68Beetle

...aaand it was worth free.

 
 
I used to work at a Volvo dealer, and a customer had his old car towed in.  He said anyone who will fix and drive it can have it for free. I love starting projects, so naturally I "bought" the car.  The manager loved the idea of this so much he gave me until the start of business the next day to have it off the lot. My buddy and I were up til aboot midnight until it finally ran, then I drove it over to the employee lot to park it in my designated space.
 

 
 
A week later, the manager informed me that the owner of the lot we rent for employee parking wants this eyesore out of the lot by 10AM or he will tow it (and the tow company is his neighbor to the right). When does he decide to tell me? At 9:50am of course.  I rush to get the portable air tank to give the tires some air in the remote lot, just so I can drive it out.  When I get up there, three of four tires are flat, so I do as much as I can with the one air tank and drive it out of there with one tire still completely flat.  I drove it to the shop, took a tire from the used tire stack, and mount it up because the one tire shredded.  I drive it home as you see in this picture, smashed glass, running on three cylinders, no registeration/insurance, and brakes rusted so badly that the scale is preventing the pads from sticking to the rotor.
 
BTW this is my first time on the forums.

Now the fun part. I had previously installed a wideband O2 sensor, so I could immediately see it was running lean (duh).  It would also only make ~2psi of boost.  I bought some microswitches with long levers from china, some cold start injectors from the junkyard, and some hobbs pressure switches from the seventies and rigged it so that at WOT, it would open the stock cold start injector and under 1.75psi of boost it would open the second injector, and at 4 psi it opens the third. Then it ran rich and low boost :l
 

stupid camara doesn't focus the way I want it to. you can see the bar stock I cut and sandwiched between two injectors for fuel lol.
 
I then tightened the wastegate as far as it would go, but the boost levels didn't change.  At this point I decided to start removing the restrictive 1.75" exhaust. I removed the tailpipe muffler and middle muffler and it made little difference.  Then I decided to rip the whole rusted holy mess out, and couldn't resist a run round the block minus cat, open downpipe.  Wow what a difference. The loud turbo whistle, the loud resonance, and the boost!  Turns out the cat was plugged completely, because with the open downpipe it hit 11psi before it started to detonate and I let off. Totally worth it.

The alternator belt on a Volvo between 2010 and 2014
 

How do you respond to this? Seriously WTF

Too much gore, cannot unsee
 
Glad I dont live in Canada, or Commiefornia for that matter. I heard they do that there too.

Hey guys, Im Beetle.
 
I have played in excess of 1k hours of css, though that doesn't mean I am good at anything   I currently play exclusively on the bhop server.  sG 200tic 4lyfe. Never put in the time to learn any of the mods except ZE, which seems too much like camping to me lel.
 
I have had several account over the past few years, so I also go by 68Beetle, volksjeep, 78Turbobrick, and most recently 71Beetle.  Each name corresponds to a vehicle I own, and I have another thread aboot the brick here >>http://www.joinsg.net/topic/60899-so-i-got-a-free-car/.  As you can tell, I am big into cars, and my most recently was a mechanic at a Volvo dealer for a few years.
 
Im regular on the server, so I am friends with Blub, Agrippa, Raging, and Drama jr, to start.

...aaand it was worth free.

 
 
I used to work at a Volvo dealer, and a customer had his old car towed in.  He said anyone who will fix and drive it can have it for free. I love starting projects, so naturally I "bought" the car.  The manager loved the idea of this so much he gave me until the start of business the next day to have it off the lot. My buddy and I were up til aboot midnight until it finally ran, then I drove it over to the employee lot to park it in my designated space.
 

 
 
A week later, the manager informed me that the owner of the lot we rent for employee parking wants this eyesore out of the lot by 10AM or he will tow it (and the tow company is his neighbor to the right). When does he decide to tell me? At 9:50am of course.  I rush to get the portable air tank to give the tires some air in the remote lot, just so I can drive it out.  When I get up there, three of four tires are flat, so I do as much as I can with the one air tank and drive it out of there with one tire still completely flat.  I drove it to the shop, took a tire from the used tire stack, and mount it up because the one tire shredded.  I drive it home as you see in this picture, smashed glass, running on three cylinders, no registeration/insurance, and brakes rusted so badly that the scale is preventing the pads from sticking to the rotor.
 
BTW this is my first time on the forums.

...aaand it was worth free.

 
 
I used to work at a Volvo dealer, and a customer had his old car towed in.  He said anyone who will fix and drive it can have it for free. I love starting projects, so naturally I "bought" the car.  The manager loved the idea of this so much he gave me until the start of business the next day to have it off the lot. My buddy and I were up til aboot midnight until it finally ran, then I drove it over to the employee lot to park it in my designated space.
 

 
 
A week later, the manager informed me that the owner of the lot we rent for employee parking wants this eyesore out of the lot by 10AM or he will tow it (and the tow company is his neighbor to the right). When does he decide to tell me? At 9:50am of course.  I rush to get the portable air tank to give the tires some air in the remote lot, just so I can drive it out.  When I get up there, three of four tires are flat, so I do as much as I can with the one air tank and drive it out of there with one tire still completely flat.  I drove it to the shop, took a tire from the used tire stack, and mount it up because the one tire shredded.  I drive it home as you see in this picture, smashed glass, running on three cylinders, no registeration/insurance, and brakes rusted so badly that the scale is preventing the pads from sticking to the rotor.
 
BTW this is my first time on the forums.

I say "bought" because the state of VA requires a large tax to be paid if it is a gift, so I "paid" $5.
 
While getting it running, I found the fuel pump was not coming on, so I replaced it with one lying around in the shop. I repaired the leaky fuel line, which then sprung a leak 2 inches farther down so I repaired it again. It then leaked 2" past that so I cut out 4 feet of line and replaced it with all I could find in the shop, which was a high side aluminum A/C line. I used my fluid sucker doodad to remove 5 gal on 15 yo gas and an inch of rust scale and grime. Next step was to blow out the injectors and then I jumped it and it kinda ran!
 
Everyone in the shop at the time owed me favors, so one guy is lending me a set of 740 turbo wheels, the detailer polished and buffed it and another guy gave me a td-04 15G turbo from an 850 on the condition I would install it.

...aaand it was worth free.

 
 
I used to work at a Volvo dealer, and a customer had his old car towed in.  He said anyone who will fix and drive it can have it for free. I love starting projects, so naturally I "bought" the car.  The manager loved the idea of this so much he gave me until the start of business the next day to have it off the lot. My buddy and I were up til aboot midnight until it finally ran, then I drove it over to the employee lot to park it in my designated space.
 

 
 
A week later, the manager informed me that the owner of the lot we rent for employee parking wants this eyesore out of the lot by 10AM or he will tow it (and the tow company is his neighbor to the right). When does he decide to tell me? At 9:50am of course.  I rush to get the portable air tank to give the tires some air in the remote lot, just so I can drive it out.  When I get up there, three of four tires are flat, so I do as much as I can with the one air tank and drive it out of there with one tire still completely flat.  I drove it to the shop, took a tire from the used tire stack, and mount it up because the one tire shredded.  I drive it home as you see in this picture, smashed glass, running on three cylinders, no registeration/insurance, and brakes rusted so badly that the scale is preventing the pads from sticking to the rotor.
 
BTW this is my first time on the forums.