1988 Volvo 340

Like it What motor is it that?

Sweet bet it flies ;D

Fair play mate. It seems 16v power is the way forward. Good to see another 340 owner

I bought this last weekend for some sideways action:

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That's so cool! I really really want to get a 340 now, i've overlooked them in the past but they have huge potential, as shown with yours
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They're 137 standard apparantley they should make 160bhp on throttle bodies at least if set up well.

Matt

That looks awsome dude! Hope you have fun in it like I'm having in mine! Mega low milage aswell, you got a good one there! Get a set of Mims alloys on there, theres some on Ebay at the mo

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Rare and very different, especially on an Ovlov Make sure you get the Diff welded up aswell

Cheers mate - not a touch on yours though. I'm going to visit F1 Moto next month for the welded diff treatment and suspension drop. I think I'm hooked on this thing, among the 101 other projects that I've got on the go.

You'd have to get a 360 to fit the B20 unless you want a lot of work. The renault engines are ace was the rest of the cars that disintergrated lol.

Matt

Well i'm hoping to go to the DWYB setup by driftworks at the pod the end of october. Depends if I get the little niggly jobs sorted first though gotta get my new dipstick tube in, replace the access plate gasket on the diff and refill the oil and if I get chance may even change the clutch. The guy said it's had a new clutch but if it has the thrust bearing hasn't been changed with it and it's a bit noisy which I don't like the idea of :S IF I manage to sort those though I should be there

Little update, rather than starting a new thread

When I bought the car mr "Arthur Job" who I bought the car off started removing the sound deadening, but never did finish it! I got bored after work and started messing with a chisel and a hammer taking it out thinking "F*ck me this is gonna take forever!" Was only gonna spend 5mins on it because I was gonna hold out till I got my hands on some serious hot air gunnage!

Anyway my dad said "Why don't you try moms hairdryer?" I said no at first thinking it wouldnt get hot enough to get me anywhere, but contemplating it in my head while looking like a pot noodle miner chipping away 2cm at a time I thought what the hell and gave it a try.

Hair products rock, period! Got into it in the end as it was whizzing me through the job, didnt have f*ck all else to do so went for it

Heres how it looked before noticed sound deadening missing here n there and looking generally tatty!





and heres after going at it with the hairdryer, chisel and a couple different width scrapers. The hairdryer is the "golden gun" as it helped out big style lol!





Did start painting it out in Zinc rust primer but didnt get any piccies, gonna finish that off, leave it for a good 7 days, then attack it with black hammerite!

Also clutch is adjusted nicely, diffs stopped leaking and I have a fully functioning dipstick!