Turbo-4 '89 Mustang roadrace coupe.

[Bob Holmes]

The soon to be science fair project:

[Russell]

Looks good! do they use the same head gasket? have both to compair?

Old turbo volvos are cheap around here, do they make good swap candidates? I don't see many with 5-speeds any chance they share a bell housing pattern with anything else? (Sorry for the highjack)

[Bob Holmes]

It is my understanding that the blocks are weak but the heads are good. The 16 valve never came turbocharged, so you'd be grabbing an 8 valve if you grab a turbo. No idea on bell housing fitment. I do know that the t5 came on damn near everything in the '80s to early '90s.

[Bob Holmes]

Mike is coming over this weekend to pickup the crank, flywheel and PP. We should have those balanced next week. I should get the head back, also, next week.

We should be able to get things back together, if everything happens as planned, the following weekend.

[Bob Holmes]

Rotating assembly is off to the balancer.

We spent the rest of the day playing with the Folvo science project. http://www.bangshift.com/forum/showt...e-Fair-Project

[Bob Holmes]

ARRRRGGGGhhhhhhhp0a4urjja40uwpw^&$&^$%^#%&#&#!!!!! !

There are times when life just flat sucks. Spent the last couple of days setting up the removal of a friend's racecar from another friends shop. With a quickly deteriorating divorce situation I had to provide proof of ownership to the wife's divorce attorney (did it twice and she never got back to me), called the CHP, and the Sheriff to tell them I was probably going to be removing assets from a domestic dispute (need to do that as a LEO was killed in the line of duty last week), and then spent the morning recovering the vehicle. Geoff, as always, was working right along side me, he also had some assets to recover. Be careful storing assets at someone else's property.

Now I get to go pull an exhaust manifold off a damn mini-van.

Enough whining, off to the garage. When I get this done I can get back to doing the fun stuff.

[Bob Holmes]

Picking up the rotating assembly today. Mike's hot to trot to get the engine back together, but we won't get the head until next week.

Meanwhile, I'll continue pulling the rear exhaust manifold off the mini-van. I need to get a "way back machine" so I can go back in time and shoot a few Dodge engineers.

[milner351]

the shooting dodge engineers line will be very long when you get there...

[Bob Holmes]

Okay, maybe I'll beat them after they've been shot...

Its a shame that the whole idea of making a vehicle serviceable went out the window.

[milner351]

Rumor has it that the original cad drawings of the powertrain / K member layout on the entire intrepid line-up where nearly finished before they figured out you couldn't get the oil filter off the engine before it contacted the K member.... GENIUS.

[Beagle]

Rumor has it that the original cad drawings of the powertrain / K member layout on the entire intrepid line-up where nearly finished before they figured out you couldn't get the oil filter off the engine before it contacted the K member.... GENIUS.

That'd figure - you can't put an FL1A on the 351 with the oil cooler in my Lightning. An FL1A. won't. fit. Dodge is not alone.

[Bob Holmes]

At one point, my Mom and Dad owned a first gen Ford Probe (a truly unfortunate name). They traveled up to my place, wherein the alternator took a dump. I dove under the car and had that sucker unbolted in no time...then I tried to maneuver it out...only to find that I couldn't. So I went down to the McParts store and looked at the manual. The instructions to removing the alternator began...remove the right front suspension.

[Beagle]

Four banger in a Fox is looking like a 300 in a Half ton at this point?

How's the rest of it doing?

[Bob Holmes]

Looks like a forlorn forgotten racecar sitting on jackstands.

But we'll be fixing that soon.

[Bob Holmes]

Just to re-enforce my previously stated beliefs. Working on daily drivers sucks.

The crank balanced out easily. The flywheel needed a little weld to get close to zero and the PP needed a slightly heavier washer under one bolt. Not bad. Unfortunately it tells me that the inherent 4 cylinder shake was probably in evidence, not an extreme out of balance condition. I'm dumping the solid mounts, though. I'm tired of buzzing my way through the paddock.