Volvo 480 Club Europe

martinholmesuk wrote:not really ad, My engine works still. The piston melted the enginedid not blow up.

That's mega mega damage! Anyone seen worse?

yeah, seen an engine that litterely exploded, the pistons blew right through the cilinderhead and bonnet

omfg how stupid can you be

or was he trying a new way of dusting/cleaning the engine from the inside?

No a 16v head wont fit an 8v block, the oil gallerys are different. steve It Does fit! Headgaskets are exactly the same. Don't Say it won't fit unless you've actually tried to do so. Just because the B234 has an external oil pump doesn't mean the head won't fit the B230 with internal oilpump. Oil f...

thnx :) would a 16v cilinder head and the pistons from a 2.0 clio williams engine fit the volvo engine? the bore and stroke are the same, and the rest of the engine is also the same. the only problem are the manifolds and getting everithing to fit under the bonnet (and still be able to close the bon...

i was wondering, is a 480 still legal if you fit a different engine (volvo s/v40 T4 engine) in it? i think you have to adapt lots of things in the engine bay. but on the other hand, it has the same amount of cilinders.

btw, does anyone know the engine number/type of a T4 engine?

TLindley wrote:Probably find a button to turn it into a hovercraft or something tomorrow!

ah yes, that button is under the passenger seat (the right button, the left one turns it into a minivan)

wtf happend to that piston?!?

omfg

go to a different garage then

window399 wrote:

Please tell me how that is relivat to any of this.

Please die.

as long as its a thermoplast you can weld it. don't know if its the same material as wich the plastic of motorbikes is made, but thats also weldable.

gearbox should be the same. only difference is that a renault gearbox has a mechanical speedo drivethingy, and the volvo box doesn't. so unless you don't bother you don't have a speedo you can put a volvo box in a renault (the other way round doesn't matter since volvo doesn't use that speedo drivet...

coyote1980 wrote:My drive home was on my bicycle, through the rain, stopping at Aldi for a piece of cheese. How sad am I

not sad at all, aldi has pretty good cheese

I am thinking of putting a turbo (Garrett T25 i geuss) on the 2 ltr engine, i know some people on this forum have done that, so what exactly do i have to do? i was planning on taking the manifolds, ecu, and the hole wiringloom (do i spell this correctly?) and intercooler and gearbox (different ratio...

you need bigger injectors, and re-program the ecu, i think (don't know for sure )

how are those rims you got called? i quite like them

stu chacks wrote:
Hold on, I'm sure I recegnise that dudes hairpiece...


Now where the hell did I see it.....






Oh yeah, now I remember!







*pucture of guy with afro hair*

Stu.

whahahahaha

the horn also survived the crash

if he hates it so much, than why does he have one in the first place??

1 whitout a cambelt cover?