My Volvo 854 T5-R 591 hp/524 ftlbs project the story so far.

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:12 am

Good luck with this mate. You deserve it after all the hard work. You really must bring this along to one of our meets/events.

Eddy

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:13 am

bennyboy wrote:Absolutely awesome Car buddy.. must have been a very long but great project to build!!..
Also very impressed with write up, great read possibly the best i have seen on this forum.. just cost me an hour of my working day to read it!! oops!.. i think might have inspired me to get a volvo

Some bloke on here is selling one cheap.

Eddy

Safety_James · Post by **Safety_James** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:16 am

Monster

bennyboy · Post by **bennyboy** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 9:22 am

Fast Eddy wrote:Some bloke on here is selling one cheap.

Eddy

I dont like Green

591 bhp volvo 850 · Post by **591 bhp volvo 850** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:52 pm

bennyboy wrote:Absolutely awesome Car buddy.. must have been a very long but great project to build!!..
Also very impressed with write up, great read possibly the best i have seen on this forum.. just cost me an hour of my working day to read it!! oops!.. i think might have inspired me to get a volvo

Thanks benny it took three years to get this far and hundreds on hours and much money i am glad you spent the time reading through it thanks very much I do hope it does help the volvo world get a bit more attention lol

Russ

Fast Eddy wrote:Good luck with this mate. You deserve it after all the hard work. You really must bring this along to one of our meets/events.

Eddy

Hi Eddy

I will make sure to come to as many meets as possible is there any around the south ???

Russ

Safety_James wrote:Monster

Thanks lol

591 bhp volvo 850 · Post by **591 bhp volvo 850** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:57 pm

Thought I would update my thread slightly as I managed to track down the pictures of the process the block went through when the new style liners were fitted after I ended up with a neat spilt liner after getting the engine to 591hp and 524ftlbs of torque on race fuel @ 2.3 bar :

So after the block was inspected we decided that a whole new liner of much thicker metal would be a much better idea and also make sure they are touching each other as the standard Volvo block has a small 1mm gap between each cylinder which does not help with the top of the liner becoming trumpet shaped at the hot end (the top)

The first step was to machine out the old liners which were cast into the block when it was made ;

Here you can see the section where the liners will touch each other to give them more strength

The new design we had come up with is this :

So then onto the fitting which was started off by fitting cylinder liner 1-3-5

The final liners were then fitted :

And the block decked :

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:02 am

Wow!! you really are doing things properly

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Keep the pics coming it is fascinating to see this type of build progress and to see just how much work goes into it.

Bealo · Post by **Bealo** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:27 am

Great project and a great read..

Can't wait to see this car in the flesh, Well done.

591 bhp volvo 850 · Post by **591 bhp volvo 850** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 6:09 pm

Nik wrote:Wow!! you really are doing things properly .

Keep the pics coming it is fascinating to see this type of build progress and to see just how much work goes into it.

Thanks it been a long time to get this far but love it even when the wallet takes a pounding lol

Bealo wrote:Great project and a great read..

Can't wait to see this car in the flesh, Well done.

Thanks glad you enjoyed it i will be at the brighton speed trails and hopefully a few shows this year

Russ

Baz · Post by **Baz** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:07 pm

Fantastic read, great car! i think i've seen it before around the volvo forums etc anyway, but never read as much about it, love 'em!

Small world too! Is PK still Martin & Mike??