Volvobrage's widened 242

volvobrage · Jun 15, 2012

04.12.2011

First in paper!I will make to pieces so it will be easier to shape it and put it in

And then in steelplate

Made new plate her

And welding

And grinding :nod:

Tried to take some pictures to show the rear fender, but not easy to capture in photo yet..

volvobrage · Jun 15, 2012

10.12.2011

Finished on the piece without a name :lol:

And the inside..Welding all the way through

Finished the wheelhouse

And after grinding it will look like this!

Attached the rear fender here again

welding and grinding, welding and grinding :roll:

A little problem here I need to fix

corivus · Jun 15, 2012

Wow you get work done, nice job and looking good so far

vagabond · Jun 15, 2012

i am suddenly very interested in whats happening here

volvobrage · Jun 16, 2012

corivus said:
Wow you get work done, nice job and looking good so far

Thanks for that!

Since I borrow my neighbors garage I have no choice other than working like hell when im there!Thats nice, because then I get things done

I have worked 8 - 10 hours every weekend when the car have been there(exept when something more important came up)

vagabond said:
i am suddenly very interested in whats happening here

Just stay tuned, as I sayed I have alot of pictures!

As of today I am finished with the widening part on both sides..Exept from minor fixes, welding some places and grinding some places

volvobrage · Jun 16, 2012

13.12.2011

As I said before, I borrow my neighbors workshop..Since he needed it for himself i pulled down the car again

It was nice to have a look at the work so far with the car on the wheels!

Original side

And the widened side :oogle:

Looks cool I think!There is alot of bondo on the fender from the horrible paintjob so I think thats why the paint is so "flurry"

550 · Jun 17, 2012

Lookin awesome!! Keep it up

M.H. Yount · Jun 17, 2012

That piece 'with no name' -- I think we'd call it a rocker panel extension.

Mueller · Jun 17, 2012

Very impressive...looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

2fast242gt · Jun 17, 2012

nice clean job on the widening!

volvobrage · Jun 18, 2012

M.H. Yount said:
That piece 'with no name' -- I think we'd call it a rocker panel extension.

Okay, thank you!

Nice to learn some new english words about the car

550 said:
Lookin awesome!! Keep it up

Mueller said:
Very impressive...looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

2fast242gt said:
nice clean job on the widening!

Thanks guys

I will post some more pictures today, but i need a new side because my computer is almost chrasing with all the pictures :roll:

volvobrage · Jun 18, 2012

And here was the new page :-P

30.12.2011

The car is up in the rotation device again

After I saw a 242 on the norwegian volvo forum who had alot of rust under the side window I got scared and pulled mine out. It looked very good!

But maybe to you guys in USA this is quite normal

Here I had done a mistake so i cutted the end and made the right angel on it

Here I was going to make i plate that fitted over and weld it all..

But I decided to do different..Cutted away a bit more and grinded

Putted some welding spray everywhere the plate was going to cover eachother and made a new peace

Made the peace for the rear fender

And put in on the car and cutted out for it..ALso cutted out a little more for the sparewheels house..But Ican not put in the new parts before I have the new peace that should go under the talelight

So I started on the other side..At first it was like this

And then it was like this :rofl:

volvobrage · Jun 18, 2012

02.01.2012

Tryed to take a better picture of finish wheelhousing(exept grinding)

Then I continued on the other side making it ready for work..straitened this edge out

Took the reinforcement away

Took away the old **** from inside the rear fender

Started putting in the sparewheel house..Finally it starts to look like a car again on this side :-D

Here it will be fittedf well togheter, I have a plan

Here you can see roughfly how much I need to widen this

volvobrage · Jun 18, 2012

04.01.2012

Finished the torque rods!

Took a reducer and grinded it so it fitted against the ring..It looked so much stronger and nicer then!

Cojones · Jun 18, 2012

You don't screw around sir. Nice job!

volvobrage · Jun 18, 2012

Cojones said:
You don't screw around sir. Nice job!

No I dont

Haha

08.01.2012

Started with this + one nut more

After some work with the grinder and lathe

The extra welding is because of a little misunderstanding

And finish

The treads are not normal but inches and not 2,5 but 1,5 in the "niceness" of the threads

volvobrage · Jun 18, 2012

08.01.2012

Started on the peace under the taillight!Cutted it out from a partcar and removed the "plateonplate" part and welded it togheter..

Support so the fender wouldnt go in when i cutted out the old peace

The old ****..Dismembered it when I got it out and there was alot of rust under!

And in with the new

Also rebuild the edge under since it was ****ed!

Spotted this on place :nod:

Spotted on the rest of the pieces and widened the sparewheel house!

The new parts are from a company called Veng, not known for its nice fittings :rofl:

And this is how it looked like when I went home

Did like this here..The small peace should have been togheter with the big peace, but how could I now where it all would end up..But I think it looks okey, espesally after welding and grindig

You will see :oogle:

volvobrage · Jun 20, 2012

08.01.2012

Picked up one rim from a set I consider to buy..Boltpattern is 5x120 so I need spacers to put it on..This is a rear rim, its 18x10 the front is 18x8,5

ASA 3 piece rims! :oogle:

255 rear tire, I want to have 265!

volvobrage · Jun 20, 2012

09.01.2012

Finished the rear fender!

And the problem with the "rocker panel extension" :-P

Finished the sparewheel house

Some temporary paint..The white spots are the shape of the inner fender

Room for some fat rims!

Tested the rims!

Bur with no spacer I had to put on these nice rims again

volvobrage · Jun 20, 2012

15.01.2012

Made reinforcement plates for the front suspension

The parts will be sandblasted and primed before I weld in the reinforcement!

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