Hi everyone. So 2 years has passed and my car was still running around on the 2.7 engine that was only ever meant to get my car going for the Hamburg trip. Anyway as you may have seen from my other post I managed to lay my hands on a complete engine out of a fire damaged Volvo 760.
This is the same 2.8 as used in the delorean but with higher compression. It also has no frequency valve or lambda sensor, and a slightly different advance curve on the distributor.
So after a lot of cleaning up of the new engine it was ready to be fitted. Huge thanks to Mec for giving up his time to come over and help with the swap. He also documented it for his you tube channel so keep watching his channel for a video or 2 in the future about this
Anyway, the 2.8 is now in and running well, I just need to sort an issue with my rear brakes and I will hopefully put some miles on it. The 2.7 is in my workshop looking for it's next owner. Here are a few pics of the swap:
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2.7 engine removed:
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2.8 engine fitted and coupled to the gearbox:
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Parts going back on:
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Almost complete apart from exhaust, AC compressor, rear fascia etc:
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And finally a sneak peek of an upcoming mec-tec video in production!
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