some packages that has arrived.
I got myself an "turbo" grille for the facelift front. Apparently they are called "XC" grilles nowadays, but this 740 turbo from 1987 had squares in the grille to indicate it was a turbo model. "XC" is something they discovered in 2000-ish something 🤫😁

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I also put an order on some spares. New coils and plugs, always good to have. 2 chargingregulators for my alternator (one will be mounted), some new exhaust rubbers, 2 new gassprings for the hood (one of mine leaks)

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And the third package includes new wheelhouse parts to make something up, along with "US" style indicators 😊

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Since I wasn't 100% sure how to go on the widening, I did other stuff, while walking by and "feel" the widening, if it was something I liked or not.

So I completed the exhaust.

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The exhaust was rather easy to get out when it was laying on the mechanic board 😅

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And after some welding, cutting, grinding, welding, cutting, grinding I was pleased with the result 🙂

I've had theese collecting dust for something like 12 years. They are supposed to go on another project, but ended up on this instead.

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The tape is to cover the chrome part, so I don't damage it, if anyone wondered 😅

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since the car sits on dolly's, it will be lowered 5.5cm, so it ends up on 23-24cm (9-9.5") above the ground

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I also welded on a new hanger for the "muffler" on the outgoing part that the rear bumper attaches to. This makes the mount sit almost on the middle of the muffler, spreading the carry load.

The hanger is made mirrored on the other side, so if the exhaust move to the left or right, it wont come of.

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Discussion Starter · #55 · 1 mo ago

The rear bumper only has one exhaust exit, so I took forth the heatgun, sawzaw, grinder, some pipes, cardboard, a pen etc and started making a template of the right side hole. Made some markings on the left side, started cutting and melting the plastic and came up with this. Besides the thing to the right in pic it turned out rather neat 🙂

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this is the right hand side exit that I tried to copy to the left side.

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Yeah, this could definitely be something 😁 they look like they stick out alot, but they doesn't, probably will be visible better in comming pictures.

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I also took the opportunity to weld back the backpanel on the car again.

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And turned my attention towards the widening of the car again.

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A friend came by and we taped this. The black marking in the sideskirt is where it most probably will be cut so it sits along the side of the car and then follows the widening out. It will be a smoother angle too, rather than this that just goes straight out.

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Discussion Starter · #56 · 1 mo ago (Edited)

So i filled all the gaps with this maskingtape so it would be more "solid"

Then i transferred the silhouette on cardboard and put that on the car

I have also taken the new metalsheet and clamped it onto the car

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I had to make a small cutout and bend it a little so the door could clear it

I also made this backcardboard to stiffen up the widening on the door.

And this is how they meet together when door is closed. The cardboard part will probably be made in glasfibre, but time will tell.

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Next up was to fill in the gaps.

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More cardboard 😁😁

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And a new piece in metal 😁

Yesterday evening, if I was quicker on the throttle, this thread might have come to an end 🙈

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· #57 · 1 mo ago

This is insane! I love it!

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Discussion Starter · #58 · 1 mo ago

pointblank9957 said:
This is insane! I love it!

Thanks 🙂 and yeah, sometimes I have to sit back and think of what I've done 😅 and why 😂😂 It would have been soo much easier to just throw in a new locker in the rear and a bigger turbo on the oem engine, and in the end be like everyone else. Not that it's bad because the "redblock" is tested well over 700hp. One dragcar even got 2000hp in it, but that's serious modifications ofc.

Even though I'm not good at fabrication and such, so the things doesn't turn up as good as I want them too, this is still a one of a kind build, because atleast I've never heard of a Volvo 740 V8 twinturbo Quattro before 🙂

I did make a new piece of metal because I cut the old one wrong. Then I tacked the new part to place and left some metal in place at the bottom just in case.

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I jave also cut the new wing in half, because while widening the arch, the lenght between the rear bumper and front of wheel arch became bigger.

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I clamped it in place to see how it will look like

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And I left the widening there for a while again to just look at it on different days, walk past it several times too see if I'm happy with it etc.

And while doing that, I cut an Volvo 850 rear spolier in half that I've found at a scrapyard. This was also laying on the car for a while, and I'll think I will go for it actually. I will buy two new squaretube that is longer and made in aluminium, to brace the spoiler better so it doesn't sack in the middle as it does now.

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Also gonna need to fabricate new brackets to make it sit on the trunk propperly, but how hard could that be compared to the rest of the work on this car 😅

When I was 18 I made this "hybrid" roof spoiler that combines two different spoilers from Volvo estate models. The outer parts are from one car and the middle part with brakelight is from another.

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But I'm not as thrilled on this spoiler as I was when I were 18, and also compared with the trunk spoiler 🤔 So right now I still want to go with just the trunk spoiler.

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Discussion Starter · #59 · 30 d ago

I welded on the rear part of the new fender which left me with this gap since I pulled the fender outward for the widening.

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It took a little while, but I made this

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And it fitted nicely in the gap 🙂

only problem is that I'm not happy with how the lines are.. It doesn't even point straight forward 🙈 So I have to redo some things.

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But as usual, I want to see if I'm happy with the fender, and while doing that I took out the engine and gearbox.

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Piece after piece its getting more ready to come out.

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Finally lift time

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And this is the reason for taking the engine out.
The upper oil pan gasket was leaking oil.

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So out with the old and in with the new 🙂
And of course one of the bolt holes was bad thread 🤦‍♂️ So when I put it all together again I had to make some longer threads and a longer bolt to make it tight. The old gaskets almost felt like plastic and was rather easy to crack, so it was definitely time to change them 😅

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Discussion Starter · #60 · 29 d ago

Here's the bolt that I had to make new threads and longer bolt 🙂 I took what I had laying around, would ofc be nivlcer with a similar looking one, but it will not be visible once the engine is back in 🙂

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I also started to look into my clutch selection. I was using the automotive flexplate along with the 034Motorsport's manual conversion insert

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Along with a Southbend clutch kit.
I started too look up the numbers on this things and discovered that this kit was made for 508nm (375ft-lb) which isn't gonna take me far.

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So now I was looking at my upgraded clutchkit that was supposed to get on my 2nd engine with higher boost level. The red is the 034, the turquoise is the Southbend kit, the yellow is an TTV Racing flywheel, amd the blue is my Clutchmasters kit.

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I got the 8-puck FX400 because I've never driven anything with more aggressive clutch, so inwas afraid it would be to jerky eith 4- or 6-puck and went 8-puck.

The salespitch on this one is that it handles 170% power increase compared to oem clutch. This is how they calculated it:
"Example 1:
We are going to buy a street-friendly clutch for inspired driving for a Skyline R33 GT-R tuned to 450hp. This car has 280hp from the factory and has therefore been increased by 60%. (450/280=1.6 "60% above OEM")*

Example 2:
This clutch is for a WRX STi 15+ that is to be driven only on track with approx. 750hp. This car has 300hp from the factory and has therefore been increased by 150%. (750/300=2.5 "150% over OEM")*"

My engine has 340hp and a 170% increase would give me 918hp, way more than I need for registration and 2nd step at 550hp.

But, after contact with the company, they responded that the clutch is made for 420ft-lb torque, 569nm. My v8 has 410nm stock. This is 39% increase of power.

When trying to sort this out, he only wants to sell me a twin disc clutch setup, and to do so he wants me to ship my flywheel across the world.

So I dropped that.

It does ofc sit well in the TTV flywheel as it is the correct clutch.

but not on my 034 insert, because it's made for another type of clutch.

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the basket (correct word?) Is different made, where the yellow arrow points, the surface is deeper on the soutbend compared to clutchmasters.

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Anyhow.
I went on installing the FX400 because it was better than what I first put on my car. Not very happy about it since the clutch is almost as expensive as a twindisc setup that holds for 1600nm (1180ft-lb). But sometimes one learns the hard way..

This clutch will hopefully do the 1st and 2nd step of power increase, 450hp at registration and 550hp after that. Then I will source a twin disc for the next engine swap that holds for my 3rd step, cramp everything out of the engine, hopefullely atleast 800hp in the engine.

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