PDA

View Full Version : New member, with Volvo pics


ivmotor
07-20-2009, 02:07 PM
I am very excited to find a website for my kind of car. Nobody in my area does this kind of stuff and I need some people to bounce ideas around.

On to the car:
78 volvo 262c
all steel body mods, fenders are +5 rear, +3 front
406 with brodix heads, all comp cams roller valvetrain
main carb is Q-jet, drag carb is demon
4L80 with manual valve body
9" rear with three link/ladder bar (four bolts to convert)
all coleman machine tubular front suspension with fab spindles
12.5" front, 11" rear brakes with Howe calipers
200 gain nitrous system
Morel/mb quart separates in custom fiberglass enclosures
RE subs in fiberglass box, all zapco amps
I remember the front seats being from an acura
kinesis 18x13 and 18x9 wheels
most of the time R1 rubber

stats:
636hp at the wheels
1/4 9.8 at 5000' elevation
weighs 3100 wet/no driver
f/r is 52/48
lots of PDX, autocross, test n tune at Reno-Fernley Raceway

http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu318/ivmotorsports/DSCF1378.jpg
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu318/ivmotorsports/DSCF1381.jpg
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu318/ivmotorsports/2006_0617volvo0051.jpg

70rs
07-20-2009, 03:29 PM
Holy crap man! That is one serious Volvo!!! Nice!
That is the second killer Volvo project posted today. Cool!
Welcome and please post more pics. That is awesome!:cheers:

BlkBird
07-28-2009, 08:16 AM
That is just WRONG for SO many reasons.....I LOVE IT! lol, "dare to be different" at its finest! What on earth made you look at a Volvo and decide to do that?!

ivmotor
07-28-2009, 09:32 AM
I tried to find the slowest car possible. I autocrossed it for a year and was 10 seconds slower than the next slowest car.

I spent the next 10 years with various engines, suspensions, tires/wheels etc getting it dialed in.

Nobody will ever pull up next to me and say: "I had one of those, but mine was faster"

Josh69
07-28-2009, 02:21 PM
I tried to find the slowest car possible. I autocrossed it for a year and was 10 seconds slower than the next slowest car.

I spent the next 10 years with various engines, suspensions, tires/wheels etc getting it dialed in.

Nobody will ever pull up next to me and say: "I had one of those, but mine was faster"

LOL, that's awesome. Welcome!:cheers:

67rstbkt
07-28-2009, 03:26 PM
Cool car man, I live in Reno too. I've seen you driving down pyramid before. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

ivmotor
10-07-2011, 08:58 PM
Have to update pics
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu318/ivmotorsports/DSCF2233.jpg
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu318/ivmotorsports/DSCF2232.jpg
http://i659.photobucket.com/albums/uu318/ivmotorsports/DSCF2235.jpg