I sense a lil bit of sarcasm some where in there...People, junk yards, and patience. Unfortunetly with me I am a "Lets do it while I am at it" type person, so a 1,800 dollar (everything) project will turn into over 4K. But I am guessing before it is over with, I'll have more than enough power to wet my wistle.Since you opened the Volvo conversion door on how to do it on the cheap, let's hear it. Judging from your earlier flame sprays of long standing members and the lengthly pontifications of your technical accumin, this oughta be good
Actualy your average 2.3L is not in the 13s and 14s it is more like the 15s and 16s.
It's too bad you spit out all of these statistics and leave out too many other varables to consider.
Then out of 30 years I think they found a way to break your luck anomaly and get a powerful N/A 4.
HA and rely on your domestic skills to search for a junkyard turbo that doesn't even function properly? Hmmm I guess you will just have to take my word for it. If you don't, all well.
ROFL, you a **** shoper then. I could build one cheaper, and the power output will be so great, the money will be worth it.
Now enough of this petty bull ****. When it comes down to it no one is going to shut up about this, so lets just let the topic die, you do things your way, I do things my way. K?
Well yeah I know all that, but if you can conjure up the cash to do a volvo it is worth it. Plus there are way to build one cheaply.
Oh man, now you are trying to tell ME how fast the average 2.3T is...give me a break
You're the one that posts about Cavi statistics, states elsewhere that the 1/4 mile times posted in magazines just don't seem right for a 5.0 considering it's power and weight, etc. Like I said before, I'm not giving you a blueprint so I'm not TRYING to include every "varable" as you say it.
You "think" wrong. I've already stated the three ways to go fast with a 2.3...turbo, nitrous, or a high revving, big cam, high compression, race gas running n/a...there are no secret "varables" that change physics.
I think it's called domestic "skillz" and just so you know, the junkyard Holset turbos are as efficient than the "best of the best" the aftermarket has to offer in the GT series turbos...and they are 1/4 of the price.
Here we go again...big talk and nothing to back it up...
I've done things my way...low 11's with a 2.3 for less than 3500 TOTAL including the car, drivetrain, cage, wheels, tires, and every nut & bolt: www.stinger-performance.com/bolton.html
Now lets see your magic 1800 dollar project that will cost 4 grand and your magic "varable" juice do something everyone else hasn't already done...
Here we go again...big talk and nothing to back it up...
I'll say it again: If you think you have the magic quotient, go do it and :Zip2:
Nope, why do I want to retort all day? I said what I had to say and I rly don't care if you all like it or not.Hm, no snappy retort?
BTW "People, junkyards, and patience" won't get a volvo head onto a 2.3...
Watch me...BTW "People, junkyards, and patience" won't get a volvo head onto a 2.3...
Watch me...
You're not the sharpest knife in the drawer are you? So why don't you zip it you hyper active dolt. :Zip2: All in do time.we're watching.........and waiting.......but seeing nothing done
:worthlesa WITHOUT ACTION!
until we see something impressive happen (which we probably wont) everything that you just said is prreeeetttyy pointless. less talk, more walk.
if you are that confident about making sooo much power out of a n/a 2.3 then you should probably get to work or as stinger put it "go do it and :Zip2: "
You're not the sharpest knife in the drawer are you? So why don't you zip it you hyper active dolt. :Zip2: All in do time.
Until there are multiple examples of the Volvo head swap running on people's daily drivers, I'm not going to accept that as an option. Because right now it is FAR from being a bolt-on affair.
Some of the custom work I can do myself, so that's not a problem, nether is cost. So volvo head FTW, plus if I see another turbo 2.3L I am going to scream.The Volvo DOHC head will physically bolt onto the 2.3L block but thats it. Nothing else matches and everything has to be fabricated from scratch. If your a machinist or know one who is willing to do lots of custom work and weld together prototype parts for you its not easy. I think only one or two runing 2.3Ls with the Volvo DOHC head exist and the owners said they would rather have their eyes gouged out with rusty spoons than go through the ordeal and headache of swapping the head again.
Gutting a rusted car with several dents and painting it in your backyard with a two tone paint job is a headache, I love engine work. And the power output will be worth it. So time isn't a problem ether.The guys arent trying to be jerks, they are trying to save you months of headache and wasted cash because they have done it.
With the volvo head I will get more, and for the same price if not just a little more than a turbo.I think a 150bhp 2800-2900lb N/A Mustang
Then don't provoke smart one.thought maybe you were a big enough person to let this thread die off. guess not.......
A trurbo kit alone is 750, and even if I go over 500, and lets also not forget transmission which is about 500 and a bunch of other things to consider, even if i go over 500 the volvo head will give me limitless potential.Yup, that's what it takes in these parts to drop a TC motor in a 'Stang with all the trimmin's. Wanna compare paper?
ZOMG the mature card! I never saw that one coming, please half the people in this forum are immature no-it-alls. We are all just a group of immature dudes, so what is your point?name calling is the mature thing to do now, is it?
OH!!! I just got burned!i would call you a smart @ss, however you dont quite qualify for the word "smart".
LOL So you expect me to whip up a DOHC engine with in a couple of minutes? Get real and stop acting like a idiot, even though it's hard. The DOHC engine will be done when it gets done.BTW, were still waiting for you to "blow our minds!".
OH!!! I just got burned!BTW it is "I" not "i"
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