Started out as a completely stock car with 150Kmi. Bought it with the intention of using it as a daily driver, and then "some day" do an LS swap. Well... it ran well for the first few weeks, and then it started running like garbage. Spent a bunch of time and resources trying to fix the issues, and determined that I had no interested in working and maintaining on a K-Jet car... so out with old, and in with the new.
The goal was to build a nice driver, with good power and reliability. Saving money where I could, but spending money where it matters.
Didn't take any pictures of the car with the OEM Virgos on it. It needed new tires anyway, and since I had a set of Style 42's from a previous BMW project (free), and some new take-off tires from a FR-S race car build (free), these were mounted so the car could be driven/rolled around.
Also swapped out the original seats for some seats that came out of the previously mentioned FR-S (free). Made the car so much better to drive
Stock engine bay. Looking back on it now, I sort of feel bad about "hacking up" such a nice example of a relatively rare car. I didn't realize how what I had at the time. I just bought the car because it reminded me of the many Volvo 240's that my family had growing up. I wasn't really a "Volvo guy"
The goal was to build a nice driver, with good power and reliability. Saving money where I could, but spending money where it matters.
Didn't take any pictures of the car with the OEM Virgos on it. It needed new tires anyway, and since I had a set of Style 42's from a previous BMW project (free), and some new take-off tires from a FR-S race car build (free), these were mounted so the car could be driven/rolled around.
Also swapped out the original seats for some seats that came out of the previously mentioned FR-S (free). Made the car so much better to drive
Stock engine bay. Looking back on it now, I sort of feel bad about "hacking up" such a nice example of a relatively rare car. I didn't realize how what I had at the time. I just bought the car because it reminded me of the many Volvo 240's that my family had growing up. I wasn't really a "Volvo guy"
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As you can imagine, getting 3.5" tubing up and over the axle without hitting anything was a challenge, but at full bump, everything barely clears. I even built a mid-section with a high flow catalytic converter just in case I ever needed to pass emissions. This was before I decided to move to South Dakota. Since I had donated the original gas tank to the 242GT project that I had just aquired, I bought a new tank, and modified it to make more room for the exhaust tubing. 
