Joris' 1985 Volvo 360 lh 2.4 b230fb

[Joris]

Been lurking around here for more than a year now, so with the new board up I thought it was time for another Dutchie to post his project car!

Its my first car, bought it in 2010 and drove and worked it since then. I won't post all the changes it has had in the last four years but make it a quick summary 'till today! Started life as a 1985 Volvo 360 with a 200k

When I had just bought it


First think to change where the rims


Had a fair bit of rust on both rear doors, rear arch.. (Turned out it had al lot more rust)


Then came MOT, and both rear sills where completely rotten

[Joris]

Bought new doors


Then I bought I completely rotten 360 5-door (my parents didn't really liked that, I had not told them)


Started dismanteling the car


Then took the engine out


Did some slalomming (Elandrun 2011)


Put the empty shell on a really big trailer ... Not entirely legal, so brought it to the scrappies '7 in the morning


Welded the front arch

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Started poking holes in the front valance (is that the right word?)



Fitted a modded front spoiler of a 240, took it of after a week, was grounding on every speedbump


Painted a new front fender



And fitted a rear spoiler of a GLT


Fitted a double stabilizer bar


Painted a rear door


Then I bought some 940 parts


Screwed up the paint on the new door, fixed that though

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Went on with testfitting the turbo thingies


Bought some other goodies


Drilled a hole in the spare engine that came out of the scrapper


Went on with more welding



Then engineswapping day arrived


Getting rid of that old carburettor and swapping in the injection engine!


Cleaned the engine bay a bit,


then swapped the noisy torquetube for the one from the scrapper


Noticed that the axlelink from the 85' had a darker color than the 88' axlelink, maybe different materials?
The dark collered had 200.000km and no damage, the lighter collered one had 90.000km and had some damage


The 940 intercooler doesn't fit without modifications


Build an intank pump to fit inside the 'carburettor tank' (different than injection tank)


Put the b200e engine in without the turbo, wasn't running good with the intank pump, so I changed the fueltank for an injection model tank! Then the car was fine!

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So I gave her some new collored bumpers


Then modified the exhaust somewhat, the backbox had rotten away


Then bought Vmaxx lowering springs, not doing that again though, way to low and to soft


Welded a set of spare lower arms


Made and fitted a crossbrace



Made some 2" lowering blocks


Helped a friend with a photochallenge, really liked these ones



Then came winter 2012


Found some new front koni's for a Volvo 340, I have fitted new Koni load adjusters at the rear



Fitted the welded and polybushed front arms


Fitted the Koni's and Vmaxx lowering springs (going to change the springs soon for better ones)


Result of lowering, the front is way to low, notice the backbox has changed for a fiat croma rear box

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put some bigger speakers in the front


Finaly changed the other rotten door


Then bought a b230fb engine


With that, a LH 2.4 engineharness and computers


Bought some secondhand 240 brake calipers to use for a big brake conversion


Bought another engine to take some parts of, changing the b230fb from a headmount distributor to a blockmounted one


Swapped it on the FB


Time for another engineswap


Ran into some problems with the clutch, was hitting the bellhousing


Turned out the original clutch was a couple of milimeters higher than the clutch that came with the engine, so swapped those and everything was fine


Another rust issue

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Then bought some bmw bits..



To connect this box to the engine


Then decided that instead of using toyota corrola e10 255mm vented disc brakes, I will be using Alfa 146 2.0 16v 284mm discs.. I have to use 1,5cm spacers and the longer subaru studs but thats no problem.. Should have enough stopping power for a future turbo mod I think:D


That's it for the past four years of tinkering, will keep adding updates as I go from here now


I couldn't upload all the pictures at once so I did in a couple of posts

[Chris_C]

Really nice project! Great to see proper rust fixing as well as thoughtful mods. Look forward to seeing what you do next

[Nimminz]

looking really good, like the work!

[classicswede]

Nice project so far. The big name lowering springs are hopeless and way to soft hence why I made mine much stiffer but the spring open length then becomes much shorter

[Joris]

Nice project so far. The big name lowering springs are hopeless and way to soft hence why I made mine much stiffer but the spring open length then becomes much shorter

Dai, the current ridehight on the front is 30cm (wheelhub to arch), when I use your 5cm loweringsprings, would those get me to 35cm?
And what lbs are your springs? I will contact Robbert-Jan soon then

[classicswede]

The 50mm lowering springs would give you a gap of around 340mm, the spring rate is 200lbs
RJ also stocks 25mm lowering springs that would give a arch gap of around 365/370mm and are 170lbs.

[Joris]

The 50mm lowering springs would give you a gap of around 340mm, the spring rate is 200lbs
RJ also stocks 25mm lowering springs that would give a arch gap of around 365/370mm and are 170lbs.

The 2" springs are perfect then, with those my lower arms should be horizontal instead of pointing to the sky!

Thanx

[Joris]

The original, old and worn down viscofan has changed for something a bit more modern.
Bought a Ford Escort mk4 turbo fan, it's a pusherfan, more than enough space in the front.


Bought a 340 thermoswitch m14x1.5


Couldn't find a m14x1.5 nut so went for a Honda cub rear swingfork nut


Neighbours cat is always around


Ordered new tires, 110 euro's shipped:D


Continued on the batterybox


Only have to grind al the welds down and give it a lick of paint

[Nimminz]

NIce work. Are you wiring the fan into the ECU? IIRC the ecu has two wires a Bl-Sb and a W-Sb which t-piece into the fan electrics between thermo switches and relay. Not entirely sure what it does, raises idle to help fan power drain? turns off when moving? Might be something to think about