Need Help Sporting up my Mint 340 DL

Post by **robbieg** » 07 Sep 2005 01:39 am

Hello guys, Ive just bought a mint 3 door 340dl in brilliant red and need advice on the follow stuff, Sports suspion, alloys wheels, spoilers and help on tunning the engine up a bit, any advice would be grate as i have no idea were to look? cheers

Post by **redline** » 07 Sep 2005 07:30 am

welcome to the forum , alloy wheels can be sourced from various places , the stud pattern or pcd of 4x100 is quite popular , you can use 300 or 400 series volvo alloys, most vauxhall four stud ,some rover and some bmw E30 series, personally I would not go bigger than 15 inch rims. suspension is a bit more difficult , best to read the posts in the technical section , loweered and uprated springs for the front are available as are lowering blocks for the rear leaf springs , spoilers are very much a matter of personal taste but the standard hatch spoiler either stock or colour coded do's suit the car, good luck with the project

Post by **340GLT** » 07 Sep 2005 02:06 pm

Look at genuine Volvo stuff first there is so much stuff out there if you look!!!!
Cheers Adam

Post by **Cornholio** » 07 Sep 2005 02:15 pm

Nice Mr Redline has lots of lovely alloys for sale. I'm surprised he didn't mention them

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Post by **redline** » 07 Sep 2005 02:27 pm

oh , did I forget to mention I have a couple of sets of alloys for sale if any one is interested LOL

Post by **Cornholio** » 07 Sep 2005 02:36 pm

redline wrote:oh , did I forget to mention I have a couple of sets of alloys for sale if any one is interested LOL

Look, I'll even host a picture for you...

Oooh, they're smashing, aren't they?

Post by **redline** » 07 Sep 2005 02:40 pm

there seems to be something missing from my front wing , cant think what it could be , Oh sorry Gavin thats your car LOL

Post by **Cornholio** » 07 Sep 2005 02:42 pm

Well, Mick. If you want to send me a jpeg I'll see what I can do. But then again, I don't know if the people who host my webspace employ taste police?!?

Post by **redline** » 07 Sep 2005 02:44 pm

OUCH !!!

Post by **robbieg** » 07 Sep 2005 02:47 pm

very cool, how much you wanting for them? are the tyres any good and does anyone hear know where to get lowering blocks or springs or whole damper sets from? i aint got a whole load of cash but it needs to be lowered, alot.

Post by **redline** » 07 Sep 2005 02:54 pm

Hi Robbie, all eight for £60.00 (Iwould say six out of eight tyres are legal),or the four with the best tyres (two nearly new )for £40.00 only thing is you gotta collect them from Milton Keynes see my post (s)in the offers section for pics of treads , Dai (classic swede) dos the springs and Ali did have a set of lowering blocks for sale

Post by **robbieg** » 07 Sep 2005 03:06 pm

yea that is a bit far, umm, got to think about it, i might be driving up to croydon next week, if i do it aint that far from milton k. so if you still got them in a week or 2 and i drive up to croydon then i'll take them off your hands. cheers rob

Post by **5lab** » 07 Sep 2005 03:10 pm

i'm based in brighton (so round the corner) and have a full set (5 of) of rare 13" alloys (look much nicer than redlines) you can have for £40 if you want

http://www.5lab.co.uk/pics/car/le/pages ... %20011.htm

Post by **robbieg** » 07 Sep 2005 03:25 pm

what the tryes like?

Post by **5lab** » 07 Sep 2005 03:50 pm

4 are fair (i'd say at least a year left in em) ones worn on one side, but that can be used as a spare. you can get your current tyres moved over if you want.