Volvobrage's widened 242

volvobrage · Feb 22, 2013

Arn02 said:
I want to be your friend too!

Great progress again. One of my favorite blogs.

Thanks!!

Is really cool you like my project

20.02.13

A friend helped me and ripped my tire of the second rear rim..Have been doing some math and these rims are 18x10" et25..But I have 26mm spacers on the last pictures..So when I one time in the future will order custom rims I could with a 10" wide wheel with et-1 :-D

volvobrage · Feb 23, 2013

23.02.13

Cutted of the bracket for brakes line on this leg also

Pressed it togheter 30mm

A friend on work fixed this for me!Hope it will look cool on the car

volvobrage · Feb 23, 2013

23.02.13

Drilled and welding paint

Welded on

Grinded..Think the "marks" on the plate looked cool after mounting!

Trimmed the edge on the lower quarter panel

Spotted the outer fender for good

Temporary paint

Fixed the angle a little bit here, looks better now i think

GOing to use this after all, think the cut is good enough to use it even tough it was cut in a hurry

Cut here

And here

After a little knocking I got the fender on..I hope that it will stay right after I weld the splits I made after I weld it while the fender is in press

FunkyStankyChicken · Feb 23, 2013

Love it, keep up the great work!

Dirk242 · Feb 24, 2013

FunkyStankyChicken said:
Love it, keep up the great work!

+1. Good thread.

MadDog_945 · Feb 25, 2013

inspiring ! Please post more pics from the headerbuilt

jealous about the welding abilitys...

volvobrage · Feb 26, 2013

FunkyStankyChicken said:
Love it, keep up the great work!

Dirk242 said:
+1. Good thread.

MadDog_945 said:
inspiring ! Please post more pics from the headerbuilt jealous about the welding abilitys...

Thanks alot guys!

Its good you like my work

Hopefully I will keep up a good speed until the car is finish..

I have no more pics of the intake building, but next time I weld one I will take some more pictures

25.02.13

Got the last plate on

Welded the outer fender to the inner fender..I see on this picture the rear angle of the lower quarter panel needs a little more adjusting

A friend got me this 3,5" alu pipe for a intake Im building for him..Lucky for me it will be some extra leftover material so I will use it for a water tank on the 242

volvobrage · Mar 8, 2013

27.02.13

Cutted the pipe for my friends intake..The rest will be the water tank to the 242, looks like the rest is perfect

Maybe I will cut it abit shorter, will see

Made some endcovers for the tank

Took out the screws and removed the BMW mark :-P

Have been abit buisy since I just got the house I bought a wile ago

But hope things will speed up again now

volvobrage · Mar 12, 2013

08.03.13

Before and afte pic of the rims!

Alu plate I will use inside the catchtank

Finished the last to front fender mounts

Some old pictures when I made the flange for the turbonetics turbo..

Marked and drilled

Bolted on and grinded to flush with the turboflange

Grinded the pipe to get the threads on

Finish welded and grinded

Considering to put "Group a" reinforcements on them, will se

volvobrage · Mar 12, 2013

09.03.13

Mounted this in the rear

Here its adjusted 25mm, but I ended up with 21mm after this

Front..Here its also 25mm on the picture, but 21mm now

Marked for drilling here

Ripped of the volvo marking and the rubber on the wheelarch

After some small adjusments, looks better but needs some more work later

I was really not looking forward to this :-P

But this took 5 minutes, the tectyl was old and crunchy

Finish mounted here

Looks good

The other one gaps a little bit more

Not widened

Widened, will maybe adjust the gap here to make it straight

Little bit spotting,..Decided to mount the front plates before I do anything more

volvobrage · Mar 12, 2013

10.03.13

Drilled and put this "bodyscrew" in..Tightened good

Mounted the lower frontplate and the lightplates

And the upper front plate

Spotted as far as I can without filling in a new peace

Overview

Looks like this with 26mm spacer, hopefully I will get the inside with 20+ spacer

Sebastiaan245 · Mar 16, 2013

volvobrage said:
31.01.13

Cutted out some reinforcementplates for the front suspension, not sure if I will use it tough

Vilka m?tt har du p? dom reinforcement plates?

volvobrage · Mar 25, 2013

23.03.13

First new piece on the front fender

Filled the crack!

Welding and grinding almost finish on the vertical cut

Starting to look complete again

While I'm waiting for the welding spots to cool down I cutted the other fender

Spotted togheter with the right distance

Welded the sidetrim holes

Looked like this when I finished for the day, alot of welding and grinding!

volvobrage · Mar 25, 2013

24.03.13

Drilled hole and bolted this on also

Looks straight

Spotted togheter

And as far as I wanted without filling in a new piece

Started on filling in a new piece..Here is how I do it
The side with one spot I to long and going under the fender

Cutted away the extra material on the outer side and cutted a nice gap on the inside

A clamp on each side

Spotted togheter

After this I remove the clamp that is inbetween the weldings and weld there also..Its normally straight there after spotting it on to places

New piece on the other sida

When I finished for the day

Hoping to finish the front fender in the easter holidays!

2fast242gt · Mar 25, 2013

simple but awesome approach! it will barely be noticed ( in a good way ) that you widened the front fenders after its painted!

volvobrage · Apr 4, 2013

2fast242gt said:
simple but awesome approach! it will barely be noticed ( in a good way ) that you widened the front fenders after its painted!

Thanks alot!Thats what Im hoping for

On the rear its hard to see the widening job without looking for it

So im hoping the fenders will be the same

28.03.13

To new pieces in

And the last piece filled in

Welding and grinding

Think this will be cool

Finished welding the top here, missing some small holes and littlebit rust..The color on this fender is the original color on the car..Its the color the car will be painted in, but I will add littlebit metallic to make the color "new'er" and give it a more personal touch!

volvobrage · Apr 4, 2013

31.03.13

Welded and grinded the top

Welded all the trim holes, but Im out of sanding paper so its only roughfly grinded with the grinder

Got this out from the rear fender..Will remove it on both sides to be able to paint and rustprotect it properly

Needed to drill these two holes to get it out so they need to be welded

Ex850R · Apr 5, 2013

An inspiring read! Well done getting on and just 'doing' the work , i reckon most of us watching this have the thought but never actually go and 'do it'! I will say that when bending the alloy aluminium too much and to stop it cracking you should heat it first with a gas heat source , hot enough that when you rub with a stick of pine wood it leaves a brownish mark easily then do your bending , it will not crack then . (the cheats way ! You dont need a thermometer , we did this at Alcoa Aluminium in Geelong Australia when i worked my apprenticeship as metal fabricator in the plant workshops.....)
What spring length will you have on the coilovers? Where did you get the threaded parts for the coil overs?
Great work ! Enjoying this thread immensly!

volvobrage · Apr 12, 2013

Ex850R said:
An inspiring read! Well done getting on and just 'doing' the work , i reckon most of us watching this have the thought but never actually go and 'do it'! I will say that when bending the alloy aluminium too much and to stop it cracking you should heat it first with a gas heat source , hot enough that when you rub with a stick of pine wood it leaves a brownish mark easily then do your bending , it will not crack then . (the cheats way ! You dont need a thermometer , we did this at Alcoa Aluminium in Geelong Australia when i worked my apprenticeship as metal fabricator in the plant workshops.....)
What spring length will you have on the coilovers? Where did you get the threaded parts for the coil overs?
Great work ! Enjoying this thread immensly!

Thanks man!

A really nice comment, I apriciate it

Okey, thanks for the tips!We never work with alu on my working place so I havent learned so many "tricks" yet..I will remember this

Actually going to bend something soon so I will test it out then!
Im not sure on the spring lenght yet, need to test it on the car first and take some measurement..
The threaded parts I bought at rallyshop.se, really nice company with great service!They also have springs in many lenghts and "hardness"

volvobrage · Apr 12, 2013

08.04.13

Some pics of moving the car home again..Mounted the front support just for fun

The car is out and ready to be towed home

Here you can see little bit the shape of the widening in the front

My father doing inspection :-P

Tried to get the angle on the lower quarter panel and front fender, but it was really hard with the crappy cellphone

Drilled here so the reinforcement are ready to go out here also

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