That lump got stashed at the side of the house on a folding table, along with the hood, upper radiator support, and the rest of the right front suspension. It always seems to work out cheaper that way. It was literally everything in front of the engine that mounts to the chassis legs. They got a kick out of the 'Porsche guy' who would show up at 5:15, thirty minutes before closing and leave empty handed, until the last day when I wheeled out the crash bumper, radiators, fans, intercooler, hoses, wires, connectors, condenser, etc as a single unit. During that time, I swapped out the mangled lower control arm which thankfully bolted right up, and mostly went spelunking at my local pick-a-part after work, stripping bits off of a clean 2007 Volvo S40. The car remained at the work yard for two weeks. I also believe in the therapeutic and copious use of swear words, as demonstrated here when checking out the Bonus Damage behind the right front wheel: Here is a first pass on the damage:īlair Witch shaky cam again. If you hated the shaky cam feel of the Blair Witch project, look away. In addition to the obvious, it needs a piece of the upper motor mount (cracked), starter motor (cracked), right front control arm, spindle, steering end link, strut, right cv shaft, and Airbox. The starter is directly behind the impact point, so I say a novena that it's just the starter adn not a cracked bellhousing or block. After checking the oil level, I tried to jump start it with a spare battery, but it just keeps making solenoid noise, spinning eleectric motor, but no engagement. The driver and I get it off the truck adn I proceede to remove what's left of the bumper cover, swapped the spare tire for the cracked right front rim, and pulled the upper radiator support forward with a winch tied to the faithful 04 Porsche Cayenne's trailer hitch to open the hood before shooting this quick walk around at midnight. The funny thing about plastic bumpers is they want to return to their original shape. I planned to drop it down to yard 20 miles away, triage it, and then sneak it into my one car garage in a month or so to avoid the prying eyes of my crazy neighbors and their Home Owner's Association rules about no working on cars in your own damn garage. All well and good, since the woman I wake up next to lately doesn't know I bought a (another) project car. to meet at my company's work yard at midnight. So, the delivery driver calls me Sunday night at 11 p.m. There is no Polestar C30 other than the prototype Jay Leno drove, and so did Jeremy Clarkson. Polestar is Volvo's equivalent to AMG for Mercedes. So I thought I would call it the PoledStar project. Here is what I saw before I bought the car sight unseen.

Tack on another $600 between fees and shipping to my company's work yard in Sacramento, CA. Late one night, about a month ago, after a little more than a wee bit of Jameson's on the rocks, I may have low bid on a 2011 Volvo C30 at an online auction in Portland, Oregon. I was afraid to post for fear that it might end badly, but here goes With the 804's my idle is smoother, fuel mileage has increased slightly, and low end has improved, however I believe this is due to cleaner injectors, not bigger.I've been a faithful reader and lurker here for years. As of this posting, the 357's are on their way to michigan to be refurb'd, when I get the sheet back I'll post results if I remember. Since I wasn't planning on the 804's flowing better, I decided to get them done anyways because my 357's were hurtin'. This 'evidence' has been collaborated by another T-Bricks member, who 'warned' me in a PM that 804's don't flow much if any more than the 357's before I spent cash shipping my injectors to michigan and having them done. When the innards were replaced, atomization was restored to an acceptable pattern, and flow was reduced. Oddly enough though, on the pre-refurb flow sheet, 2 of the 804's flowed 319 and 317 respectively, however with a piss-poor atomization pattern. They made a maximum of 307 cc/min 44 psi (avg of all 4 injector flows, and what they were balanced around). Weez, Just this week I had my 804's cleaned, flowed and balanced.

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