I think it's still a little below average but drought conditions are improving at least. Crossing fingers.

 

Good on the drought improving. Hope for a good summer growing season there.

 

And there, too!

 

I'll be curious whether the warmer weather makes any difference with respect to your DIY "moo box"-fix (mustard tin ~50cc expansion chamber)...

 

If it does, it'll be then. It just didn't seem to moo as much when it was cold out. It hasn't mooed since the box, but it's been unseasonably cold since I put it in, too. There were a couple of days it might have done it but didn't so I am pretty sure I'm done with this. I'd gotten to where I wasn't really paying attention to the mooing. Theoretically this should do it, it's pretty much what Toyota did, but fancier.
If it wasn't cold out I'd get the actual volume of the box for you. When it's warmer...


I just looked outside and there's another dusting of snow on the trucks, it's snowing!

 

I'm jealous, very jealous.

 

I certainly don't miss the snow nor cold weather after having left the Show Me State two decades ago, and I hope it passes and warms by the time we head up to south central MO in a few weeks to visit family... probably won't bring the 4Runner, though, as the TDi Jetta gets almost 50mpg interstate driving

 

Vroom, vroom! 400 whp or bust!




(And if it busts, 2JZ or LS1)

 

Bust. Lots and lots of bust.

You don't have any of the newer pics? I see things that I don't remember being there and stuff that's not there that I thought was and I don't mean as it sits currently.

 

That's pretty much how it was all last year. 'Version 2.0' of the 16V engine.

 

Well, my station wagon's taller than your station wagon!

 

Quite the engine....is Version 2.1 (or 3.0) on the way?

Can't say I've ever thought of a 4Runner as a station wagon, but I suppose it is sort of the modern day version of the big 'ole family wagons of yesteryear.

 

My wagon of yesteryear , a 67 Bronco, was designated as such for licensing and that's truckier than the 4Runner.

Version Six Million Dollar Piston Man is in the works for the Volvo.

 

I was thinking along the lines of an '80 Chevy Malibu wagon or such.... Interesting on the Bronco licensing.

at the Volvo comment.... Those pistons must be made from platinum or other highly exotic metals.

 

Version 1.0 was a 16V head swap, stock cams, 8V intake manifold on an adapter (16V's don't fit naturally in a 240 at all), stock head, stock cams, and a restrictive log manifold with a chinese knockoff GT30R turbo. Stock engine sensors, run by an old Megasquirt 1 box. That did 305 hp at the rear wheels (330 - 340 at the crank?).

Version 2.0 was all that plus a custom intake manifold, a ported head, some racy cams, upgrade to MS3X, coil-on-plugs, Mistubishi crank sensor where the dist. used to be. This was a bit if a disappointment, mostly I made the motor very peaky, either all on or all off. The cams were a bit much. And it never made more peak HP because I ran out of fuel pump capacity (E85).

Version 3.0 is going to finally unplug the exhaust side. Getting rid of the log manifold in favor of a nice fairly equal length divided (properly pulse paired) manifold:


And replacing the Chinese T28 flanged GT30R with a divided scroll T4 flanged... something or another (I'm still pondering that). And replace the fuel system. Going back to stock cams too, they're for a fairly revvy NA motor, they work well with a street driven car. Those other cams were just too much.

I also have to (ahem) replace the pistons. I pushed the last motor a little too hard before the tune was solid enough, all 4 had broken top rings, cracked top ring lands, lots of detonation damage on the crowns.

 

So you see what I have to put up with? At least between that, the 99 4Runner and the 63 PV544 he (mostly) keeps his nose outta my build, 'less I ask. Sometimes he peeks in just to say "Gonna catch fire!" That's just what a sweet man he is.

PS. That manifold is 2 ports short of anything that might be fun for me.

MY build thread!

 

We do now......hehe. I do find the Volvo stuff a bit interesting although I only understand about 1% of it.

...and your line back is "It's gonna bust" on his project(s).

 

Not if he added twin turbos and quad-tank NOS injection...

here's another even crazier idea... a hybrid... one of those coffee can size turbine engines driving a generator with elec. motors at the wheels... running on bio-jetA...

now that would "scream" green...

 

SHHHH!!! Avi....we're trying to pay for college here and that car's already good enough at 'screaming green' - backs- as it is!

Rw....Gonna bust ....how about 'done busted'? Again?

You see what he's gotta put up with....

 

Haha..... and he replies, "time for stronger parts....again".

Whatcha' got going on the the '96 now? You are always up to something.