Manbeard
OG 5EURO OG
- Joined
- Apr 1, 2005
- Location
- fuquay-varina, nc
whats up ya'll? so i've got two threads in showroom about my 1990 744 and rather than making more or adding to them, i figured i'd make a project thread.
Let me start with the story on how I acquired this car. My first car ever was a 1985 740 GLE. i loved it so much....except it was a complete pos haha. i drove that for a while, bought a 245, got rid of them, drove an S70 for a little bit, then was out of the volvo game for about a year driving only my mustang. one day, about a year ago, my sister came home and told me her boss (he's a long time friend of my parents) had a car that he wanted to get rid of, and thought of me first. i was excited, but when i found it was a volvo 740, i was ecstatic.
I went over to his house to check it out and it was love at first sight...even though it was an n/a automatic regina car. i was just happy to be back in a car similar to my first one. Jeff (the P.O.) said they had stopped driving it about 3-4 years earlier, as they got an 855 to drive instead. he told me i could have it for free as long as i made sure it got clean again and most of all, got driven regularly. about a week later , i had it towed to my house and started cleaning it up. The next pics are from when its completely dirty and nasty to when i got it cleaned and waxed.
^^clean on left, dirty on right....it was nasty. i had to get new sponges after washing it the first time
yes, i got rid of the nasty steering wheel cover. haha
after i put a couple coats of wax on it, i painted the steelies and added the trans am spoiler on the trunk.
after all that cleaning up, i decided that it needed to be lowered some. so (stupidly) i pulled out the sawzall. 4 blades later, i got what i wanted...although now i think it needs one more coil cut from front.
got my stickers from dana the same day
After i lowered it, i grabbed some flat black paint for the bumpers...painting them made the car look sooo much better.
so now the stance is good, the outside is looking pretty good, i started to mess with everything else. i got new plugs, wires, rotor, dist. cap, all that ****. now it runs perfectly, except for the battery dieing every week. gotta get a good trickle charger on it, and it'll be good to go. anyway, being the broke person i am, all my mods are cheap/free...hell, i got the car for free, so why spend a lot of money on it? the next thing was just for fun..i think it is hilarious.
all this stuff was done with the car in the exact same spot where the tow truck dropped it. i got new brakes and had to bed them, so i figured that was a good reason to take the car for a test drive down the road. surprisingly, there weren't any huge major problems. only ones i found were the tail lights dont work, and the car doesn't want to go past 3000 RPM at all. it rides amazing though...not bouncy at all like everyone was saying.
it felt good to take pics of it out from under the car port. haha
Today, i got one part of the final steps to get it driving...new tires.
185/65/15 kumho tires.
so that means, all i have to do to get it driving is registration/inspection, insurance, get tires mounted, and thats it, i think. oh, and the stumbling problem, but it drives fine regardless
it is going to be my DD, but i've got a short (growing) list of things i want to do to make it better/unique/awesome/and such.
-tint.. going for 5% on back windows and 20% on front two
-i'm in the process of polishing my tail lights out..debating on keeping them red/orange/white or tinting them
-do something about the exhaust. i want a growlier sound, but not too loud.
-get a decent cd player in it. i still have the stock cassette deck (and it works).
-cut another coil from front
-i cleaned the interior pretty well, although, i still have to go back through it. i took out the pass. seat and it was pretty freaking nasty underneath. i just have to find time to do it all.
-i'm trying to find some mudflaps for it...not volvo ones though.
down the road, i may pick up a motor to build and turbo and all that..just not now. this is going to be the car i take to college (going back next fall
), so it needs to be ultra reliable and cheap.
well thanks for lookin ya'll. sorry this aint a uberbuild with BBS LM's and HUGE tardblows and mad tyte camber y0 and all that. not yet at least
Let me start with the story on how I acquired this car. My first car ever was a 1985 740 GLE. i loved it so much....except it was a complete pos haha. i drove that for a while, bought a 245, got rid of them, drove an S70 for a little bit, then was out of the volvo game for about a year driving only my mustang. one day, about a year ago, my sister came home and told me her boss (he's a long time friend of my parents) had a car that he wanted to get rid of, and thought of me first. i was excited, but when i found it was a volvo 740, i was ecstatic.
I went over to his house to check it out and it was love at first sight...even though it was an n/a automatic regina car. i was just happy to be back in a car similar to my first one. Jeff (the P.O.) said they had stopped driving it about 3-4 years earlier, as they got an 855 to drive instead. he told me i could have it for free as long as i made sure it got clean again and most of all, got driven regularly. about a week later , i had it towed to my house and started cleaning it up. The next pics are from when its completely dirty and nasty to when i got it cleaned and waxed.
^^clean on left, dirty on right....it was nasty. i had to get new sponges after washing it the first time
yes, i got rid of the nasty steering wheel cover. haha
after i put a couple coats of wax on it, i painted the steelies and added the trans am spoiler on the trunk.
after all that cleaning up, i decided that it needed to be lowered some. so (stupidly) i pulled out the sawzall. 4 blades later, i got what i wanted...although now i think it needs one more coil cut from front.
got my stickers from dana the same day
After i lowered it, i grabbed some flat black paint for the bumpers...painting them made the car look sooo much better.
so now the stance is good, the outside is looking pretty good, i started to mess with everything else. i got new plugs, wires, rotor, dist. cap, all that ****. now it runs perfectly, except for the battery dieing every week. gotta get a good trickle charger on it, and it'll be good to go. anyway, being the broke person i am, all my mods are cheap/free...hell, i got the car for free, so why spend a lot of money on it? the next thing was just for fun..i think it is hilarious.
all this stuff was done with the car in the exact same spot where the tow truck dropped it. i got new brakes and had to bed them, so i figured that was a good reason to take the car for a test drive down the road. surprisingly, there weren't any huge major problems. only ones i found were the tail lights dont work, and the car doesn't want to go past 3000 RPM at all. it rides amazing though...not bouncy at all like everyone was saying.
it felt good to take pics of it out from under the car port. haha
Today, i got one part of the final steps to get it driving...new tires.
185/65/15 kumho tires.
so that means, all i have to do to get it driving is registration/inspection, insurance, get tires mounted, and thats it, i think. oh, and the stumbling problem, but it drives fine regardless
it is going to be my DD, but i've got a short (growing) list of things i want to do to make it better/unique/awesome/and such.
-tint.. going for 5% on back windows and 20% on front two
-i'm in the process of polishing my tail lights out..debating on keeping them red/orange/white or tinting them
-do something about the exhaust. i want a growlier sound, but not too loud.
-get a decent cd player in it. i still have the stock cassette deck (and it works).
-cut another coil from front
-i cleaned the interior pretty well, although, i still have to go back through it. i took out the pass. seat and it was pretty freaking nasty underneath. i just have to find time to do it all.
-i'm trying to find some mudflaps for it...not volvo ones though.
down the road, i may pick up a motor to build and turbo and all that..just not now. this is going to be the car i take to college (going back next fall
), so it needs to be ultra reliable and cheap. well thanks for lookin ya'll. sorry this aint a uberbuild with BBS LM's and HUGE tardblows and mad tyte camber y0 and all that. not yet at least
