So as we all know, the Volvo 760 has the same high performance, well engineered, reliable engine as the early 80's Volvo 760. I recently found this fine example being broken for parts due to an engine fire It was running original fuel lines, so suspect there lies the reason. Anyway from the pics it looked like the actual engine itself was ok and that the powder from the fire extinguisher and melted plastic over it was making it look worse that is was.
So on Saturday myself and Mec went on another adventure armed with an engine crane and my trailer and successfully extracted the engine A nice little 'tec' day
The first thing we did was remove the inlet manifold and check the valley out, which looks ok. It is currently sat in my garage awaiting a good clean up and inspection, but it is probably going to end up in my Delorean which is still currently got the 2.7 variant in it which always was going to be temporary to get the car running for the Hamburg trip the other year. If it ends up that it's not great internally then it will be stripped and the block will hopefully make a good base to rebuild from.