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Post by **smithy** » 27 Jul 2004 10:37 am

Hi everyone i am a 360 owner from melbourne. My 360 is an 85 model with a b23e engine, ported b200e cylinder head. A GT cam (h), extactors. lightened flywheel (4 KG). K&N air filter. all this makes the car quite zippy. I have managed to find an economy guage for the dash but are still looking for the ambient temp guage.
i have a few other things that i would like to try on the car in the future. lowering, brake upgrade, turbo (i can only dream). c.d. player. every thing takes time and money. great website .

see you all later.

Post by **5lab** » 27 Jul 2004 11:59 am

you dont quite sound like a newbie with a setup like that..

foggyjames on here has a set of extra gauges for sale.

Hugh

Post by **mattyb** » 28 Aug 2004 09:12 am

Hey Smithy,

I just picked up a 86 360 GLT for 1k. Good nick, roadworthy and rego but i want to hot her up a bit. Where do you get your parts and stuff like interior door handles and engine parts etc. Im in WA.

Matty

Post by **smithy** » 30 Aug 2004 12:16 pm

Hi Matty. All the parts on my car and the car itself came from Berry Motor Group in Melbourne. That is where I work. We repair, sell and wreck Volvo's and BMW's. They have heaps of 360 parts. If you want you can find us on the net and give me a ring during work hours.

smithy

Post by **foggyjames** » 04 Sep 2004 11:22 pm

Can you get an Aircon kit at your yard?

cheers

James

Post by **smithy** » 13 Sep 2004 12:08 pm

Yes an aircon kit would cost you about $500 aus. I wouldn't know how much it would cost to get it to the U.K.

Post by **foggyjames** » 13 Sep 2004 03:33 pm

Right....that's nearly £200. Not bad I guess, but not too cheap either - the main problem is dealing in that amount of money from the other side of the world!

I guess the major headache in terms of postage cost is the weight of the pump.

Still, worth bearing in mind!

cheers

James

Post by **smithy** » 14 Sep 2004 12:16 pm

The compressor is similar to the 1985 onwards 240\740 compressor. i don't know if they are available over there. The other heavy part is the housing that holds the evaporator. i think the English heater boxes are completly different to the Aussie one's.

Post by **foggyjames** » 15 Sep 2004 01:00 am

Hi again!

Compressor.....the pump, right? I guess a 740 one would work just fine...same engine after all...

There were at least two designs of heater box, and LHD and RHD were different, of course, but I think the AC parts are almost certainly the same. Sadly VADIS doesn't cover 360 AC. Major bummer!

cheers

James

Post by **5lab** » 15 Sep 2004 08:41 am

austrailias rhd like us anyways

Post by **Lonewolf** » 15 Sep 2004 04:10 pm

Hey smithy, You havent got any VX profile camshafts down there, I'm after 1... or 2 if u got em.

I also saw u want to lower it a bit, King Springs have lowering springs for 360's for front only, drops it 30mm, i'm gonna see what else they have and what they can do tomorrow, as the part number was off a backlog of custom jobs or something, but the 30mm lower front springs were $250 for the pair +freight (is $22 to ship from QLD to Coffs Harbour,NSW) Anyway i'll post more as i find it, G'night for now

Post by **smithy** » 29 Sep 2004 12:09 pm

I found one vx3 cam lots of K,D,A,M, & T cams. What did the vx come out of in Australia.
Smithy.

Post by **foggyjames** » 30 Sep 2004 12:06 am

Are you sure its a VX3? VX's were stock, VX3s were aftermarket, but only slightly different (well...3 degrees to be precise!).

M and T cams aren't worth bothering with (better than the B200K 'L' cam, but worse than the B200E 'A' cam), but the rest are usable.

cheers

James

Post by **smithy** » 30 Sep 2004 09:53 am

IT HAS VX3 STAMPED IN THE REAR. I DON'T KNOW IF SOMEONE HAS CHANGED IT. NOT LIKELY IN AUSTRALIA, NOT MANY PEOPLE ARE INTO MODIFYING VOLVO'S

Post by **foggyjames** » 30 Sep 2004 02:56 pm

There's a little confusion over this (so I could well be wrong!), but the conventional wisdom was that the VX was Volvo's version, and the VX3 the aftermarket version.

Either way, that's a pretty cool cam!

cheers

James

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