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photo bucket shit all over me, and with a recent knee injury i had some down time so i reuploaded all my photos to imgur and made a new thread. not too much new since the last thread, but atleast i can continue on where i left off.
So before everyone gets upset, I've owned this car for awhile, and have a lot of progress pictures from some time ago, i'll start with that and slowly document the current LS plan.
anyways on to the car. the car in question is a 1991 volvo 245 with a 2.3l 4 banger and a stock 5 speed. The story on the car is after getting into a hit and run accident where the other guy took off, My first volvo wagon was destroyed, So i went on the hunt and found this one. i was skeptical at first, i got a response to a "wanted" ad i posted on my local kijiji (canada's craigslist) I went to go look since the seller didnt have a camera or didnt know how send photos. when i get there its buried up to the rims in dirt in a field with grass mowed around it. they were actually using it as a green house and had little saplings in the small pots growing in the trunk section.
this is the first one i had, only had it for 1 week.
bent the frame rails way out of whack
then i picked up the current 245. this is the only picture i grabbed when i got it home
i told the guy if he got it out of the field and ready for a test drive i'll come back. so he did and a week later i bought her for $500
at this point it had 503,000kms on the odometer
on the way home from buying it the shifter linkage exploded on me, so first thing to do was turn some new brass bushings to replace the worn out nylon ones
he factory "retaining sleeve" rotted off the linkage barrel so i replaced the pins with roll pins and put it all back together
after the initial accident my grandmother (so thankful for her) gave me her 7th gen civic to drive while i get the other volvo on the road. so i spent some time gathering parts and making the 245 road worthy up at the shop.
eventually i got her home, and of course we had a massive snow fall right after
so i dug her out
then went out and got my first taste of RWD fun
eventually spring came, and i dealt with the ride height.
scored a full set of GTA wheels for $200 just needed a mean repolish
got them mounted and an alignment done.
drove it like this for summer and loved every minute of it, its my first RWD car, and its been a blast having one fun with it. at this point it was a bone stock 20 something year old car with a set of wheels and lowered haha. definitely turned some heads though!
I've never been one to baby my vehicles, so i snapped a pic after some "rally" driving on some farm roads haha the front cross member and front exhaust pipe took some nasty hits.
[img]I've%20never%20been%20one%20to%20baby%20my%20vehic les,%20so%20i%20snapped%20a%20pic%20after%20some%2 0"rally"%20driving%20on%20some%20farm%20roads%20haha[/img]
fast forward to fall, and a season of abuse, its maintenance time.
beat the hell out of the sub frame all year, so i found a used but good one to replace
got her back together and freshened up the front end just in time for the fall colours pictures
of course after fall comes winter.. threw some new winters on the old steelies and spent more time sideways than i did straight.
i only ended up in the ditch once, but thankfully my friends drive subarus... so they pulled me out.
spring came again, and i put the GTAs back on, which was nice and refreshing, Also put some adjustable perches and 2.5ID springs in the back. the old cut ones would rub all the time with any weight in the car, this solved that problem
some summer time photos (yea its not all snow in canada aha)
so as time rolled on, and i learned more, and broke more stock parts i started really modding it.
i kept destroying torque rod bushings (upper links in a 4 link) so i built some adjustable rods with heim joints at each end. All the heim joints i use have a teflon liner in them for maintaince free care, and durable life span. I also used LH threads at one end and RH threads at the other. this way they can be adjusted with out removing them from the car.
next were some adjustable sway bar links with poly upper bushings to lower the bar back down.
these were pretty simple. just needed to make the sleeve/spacers and get some threaded rod for the rod end.
I also picked up this cheap fixed back race seat from a friend, its nothing special, but its probably my favourite thing I've done to the car so far, so much better feel for the road and corners. a lot more feel to the cars input.
fall came again, and it looked pretty.
got a set of these mere wheels for free so i decided to clean them up for a blingy set of winter wheels
whipped up some adapters on a slow dat at work
put some nice fresh conti winter tires on em
the old pan hard rod got rusty, and decided to crack at the spot where it kinks to clear the diff. to get me home i just welded the crack. that didnt last long, but it gave me time to build a new stainless rod with adjustable heirs.
then one day i felt a big clunk in the rear, turns out my rear axle bushings exploded. so for now i just replaced with stock ones
So before everyone gets upset, I've owned this car for awhile, and have a lot of progress pictures from some time ago, i'll start with that and slowly document the current LS plan.
anyways on to the car. the car in question is a 1991 volvo 245 with a 2.3l 4 banger and a stock 5 speed. The story on the car is after getting into a hit and run accident where the other guy took off, My first volvo wagon was destroyed, So i went on the hunt and found this one. i was skeptical at first, i got a response to a "wanted" ad i posted on my local kijiji (canada's craigslist) I went to go look since the seller didnt have a camera or didnt know how send photos. when i get there its buried up to the rims in dirt in a field with grass mowed around it. they were actually using it as a green house and had little saplings in the small pots growing in the trunk section.
this is the first one i had, only had it for 1 week.
bent the frame rails way out of whack
then i picked up the current 245. this is the only picture i grabbed when i got it home
i told the guy if he got it out of the field and ready for a test drive i'll come back. so he did and a week later i bought her for $500
at this point it had 503,000kms on the odometer
on the way home from buying it the shifter linkage exploded on me, so first thing to do was turn some new brass bushings to replace the worn out nylon ones
he factory "retaining sleeve" rotted off the linkage barrel so i replaced the pins with roll pins and put it all back together
after the initial accident my grandmother (so thankful for her) gave me her 7th gen civic to drive while i get the other volvo on the road. so i spent some time gathering parts and making the 245 road worthy up at the shop.
eventually i got her home, and of course we had a massive snow fall right after
so i dug her out
then went out and got my first taste of RWD fun
eventually spring came, and i dealt with the ride height.
scored a full set of GTA wheels for $200 just needed a mean repolish
got them mounted and an alignment done.
drove it like this for summer and loved every minute of it, its my first RWD car, and its been a blast having one fun with it. at this point it was a bone stock 20 something year old car with a set of wheels and lowered haha. definitely turned some heads though!
I've never been one to baby my vehicles, so i snapped a pic after some "rally" driving on some farm roads haha the front cross member and front exhaust pipe took some nasty hits.
[img]I've%20never%20been%20one%20to%20baby%20my%20vehic les,%20so%20i%20snapped%20a%20pic%20after%20some%2 0"rally"%20driving%20on%20some%20farm%20roads%20haha[/img]
fast forward to fall, and a season of abuse, its maintenance time.
beat the hell out of the sub frame all year, so i found a used but good one to replace
got her back together and freshened up the front end just in time for the fall colours pictures
of course after fall comes winter.. threw some new winters on the old steelies and spent more time sideways than i did straight.
i only ended up in the ditch once, but thankfully my friends drive subarus... so they pulled me out.
spring came again, and i put the GTAs back on, which was nice and refreshing, Also put some adjustable perches and 2.5ID springs in the back. the old cut ones would rub all the time with any weight in the car, this solved that problem
some summer time photos (yea its not all snow in canada aha)
so as time rolled on, and i learned more, and broke more stock parts i started really modding it.
i kept destroying torque rod bushings (upper links in a 4 link) so i built some adjustable rods with heim joints at each end. All the heim joints i use have a teflon liner in them for maintaince free care, and durable life span. I also used LH threads at one end and RH threads at the other. this way they can be adjusted with out removing them from the car.
next were some adjustable sway bar links with poly upper bushings to lower the bar back down.
these were pretty simple. just needed to make the sleeve/spacers and get some threaded rod for the rod end.
I also picked up this cheap fixed back race seat from a friend, its nothing special, but its probably my favourite thing I've done to the car so far, so much better feel for the road and corners. a lot more feel to the cars input.
fall came again, and it looked pretty.
got a set of these mere wheels for free so i decided to clean them up for a blingy set of winter wheels
whipped up some adapters on a slow dat at work
put some nice fresh conti winter tires on em
the old pan hard rod got rusty, and decided to crack at the spot where it kinks to clear the diff. to get me home i just welded the crack. that didnt last long, but it gave me time to build a new stainless rod with adjustable heirs.
then one day i felt a big clunk in the rear, turns out my rear axle bushings exploded. so for now i just replaced with stock ones
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