Also worked a bit on my CNC milling maching. The X axis is DONE (woot), the Y axis will be done when my new left hand ballnut comes in. I found a local place (Motion Industries, huge company, lots of branches in the US and Canada with one nearby, awesome place!) that will have one for me by friday, $46 canadian, not bad at all! I paid $25 US for a right hand thompson ballnut from Mcmaster, and I found a few prices for left hand ones at various stores in the US for around $35us, so $46 canadian at a local place is completely reasonable. Also Mcmaster has been kind enough to ship me a replacement right hand ballscrew free of charge, since they shipped me that left hand one by accident. But since I've already machined the LH one I wanna use it.
I have to remind myself sometimes that I'm still a car guy at heart, and that it's mostly volvo guys that are reading this blog, not die hard machinists. So as I go along I'm going to start posting the cool things that I'm picking up and hearing about in the Volvo world!
First off, this is just freakin cool. A regular on the Turbobricks forums has done it again. Not only has he built an insane 242 with a turbo 16v engine, stuffed a twin turbo V8 into a volvo 740, played with other makes of cars, but now he decided to part out his '95 M3 and stuff the 240hp engine and transmission into his other 240.....IN THREE DAYS, start to finish. Read all about it here!
http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=184194
Also in recent TB news, my good buddy Kenny "Captain Bondo" from Vancouver finally dyno'ed his sexy 240 wagon with the S80 6cyl whiteblock engine swap. 388 hp at the rear wheels! At a silly low 16psi boost. Not bad at all! I bet he could crank out 500whp if he were really willing to break some parts. Although even now he says 1st and 2nd gear are useless for traction and 3rd is a gamble! Kenny is quite the fabricator, he's an incredible TIG welder and he's got years of professionally working on cars, so he really knows his stuff. He installed a Ford explorer 8.8 rear axle to replace the weak sauce volvo one, did the entire paint and body work on his car in his attached garage, installed huuuuge brembo brakes on the front with home made adapters, built a fully aluminum exhaust system from intercooler piping (and it's actually holding up!) the list goes on and on. He hasn't really nailed down a "project thread", but this one is probably as close as it gets:
http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=160024
This past weekend was the 8th annual "South East" meet in Alabama, I drove down last year from Canada and had an absolute blast, but I couldn't make it this year. To sum up the events that I've read of this year, 500dollar Matt's car (740 16v turbo) made a very satisfying 370whp @18psi and didn't break down during the 750mi trips each way from Virginia. But the star of the weekend was Kenny (the host) who finally got his new built engine back into his 740 and laid down an insane 510whp! And went to the dragstrip and blew a 10.82@129mph!! That's with an all volvo engine and volvo automatic transmission, unbelievable. Okay, well custom pistons/rods/cams, but it's still a volvo engine. Good job dude. Several other guys laid down great numbers/times too, but I think those two were the highest. You have to realize that Kenny's car had been off the road for over a year during this rebuild and he just got it thrown back together a day or two before the meet. He's a man who knows how to git'r'done.
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