I may be joining the "DOHC" crowd real soon....

[mfewtrail]

I've almost got it worked out to where I can by a brand new 3.4 crate engine from my college(almost complete, missing a few pieces). The engine is from 1994..we actually have a few of them, but not many more "untouched" ones since more people have ventured into taking apart/putting back together the DOHC's during the course of their engine rebuilding classes(I chose the 3.4 to disassemble a few months back when I was in that course as well....). Anyways, I just thought I would share. I'm not 100% certain what I'll do with the 3.4, but it's likely going to involve RWD(not your everyday application ..some may remember what I've talked about in the past) and a turbocharger.

[SappySE107]

The volvo by chance? What wiring harness would you use? 94 are MAF and would probably be easier to tune as well with a turbo on it.

[mfewtrail]

Ben, I will likely be putting it in a rwd Volvo..probably a 700/900 series sedan or maybe even a wagon , I guess it depends on what I find at the time. I wasn't really sure what year harness and all to use, I've been pondering that a bit lately. I guess if the 94 would be the easiest, that's what I want. I would really like to have something I can tune myself(later on of course since I haven't actually researched chip/computer tuning at all other then checking prices on setups people are using).

[SappySE107]

With boost, the MAF setup will probably be easier to deal with. You would have to disable the auto trans crap from the code but I doubt thats hard to deal with.

[Anonymous]

It is a good crowd to join

[dykz34]

It is a good crowd to join

Why?

[Anonymous]

Cuz the more ppl that we have owning and caring about their 3.4s, the longer they stay around, the more parts stay available, and the larger our aftermarket gets.

[pocket-rocket]

I hate to say it, but I don't see an aftermarket boom happening any time soon, lol.

[Anonymous]

That's what they said about the great depression in the 20s, then WWII hit, and all of the sudden by 1950 we had 80% of the world's currency, and 70% of the world's steel.

[pocket-rocket]

That's a 30 year span. I am not trying to be an ass here, but do you think you will have your car in 30 years? Besides, global economy is a little different then the aftermarket economy. I do hope you are right though, that we would have a good aftermarket in a couple years. But right now I don't think we have shit, which sucks for us.

[dykz34]

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!

How can you compare the United States economy to the aftermarket car parts business? Our cars will never have a huge aftermarket... know why? Because they aren't made anymore! What company wants to go through HUGE development costs to make parts for a motor that stopped production 7 years ago and only spanned 6 years? (Don't compare this to a Camaro/Mustang/whatever either--RWD applications have infinitely more of a following)


/rant (I could go on forever :P )

[Anonymous]

LOL I was just throwing it out.

No I doubt our aftermarket will ever be of a decent size-and it seems as if it won't even get bigger than it is.

And god I hope I don't have my car in 30 years

[pocket-rocket]

LOL I was just throwing it out.

No I doubt our aftermarket will ever be of a decent size-and it seems as if it won't even get bigger than it is.

And god I hope I don't have my car in 30 years

I see only a handfull of any of the W bodies being around in 30 years, and that's going to take a miracle to have that many in once peice. Not to mention, we probably won't have gas to run them anymore by then, lol.