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General => User Rides => Topic started by: 88-pinto turbo on November 11, 2004, 10:56:51 AM

Title: My rides
Post by: 88-pinto turbo on November 11, 2004, 10:56:51 AM
http://www.angelfire.com/ult/jfaulkenburg/

My website

My turbo coupe

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/709678
Title: Re: My rides
Post by: oldraven on November 11, 2004, 12:25:40 PM
:wtf:

How did you pull that off? I've never heard of anything like that before.
(http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/1/web/709000-709999/709678_4_full.jpg)
Title: Re: My rides
Post by: Haystack on November 11, 2004, 05:39:05 PM
It says in his car domain page that it is off of a volvo. Ford bought out volvo and has been using ford engines for a while. Ill bet it is just a newer regular 2.3 ford engine block.
Title: Re: My rides
Post by: oldraven on November 11, 2004, 05:41:20 PM
Yeah, but Ford only bought out Volvo a few years back. This doesn't look like a recent Volvo head. I hope you're right though. :D
Title: Re: My rides
Post by: Tbird232ci on November 11, 2004, 06:05:38 PM
the volvo head isnt a direct swap, there is still some fabricating involved, im not sure how extensive it is though

now...if you wanted a 16v neon head on your 8v single cam 2.2L...then we could talk
Title: Re: My rides
Post by: oldraven on November 11, 2004, 09:49:51 PM
Quote from: Tbird232ci
the volvo head isnt a direct swap, there is still some fabricating involved, im not sure how extensive it is though


Talk to me man. The T-bird just gained itself another decade before it gets sold. :banana:
Title: Re: My rides
Post by: 88-pinto turbo on November 12, 2004, 08:32:40 AM
That isn't my car that is a volvo head swaped on to a ford 2.3 lima block. 

Here is a link read up.

http://www.turboford.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000119
Title: Re: My rides
Post by: oldraven on November 12, 2004, 10:08:08 AM
Thaks man. I found that exact article on a Merkur site last night and printed it off. It sure as hell doesn't sound cheap, and with four pages of instructions, I imagine it would take over a year to complete. Hell it would take six months just to source all the parts. (Mitsubishi timing belt? :wtf: ) I still want to do it though.

Is ther any easier way of going DOHC 16V? It always pissed me off that Ford only went as far as OHC with this thing.
Title: Re: My rides
Post by: Bird351 on November 12, 2004, 01:42:10 PM
Read down through the discussion there.. people mention a couple other options, I think.

There's even a somewhat unrelated link to a site that sells 4 valve/cylinder heads for pushrod V8s. At least, if it was more relevant, I forgot how.. been a few hours since I followed the links.