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21.06.2021 18:19:18
Shipping by air to Europe is surprisingly reasonable - $400 - $500 for 3 day air shipping for pickup at major airports.
See full version: Vintage Performance Developments /// Volvo Performance for the street and track
Shipping by air to Europe is surprisingly reasonable - $400 - $500 for 3 day air shipping for pickup at major airports.
See a few customer comments on this engine below:
At this point we have records that go back for more than 20 years - flow tests, dyno tests, track times - that allow us to make comparisons when we make changes. A lot of these tests were done on the same machines and tracks that we run on now so that we can still make direct comparisons. There are even certain lightly traveled public roads, with convenient markers, where we have been doing testing for many years. Any opportunity to test is used, rather than just going by the seat of our pants.
If not supplying a suitable head core add $150.
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Our Volvo B20 engines are normally shipped on a shipping pallet with an all up weight of 300 lbs. A charge of $150 is added for shipping preparation and delivery to a shipping terminal.
And what a kid in a Subaru WRX said to our New Mexico customer Mark Seredowych after a run in with his stock looking 122 - " Is that thing naturally aspirated?"
These are some of our favorite and most creative engine swaps from recent history. They may not all make sense from an economic or engineering point of view, but we salute the mad professors of engine swaps prepared to do something wild and different.
Online, you'll see a lot of talk from people saying they want to swap this into that or that into this, but the reality is it's typically a very long, complicated, and expensive proposition to swap a modern car engine for something different. LS V8 swaps are common because it's generally the best bang for your buck as a mix of power and reliability. LS engines are also well documented and have the aftermarket to extract more power relatively inexpensively compared to other platforms.
However, some people don't want to go down the well-documented route. For them, the point is the process, the learning, and the engineering creativity of engine swaps. They simply want to see how much engine they can fit into a small car or build something that will impress or baffle people or be just be plain fun to drive.
Taking two cars from the opposing sides of the Italian automotive spectrum and smashing them together has resulted in a 580-horsepower V12 powered monster of a compact car. There was no way the Lamborghini V12 would fit straight into a Fiat 500, and by the time they finished building it out they had turned it into its own car making 580 horsepower. [links]
Of these, perhaps the most well-known Volvo-focused operation was Converse Engineering—a company that would inspire hundreds, if not thousands, of Swedish car fans to try their own hand at building a Q-ship of their own.
As with many tuning upstarts—particularly those specialized to the point where they had no real competition to be concerned with—experiences with Converse Engineering from customers covered a wide range. Some found Ross and his team to be supportive and helpful at every stage of the build process, while others lamented a lack of communication, occasionally sub-par mechanical and electrical work, and a paucity of instruction sent along with some of the pre-fab kits that were on offer.
The 'sleeper' is a time-honored automotive trope, a wolf in sheep's clothing that doesn't advertise its immense performance potential but rather disguises it in milquetoast body work. Of all the sleeper templates out there, perhaps the most cherished is a pedestrian sedan or wagon featuring a souped-up engine swap, the kind of vehicle no one would suspect is about to blow the doors off of whatever is in the lane beside it.
Few cars exemplify under-the-radar sleeper potential like the brick-shaped, safety-first family cars churned out by Volvo in the 1980s and 1990s. Gothenburg had tried its own hand at turbocharging more than a few models to deliver above-average thrills, but the large engine bays featured by these vehicles lent themselves to experimentation from a wide variety of hot rodders seeking stealth speed.
Unlike the engine, the manual transmission isn’t known for being very strong. Only found on 740 and early 760 turbos, the M46 4-speed with electronic overdrive is quite weak and can’t take much abuse or additional horsepower. The AW71 automatic transmission is much stronger and can handle the addition of power—my choice all day every day would be the automatic.
The Volvo 850 was still classic boxy Volvo but took a step forward in terms of modern performance and creature comforts. Now you might be thinking of the infamous 850R to be on this list, but actually, we are talking about the T5.
The S60 T5 doesn’t have the complexity of an AWD system or 4C suspension that are found in the Rs. Not only does this make the T5 lighter but also much less complex, more reliable, and more affordable. When you add this to the fact that you’re not paying the R tax on your initial purchase, it makes this car incredibly cheap overall. here