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Sorry Moosed. We got totally off subject.

Do you know why the engine ran out of oil yet? This is not a common thing for the 5 cyl engine. You should be able to install any 2002+ normally aspirated engine in your car with little to no modification in the wiring harness.

By all means, get the clutch replaced if you have over 150K on your current one. Get a new rear main seal, just because it is easy to do. Get new oil separator box and hoses. Get new radiator hoses and other little stuff.

But $4K does sound a bit high. I would shop around. Erie Volvo will give a 12 month warranty on a used engine.

Klaus
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Two great Volvos, a 1967 220 and a 1998 V70R

If the oil level was that low, I agree with the mechanic. You need to contact Erievovo.com by phone and ask for a good price including shipping.

By all means, a new clutch and rear main seal is a good idea. Along with new oil separator and all new vacuum lines.

Going turbo will be costly. Not only will you have to buy a turbo, intercooler, different vacuum lines, engine wiring harness, computers, air cleaner box - and the list goes on. Your manual tranny is quite capable with the current engine, faster than the light pressure turbo with an automatic.

Ask your mechanic to break down the cost for you. Pulling and reinstalling the engine/tranny just to do a clutch is about $1500 in labor depending on the hourly charge.

Or, LOL, you could wait a week or two and buy a 1998 V70R for $4500!!

Klaus
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Two great Volvos, a 1967 220 and a 1998 V70R

I'd recommend a second opinion on rebuilding the engine too. Since that guy didn't know if you had top damage it might not have any (although unlikely). But then again it might. I wouldn't go turbo just because you have to replace all sorts of other components and add extra hardware. These engines aren't that dissimilar so bolting a turbo on isn't a huge deal, but making it run with all the software/ hardware in your car gets tricky... Oh, and they'll probably add 750-1000 for the turbo engine..

Someone one here did a main bearing job a while back, they might be able to tell you what they recommend.. I doubt you're planning on doing it yourself, but if you are know that this is a BIG job. Since you loaned the car out, I'm guessing you don't need this car at all times and could live without it for a week or two. If so you should probably call around and see if anyone rebuilds the engine and how much they'd want. Then if you want to save some more money find out how much if you bring them the engine. I'm quite sure if you do the labor of taking it out/putting it in yourself you can save yourself $1000 easy. Then again, you have to give up a lot of your time to get the engine out and put it back in, so..


Also, any information as to why it was starved is always helpful..

some of the other forums have folks more familiar with the P2 cars. Hopefully someone on here will be able to help you but don't hesitate to seek advice on one of the other boards.


As to what engine to get it depends a lot on what engine you have in it now.

I would not advise going to a turbo from an NA (or the other way around) - that kind of swap usually gets more complicated as the computers/wiring harness will need to be changed as well and that adds cost and complexity. If you're doing the work yourself and don't need the car for a while you might be able to muddle through it. For a daily you need to get it back quick and these things add serious delays. Again maybe someone will have better advice for you from their experience.

Internal damage is a pretty uncommon failure for these cars. What engine did you have? Is there still lots of oil in the engine (ie: no catastrophic oil loss)?What were your oil change intervals? What brand and grade of oil were you using? what brand was your oil filter? What is your mileage?

We'd all like this info to help avoid failures on our cars.

I find it hard to imagine there's any damage to the top end, albeit without more info on what caused the failure it's pretty hard to say one way or the other.

Write/call Erie Volvo and get a quote on an engine and ask them what engines/years you can use. They will almost surely have one for you, and they provide a good warranty, AND they have the type of info you're looking for in terms of what you can swap out without too much trouble - they'll probably give it up for free if you're seriously inquiring about buying an engine from them at the same time.

If you do go for a new engine definitely do all the new stuff on the replacement before it goes in.
- timing belt and all rollers and tensioner
- serpentine belt and rollers and maybe tensioner
- cam seals front and rear
- crank/main seals front and rear
- PCV system including intake gasket
- clean throttle body with new gasket
- new clutch and throwout bearing (really it's not automatic?!)

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1998 V70 AWD->FWD Turbo 200k+