noob here with my 360 glt

[andy_h]

just thought i'd say hi and show you the volvo i picked up yesterday. some of you may have seen it on ebay its a 47k black glt saloon with very minor patch of rust and well looked after by an old boy who's had it since 94. picked it up for £375 which i couldn't quite believe but not complaining with 11months mot and 5 months tax!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... MR:GB:1123
I've never had a rwd car and this is fun in the wet
it is my new daily driver as my other car is going into the garage for bodywork, new bushings all round and a 200 bhp b20 vtec engine. this is my pride and joy my crx-



anyway i'm gonna be sorting out the suspension on the 360 as its like a boat compared to the crx and take out all the rear seats and door cards to save weight in any way possible, anything to get a bit better mpg and possibly in the near future get it juiced up and the diff welded for some extra fun. i know feelings can be mixed about that sort of thing ( keeping the car origional etc) but if i'm gonna see what all the rwd fuss is about i'm not gonna splash out mega bucks for a jap motor to prang. not that i plan on destroying it

well i'm gonna carry on looking thru all the technical sections and read up on all the info!

[volvosneverdie]

Welcome in dude.
Try and keep anything you take out.
Saloon glts are rare as hens teeth so itd be a shame for it to end up another stripped out drift wagon that nobody want when youre done with it.

Hope you have fun with it dude.

[pyro]

Welcome matey

The rear seats dont save much weight at all. and being rear wheel drive, if anything, they put a little bit over the rear axel for grip... Havings said that ive never found the 360s short of grip at all!

Dia (classic swede) does all the tuning gear, springs, dampers bushes etc etc though hes just had a sproglet so responses may take a while!

Ben

[SteveP]

Good effort, that looks like a nice example! G plate 360's are pretty rare too. I did wonder about the condition of the car as the pictures on ebay were very poor, are you pleased with it?

I'm not so sure stripping the rear of a saloon is a great idea... as the rear backrest on the saloons bolt into place with around 18/19 bolts and because of this I would assume as it's metal framed actually helps rigidity of the bodyshell. Not like it weighs alot anyway...

[Chris_C]

She does look a decent one Good buy.

As above, the rear seat in a saloon is fairly helpful, if only for not having a bloody great hole into the boot They weigh nothing (the bench is easy to lift out to prove this) and the door cards are really made out of card so again weigh nothing.

A decent tune up of LE Jet will be much more beneficial and take about the same amount of time whilst sorting the fuel consumption from horrific to almost bearable.

[andy_h]

cheers guys and thanks for the info on the rear seats and if i do strip the back it will all be in storage to bolt straight back on- it will join the rear interior of the rex if i do.
i really do want to get the mpg up as i managed to get 130 miles to £20 yeasterday and that was 80% motorway and mainly thanks to the econ guage.
i knew volvos were heavy but not that heavy! but it is a super smooth ride for a car that age and i feel like i'm in a monstor truck compared to the rex!
how effective is the re tune then?

[Chris_C]

You'll be around 35mpg on a run, a snadgers more if you are lucky. The car weighs fairly little, but the injection system is outdated and has no closed loop feedback. I'd imagine your flappy paddle air meter is out of spec along with the warm up bi metallic strip, worth checking with a multimeter against the green book values.

[andy_h]

cheers and yeah the weight is 1039 kgs ! it seems alot heavier.
anyway where is the best place to get a greenbook for the glt? i've done a search and it is from volvo direct it seems. is there anywhere you can download it on pdf?

[Chris_C]

They live in technical resources section of this forum

http://www.volvo300mania.com/forum-uk/v ... m.php?f=36

You want engine -> B200

[macplaxton]

If you want lightness then I'm sure someone will take the headlamp protectors off you

[andy_h]

If you want lightness then I'm sure someone will take the headlamp protectors off you

ah those sought after optional extras ! to be honest i'm surprised nobody has made a vac form mold i know plenty of modelmakers who could knock out sets of these.

[andy_h]

They live in technical resources section of this forum

http://www.volvo300mania.com/forum-uk/v ... m.php?f=36

You want engine -> B200

bingo! and i just found out a mate of mine has worked on 360's and knows them inside out to help me!

i look forward to working on the car, thanks to the crx forum i have done everything on my rex all bar the respray and gearbox change. there is nothing more pleasing than fixing your own car and not forking out bucks for some one else to do it!

Cheers

[Nimminz]

Car looks great! Wish i'd got a black one now lol. I went from a pug 206 to my GLT so i'm finding out how fun RWD is too.
Keep us updated on your mods etc

[Speedy88]

300s rock, I'm happy they pull in the fwd crew

[andy_h]

300s rock, I'm happy they pull in the fwd crew

Ah i love my fwd! the rex eats up those posh twats in their bmw's and audis around Milton Keynes round abouts
rwd is a different feeling and i'm loving it! i'm glad i'm single lol cos now even more of my time and money is going into another car