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Any engine conversions out there? 120-130

posted by  someone claiming to be Charles Greenlaw on  Mon May 5 18:36 CST 2003 [RELATED]

I got into a message exchange last year with a questioner about rims for a '61 544, his first Volvo, and he said this:

"My Volvo is being built for reliability and fuel economy. I have swapped in
a 4 cylinder from a Chevy S10 with the 5 speed. I am going to replace the
differential with a Ford to match the stock bolt pattern and have it cut
down for proper width. This has been the easiest engine/trans swap I have
ever done." (The axle he used was '90 Ford Ranger pickup with two passenger-side shafts to give 3" narrower track than originally.)

An upright 4-inline offers fit advantages. There are 2.3-2.8L 4-cyl, 16-valve balance-shafted small truck/SUV engines now in Ford, Jeep, and (soon) GM lines, 140 net HP and up, with their own 5-spd trannys, using mostly aluminum castings. Japanese makes have them too.






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New Any engine conversions out there? [120-130]
posted by  Bradley  on Tue Apr 29 16:39 CST 2003 >


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