My first volvo :) drift car/daily driver

Post by **griffo20022** » 10 Sep 2007 08:03 pm

Hey guys, I've been wanting an RWD car since i was 14 when I first heard of drifting etc and now at 20 I finally have one

This is my first RWD car a Volvo 340 with a clio 1.8 16V on Yamaha bike carbs. I picked her up saturday, drove 170 odd miles from Wolverhampton down to Dartford/Kent area to collect her

I'm well happy with her!!! Had a couple of go's sliding but wanna wait until I get me some steelies first to save my tyres on these wheels as I love them and can't afford new tyres just yet lol! Theres a couple of niggles to sort out, needs a new dipstick tube and dipstick as the tube snapped:smash: Also has a slight misfire at the very bottom of the rev range, and the fuel pump could do with a slightly better earthing point. That's all pretty much for the engine side of things, then theres just a few bits on the body etc like a hole which needs fibreglassing on the arch and the rear needs the rest of the sound deadening out and spraying up along with the roll bar (which I should be doing this weekend) Anyway heres the spec.

-Volvo 340 1.7 3door
-Renault Clio 1.8 16v engine
-Volvo 1.7 Sump
-Yamaha R1 bike carbs on original airbox
-Yamaha R1 fuel pump
-Welded diff
-Lowering springs and MK2 escort lowering blocks
-13"x7J Mini Revolution alloys in orange with polished lip
-Custom exhaust from manifold to bike exhaust can
-Bucket seats
-Sparco 3 point harnesses (yet to do passenger side)
-Sparco steering wheel
-"Custom" scaffold pole roll cage lol

-Rear stripped out
-Matt black bonnet
-Bonnet Pins

Thats all me thinks. Pics

Hope you like my dads posing

All the work was carried out by the guy I bought the car off (MnM Engineering) and he's done a good job to be fair, can't really knock it at all

goes like stink haha! Drinks alot more fuel compared to my 306 Dturbo aswell lmao!

Post by **meintag** » 11 Sep 2007 01:59 am

Very nice !!! And it looks fast with those specs !!!

Welcome

Post by **classicswede** » 11 Sep 2007 01:13 pm

That rear end pic would have worked for teh reflections photo comp

Hope you enjoy the sideways life

Post by **Frits** » 12 Sep 2007 06:11 pm

Very nice! Try to do some custom paint job, the exterior looks a bit brave right now.

You lucky RHD boy's

The 16 V would not fit that easy to the LHD lol

Post by **Annie86** » 15 Sep 2007 10:35 am

Nice one! looks sweet!
Tip on the stealies - try and get some from a breakers, i got 4 for £40 all with good tread, alot cheaper than buying new tyres!

Post by **Jason B** » 15 Sep 2007 12:06 pm

Depends what kind of driving you do!! good tread on a crap old tyre could be next to useless. Just bear in mind that however much is done to a car the only bit touching the ground is the tyres (I do understand that he wants them for practicing drifting but if he's also driving on public roads with them it would be a shame to bin it into a lampost or something)

Cautionary notice over

car must go like stink if its a valver on bike carbs, ever been dyno'd?

Cheers

Jason

Post by **griffo20022** » 15 Sep 2007 05:26 pm

Thanks for the replies people much appreciated

Don't think im gonna bother with the steelies as I got donated a full set of TSW alloys all 4 with good tread on the tyres and all seem pretty true, no dinks or anything

They came of my friends MK2 golf GTi which he had bought some genuwine BBS alloys for it and needed the space in his garage

I'm now driving around with the TSW's on the rear and the Revolutions on the front, Looks ace lmao! Think I've sourced me a dipstick tube also! For anybody who is after parts theres a guy on Ebay by the name of "Volvoman" who breaks volvos

Had a bit of a tat today, put the passenger side harness in for the gf, put the TSW's on the rear and adjusted my clutch cable (God it's so bloody easy!) so i'm not having to stand on the clutch pedal to engage first now and dont have to worry about when I engage reverse if i'm going to blow the backend off the gearbox haha!

Next week the cage is coming out and being sprayed up matt black along with the rest of the rear interior and as much sound deadening removed as I can comfortably do

Anyway, piccies with the TSW's on the back

Now I won't mind about practicing to drift in the dry knowing I have spare wheels now

BTW the car does go like stink and sounds absolutely lush as f*ck when it's revving up towards nearly 7K with the Aprillia bike can on the back lol! I havent had it dynoed yet but would like to have it done soon.

Post by **Frits** » 16 Sep 2007 04:05 pm

Nice! You do also have pictures from the engine?

Looks good in your avatar

Post by **griffo20022** » 02 Oct 2007 07:48 pm

Little update, rather than starting a new thread

When I bought the car mr "Arthur Job" who I bought the car off started removing the sound deadening, but never did finish it! I got bored after work and started messing with a chisel and a hammer taking it out thinking "F*ck me this is gonna take forever!" Was only gonna spend 5mins on it because I was gonna hold out till I got my hands on some serious hot air gunnage!

Anyway my dad said "Why don't you try moms hairdryer?" I said no at first thinking it wouldnt get hot enough to get me anywhere, but contemplating it in my head while looking like a pot noodle miner chipping away 2cm at a time I thought what the hell and gave it a try.

Hair products rock, period! Got into it in the end as it was whizzing me through the job, didnt have f*ck all else to do so went for it

Heres how it looked before noticed sound deadening missing here n there and looking generally tatty!

and heres after going at it with the hairdryer, chisel and a couple different width scrapers. The hairdryer is the "golden gun" as it helped out big style lol!

Did start painting it out in Zinc rust primer but didnt get any piccies, gonna finish that off, leave it for a good 7 days, then attack it with black hammerite!

Also clutch is adjusted nicely, diffs stopped leaking and I have a fully functioning dipstick!

Post by **classicswede** » 02 Oct 2007 08:45 pm

Hope your mom does not find out!

Post by **griffo20022** » 09 Oct 2007 10:20 pm

I've Struck Crust lol!

Been ripping out the carpet and sound deadening out the passenger side front today I only had time to do one side so the driver side should hopefully be done the weekend. I was going to hopefully begin painting the passenger side but then I spotted these 2 little critters!

Not big at all to be honest, worst is probably 1"x1" so it's good in some way to be honest as I've been wanting to learn how to weld and have never really had a reason to learn until now

So i'll be getting my uncle to guide me through the process as I go along, then I will paint it once complete! Anyway all the craps gone from there now just needs tidying up a tad!! Heres some more WIP pics

Post by **classicswede** » 10 Oct 2007 01:10 pm

Make sure you cut out the rust rather than plating over it

Post by **griffo20022** » 14 Oct 2007 10:16 am

Yer i'll be defo doing it the right way rather than bodging it up. OMG i've just realised looking through some old threads, my cars Sam340's old car lol! Saw a pic of his car and thought "That's the same reg plate as mine!" Lol!

Post by **Chris_C** » 14 Oct 2007 11:40 am

Hahaha, awesome! I think thats the first time that someone has found there car was a members past car... well, that car's had quite a history in the last few years

Post by **griffo20022** » 14 Oct 2007 01:06 pm

Anymore history inbetween or before Sam340 and myself owning it??