the real 240

[05m0515]

i know, seriously...i mean cheap, reliable, RWD, TURBO, motor swaps, trick suspension bits...must i go on??????

[twcfc3s]

*Censored**Censored**Censored**Censored* yeah...!! go for it im with you...yould de drifting like a moffo with one of those....take it...those just need a front spoiler and youre in!!!...take it noww!!

[Wickdmarz]

I don't know much about the 240, but I wouldn't mind having the 740 turbo. Wish I could find one that isn't a rust bucket. But those things tear *Censored**Censored**Censored*-fault.

Yea I probably would agree with the secret drifting mobile stuff...volvo are awesome cars but not everyone wants to drive a volvo. Always japanese imports...but I wouldn't mind taking a bmw, mercedes or porsche to drift.

[Parry]

Originally posted by Wickdmarz
I don't know much about the 240, but I wouldn't mind having the 740 turbo.

They make a 760 turbo That's ownage.

Looking at these pictures sure does make me want to get off my rear and start looking into a Volvo project.

[twcfc3s]

shizzle...

[Vinsanity]

haha sweet

I used to drive a Volvo 240 back in HS and part of college...I did donuts and fishtails in parking lots to mess around and stuff, but I never thought that anyone would see it as a good drift car...
...that's pretty awesome

man...now I wish I still had that car
I wanted to swap in a 350 into it when the engine crapped out at 270k miles but my dad wouldn't help me spend $3000 to put a new engine in a $1500 car

[princess_hachi]

the vovlo seems cool because its a good car to goof around in, plus it can carry more then two people. if you get the wagon, you can carry all kinds of stuff. i cant fit nothing in my 86. volvo drift action rules.

[Parry]

After doing some reading, it seems that you can make real power with Volvo's turbo 4 cylenders. Guys squeeze 300+ horse power out of them with some work...but not nearly as much work as you'd imagine. 300 horse with an upgraded turbo and modifications for better fueling and spark, as well as shaving the pistons 1mm to lower compression to 7:1. That's pretty sweet.

I'm sold. I've been looking into getting a rear wheel drive car, and I think an old 2-door 242 is gonna be the one. I don't know why I didn't think to look this stuff up sooner.

[Oki Drifter]

Originally posted by princess_hachi
the vovlo seems cool because its a good car to goof around in, plus it can carry more then two people. if you get the wagon, you can carry all kinds of stuff. i cant fit nothing in my 86. volvo drift action rules.

AND since they're volvo if you ever get into a bad accident or fall off of your favorite touge, you have a better chance of living through it than if it were an japanese or american or german car

[hardcoredrift]

OMG the Volvo P1800 is a beautiful car WOW nicest volvo i have ever seen. if its RWD i would love to drift in that thing seeing it drift would be awesome. im going to start searchin for those babies.

and when i went to europe i have also seen mostly volvos drifting and BMWs.



ooooo that car gives me quivers

[Emagdnim]

I worked in a shop that specializes in Volvos and saabs for 2 years and would just like to share some of my experience with them. They aren't the easiest to work on( The sweedish like to do things backwards). Parts can be expensive depending on where you get them from. Shops that work on them are few and far between. There is some aftermarket support but not much.

On the good side they are very reliable, safe, and economical. Many of them come stock turboed and intercooled and can be made to produce decent power.

Also I wanted to add alittle about the p1800. There were two guys that I worked with that were restoreing p1800's and according to them they don't make to much power, about 80-90hp depending on condition(power isn't everything). And yes I beleive they are RWD.

[spinitsidewayz!]

hmm.. so the volvo 240 would be the 240sx to us but for the europeans eh? that one looks sweet

[Vinsanity]

Originally posted by Oki Drifter
AND since they're volvo if you ever get into a bad accident or fall off of your favorite touge, you have a better chance of living through it than if it were an japanese or american or german car

haha that's good to know seeing that it's a wee bit hard to keep the car on the road
based on my experience driving the Volvo, I personally wouldn't use it for touge runs

Emagdnim...good point bringing up the parts issue...finding parts for Volvos can be a b!tch, and people should give that some thought

[mranlet]

Didn't Shin Kudo buy a Mercedes 190E 16V? I want to know how that project is going...

Volvos also aren't found in many junkyards because they just run FOREVER and are then bought by enthusiasts.

If you surf the Euro drifting boards and use Babelfish to translate, I'm sure that you could find a lot about the 240s and 740s. Additionally, I've been told by multiple Euro guys that the 5-cylinder turbo can make 500hp for around the same money as it would take just to drop in a SR20DET to a Nissan ($7k for a good swap)

-MR

[05m0515]

every time i read this i get the chills


ONE HOT LAP' with Ulf Granberg in a 240 Turbo Group A
Written by Angus MacKenzie - Editor, Wheels magazine, Australia.
Reprint permission granted. Contributed by Anthony Hyde

MONZA Race Circuit - Italy 1986

We flashed past Monza's pit lane. The tacho's showing 7,000 rpm, the turbo boost gauge is reading 1.4 bar (20.5 psi). That means over 250 km/h and we've just shot past the 200 metre braking marker at the first chicane. Not 10 minutes earlier European Touring Car Champion Thomas Lindstrom had driven slowly around the fast 5.8 km Monza circuit and carefully explained the breaking and gearchange points. "Keep right and brake at 200 metres," he said as we dawdled into Monza's first chicane in Volvo 740 Turbo Estate. So even as team-mate Ulf Granberg, now chauffeuring me in the works Volvo 240T Group A race car, finally mashed the brake pedal at the 150 metre mark, I knew he was having a big go.

The full harness bites into my shoulders as the Volvo squirms under brakes. Bam! Bam! Bam! Granberg heels and toes back to second gear with machine gun rapidity, swinging the suede covered Momo steering wheel hard left into the first part of the chicane.

Even as we bounce off the kerbing, Granberg dabs at the throttle and throws the Volvo to the right, up and over the kerb. Suddenly the 240T spits sideways - simultaneously Granberg grabs an armful of opposite lock and boots the accelerator. He brings the car back onto line by the scruff of its neck.

We jumped the kerbs again on the second left-right kink of the chicane then on the gas hard - third, fourth, fifth - into the Curva Grande. He feathers the throttle through the long sweeping right hander, the Volvo's inside wheels lifting as we delicately walk the tight-rope between under and oversteer.

Past the clipping point and hard on the throttle again as we scream down toward the second chicane. Granberg stands on the brakes as we flash under the Campari bridge, rapid fire again back to second gear as he steadies the Volvo for the single left-right flick ahead.

We bounce the kerbs again and it's full-bore into the double apex Curve di Lesmo. We charge through the first Lesmo flat in third, then Granberg grabs fourth as we slide up onto the kerbing in readiness for the second Lesmo.

Again the Volvo corkscrews as the outside tyres bite and the inside wheels lift clear of the tarmac. We run wide up onto the kerbing again - "You must use all the track" as Granberg grabs fifth through the gentle left hand kink on the run down to the Variante Ascari.

We're flat in fifth as the track dips under Monza's huge banked oval. The Variante Ascari, named after the great Italian World Champion killed there while testing in 1955, is the fastest of Monza's three chicanes. Granberg hauls the Volvo back from just on 250 km/h and downshifts twice. We're over the kerb on the first left hander but the left hand wheels are in the air so there's no shock through the suspension. A stab on the throttle and then through the next right-left wiggle, Granberg sawing at the wheel as the car drifts from kerb to kerb.

Full bore, full boost and 340 bhp hurls us down the short straight towards the Parabolica. It's tight, deceptively tight - at first we seem to be travelling way too quickly - but Granberg clips the inside kerb clearly and lets the Volvo run wide for the run onto the main straight. Get the Parabolica right and you'll be quick all the way down the main straight. Get it wrong... The brilliant Austrian Jochen Rindt died here in his Lotus in 1970. He was posthumously awarded the World Championship.

Granberg brings the Volvo into the pit lane at a brisk clip. The stop watches confirm we've lapped within a second or two of race pace. Full face helmets, the brap-brap of the exhaust and the howl of the drive train make conversation impossible, but Granberg, the Swedish train driver who led yesterday's first round of the European Touring Car Championship until a head gasket blew on the Volvo, turns and lifts his eyebrow quizzically. My thumbs up sign is returned with a nod. END.