High compression? Yes. 17.2:1. Actually, this is really making me want to try and shoehorn a 6BT into an old Volvo now, or more likely a 4BT.
Here's some inspiration. I just noticed that the owner dailys this thing still despite the salt and snow. Paint is perfect, not a single spec of rust. Looks factory fresh. Excuse the bad picture. Felt creepy enough pulling over taking a picture of it as it is.
Darn, that's what I was making 30 psi out of. I actually don't think your wagon looks terrible. It needs some TLC obviously but it is way better than most of the Volvos I see on Craigslist around here.
Isn't that low for diesel? I think 22-23:1 is high diesel CR, which you get in NA motors. I just put lubricant to chain and rode for 4 hours, wind was quite bad and it became very apparent that it lacks power when riding to head wind, had to drop two gears at hill.
My green Ford had a 7.3 IDI which had 22.5:1. That truck was a 94, and in 94 Ford introduced the Powerstroke, but mine was built in March of 94, and was literally the 22nd to last IDI truck to be built, also that made it sort of rare-ish, in that it had a factory turbo, which only about half of the 94 model year IDI trucks got.
That is kind of cool, also I have some weird fetish of high compression turbo engines, anyone can get low CR turbo engine to pull, but those high CR ones are bit challenging, or was, marvels of knock sensors etc helps a lot today I guess. I did trough wash and took out DB killer today, actually it should not had DB killer, but I made one myself as stock exhaust is so loud. Also put some Blue-tac to chain, can decided to have some issues and ended up squirting half of the stuff to hand, ground and whole can became very sticky mess. In case someone don't know, Blue-tac is chain lube, made in USA, it is great as it does not fly away from the chain before first corner like other stuff likes to do.
I just made a gamble. i Agreed to buy a b18b complete engine for $150 as a short term engine to get the crx running. If it runs I'll be glad I have propulsion. If not I have good core to rebuild i guess.
Friend had a CRX long time ago, really clean looking car, but it had problem with rear axle, I can't remember what exactly it was, but it was bit hard to spot and something had rusted out so that it was about to fail and it would of meant axle becoming loose or something like that. Not sure if such is common with those.
There aren't rear axles. The guy who owned the car before me went thru the entire thing and redid all the bushings with poly and put coilovers on it. Everything looks pretty good so far. My plan for it is convoluted but it's going to be left stock except a turbo kit, than once i can afford something more family friendly I'll gut the crx and put a built type r in it for track duty with an ultra short gearset.
My friend had a track day with it and whatever there was, was rusted, next day rear suspension failed and it was end of that car, rust was the reason for something to tear off, rear wheels were not connected to car anymore, luckily he did go slow at that time. What I remember was that it was not possible to spot without getting car up and checked that way. That was really long time ago, probably more than 15 years I would say. Fun little cars those and one of the rare 'modern' cars that looked nice to my eye.
May have been what happened to me before or similar. I had the mounting point for the control arm to the hub broke. Scary shit. I was going slow too in traffic on the hiway at the time. Always worth checking everything close.
Power steering system has had air in it for a while, unfortunately I haven't had time to fix it until now. The culprit was the o ring for the power steering fluid intake tube, however just replacing the ring didn't fix the problem. The problem was partially caused by Subaru's power steering supplier only using one offset bolt to tighten the system, so if you tighten the bolt a little too much the flange that the bolt is located on will warp slightly, allowing some air in. My solution was just to use gasket maker around the connection point, hopefully that fixes the problem.
Been messing around with the Yukon. While pulling some wiring out of the front end I discovered a siren. Neat I guess. I pulled the drl module because I hate drls and pulled the chime box out because the chime makes you want to put a bullet through your head.
