Mediocre 242

[77volvo245]

Originally Posted by t8fanning

You've got some to get rid of?

I'd like to see what I think about TV screens in person too.

I have my only one set. Better get some before they are all gone.

[t8fanning]

I don't hate it, but I don't love it.

[SquareD]

I personally prefer quad squares over single rounds. That front end with the flathood looks great, just as Odin intended.

[Harlard]

You would love it with '83 toy bumpers. Sad but true.

[Redwood Chair]

Originally Posted by Harlard

You would love it with '83 toy bumpers. Sad but true.

With mismatched filler trim and droopy ends.

[Jack]

Originally Posted by Redwood Chair

With mismatched filler trim and droopy ends.

But it would look better at 20ft Ken

[Redwood Chair]

Originally Posted by Jack

But it would look better from 20,000ft up Ken

ftfy.

[John242Ti]

Originally Posted by Redwood Chair

ftfy.

^This.

Toy bumpers look fine on 1983-85 cars. Partly because of the fact that there's no droopy ends and commando bumper trim that looks like ass.

Tate,

To see how your car would look with E-codes, just mosey on over to Ken's project lumberwagon thread. Imagine the hood, fenders, and core support being black, instead of white. Or, imagine my car with a flathood and the 1979-80 Euro 240 grille, since my car is the somewhat stock version of yours.

-J

[Harlard]

Originally Posted by Redwood Chair

With mismatched filler trim and droopy ends.

No one ever suggested piss poor installation or misuse of trim. Gahd.

[Stiggy Pop]

Originally Posted by t8fanning

I don't hate it, but I don't love it.

kinda my thoughts

[t8fanning]

Originally Posted by Harlard

You would love it with '83 toy bumpers. Sad but true.

You're right, but I won't do it.

Originally Posted by Blue245Ti

^This.

Toy bumpers look fine on 1983-85 cars. Partly because of the fact that there's no droopy ends and commando bumper trim that looks like ass.

Tate,

To see how your car would look with E-codes, just mosey on over to Ken's project lumberwagon thread. Imagine the hood, fenders, and core support being black, instead of white. Or, imagine my car with a flathood and the 1979-80 Euro 240 grille, since my car is the somewhat stock version of yours.

-J

I need to find me a set of ecodes.

Originally Posted by Stiggy Pop

kinda my thoughts

I looked at it in the light today and the quad squares are growing on me. I'll leave them on for at least a little while.

[Redwood Chair]

Originally Posted by t8fanning

You're right, but I won't do it.

Commando powah baby!

Originally Posted by t8fanning

I need to find me a set of ecodes.

Small squares or TV screens?

Originally Posted by t8fanning

I looked at it in the light today and the quad squares are growing on me. I'll leave them on for at least a little while.

Big kool-aid in the motherland with the 81 DL / GTX blackout reflectors, but just another car here.

[John242Ti]

Originally Posted by Redwood Chair

Commando powah baby!

Yep. (Rockin' with our bumpers out)

Originally Posted by Redwood Chair

Small squares or TV screens?

He wants the style you sold me and that are now on my 242.

Originally Posted by Redwood Chair

Big kool-aid in the motherland with the 81 DL / GTX blackout reflectors, but just another car here.

Yup. It's that "grass is greener on the other side" syndrome.

-J

[Harlard]

Tate is mulling over the TV screens I have in the mail

[122power]

Originally Posted by t8fanning

I don't hate it, but I don't love it.

That looks good. Makes the front end flow together.

[t8fanning]

Originally Posted by Redwood Chair

Big kool-aid in the motherland with the 81 DL / GTX blackout reflectors, but just another car here.

I forgot about the GTX "reflectors". That might be the trick instead of ecodes with some covers.

But I'd probably prefer TV screens to 7" squares.

[John242Ti]

That'd be an option as well...



-J

[t8fanning]

I just went out and did a few pulls. The point at the cross hairs is what's interesting.



That is the full 10 psi of boost that I'm limiting the engine to by ~3000 RPM. HUGE difference when compared to my old B21FT where full boost with the same turbo happened at like 3500-3700 RPM.

This engine breathes really well. Boost onset is fast and hard.

[JPS]

nice, black 242 looks really good. I like the round headlights on page3 more than the 4 squeres.

[quillc]

Originally Posted by t8fanning

I need to find me a set of ecodes.

Hella makes a nice set of h4/h1 lamps for quad square. Combine that with 4000 lumen led bulbs and you will have an outrageously bright setup. Far brighter than any other setup possible.

[John242Ti]

Oh, Mediocre 242 sighting (look through the windshield):


March 2003, back when luke242ti owned it.

-J

[Quin]

flathood with quad squares might be my favorite front end. you should change it so it doesn't seem like i'm copying you if i do it.

[t8fanning]

Originally Posted by quillc

Hella makes a nice set of h4/h1 lamps for quad square. Combine that with 4000 lumen led bulbs and you will have an outrageously bright setup. Far brighter than any other setup possible.

That's an idea. I'll have to find some.

Originally Posted by Quin

flathood with quad squares might be my favorite front end. you should
change it so it doesn't seem like i'm copying you if i do it.

No. You need to live with the fact that you're a copier.

[Quin]

Originally Posted by t8fanning

No. You need to live with the fact that you're a copier.

no, i need to live with the fact that i constantly fail to execute ideas in time to be vaguely unique. see also: white letter tires. see also: high comp small turbo motors. see also: T cam usage.

[John242Ti]

^Yeah, hard to be unique when Volvo originally executed it in 1977-78 when they came out with the GTX option package in Europe, then rehashed it in 1983 with the flathood 242 Turbos.

-J