Cooter
Livin' the dream...one nightmare at a time.
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I had one of those in 1994-95 on the red pv544. Bought it from a guy on the east coast who sold it as rebuilt. He admitted on messageboard he was having problem finding the right vane material. Mine was a shit brown canvas phenolic, like an older circuit board, but about 5/16 thick. It's rubbing friction on the housing would after a perfectly normal street drive of a dozen blocks, have water bounce off the housing. Hotter than the oven setting to bake a cake. It was going to ruin itself eventually- crack or whatever, not to mention teh heat of the air going in. Originally leaded gas was a little lubricious and the vane material was graphite impregnated. And you were supposed to run a Marvel Mystery Oil dispensing unit.Judson supercharger ?
The other issue was a Holley 1bbl off a Ford 223 by the Holley #. Besides finding a local guy to do the set up pre-internet which I was in the aftermarket industry, and was not problem. To be useful in that application, it needed 3/8 line and 7-8psi. Volvo had fed the OE twin SU's with 1/4 line at ... 2.5-3psi IIRC. So beyond a certain power it would just pop through the exhaust. Easily fixed, of course, but I didn't have a plan for the former problem, so I sold it to an employee at IPD Volvo, in Portland... who sold it to a guy in Europe- not Sweden,... Holland or Denmark IIRC.
(* and generator sat right below it, I don't think I changed to alternator until a couple years after.)
