If you need parts from Skandix Im ordering some engine stuff and you can ride on my 100 EU shipping from GER to USA, I can ship to you from NY using USPS at the usual flat rate box charges. Lets use this thread for the list, and PM for payment info

The red compressor hose is a tough one to get on with the snorkel in place. Get the air box out to get room, snorkel off, move slowly and carefully to avoid breaking stuff. You can splice in broken crankcase ventilation stuff on a -1998 , no need to buy new.

Five years since we , the Collective, saved Evita the 019 1999 S70

She’s been a college car, first job 45 minute commute car, and now a solid backup car to our family on Long Island

She’s at 180k miles now and today she will run me into Manhattan, I’ll put photos into Road Trip…

That intake needs one more tooth tweak, ccw when viewed from front of engine

Are you done with those shoes? Asking for a Scottish friend…..

I think it’s 46 teeth I the cam pulley, so that’s about 8 degrees per tooth. So, one tooth

The red line is a pressure line which takes pressure from the turbo to apply pressure to the watergate with the yellow hose. Pressure on the waste gate holds it closed and allows boost to build. The blue hose dumps any unused boost pressure back into the snorkel just upstream of the turbo The TCV va...

Off to London to go meet some smart people. Will keep an eye out for Volvos…caught this one in Paris…..

Timing belt replacement without pulling the crank pulley is doable for -1998 cars but with the RN block I’m convinced you have to torture the belt to get that in. Another oddity is the 12mm head, M6 bolts ( or is it 10 mm head, m8 bolts?) I hit the crank pulley bolt with 30 seconds of propane, then ...

Open up that cap and rotor and inspect for moisture and ice - if you get stuff up in there it behaves badly. While you are fiddling with those cap and rotor screws you can self-flagellate yourself for not buying a 1999 with coil on plugs and a sexy Italian throttle body.