Atom's 2 door Amazon wagon Project:Headquarters

[duct-tape]

love it

[Atom]

Ordered a new shirt for show season this upcoming year. Seems to fit my build well.

[Atom]

Such a good looking engine! The alternator belt mounts/tensioner are genius, may steal the concept for my vw haha
Will the turbo oil feed not be hardline?

No, I won’t do the oil line in straight copper like the water lines in case it fails and I figure if they’re not going to match, I may as well make them a LOT different. Maybe later I switch them all to Ni-Cop or something, but for now braided is fine.

Finally an update

Looks great

what cnc router are you using?

It’s a Kelling KL6090 (it’s a cheap Chinese one I bought off of Amazon years ago)

[kimove]

Finally an update

Looks great

what cnc router are you using?

[Fruttolo]

Such a good looking engine! The alternator belt mounts/tensioner are genius, may steal the concept for my vw haha
Will the turbo oil feed not be hardline?

[Atom]

Heater tubes and a glamour shot

[Atom]

Been a while since I posted anything. Just working on dumb detail stuff. Alternator mount.



Made a floor mount shifter since I’m switching to an early trans and don’t want to use the sheet metal shifter carriage



Remains to be seen how well it works.

Throttle body adapter to shift the angle and to use a Volvo 960 cable 65mm throttle body



Grabbed a backup bellhousing so I can make a backup trans if needed.



Machines some caliper piston masking plugs for a set of Volvo R calipers I’m throwing custom paint at



Made a custom bed side table for my wife for Christmas.



Not pictured
-got an OEM S40 engine harness to mod
-got all the clutch bits final assembled
-got the trans attached for last time
-made FPR mount
-made IACV mount
-started fabricating heater hose hard lines

[240turbo]

Looks like Volvo should reach out to you for some of their "Special Service Tools"!

[240turbo]

This is so cool. Great job man! Awesome attention to detail.

[Buick40]

Fantastic work, as always. Really enjoying watching how the build is progressing

[Atom]

Made an oil pressure block for the dash light and ECU. I used nickel copper brake line. I welded a -4AN fitting to a turbo banjo line that threaded into the OE oil pressure sender port.



I added DEI titanium wrap to the up pipe to keep the gasses hot and keep all the other hoses nearby safe. I also added an 1/8” NPT port near the turbine inlet. My tuner says we can put a pressure sender there (with some tube to insulate from the heat) to get a feel for turbine sizing and pressure ratio (or something like that).

[Miroteknik]

yeah, this is nuts

[zoo]

Impressive fab work and skills!!!

[Atom]

Few more things done:

-thermostat spacer to add an E30 temp sender for the dash gauge.



-upper intake spacer to clear taller injectors (S40 injectors are short and I’ll probably just run greens for now)



-hardlines for turbo coolant in/out. Had to order some different -10 fittings for the drain and still waiting on a straight -4 for oil feed as well as the time to weld the -4 and -10 steel fittings to the OE hardlines.



Oh, also added some 3/8” stainless bar to support the turbo

[Atom]

Beautiful
But I guess the cast exhaust manifold will sooner or later be ditched for a tubular one haha

Edit: damn me in hell, didn't read the last part before posting, I was mesmerized by the turbo to downpipe transition

It’s cool. That’s actually a Vibrant part (the flange) that has a recess in it that’s the right size to “squish” down 3” tube to fit in it. Worked well.