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So after selling my 83 245ti about 2 years ago, i picked this car up. It's an 84 242, which is kinda rare year, because it was the last year of the non turbo 2 doors. I was fortunate enough to buy it off the original owner, who bought it from the local dealership a looooong time ago. the PO bought it a few neat things from the parts dept. at the dealership like the rare 242 "blackbox" trim around the windows and the turbo belt line trim, some really rare 14" alloys from a gt model, some awesome 80's volvo stereo, some 52mm gauges, and later model front brakes with vented rotors. The interior was in surprisingly good shape for a 2 door and everything is perfect somehow, with a exception of a crack on the dash. I think the car was repainted some time in the 90's, and the paint and body are in ok shape for a 28 year old car. Here's What the car looked like when i first picked it up:
Fucking giant Swedish monster truck.
The first couple of things i did to it were:
15"turbo wheels
iPd 25/25 sways
iPd "sport" springs
some ghetto stereo I threw together with stuff I had laying around in my garage
iPd -85 snow scoop
headlight thingies
iPd "sport" exhaust
full tune up
original volvo thule rack
At which point it looked like this;
And it stayed like that for a while.
I drove it around a bunch and fixed a few things as they came along like fuel and idle issues with LH2.0. For a while it had a problem where it would just randomly rev itself like some ghost racecar driver was in it or something haha. I decided i wanted a better stereo, and put a decent system with all kicker components. I added some nla bosch pilot 150's in yellow to make it super jdm, and a kinda rare 79 GT front airdam to change it up a little.
like this;
then drove it around a bunch more. Then i realized it was still a swedish monster truck and it needed to go lower. I began collecting parts and pieced together some front coilovers, using;
stock length Koni yellows
8"X400Lb eibach ers springs
coleman racing 7" sleeves
kaplhenke racing upper seats and weld rings
upper mounts maxed out at factory limit (like -1 deg iirc)
and those looked like this:
For the rear I used billy HD's from a s10 that are about 2" shorter and MUCH stiffer to have some decent travel and cut springs for now until i finish my rear coilovers. But I painted the springs purple as well, so i get like 50 jdm points. The car sat like this at first:
Then after a day I realized it was REALLY donked and had like 2" of rake and the rear kicked out too easily in the rain for awesome open diff driftos. then I did this:
,spun the front coils down a little, and rolled the fenders a little for my beast 205/60's, replaced my tre's and balljoints, which is how it sits now:
and took it on a local cruise last week:
It's kinda fun crusing around scraping on shit and I think it looks ok for a old volvo.
a few things i'll eventually get around to;
find some wheels I actually like in like a 16x9 or 17 or something
make short strut coilovers for the front to gain more travel
convert to a flathood group a front end
maybe put a turbo motor in
cool shit
-Josh
Fucking giant Swedish monster truck.
The first couple of things i did to it were:
15"turbo wheels
iPd 25/25 sways
iPd "sport" springs
some ghetto stereo I threw together with stuff I had laying around in my garage
iPd -85 snow scoop
headlight thingies
iPd "sport" exhaust
full tune up
original volvo thule rack
At which point it looked like this;
And it stayed like that for a while.
I drove it around a bunch and fixed a few things as they came along like fuel and idle issues with LH2.0. For a while it had a problem where it would just randomly rev itself like some ghost racecar driver was in it or something haha. I decided i wanted a better stereo, and put a decent system with all kicker components. I added some nla bosch pilot 150's in yellow to make it super jdm, and a kinda rare 79 GT front airdam to change it up a little.
like this;
then drove it around a bunch more. Then i realized it was still a swedish monster truck and it needed to go lower. I began collecting parts and pieced together some front coilovers, using;
stock length Koni yellows
8"X400Lb eibach ers springs
coleman racing 7" sleeves
kaplhenke racing upper seats and weld rings
upper mounts maxed out at factory limit (like -1 deg iirc)
and those looked like this:
For the rear I used billy HD's from a s10 that are about 2" shorter and MUCH stiffer to have some decent travel and cut springs for now until i finish my rear coilovers. But I painted the springs purple as well, so i get like 50 jdm points. The car sat like this at first:
Then after a day I realized it was REALLY donked and had like 2" of rake and the rear kicked out too easily in the rain for awesome open diff driftos. then I did this:
,spun the front coils down a little, and rolled the fenders a little for my beast 205/60's, replaced my tre's and balljoints, which is how it sits now:
and took it on a local cruise last week:
It's kinda fun crusing around scraping on shit and I think it looks ok for a old volvo.
a few things i'll eventually get around to;
find some wheels I actually like in like a 16x9 or 17 or something
make short strut coilovers for the front to gain more travel
convert to a flathood group a front end
maybe put a turbo motor in
cool shit
-Josh
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