volvo 300's in motosport

Post by **sven360** » 15 Sep 2006 09:47 pm

Plenty of drifters and a few road rally boys on here-'bout time we had a topic on who 's doin' what.
Me and our kid kick off this winter with the John Robson on 30Sept/01 Oct.

Let's hear what everyone else is upto

Post by **Carl** » 15 Sep 2006 10:00 pm

Not bloody much at the moment

Buying a house is draining all my money! Plus any time I do get to work on cars is spent on the 2 BXs and the misus' MR2 at the moment, so poor old Fioner has been sat in the garage for weeks without any interest being shown at all

Plans at the mo is as follows:
1. New front suspension (all ready and waiting to go on)
2. New brakes all round (just need discs and pads and I'll have eveything)
3. Do some local 12 cars and scatters, maybe some Nat B events depending on finances
4. Wales Rally GB
5. Rebuild the B230 I have in garage
6. Sort out stainless exhuast
7. Buy a cheap/scrap 240/740/940 and swap engine management into Fioner then lob the rebuilt B230 in for some cheap frills

Post by **sven360** » 15 Sep 2006 10:26 pm

Bloody hell Carl you're busy-pity it's on the wrong stuff

Still one day you'll get over your Citreon phase

Post by **Bilbo** » 15 Sep 2006 10:28 pm

ive seen a photo of the enduro guys on a forum recently doing a night event. sorry i cant remember your names but you were the ones in the voc mag !

not this 1 - but this is the father son i mean[?]

http://www.mandh-photography.co.uk/even ... g_0940.htm

Post by **Carl** » 15 Sep 2006 11:10 pm

Well the MR2 and one of the BXs is having work done ready to be sold, so with any luck both of those will be out of the way soon. If I get rid of the other BX it'll probably be to swap it for a Xantia Turbo/V6

I'm a sucker for older cars - which generally means I end up doing plenty of work on them myself. Really I should just go buy a decentish, reliable, economical car for my daily driver, but where's the fun in that

Post by **Bilbo** » 21 Sep 2006 07:03 pm

did a 12 car last night and it was good fun for me but not for my bro who was reading the maps. the roads were great,mainly single tracks and it was like driving on marbles alot of the time. my bro became ill after a short while and couldnt read the maps so used the tulips instead. managed to finish 7th after missing a few route checks. most of the other cars were full on stage prepared but the stnd volvo managed to hang on the bumper of them for short periods. we couldnt believe how fast they collected rc's.....
good fun though

Post by **redline** » 21 Sep 2006 10:11 pm

Is posing a recognised motor sport

Post by **sven360** » 25 Sep 2006 04:29 pm

redline wrote:Is posing a recognised motor sport

Only in Milton Keynes apparently

Me and Bilbo both driving on the Ropper this Sat-so 2 360's out

let's hope it's a good un

Post by **IvanAE86** » 26 Sep 2006 04:26 pm

I track my 360 a few times a year on tracks around the netherlands (zandvoort/spa/nurburgring), the rest of the year is spent saving up and fixing it.
Might take to drifting with it as well.. if some good instruction/practice days pop up that dont cost a fortune. Tried it with my toyota ae86 once but the damage i did to my diff cost me about the equivalent of 3 complete v360's

Post by **sven360** » 26 Sep 2006 05:40 pm

IvanAE86 wrote: the rest of the year is spent saving up and fixing it.

Must be the same worldwide then

Nice looking car there

Post by **IvanAE86** » 27 Sep 2006 05:18 pm

Thanks...

It wouldnt be so difficult to maintain, but as it is I have 2 other cars that also soak up time and money, so the 360 has to make due with whatever time I have left for it. Not being anyones daily driver has put it lower on the priority list.

BTW, I was looking at the vid of a drift UK event last sunday, which was won by an ae86 (might be the only one to appreciate that over here though), and I saw a 340 drifting amongst the bigboys in the practice runs.. might this be someone from V3M?

Post by **Ali** » 27 Sep 2006 06:03 pm

Yeah Paz won and that was Sid you saw in the blue 340 (registered on here as turbohaustouge but doesn't post that much)

Post by **ducatievo** » 27 Sep 2006 10:16 pm

As a side note Sid was voted best driver of the day, he came 8th in the end I think, knocked out by a D1 Driver in a tuned Skyline. Impressive considering he doesn't have a handbrake(!!!) and the car is a stock 340 1.7 with a welded diff and chopped suspension....

(he uses a combination of shift-lock and pumping the clutch to lose traction).

Post by **sven360** » 29 Sep 2006 04:45 pm

Well the KC's are sitting up front + I'm running one behind Bilbo so he'd better remove that interior mirror LOL

Hope it rains tommorrow and let the stupidity commence

Post by **Carl** » 29 Sep 2006 05:00 pm

Good luck guys!! Make sure the competitiveness doesn't end in 2 offs!!!!

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