MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

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MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by Duvel78 » 26 Oct 2015 10:48 pm

Last friday, I drove back with my first 340 DL with B19A engine (a still hard to believe combination lol), it was a 60 km trip without any incident.

The daily car and the yougtimer together!
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A wonderful interior and seats
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Engine bay
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A special picture for Robbert Jan, the stickers specialist :)
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It's a very nice car, the bodywork is in very good condition thanks to the Tectyl treatment. The interior is nice, the engine (115.000 km) starts and runs nicely.

The car may be the perfect candidate for a R-sport upgrade sm101
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* bubbles in windscreen, some marks from a previous LPG installation, strange Volvo badge location...

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Collection: '78 343 Black Beauty, '82 345 GLS, '83 340 DL 2.0, '84 340 DL vario, '88 360 GLT 5d (2x) & 4d (2x), '89 GLT, '91 340 vario
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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by SteveP » 27 Oct 2015 12:10 am

Still think the R Sport kit should go on your light blue 360 GLS ;)
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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by Duvel78 » 27 Oct 2015 09:37 am

SteveP wrote:Still think the R Sport kit should go on your light blue 360 GLS ;)
'82 345 GLS, not 360, huge difference sm75

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Collection: '78 343 Black Beauty, '82 345 GLS, '83 340 DL 2.0, '84 340 DL vario, '88 360 GLT 5d (2x) & 4d (2x), '89 GLT, '91 340 vario
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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by trabitom99 » 27 Oct 2015 09:56 am

Superb, I love the basic-ness of the car, the rarity, and the colour combination!

Since you have a few cars to choose from, I'd go for an earlier car to fit the R-Sport kit, either a MY 81 or a MY 82. I'm guessing Volvo "officially" dropped the kit when the B19E was introduced?

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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by Duvel78 » 27 Oct 2015 10:18 am

trabitom99 wrote:Superb, I love the basic-ness of the car, the rarity, and the colour combination!
Thanks! I love the basic-ness too :D
trabitom99 wrote:I'd go for an earlier car to fit the R-Sport kit, either a MY 81 or a MY 82. I'm guessing Volvo "officially" dropped the kit when the B19E was introduced?
+1! The kit is perfect until MY82. But it's here a question of months, the car was registrated in october 82, I suppose a production during +/- the summer '82. The first 360 with B19E came a bit later at the end of the year '82. So I think that the R-kit was still officialy available for the 340 2.0. The VIN is DC725***, the '82 GLT we have in our V3M HQ is DC731***, 6000 cars later :D
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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by trabitom99 » 27 Oct 2015 01:40 pm

I guess so! But if you fit the R-Sport kit you'd probably also want to fit a rev counter. And then maybe some alloys. And once you've gone down that route there's no going back ;-)

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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by SteveP » 27 Oct 2015 04:09 pm

Duvel78 wrote:Don't you prefer a REAL wolf in sheeps clothes? :D
I'm not really liking the beige I'm afraid :oops: but it is an interesting car for sure 8)

I did think it was a 345... presumably that has the earlier dashboard too? Perfect for the R-Sport kit!
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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by Duvel78 » 28 Oct 2015 03:07 pm

SteveP wrote:I'm not really liking the beige I'm afraid :oops: but it is an interesting car for sure 8)
Mmmm my memory isn' t probably the best but... Efy's color was... beige with brown interior isn't? :mrgreen:
SteveP wrote:I did think it was a 345... presumably that has the earlier dashboard too? Perfect for the R-Sport kit!
Right, the blue GLS has the old dashboard style.
Collection: '78 343 Black Beauty, '82 345 GLS, '83 340 DL 2.0, '84 340 DL vario, '88 360 GLT 5d (2x) & 4d (2x), '89 GLT, '91 340 vario
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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by Duvel78 » 28 Oct 2015 04:48 pm

Further investigations on the car have proved the theory of a little bump with repairs:

* unpainted front bumper supports (black with surface rust instead of beige), and reused beige painted bolts.
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* the paint aspect and color are a little bit different on the front valance, molding between bumper and grille, bonnet (only outside, not inside) and tailgate, compared to the rest of the car.

The repair seems to be great, but did they use the right front valance? I don't know! I've seen pictures of another MY83 340 DL with B19A in the Netherlands, this time with foglights holes ... But 38.000 cars were produced between mine (older) and that one, that's a lot, they could have changed their mind with front valance choices! Still need to compare with more cars!
Collection: '78 343 Black Beauty, '82 345 GLS, '83 340 DL 2.0, '84 340 DL vario, '88 360 GLT 5d (2x) & 4d (2x), '89 GLT, '91 340 vario
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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by volvomania » 28 Oct 2015 08:52 pm

The only way to be sure :!: is to investigate the positioning and shape of the spotwelds.
To do it proper will mean the removal of the headlamp(s) and looking at both sides of the valance.
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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by SteveP » 28 Oct 2015 11:30 pm

Duvel78 wrote:
SteveP wrote:Mmmm my memory isn' t probably the best but... Efy's color was... beige with brown interior isn't? :mrgreen:
EFE was yellow with the same brown interior (but earlier dash) 8)

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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by trabitom99 » 29 Oct 2015 08:49 am

Duvel78 wrote:The repair seems to be great, but did they use the right front valance? I don't know!
My '82 DLS had a small bump at some point, and the Volvo dealer replaced the front valance for one with foglight holes. I think it's unlikely that someone would do it the other way around - but that's only speculation ...

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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by 360beast » 29 Oct 2015 09:15 am

trabitom99 wrote:
Duvel78 wrote:The repair seems to be great, but did they use the right front valance? I don't know!
My '82 DLS had a small bump at some point, and the Volvo dealer replaced the front valance for one with foglight holes. I think it's unlikely that someone would do it the other way around - but that's only speculation ...

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I would have thought it would be very likely, someone (probably a garage and more than likely non-volvo) would have ordered a "340" front valence it would have showed up and they probably didn't care it didn't have fog light holes and so fitted it anyway.

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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by Chris_C » 29 Oct 2015 10:41 am

Seconded Beasts thoughts, depending on when it was they may not have been able to get the 360 panel easily and a 340 one was laying around in a dealers.

Aymat, get those trumpets off, scotchbrited and painted before they are knackered, that black is the primer Volvo sends all panels out with, it doesn't have a waterproof coat on it!
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Re: MY83 Volvo 340 DL with B19A engine

Post by Duvel78 » 29 Oct 2015 11:36 am

volvomania wrote:The only way to be sure :!: is to investigate the positioning and shape of the spotwelds.
To do it proper will mean the removal of the headlamp(s) and looking at both sides of the valance.
That's my plan!
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Duvel78 wrote:EFE was yellow with the same brown interior (but earlier dash) 8)
I see EFE beige! :lol: Just a question of sunshine and camera exposition? :D Do you still have the paint code from the VIN plate?

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Chris_C wrote:Seconded Beasts thoughts, depending on when it was they may not have been able to get the 360 panel easily and a 340 one was laying around in a dealers.
Yes, that could be an explanation. Or I can easely imagine the guy ordering parts, getting a list of parts to be changed from someone else, and not seeing the car. Based on the weird car identificaction "340 DL", you'll spontaneously select the normal front valance in the Volvo books! But it's still speculation of course.
Chris_C wrote:Aymat, get those trumpets off, scotchbrited and painted before they are knackered, that black is the primer Volvo sends all panels out with, it doesn't have a waterproof coat on it!
Definitely something to do. Most of the genuine Volvo panels that I have in my stock, with the same black primer, have surface rust due to damp environments in the past... I prefer not to imagine the same with water & salt :D
Collection: '78 343 Black Beauty, '82 345 GLS, '83 340 DL 2.0, '84 340 DL vario, '88 360 GLT 5d (2x) & 4d (2x), '89 GLT, '91 340 vario
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