I am packed and ready to hit the road first thing in the morning.

The crew for this mission is Ken the senior as co-pilot, myself (Ken the younger) and my nephew and chief navigator CJ. We plan to get on the way first thing in the morning after CJ checks in with his teachers and tells them sayanora for a 5 days.

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The wagon is packed with 10 gallons of spare E85 to make those long hauls across Kansas where E85 stations are sparse, lots of spare parts and tools, Drag racing tires, and a little bit of food, drink, music, etc. And if you can’t read the caption on the window in the other picture it says “Flying Brick!! - SE 7.0″

Our destination is the southeast Turbobricks get together in Montgomery Alabama. ie SE 7.0. For those of you who are not sofware saavy, that is a pun indicating that this is the senventh release of this get together. I can’t beleive this is my first one. It is far away, but it should be worth it. Many of the long time Volvo enthusiasts from the Turbobricks web forum will be attending. Im anxious to meet some of them in person.

The weekend has lots of fun events scheduled. There is a trip to the local Montgomery drag strip on Friday night; A dyno day on Saturday. And a big party at one of the members houses on Saturday night. And I’m sure there will be lots of tire kicking and car talk in between.

There are guys from the UK, some from Canada, California, me from Colorado. This is becoming a pilgrimage for modified older Volvos.

I need some sleep before driving all day tomorrow. I’ll try to post from the road when Ken Sr. is driving.

I have a thread going over on Turbobricks to track my progress. I’ll be posting here and there during the trip. Here is the link.

http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?p=2037743

I welded up an oil separator for the the project station wagon today. It took me about 2 hours from beginning to end. I really like the way aluminum goes together. It just cuts and shapes so easily, and the welding isn’t easy, but the finished product is always rewarding.

An oil separator is placed in line between the crankcase vent on an engine and the intake manifold or tube where it would normally be plumbed.  The compression blow by that comes out of the crankcase vent always has a mist of oil suspended in it. The separators job is to keep the engine from sucking this oil into the intake stream. Oil in the intake stream coats the turbo inlet, the intercooler, the intake manifold, and even makes it into the  combustion chambers where it can leave carbon deposits and  enable detonation. So its a good idea to  keep it out of the intake.

I designed this container in 2 halves. I’ll use a 3″ silicone coupler and hose clamps to hold them together. This will let me open the container periodically for cleaning and packing steel wool inside to help condense the oil vapor.