I'm new to volvo and just got a bright red s40 in good shape for 300 bucks. Just wondering if the turbo manifold off the 2.5 would work thanks for any advice.

 

Intake or exhaust? Planning on just a manifold swap, or putting turbos on a non-turbo motor (wouldn't recommend it - different motors).

 

Switching to the turbo i know the 2.5 is different but I was wondering if the exhaust manifold would bolt up

 

Kind of a moot point. Even if the turbo exhaust manifold would bolt up (probably), you couldn't install it without turbos, and you really wouldn't want to slap a turbo on the non-turbo engine (compression starts out wrong, plus a host of other things that would have to be sorted). IMHO, you'd be better off just swapping in an entire T5 engine, so you could get the right motor as a starting point, as well as all the ancillaries that go with it (so you don't spend the next six months trying to figure out why it doesn't run right). Or heck, sell the NA car and buy a T5 and you're money ahead.

FWIW, I bought this car - admittedly with 208,000 miles, but in great shape - for $1400. It did have a shifting glitch, though I fixed it for $30 and 30 minutes. That would have been SO much better than buying the normally aspirated model and trying to mod it, especially since the T5 has better suspension, wheels, tires, options, etc.

 

What was the shifting issue? And its hard to find a t5 around here especially in this red.

 

Nice-looking sedan - and I agree that it can be hard to find a particular model and color combo... but it's better to drive that pretty sedan until the right T5 does come along. You'll save a lot of time, money and aggravation compared to trying to turn your car into a virtual T5.

The shifting issue was a flare between 2nd and 3rd, that was the result (I guessed) of a non-performed factory recall to replace an external servo cover. I bought a V50 that had some shifting problems, and had to replace the shift solenoids to fix it. It was the wagon version of your car, and in really nice shape, other than the tranny.

 

Thanks I like to way the car drives and feels and I just had it to 140 today pretty easily but I like the idea of turboing it. I also need to fix my slap shift its not working but I guess there is some magnet that fell off. I just wish there was more of an after market, market for these cars.

 

Just buy a new shift gate cover (the segmented thing that keeps you from being able to see into the innards of the shift mechanism). The magnet lives on that, and when they get broken (usually from someone spilling Coke on them, and then forcing the now-cemented cover where it can no longer go) the magnet is no longer there, so you can't engage the manual mode (or shift gears if you could). Easy, cheap fix, BTW.