OK, so I said I would do a project thread, and I'm doin it. Now.
The reason I'm calling it the back burner right now is because the whole back end was in an awesome fire! It burned very hot and fairly quick from what I can tell. (We believe someone flung a cocktail at the window. Ultimately regardless of what happened, the rear window was a point of impact and it SAVED the car.)
You have probably seen some of these pics before but I decided to start at the beginning.
Pics:
This was an easy fix.
Rear window removed it self on the way home (every bump helped just a little bit). So I tarped her up when I got home.
Part of the deal in me buying it from the guy was that he would give me a rear window a new trunk lid and a couple other things because in reality I paid too much for this thing and maybe the guy felt bad bending me over so badly.
First thing I took care of was the trunk lid and then the rust on the rear part of the car. AMAZINGLY the rust didn't eat through the metal of the body itself. So I sanded and primed it and so far it has held fairly well. Then onto the window, what a bundle of joy! Took about an hour to get it seated properly and there are still no leaks to this day.
Here are some other pics before I bought her:
Pics of the superb sand/prime job:
After I finally sort of had the car working decently, I essentially ripped the whole interior out to clean and get rid of the "I'm still on fire" smell. Back seat out, back door panels out, rear carpet, gone. Took the front seats out cleaned the carpets, still it all smelled.
Needless to say I didn't drive it much. Eventually I stuck an pine tree in it and things got remarkably better. With me finally liking the car again, I decided to swap to the flat hood.
I got the front buckets, and lights from someone on here(switched to H7 autoPal housings though), and then a friend randomly messaged me one day and said he knew someone who had a flat hood. The deal was made, and I paid for it at the Volvo's at the Gilmore 2008 show. Then another friend who lived in Michigan at the time actually picked it up for me and brought it with in a reasonable distance so I could pick it up.
Also during this time I installed the NPR intercooler. I used piping from a 7 series and a little creativity, and it worked! Only problem I had, which was solved with a new clamp, was the TB hose popping off when I hit 15 psi. Also installed at this time was an IPD cam gear (old style... mmm sexay) **No pics of any of that yet... engine bay is scary looking**
Next to come are the front springs... my first endeavor in spring modulation (cutting). **DANGER**
I chose some of those pictures because they show how much rake the car actually had. HAHA. The front is actually lower now because I didn't have the front springs on properly so to my surprise it dropped about another .75 inches when I figured it all out. (Thanks Pat D!)
Previously I acquired something absolutely fantabulous. I was bidding on a set of wheels on eBay and I set my "mental" max bid at $600. Well being that the wheels were 16x7 BBS RS's it went OVER $600. Damnit.
2 days later I get a message from the seller saying that the buyer backed out in a mutual agreement and that I could have them for $600 (my last bid price) if I wanted them. About .1 nano-second later the guy had a response saying. YES.
I got them and found out they had a couple bends. One on the lip and then another one very minor on the barrel. The seller said if there were any problems in getting the tire bead to seal we would work out some kind of deal. I purchased my $99ea Falken rt 615's from Vulcan over my vacation in Florida and had them mounted when I got back. Thankfully they sealed!
Now, obviously these wheels were not the Volvo BP. So I had to have adapters made. It just so happens, my friend who brought me the hood had these same exact wheels... in the same exact BP. $280 later we both had sets of .75" thick 5x108 to 5x112 wheel/lug centric adapters. If Todd wouldn't have offered me the extra set he had, I would have still been procrastinating on buying them. (Thank you Todd!)
The only PITA here was having to cut the studs down to size... (hind sight says a thicker spacer would be fine and less cutting would be necessary. Meh.)
MMMM RAKE.
More to come later. I'll shoot to get some under hood shots, and some in trunk/cabin shots.
I had to make my own speaker deck (Ghetto).
-Joe
The reason I'm calling it the back burner right now is because the whole back end was in an awesome fire! It burned very hot and fairly quick from what I can tell. (We believe someone flung a cocktail at the window. Ultimately regardless of what happened, the rear window was a point of impact and it SAVED the car.)
You have probably seen some of these pics before but I decided to start at the beginning.
Pics:
This was an easy fix.
Rear window removed it self on the way home (every bump helped just a little bit). So I tarped her up when I got home.Part of the deal in me buying it from the guy was that he would give me a rear window a new trunk lid and a couple other things because in reality I paid too much for this thing and maybe the guy felt bad bending me over so badly.
First thing I took care of was the trunk lid and then the rust on the rear part of the car. AMAZINGLY the rust didn't eat through the metal of the body itself. So I sanded and primed it and so far it has held fairly well. Then onto the window, what a bundle of joy! Took about an hour to get it seated properly and there are still no leaks to this day.
Here are some other pics before I bought her:
Pics of the superb sand/prime job:
After I finally sort of had the car working decently, I essentially ripped the whole interior out to clean and get rid of the "I'm still on fire" smell. Back seat out, back door panels out, rear carpet, gone. Took the front seats out cleaned the carpets, still it all smelled.
Needless to say I didn't drive it much. Eventually I stuck an pine tree in it and things got remarkably better. With me finally liking the car again, I decided to swap to the flat hood.
I got the front buckets, and lights from someone on here(switched to H7 autoPal housings though), and then a friend randomly messaged me one day and said he knew someone who had a flat hood. The deal was made, and I paid for it at the Volvo's at the Gilmore 2008 show. Then another friend who lived in Michigan at the time actually picked it up for me and brought it with in a reasonable distance so I could pick it up.
Also during this time I installed the NPR intercooler. I used piping from a 7 series and a little creativity, and it worked! Only problem I had, which was solved with a new clamp, was the TB hose popping off when I hit 15 psi. Also installed at this time was an IPD cam gear (old style... mmm sexay) **No pics of any of that yet... engine bay is scary looking**
Next to come are the front springs... my first endeavor in spring modulation (cutting). **DANGER**
I chose some of those pictures because they show how much rake the car actually had. HAHA. The front is actually lower now because I didn't have the front springs on properly so to my surprise it dropped about another .75 inches when I figured it all out. (Thanks Pat D!)
Previously I acquired something absolutely fantabulous. I was bidding on a set of wheels on eBay and I set my "mental" max bid at $600. Well being that the wheels were 16x7 BBS RS's it went OVER $600. Damnit.
2 days later I get a message from the seller saying that the buyer backed out in a mutual agreement and that I could have them for $600 (my last bid price) if I wanted them. About .1 nano-second later the guy had a response saying. YES.
I got them and found out they had a couple bends. One on the lip and then another one very minor on the barrel. The seller said if there were any problems in getting the tire bead to seal we would work out some kind of deal. I purchased my $99ea Falken rt 615's from Vulcan over my vacation in Florida and had them mounted when I got back. Thankfully they sealed!
Now, obviously these wheels were not the Volvo BP. So I had to have adapters made. It just so happens, my friend who brought me the hood had these same exact wheels... in the same exact BP. $280 later we both had sets of .75" thick 5x108 to 5x112 wheel/lug centric adapters. If Todd wouldn't have offered me the extra set he had, I would have still been procrastinating on buying them. (Thank you Todd!)
The only PITA here was having to cut the studs down to size... (hind sight says a thicker spacer would be fine and less cutting would be necessary. Meh.)
MMMM RAKE.
More to come later. I'll shoot to get some under hood shots, and some in trunk/cabin shots.
I had to make my own speaker deck (Ghetto).
-Joe
