- Joined
- Nov 12, 2002
Project 242 (clubvolvo's offical project car)
Well it's offical, by a fluke of nature my 242 that I picked up last week was perfect timing for clubvolvo's launch. So heres the low down on the car.
I've eyed this car for over a year, for it was an old friend of mine's daughters car. She stopped driving the car and it sat with many "gremlins" that they were tired of fixing. After a few months (and no serious intrest from me) the price had dropped from 1500 to 200 dollars in it's no-running form.
So I bought the car, replaced the battery and it started right up! How about that. Today I replaced the driveline carrier bushing (I should have taken pictures) and adjusted the clutch to no avail. I think I'll give it one more try then next weekend the tranny comes out and a new (abiet not a super-performance) clutch goes in.
Heres basicly the plan for the car. There is two main goals for the car:
First is keep to a mild budget, I'll spend what I have to but some parts may come later than others
Second: Everything I'll do is reversible should I sell the car or what ever.
So heres my plans:
The int' is going to be fairly stock w/ excpetion to two corbeau seats, and 4 point harness. I'll probably install a simple roll cage as well. A new dash cover (ipd's replacement hard one, not fabric as it is now), white gauges (on order) and some simple mod's come first. I should also be picking up the intercooler from a guy in oregon with in the next two weeks.
Next towards the end of this summer will be the suspension. Most of it looks good, even though it has 225k+ miles on it. So probably all new polyurethane bushing will be put on it. Sport springs, SS brake lines, powerslot or xdrilled rotors. Now, sway bars are part of the list, but might not be on this first round of mods. My brothers 87 244 is going to be the reciever for my turbo bars when I do get ipds bars so I'm waiting for him to pay me.
This winter, the motor/tranny is coming out. It's getting a VX cam, 3" exhaust, possibly a watercooled turbo and some mild porting done. Here lies the main problem, SMOG. I have to be able to pass CA's smog laws so the motor will be fairly tame compared to what could be done. I'm shooting for 200-225 hp when I'm done.
After all is said and done, then the car will be repainted by next summer (I hope). This should be a great project and really fun to do.
Here's my question, do you guys want me to just post pictures of upgrades, or show things like pic by pic clutch removal? I'll try my best, and possibly open another thread for just that. Let me know what you want.
Well, heres the car before I bought it. Note the windows not working and all the punk stickers (LOL).
Thanks again,
Doug Kauer
Well it's offical, by a fluke of nature my 242 that I picked up last week was perfect timing for clubvolvo's launch. So heres the low down on the car.
I've eyed this car for over a year, for it was an old friend of mine's daughters car. She stopped driving the car and it sat with many "gremlins" that they were tired of fixing. After a few months (and no serious intrest from me) the price had dropped from 1500 to 200 dollars in it's no-running form.
So I bought the car, replaced the battery and it started right up! How about that. Today I replaced the driveline carrier bushing (I should have taken pictures) and adjusted the clutch to no avail. I think I'll give it one more try then next weekend the tranny comes out and a new (abiet not a super-performance) clutch goes in.
Heres basicly the plan for the car. There is two main goals for the car:
First is keep to a mild budget, I'll spend what I have to but some parts may come later than others
Second: Everything I'll do is reversible should I sell the car or what ever.
So heres my plans:
The int' is going to be fairly stock w/ excpetion to two corbeau seats, and 4 point harness. I'll probably install a simple roll cage as well. A new dash cover (ipd's replacement hard one, not fabric as it is now), white gauges (on order) and some simple mod's come first. I should also be picking up the intercooler from a guy in oregon with in the next two weeks.
Next towards the end of this summer will be the suspension. Most of it looks good, even though it has 225k+ miles on it. So probably all new polyurethane bushing will be put on it. Sport springs, SS brake lines, powerslot or xdrilled rotors. Now, sway bars are part of the list, but might not be on this first round of mods. My brothers 87 244 is going to be the reciever for my turbo bars when I do get ipds bars so I'm waiting for him to pay me.
This winter, the motor/tranny is coming out. It's getting a VX cam, 3" exhaust, possibly a watercooled turbo and some mild porting done. Here lies the main problem, SMOG. I have to be able to pass CA's smog laws so the motor will be fairly tame compared to what could be done. I'm shooting for 200-225 hp when I'm done.
After all is said and done, then the car will be repainted by next summer (I hope). This should be a great project and really fun to do.
Here's my question, do you guys want me to just post pictures of upgrades, or show things like pic by pic clutch removal? I'll try my best, and possibly open another thread for just that. Let me know what you want.
Well, heres the car before I bought it. Note the windows not working and all the punk stickers (LOL).
Thanks again,
Doug Kauer