klork
04-24-2019, 08:12 AM
Not sure if this is the correct spot for a build thread on this website but here it goes.
I picked up my 19090 Volvo 745 wagon 2 years ago as a cheap daily driver. I drove about 500 miles from northwest Ohio to west Virginia to pick it up because it was very clean and rust free and a 5 spd. Interior was trashed but I have a friend that has a ton of Volvo's and had a nice black cloth interior to put in it. I also replaced every bushing, ball joint and tie rod when I got the car along with doing hoses, timing belts, water pump and belts as preventative maintenance since the car had 240k on it. I purchased this car because it is rear wheel drive and has a large engine bay and I planned on an engine swap in the future.
My first plan was to swap in a twin turbo 2.9 straight six from a newer Volvo but the engine I bought from the junkyard ended up being extremely overheated and the cylinder head was warped almost 0.030 and was beyond saving.
My second plan was a 1994 LT1 and t56 I found for a decent price on facebook marketplace. I was about to send the cylinder heads out to Loyd Elliot for porting but a friend of mine sent me an ad for a very low mileage LT5 for a crazy low price I couldn't pass up. Luckily I was the first person to get a hold of the guy selling the engine and was able to pick it up the next day. Apparently I have a bunch of enablers as friends because I had 3 or 4 people send me the for sale add within an hour lol.
The first picture is the day I got the car. I left it like that for a little over a year. About a year ago I finally had time to powder coat the wheels the way I wanted to and the second pic show the wheels after I got done with them. 2 tone wheels are a pain to coat. Luckily I can do them my self otherwise they would have cost an arm and a leg to do.
The third pic is a parts car I picked up a little over a year ago. It came with a ford mustang V8 T5 and adapter plates to bolt to the Volvo I6 I was planning on using. When that plan fell through I was able to sell everything I got with the car and make a profit off of it. I was planning on using this car for my engine swap and keeping the blue car as a cheap daily driver but the kid I bought it from decided to leave to windows down and the floor started to rust out on it. He also ran off before notorizing the title basicly leaving me with a junk car. I am not too upset about it but it will make getting rid of the car when I am done with it a bigger pain in the *** then it should have been.
I picked up my 19090 Volvo 745 wagon 2 years ago as a cheap daily driver. I drove about 500 miles from northwest Ohio to west Virginia to pick it up because it was very clean and rust free and a 5 spd. Interior was trashed but I have a friend that has a ton of Volvo's and had a nice black cloth interior to put in it. I also replaced every bushing, ball joint and tie rod when I got the car along with doing hoses, timing belts, water pump and belts as preventative maintenance since the car had 240k on it. I purchased this car because it is rear wheel drive and has a large engine bay and I planned on an engine swap in the future.
My first plan was to swap in a twin turbo 2.9 straight six from a newer Volvo but the engine I bought from the junkyard ended up being extremely overheated and the cylinder head was warped almost 0.030 and was beyond saving.
My second plan was a 1994 LT1 and t56 I found for a decent price on facebook marketplace. I was about to send the cylinder heads out to Loyd Elliot for porting but a friend of mine sent me an ad for a very low mileage LT5 for a crazy low price I couldn't pass up. Luckily I was the first person to get a hold of the guy selling the engine and was able to pick it up the next day. Apparently I have a bunch of enablers as friends because I had 3 or 4 people send me the for sale add within an hour lol.
The first picture is the day I got the car. I left it like that for a little over a year. About a year ago I finally had time to powder coat the wheels the way I wanted to and the second pic show the wheels after I got done with them. 2 tone wheels are a pain to coat. Luckily I can do them my self otherwise they would have cost an arm and a leg to do.
The third pic is a parts car I picked up a little over a year ago. It came with a ford mustang V8 T5 and adapter plates to bolt to the Volvo I6 I was planning on using. When that plan fell through I was able to sell everything I got with the car and make a profit off of it. I was planning on using this car for my engine swap and keeping the blue car as a cheap daily driver but the kid I bought it from decided to leave to windows down and the floor started to rust out on it. He also ran off before notorizing the title basicly leaving me with a junk car. I am not too upset about it but it will make getting rid of the car when I am done with it a bigger pain in the *** then it should have been.