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Since my old friend Mr. Fish has made a thread I reckon I should finally make one as well and actually update it occasionally and such. Hi, I'm Terrible Robot, star of stage and screen (false). I don't post much on the forums anymore but I still lurk quite a bit. Over the years I've collected a handful of Without further adieu, let's meet the  thou all destroying yet unconquering whale  to the last I grapple with thee  from Hell's heart I stab at thee  for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee As you can see, I have more than one white whale to Currently the Volvo C70 T5M (green car) is the main focus, being so graciously stored at fellow goon Wrar's house, where he has been helping me replace the stricken engine over the last...well, it's been a while. We should have it finished quite soon though, so stay tuned for more updates on that. I am happy to expound more upon the other unfortunates if anyone is interested in them or leave it at that for now, this OP is getting long.
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Uh, can you tell us a little more about the Camry?
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Mar 17, 2022 02:20
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Finally a project thread. So excite to see the 245 in all it's turbo 80s glory and the C70 not in mothballs soon
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Mar 17, 2022 02:30
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In on the ground floor! About drat time you started a thread
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Mar 17, 2022 03:11
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gently caress yes. <3
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Mar 17, 2022 03:24
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Uh, can you tell us a little more about the Camry? No  I have a SPA turbo manifold for it I found for 20bux...
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Mar 17, 2022 04:14
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Dang, I thought this was gonna be about  Sorry to have disturbed you.
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Mar 17, 2022 16:41
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I mean, working on cars can be a lot like a souls game. loving skeletons everywhere.
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Mar 17, 2022 17:14
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Terrible Robot posted:loving skeletons But you don't have a Subaru anymore...
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Turbo Fondant posted:But you don't have a Subaru anymore... So, funny thing about that Subaru; I never actually got rid of it. It was left in the back lot of a small shop before I moved and afaik it's still there. I still technically own it, if they haven't crushed it by now. ...did you hear that ominous music? Just me?
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Terrible Robot posted:...did you hear that ominous music? Just me? I feel like if I ever have to see that car again I will personally set it on fire
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Mar 17, 2022 20:04
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Tell is about the wagon.
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Mar 17, 2022 22:09
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CELICAAAAA  also this: Fermented Tinal posted:Tell is about the wagon.
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Ok so, the wagon. Buckle up because when I start talking about these cars I will not shut the gently caress up until my hands start shaking. All images are links to full size versions. It's a 1989 Volvo 245DL, it's got around 150k on it and it is slow because of its automatic transmission and 120hp engine. I actually got this car from Mr. Fish, who got it from my uncle in exchange for some carpentry work along with the 1988 244DL that my uncle and I restored over a summer for my shithead cousin (maybe I'll tell that story sometime). IIRC the 245 cost my 200$, but due to the nature of Fish and I's relationship I honestly cannot recall if I ever gave him cash money for it or if we horse-traded around for it as usual. When I got this car back in 2012(ish) it was in nominally running and driving condition, having been my uncle's deceased father's DD since it was new. Unfortunately Opa wasn't the best caretaker of vehicles, or the best driver, but he was an animal lover, bless him. The interior was completely covered in a thick mat of animal hair/dander and dirt and the rear windows were covered in dozens of pictures of puppies and kittens that looked as though they'd been cut from a magazine and affixed to the windows with scotch-tape. The last maintenance item I was 100% sure had been done to the car was the timing belt...in 1996. Overdrive was broken due to a dicky solenoid. While mostly dent free save for a few small ones near the rear hatch, the car had clearly been in the wars. I went to remove the grille one day and both headlight lenses just...fell the gently caress off. I still drove this car to my job, 25mi away and over a mountain, just to see how it would do. Turns out it was painfully slow, and it tried to murder me on the mountain with death-wobble. Needless to say, I didn't try driving it to work again. In fact, I parked it beside the driveway and then life and depression and other things happened and so it ended up languishing for a couple of years while I went back and forth over whether or not I should just sell it, hopefully to someone who would do what I was apparently never going to. By the time I got the spoons and more importantly, the money, it was in a very sorry state indeed.   Yes, I am a monster. During its time in the weeds it had also been used as a bit of a parts-car to keep Fish's 244DL going, since I was actually using that as my DD at the time (5 speed manual, oh thank heaven!). Things such as the front seats, the driver's window, and the MAF sensor had all been pilfered to keep the 244 as nice as possible. Since the rest of the interior in my 245 was pretty much all trash, I threw all of it out, except the rear floor and the dashboard. We found a very clearly loved but sadly rotten 1984 245 in the junkyard with a super clean tan interior, in leather. I actually would have preferred cloth but this was too nice to pass up. I bought as many pieces of that car as I could afford (including the window) and so now the 245 has a pretty nice two-tone interior. Well, the front seats are nice at any rate. I set about ordering many many parts to do essentially the same things I'd done to the 244 years before. The car has new struts/shocks all around, a full brake overhaul including reman'd calipers painted yellow and I replaced all the lights with new production parts. I got the wheels from the 244, along with some dope poverty-caps. It now looks like what you saw in the OP, reposting again for posterity though     I've got some big plans for this wagon, since it's the only RWD car in my fleet currently and the most practical, it will be my truck. I have plans to put in a full floor in the back where the rear seats used to be, along with storage compartments etc. Airbags for at least the rear axle are a definite, so I can tow and haul without issues. Which brings me to the powerplant. My plan for that is to do a +T to the stock NA engine, which are well known for being sexually attracted to boost. I'll be doing this the old-fashioned way, the way they did it back in the 90s, with homebuilt daughter-cards and tuned EEPROMs from Sweden and a turbocharger lifted from the corpse of my old 850 T5 wagon (PBUH). With some other bolt-on modifications and luck, I should get around 230hp and 250lb-ft out of it, which is enough. For now. Oh, and I almost forgot, I found a set of baller optional OEM Volvo wheels from the 1970s for this car as well.  These wheels were made by ATS for Volvo as an optional wheel on the P1800s, but it proved unpopular and so they just started sticking them on certain trim level 240s bound for Canada. Based on the amount of old corrosion these have, I'm guessing they spent some time up north. The special thing about them is they are light the lightest wheels Volvo has ever sold on one of their cars. They weigh something like 13lbs, which is hardly anything. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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Reading this almost makes me miss my '88 244, but you are not kidding about how slow that thing is with the auto.
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Fortunately, I have everything I need to swap the 5spd from Fish's 244 into it, which will be happening. This includes the 350$ custom flywheel I had to have made because 89+ 240s have a crank position sensor that the earlier cars do not, and finding an OEM 89+ flywheel is loving impossible, as well as not worthwhile since they weigh like 38lbs. The one I got is based on the older, much lighter wheels.
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Mar 18, 2022 02:48
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ATS made some of the world's coolest five-spokes. Those are ultra-rad. Please let me know if you need help with the stupid 80s hobby-hardware ECU tuning. I really wish I had bought that 302/T5-swapped 244, but I didn't want a trunk.
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Hell yea! Someday i should make such a thread to chronicle the random myriad of shitboxes that currently own me. I can't wait to see the C70 alive again.
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Mar 18, 2022 11:12
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Volvo wagon, voted 5 13lbs per wheel 
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Mar 18, 2022 16:15
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Don't because it's a shame to chop a wagon but what if...
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No shame in that, Volcaminos are dope. Seen it done with sedans and wags.
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The C70 is at my house right now. Once I get my detached garage sorted we can probably move it in there until I move or until it runs.
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Terrible Robot posted:Fortunately, I have everything I need to swap the 5spd from Fish's 244 into it, which will be happening. This includes the 350$ custom flywheel I had to have made because 89+ 240s have a crank position sensor that the earlier cars do not, and finding an OEM 89+ flywheel is loving impossible, as well as not worthwhile since they weigh like 38lbs. The one I got is based on the older, much lighter wheels. so this car donated a bunch of parts to that car, and now that car is dying to donate its drivetrain to this one? 
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Raluek posted:so this car donated a bunch of parts to that car, and now that car is dying to donate its drivetrain to this one? It's the Circle of (Volvo) Life.
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Raluek posted:so this car donated a bunch of parts to that car, and now that car is dying to donate its drivetrain to this one? Yeah, the 244 had like 300k on it when the engine let go. I wasn't going to be fixing it anytime soon so I gave the 5 speed and pedal box from it to robot for his stick swap. That 244 is getting a small block and th350 swap anyway so I won't be using any of the original driveline in it. It made sense to donate what I could to his wagon shenanigans.
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Mr Fish posted:Yeah, the 244 had like 300k on it when the engine let go. I wasn't going to be fixing it anytime soon so I gave the 5 speed and pedal box from it to robot for his stick swap. That 244 is getting a small block and th350 swap anyway so I won't be using any of the original driveline in it. It made sense to donate what I could to his wagon shenanigans. haha ok this rules
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Alright, time for more words about these lovely cars. Today we're gonna talk a little bit about one of the Celicas.  This is a 1989 Toyota Celica GT, the last year of the ST16X chassis. I bought this car 12 years ago, a week or so before Mr. Fish and I graduated from NTI. How it happened was, we were leaving school one evening in my 1986 Celica GTS (seen parked behind the GT), blasting Holy Diver with the windows down, as one does. Another student came sprinting alongside my car and yelled through the window "HEY DO YOU WANNA BUY MY CELICA?!". I did, very much, but I had very little money. This turned out to be just fine, because he didn't want much for it, only 200$. That was literally every dollar I had to my name at the time and I was going to be moving in 2 weeks, so of course I said yes on the spot. And then...I put it into a storage unit along with almost everything I'd owned from the age of 5-20, closed the door, and left it there ever since. No, I am not very good with money. Yes, I have spent a lot of money on that storage unit. No, I can't just abandon everything in there. Yes, I hope to clear it out soon and do something with this car. End of. More about the car: This particular example is a loaded GT, which means it got a lot of good options such as power windows and a power sunroof (that works!), but did not get the good engine. The engine in this car is especially not good, it has very bad rod-knock above 2500rpm or so. The interior is also in pretty rough shape, with a lot of very sketchy PO wiring bodges and weird unlabeled switches that don't seem to do anything. The paint is bad and the front bumper sits cockeyed for reasons I didn't have time to delve into. Really, I only bought this car because the body was overall straight and rust-free, and I knew it was likely to be the only chance I'd have at owning a 2nd one of these Celicas, they were already getting thin on the ground back then. I haven't nailed down a concrete plan for this car, having gone back and forth over the years with various engine swap ideas and purposes for the car. Some of the ideas for it Fish and I have discussed for it include: - Replacing the blown 3SFE with a gen 3 or 4 3SGE (BEAMS, etc) and making it a nasty NA street machine - Similar to above, except cage it and go rally racing - put a 3SGTE in it and make a Half-Trac/GT2 out of it - Do drugs and realize that the Volvo Whiteblock 5-cylinder engines are nearly identical in every dimension to the 3SGE, and slant towards the firewall in the same way. Consider becoming Dr. Frankenstein. Currently that last one is really winning out and will probably be what happens to this car, because I love Volvos and Celicas and combining those two things sounds rad. Anyway, have a couple more pics and I'll see you next time   I'll be honest, the Zeppelin sticker was the main selling point of the car (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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IOwnCalculus posted:Reading this almost makes me miss my '88 244, but you are not kidding about how slow that thing is with the auto. The opening scene of the Handmaid's Tale TV show has them running from the cops in a N/A Volvo
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