OldSchoolEuro
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- Oct 26, 2005
Hey guys! Some of you may know me by now so I thought I'd start a project thread for my 1984 Volvo 244DL.
My parents bought this car brand new at the Volvo dealer back in 1984 and its been in my family ever since. I started driving it all throughout high school and most of college, taking care of it like it was a baby. Throughout the years, I did small things to it such as regular maintenance and the usual suspension upgrades. Here are some pictures when I started to do some things to it:
Then one night when I was browsing Craigslist and I saw these dumb wheels called Polaris.
and I bought them.
Then my car sat around for awhile while I was busy with school. At the beginning of this summer I began to work on the car. I decided to go ahead to take out the engine and reseal it.
The car sat like this for awhile through the summer. Then a couple weeks ago I began working on it again. I needed some expert help so I called up Homer and he came up from Kansas to help out one weekend. Cleaned up the block, repaint, new headgasket, A cam etc.
A large order that came in from Tasca Volvo. Using all OEM parts. I also had all of my brackets and bolts on the engine plated in Zinc Chromate Yellow and Zinc Chromate Silver in their respective finishes as they came from the factory. (Bad picture but you can see some of them to the right).
I will have more pictures this weekend when I get the rest of the parts plated and all of my parts in. Brakes and Suspension will be going on at the end of this week. Engine and M46 conversion will be completed soon as well.
My parents bought this car brand new at the Volvo dealer back in 1984 and its been in my family ever since. I started driving it all throughout high school and most of college, taking care of it like it was a baby. Throughout the years, I did small things to it such as regular maintenance and the usual suspension upgrades. Here are some pictures when I started to do some things to it:
Then one night when I was browsing Craigslist and I saw these dumb wheels called Polaris.
and I bought them.
Then my car sat around for awhile while I was busy with school. At the beginning of this summer I began to work on the car. I decided to go ahead to take out the engine and reseal it.
The car sat like this for awhile through the summer. Then a couple weeks ago I began working on it again. I needed some expert help so I called up Homer and he came up from Kansas to help out one weekend. Cleaned up the block, repaint, new headgasket, A cam etc.
A large order that came in from Tasca Volvo. Using all OEM parts. I also had all of my brackets and bolts on the engine plated in Zinc Chromate Yellow and Zinc Chromate Silver in their respective finishes as they came from the factory. (Bad picture but you can see some of them to the right).
I will have more pictures this weekend when I get the rest of the parts plated and all of my parts in. Brakes and Suspension will be going on at the end of this week. Engine and M46 conversion will be completed soon as well.
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