Volvobrage's widened 242

10.04.2016
Have been cleaning up a lot at home. To much car parts and things laying around. The Amazon have left to a new ownerTo much work left on the 242, and when its "finished" I have a lot of upgrades I want to do and use it and take care of it.



Got the last air vent on place in the dashboard



"Small" mistake with the angle grinder Lucky its fiberglass and not carbon.


Did some small thing I have postponed for a long time. Removed all the mounts on the catch tank. Will make new ones, more group a look alike.



Removed the nipple plate on the intake. Some pores there that turned out to be a hole also.


And finished grinding after removing the gas valves.


And a new project for the car, to be continued..

12.04.16

Dismountet alot of Things, the radiator Mount looks kind of wierd when its empty


Cardboard first.


Then metalNeeds some small adjustment here.

14.04.16

Welded the plates together


Tested the Box one last time before I started cutting in the car.





Cutted and the Mount spotted again. Tested the Box again after this.


Welded trim holes on these frontfenders. Needs some rustwork as well.


Enjoying the view in the time outs


A good friend of me bought a New car recently. He came by to have the exhaustmount welded. Awesome car!

21.04.16

Finish Welding, some grinding left.


Spotted.


90 degrees bended on the inside, gave alot of strenght to the rear plate


Welded and grinded!



And both sides ready!

23.04.2016

This plate is going to be a windshield washer tank and fit here eventually

28.04.2016

Found this at the local scrapyard


Bought the hole front except the grill that was Garbage.




The headlight Mounts where in awesome condition!


Rele for the 850/V70 cooling fan and choke cover up piece for the dash.


Got some H4 contacts on ebay, make New cables ofcourse.


And a small windshield washer pump from Subaru

13.05.2016

Tested the New front, will use this one since its in much better condition than the one I had.


Needs some adjusting, but will look more at this later. The frontfender needs the corner fixed also.


The filterbox tested one last timeFor now


Fully welded the Mounts for Electric plate, also the one Mount in the car.


Welded the Mounts for the ADR pipes. The pipe will stay on the Mount and two strips on each side will hold it.




Have started on a cooling water tank also

24.05.2016

Have sold the old gearbox, but the guy who welded this did a bad job. So fixed everything berfore I will ship it. Not welded on the inside.


And two open holes here?!


Finished Welding



Bought this old electrode heating closet(?) I will use for powdercoating my own partsAdjustable thermostat from 50 to 300 celsius. Its 50cm deep, 70cm high and 750cm wide inside, so alot of Space for Wheels and suspension parts!!



And the New TIG machine have arrived!


First test whent really wellThis is the fillerneck for the windshield washer tank


Spotted one of the side wall while I was TIGing.

Up to date now for the first time in some years Will try to update more frequently when I am working on the car from now

Please do! I'm loving seeing the progress!

-Ben

Man I just went through your whole topic again, took me a whole week I guess your attention to detail and patience is (still) incredible.
Also the ingenuity and the ability to scrap an idea and start over with it again to make it even better, love that.

Just 2 thing that came to mind:

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I learned that ideally the watts link arms are both horizontal (or at least same angle) when at 'rest'. Your angles seem to be off a little bit which would lead to eccentric behaviour which would be the opposite the watts links is supposed to do The right bar mounts higher to the body vs left bar, in relation to the spinner on the axle.
It would be very minimal and probably barely noticable, but it could be you've overseen it.



It seems you welded both sides of these plates you've made, but to my feeling they still would be prone to crack; wouldn't you want to weld a supporting plate on top of the whole sides?

Keep up the good stuff! Would like to pay a visit to your shop when I'm in Norway again some time!

(How did you manage to keep photobucket still displaying your pics btw?)

Thanks for the Nice comment!! Been a while since I have updated this thread. The Project was more or less on hold for a while. But the last Three monts alot of Things have happend!!
No idea why photobucket are still showing my Pictures. Havent payed them anything and are not using them to upload Pictures anymore.
On VCCN I use a local uploading site. Thats why I havent updatet here, doesnt have any way to do it right now

I measured the arms for the wattlink With this thing With a bobble in that you can adjust to a certain deegre. So I think they should be the same??Adjusted for the same angle and used it to make both arms.
But anyway, the wattlink is sold and the New Mount is cutted away. Decided to scrap it since the orginial Mount should be redone to make it 100% functional and since I want the car road legal in Norway. Strikt rules here...

And I have reinforced the New trailingarm Mounts With plates on the frontThat was the plan all along, just didnt have plate for it when I welded the Mounts.
Have Pictures of everything, but as you mentioned photobucket are *******s.

The Whole car(- the roof) has been blasted and primed also!!
I left the gearbox rewelding to a Professional so Im going to pick it up next week. Rentet a Place in a Nice garage + Some other stuff

Can't wait to see updates and to see the car on all 4 wheels

By the way I now see the axle isn't even level in the picture I posted so the horizontal lines and angles make no sense, sorry
Good to hear you fixed the plates.

23.06.2016

Picked up som fenders from a local friend that was scrapping a 245.

09.08.

Reinforced the trailingarm Mounts Before.


After.




28.11.2016

Bought electrical Windows.


11.12.2016

Welded in a pipe for the air intake. 4" stainless steel pipe




18.12.2016

Moved the draining to the Wheel houses.



23.12.2016

Bought some AN Connections to test what I need in the different Places.


240 meters of different kables


Airhose for the heater.


Lids for different tanks.


AN8 Welding Connections in black steel and aluminium.


Hose for the heater.


Some aluparts for different Things.


Firewall Connection for the heater.

01.01.2017

Bought this for testing, very cheap on Biltema.


Tested the AN Connection, think they will look great if everything turns out as I want




04.01.2017

Made a pipe for the airfilter Box, will not be welded before I have tested it With a turbo mounted.


Got some parts for the electrical system.




08.01.2017

More parts for electrical system.




10.01.2017

Welded the last to AN Connections on the fuel surge tank. Just need a New Mount now.

15.01.2017

Alot of Pictures of small Things, but Ill post them anyway!

Contacts so I can remove the wiring for the rear lights from the trunk.


Pins for the Bosch Connectors.
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Connectors for the instrument panel.


MAP sensor.



Contact for the MAP sensor.


Some spareparts.

03.03.2017

2,8mm contacts for the instrument panel.


New intake, will build this a little different than the old one.


Took the bearing out of the gearbox, but didnt get everything out. Will work a little more on this to clean it up.



got some more parts!




AEM exhaust gauge.

07.03.2017

Flanges for the intake. A 10mm for custom intake and two 8mm for the orginial intake.


Will weld this in the roll Cage for fastening the belts.


A friends Project, it will be awesome!! It will be Powered by a 1,8 Audi turbo engine.

08.09.2017

Decided to blast the car myself. That didnt go as planned But got a hole lot of Things done.
Got some Wheels on the rotaisse.


Nice to live on a farm when youre working on tractors!



Two holes appeard in the floor after blasting.