Redblockpowered

Redblockpowered Providing custom and non-custom tuning for Volvo 240s, 740s, and 940s.

HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?NEW! Redblockpowered valve spring kit, available here: https://www.redblockpowered.com/sho...
07/31/2025

HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO YOU?

NEW! Redblockpowered valve spring kit, available here: https://www.redblockpowered.com/shop/p/beehive-valve-spring-upgrade

Made for B230s, the Redblockpowered Beehive valve spring package saves almost twenty grams per valve improving valvetrain stability and RPM capability. Spring pressures are not terribly high making these a good upgrade for stock or close to stock RPM limits (less than ~7000 rpm or so).

Available in high and low lift form, and includes retainers.

Two installed heights available: 37.5 mm and 36.4 mm. The latter offers slightly more seat pressure at the cost of total available valve lift. Beehive springs should be shimmed to as close to bind + 1 mm (for clearance) as possible for optimum performance.

Spring force:
62 lbs @ 37.5 mm
160 lbs @ 25.5 mm

Bind height: 23.9 mm

Always check your installed height and coil bind!

Just a quick reminder that today is the last day of the Redblockpowered 5th birthday sale - everything is 15% off until ...
07/23/2025

Just a quick reminder that today is the last day of the Redblockpowered 5th birthday sale - everything is 15% off until midnight PST!

Chips, intake manifolds, and more, all available here: https://www.redblockpowered.com/shop

Some hits from five years of Redblockpowered:
1 ) my original TB forum ad!
2 ) a TON of mail
3 ) Busted valve spring in a customer's head!
4 ) My first modded APC!
5 ) Socketed LH 2.2 ECU
6 ) My own head... with eight bent valves
7 ) Secret OG logo, designed by my dad
8 ) One of hundreds of chips (fueled by LaCroix)
9 ) I still want a source for big throttle blades
10 ) All my chips are labeled sequentially by hand - so I know they're mine, and what might be different about each one (the Redblockpowered difference?)

Exciting news - in honor of our 5th birthday I'll be offering 15% off everything all week!Use code BIRTHDAY for sale. Us...
07/16/2025

Exciting news - in honor of our 5th birthday I'll be offering 15% off everything all week!

Use code BIRTHDAY for sale. Use money for items (ECUs, chips, APCs, etc).

Redblockpowered is now FIVE YEARS OLD (and two weeks. oops)Five years (and two weeks) ago, having been downsized from my...
07/14/2025

Redblockpowered is now FIVE YEARS OLD (and two weeks. oops)

Five years (and two weeks) ago, having been downsized from my job washing cars, I started a forum thread selling the tune from my own car, which at the time was basically stock. It was between semesters and I needed to cover expenses (mostly burritos and car insurance) and this was about the most marketable skill I had.

I was shocked to find basically immediate interest on Turbobricks, and lots of positive feedback thereafter. I packed stuff wrapped in packing tape (stupid idea) and full of printer paper (surprisingly adequate idea). Every step of the way basically I've been rewarded by the community for trying harder.

Five years on sometimes I look up a question I have about my car and find myself, or see screenshots of my website or information my dad and I found getting shared around, even on sites that aren't in English. I don't have an exact number but between Volvos and Saabs there are ~350 sets of chips out there, and lots of other things along the way.

Thanks so much to everyone, my friends and family, and especially the folks on Turbobricks that have supported me since through the years. Here's to many more!

AVAILABLE NOW! Get this little plastic porting tool I designed and printed AND a set of instructions for porting your ow...
07/14/2025

AVAILABLE NOW! Get this little plastic porting tool I designed and printed AND a set of instructions for porting your own B230F intake manifold for only $15. Available now on my site. Tell your friends?

Fits in a envelope! Takes probably six hours to do the work! Your ears hurt after!

Hello everyone! Have been letting this page fall into disrepair lately - pardon me if you've sent a message and I haven'...
07/10/2025

Hello everyone! Have been letting this page fall into disrepair lately - pardon me if you've sent a message and I haven't gotten back to you!

In other news...

NEW PRODUCT ALERT: https://www.redblockpowered.com/shop/p/ported-b230f-intake-manifold

Available on an exchange basis ($150) OR sourced from me ($250) (aiming to keep lead times down here, I try to keep these on hand!)

In the interest of transparency, HERE is what gets done:

Ground down throttle body studs inside plenum
Ground down injector bosses
Intake runner long sides opened up
Intake runner entries smoothed out in plenum

They also come with a sweet warning label, as you can see.

In total all these intake modifications provide airflow close to the B21F intake based on prior flowbench testing. Buyer is responsible for mailing in their intake core!

Obviously you could also just do this. I'm not the boss (hah) of you.

And... for a little more background here's some intake testing we did earlier:
https://turbobricks.com/index.php?threads/cam-and-i-built-one-of-these-david-vizard-budget-flow-benches.364714/page-2 -6290314

Made an executive decision here - sale will be going on all this week! You have until 12/8 to get up to 20% off anything...
12/02/2024

Made an executive decision here - sale will be going on all this week! You have until 12/8 to get up to 20% off anything I sell.

Tell your friends!

Also check this out!
11/29/2024

Also check this out!

Pleased to announce a Black Friday sale on https://www.redblockpowered.com/ - get a discount of up to 20% but generally ...
11/29/2024

Pleased to announce a Black Friday sale on https://www.redblockpowered.com/ - get a discount of up to 20% but generally about 15% (no code needed, it's already applied) on any of my chips, daughterboards, ECU sets and other services for LH 2.4 Volvos.

NA chips - intended for cars with cam changes and higher compression

Turbo chips - two types:
stock everything - just boost controller - 184 whp
3" MAF - 15G/16T - 3" exhaust - ENEM V15 cam - 234 whp

My focus is not just power but general improved operation, drivability, starting, and economy should all be improved. Mail-in ECU services are also available!

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Swampscott, MA
01907

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