project volvo
spoolakowski
- Joined
- May 8, 2005
- Location
- from Burlington now Farmington,CT
In ~2007 I bought a 1990 240. Since then it's been mainly a lot of little maintenance projects as well as some suspension work. I'll try to make this a most basic chronicle of what I have done and add what little pictures I have of the project now as well as updating with more pictures as time passes.
Here she is When I first picked her up:
From the time of ownership I have found multiple surprises.
I bought a garaged 240 that was supposed to have no accidents and only had 109,000 miles.
Here's a small list of the little surprises I have found over the years:
80% of the lug nuts were stripped (luckily the studs were unharmed)
One of the studs was cut short for some reason
the passenger front door was bondoed and repainted as well as the front fender (this has lead to peeling clear by the trim as well as orange peel)
It wasn't a huge deal bu the fact that they put the door trim piece on with wood glue was... especially because the piece was coming off
The suspension was mostly untouched (most people would expect that so ehh
The car is developing rust in various places and the frame rails are not very pretty in front (the rust will be taken care of eventually hopefully within the next few weeks but we will see what time decides)
Alright so onto the better stuff.
It's hard to put everything in chronological order since I haven't taken the initiative to make a proper project thread but I'll try to stay on track.
I did a few small maintenance projects and the only real initial mod was 18's that I ran for nearly a year or so
(only mounted picture i could find:
Sometime following the purchase of this car I bought b230 with a ported head from Adrian v8volvoman. I swapped the head on with a V-cam and a ttr cam gear and converted to a round tooth belt setup. I also re-did all the rear bushings. we created the bushing tool just one thing to remember is to oil the bolt used in the tool with multiple turn and the amount on force needed to press out some of the bushing the bolt will warm up greatly.
to add to the small list of problems I noticed with the car there was a problem hat went unoticed. It must have been a broken or missing keyway... but the backing plate on my alternator decided to sheer off one day. I heard a loud clunk as I drove and the car lost power. pulled over and waited till some of the smoke cleared and saw the red liquid on the ground. The plate sheered off cut my trans lines knocked a hole in my timing belt cover and decided to dent my hood as well.
That project was followed by a modded AW71 but the transmission wasn't in the best condition when we first tore into it and I ended up having to switch back to an AW70. The transmission had both the valve body and accumulator mod done it and when it was in it shifted extremely fast.
Here she is When I first picked her up:
From the time of ownership I have found multiple surprises.
I bought a garaged 240 that was supposed to have no accidents and only had 109,000 miles.
Here's a small list of the little surprises I have found over the years:
80% of the lug nuts were stripped (luckily the studs were unharmed)
One of the studs was cut short for some reason
the passenger front door was bondoed and repainted as well as the front fender (this has lead to peeling clear by the trim as well as orange peel)
It wasn't a huge deal bu the fact that they put the door trim piece on with wood glue was... especially because the piece was coming off
The suspension was mostly untouched (most people would expect that so ehh
The car is developing rust in various places and the frame rails are not very pretty in front (the rust will be taken care of eventually hopefully within the next few weeks but we will see what time decides)
Alright so onto the better stuff.
It's hard to put everything in chronological order since I haven't taken the initiative to make a proper project thread but I'll try to stay on track.
I did a few small maintenance projects and the only real initial mod was 18's that I ran for nearly a year or so
(only mounted picture i could find:
Sometime following the purchase of this car I bought b230 with a ported head from Adrian v8volvoman. I swapped the head on with a V-cam and a ttr cam gear and converted to a round tooth belt setup. I also re-did all the rear bushings. we created the bushing tool just one thing to remember is to oil the bolt used in the tool with multiple turn and the amount on force needed to press out some of the bushing the bolt will warm up greatly.
to add to the small list of problems I noticed with the car there was a problem hat went unoticed. It must have been a broken or missing keyway... but the backing plate on my alternator decided to sheer off one day. I heard a loud clunk as I drove and the car lost power. pulled over and waited till some of the smoke cleared and saw the red liquid on the ground. The plate sheered off cut my trans lines knocked a hole in my timing belt cover and decided to dent my hood as well.
That project was followed by a modded AW71 but the transmission wasn't in the best condition when we first tore into it and I ended up having to switch back to an AW70. The transmission had both the valve body and accumulator mod done it and when it was in it shifted extremely fast.
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