schwartzmesser
01-07-2016, 08:41 PM
I want to share my build with the Pro-Touring crowd.
Pro Touring G-Machines, Meet Helga.
1990 Volvo 240
SBC with Vortex Sawtooth heads
MSD igniiton
Forged Pistons
Close ratio World Class T5
IPD springs all around, rears cut
Hubs/ Axles redrilled for Ford wheels
Aero Race wheels all around
JEGS tan vinyl sport seats with custom seat brackets
Truck-Lite LED 7 inch headlights
200 HP wet NOS system (taken out after I blew the engine up once and kept out after I decided to make this my daily)
I grew up road-tripping around the West Coast in old Volvos have a special place in my heart. Thinking logically, they're also perfect platforms for all sorts of engine swaps.
When I bought this car off of an old room-mate for $400, I assumed that it wasn't running because of a dead battery or something simple. These things are tanks, after all, so it couldn't be much.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121897&stc=1
It was waaaay more than a dead battery or alternator. It was a dead ENGINE.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121899&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121898&stc=1
With a how burned through pistons #1 and #2, it made no sense to keep that little wheezey thing in there.
My friend Craig helped my find a "new" engine on his list
.https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121900&stc=1
and in it went!
The cross member was fabbed up by a local fence making shop who bent some thick tubing and fabbed up perches out of angle iron.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121902&stc=1
I pulled out the slush box of a auto tranny out too, replaced it with an old Camaro T5. Brass tubing made a very pretty line from the master to the slave cylinder.https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121901&stc=1
Suspension upgrades for the volvo are coincidentally the same colors as the swedish flag, no?
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121903&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121904&stc=1
Since the volvo Bolt pattern is pretty unique, i had the hubs and axles redressed to a more common 5x4.5. This would allow a whole array of wheel choices, which is key if you want any real sizing options. Then, I put in the "go-juice" kit, again from Craigslist. It wasn't until a dyno pull that i realized these jets were 200 HP!
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121907&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121908&stc=1
Nobody, and I mean nobody, needs a clock more than they need a tachometer.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121912&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121910&stc=1
LED headlights were fitted into the grill and headlight buckets that i pulled off of a 1970s era volvo. LED=Bright AF
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121913&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121914&stc=1
From that same 1970's era volvo, I also grabbed what is called a "Flat hood", which doesn't have any extra hump or protrusion like other styles of hoods. Name says it all.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121915&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121916&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121917&stc=1
I tried to make my hood budge out of metal, and at the time, a wheel barrow seemed like the only reasonable option... it wasn't a look i kept for long.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121918&stc=1 .
Even then, the flat hood look, with the necessary scoop, only lasted me for about 6 months.
I reverted back to the original hood for a cleaner, more sleeper look.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121919&stc=1
Pro Touring G-Machines, Meet Helga.
1990 Volvo 240
SBC with Vortex Sawtooth heads
MSD igniiton
Forged Pistons
Close ratio World Class T5
IPD springs all around, rears cut
Hubs/ Axles redrilled for Ford wheels
Aero Race wheels all around
JEGS tan vinyl sport seats with custom seat brackets
Truck-Lite LED 7 inch headlights
200 HP wet NOS system (taken out after I blew the engine up once and kept out after I decided to make this my daily)
I grew up road-tripping around the West Coast in old Volvos have a special place in my heart. Thinking logically, they're also perfect platforms for all sorts of engine swaps.
When I bought this car off of an old room-mate for $400, I assumed that it wasn't running because of a dead battery or something simple. These things are tanks, after all, so it couldn't be much.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121897&stc=1
It was waaaay more than a dead battery or alternator. It was a dead ENGINE.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121899&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121898&stc=1
With a how burned through pistons #1 and #2, it made no sense to keep that little wheezey thing in there.
My friend Craig helped my find a "new" engine on his list
.https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121900&stc=1
and in it went!
The cross member was fabbed up by a local fence making shop who bent some thick tubing and fabbed up perches out of angle iron.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121902&stc=1
I pulled out the slush box of a auto tranny out too, replaced it with an old Camaro T5. Brass tubing made a very pretty line from the master to the slave cylinder.https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121901&stc=1
Suspension upgrades for the volvo are coincidentally the same colors as the swedish flag, no?
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121903&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121904&stc=1
Since the volvo Bolt pattern is pretty unique, i had the hubs and axles redressed to a more common 5x4.5. This would allow a whole array of wheel choices, which is key if you want any real sizing options. Then, I put in the "go-juice" kit, again from Craigslist. It wasn't until a dyno pull that i realized these jets were 200 HP!
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121907&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121908&stc=1
Nobody, and I mean nobody, needs a clock more than they need a tachometer.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121912&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121910&stc=1
LED headlights were fitted into the grill and headlight buckets that i pulled off of a 1970s era volvo. LED=Bright AF
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121913&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121914&stc=1
From that same 1970's era volvo, I also grabbed what is called a "Flat hood", which doesn't have any extra hump or protrusion like other styles of hoods. Name says it all.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121915&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121916&stc=1https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121917&stc=1
I tried to make my hood budge out of metal, and at the time, a wheel barrow seemed like the only reasonable option... it wasn't a look i kept for long.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121918&stc=1 .
Even then, the flat hood look, with the necessary scoop, only lasted me for about 6 months.
I reverted back to the original hood for a cleaner, more sleeper look.
https://www.pro-touring.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=121919&stc=1