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For those of you that frequent TurboBricks, the first parts are just repeat of the thread on TB, but after almost 3 years, I've picked up the pieces and the mindset to start working on it again.
For those of you don't know me nor the car, this is a 1991 Volvo 740 SE, not exactly a common car as it was the last year of Volvo 740 and to Volvo NA made these cars with lots of options for a Volvo back in the days, and this being one of the last ones made, my dad bought it back in 91 with intention of taking European delivery, but he never did since work didn't allow him to take time off, so instead of having a Canadian assembled 740 SE, this one was made in Belgium.
I began driving the car back in 99, I've always liked this car due to its strange shape and my attraction to boxy vehicles, and I've also began slowly to modify the car since then, at first it was just 3" turbo back exhaust and Apex lowering springs, life was good and I loved the car:
This is how it looked from 99-2003, I couldn't afford much other than previous mentioned mods along with insurance and maintenance.
When I was a child, my uncle would often bring European car magazines back from their travels, and I've began to see "kafer" style in a German magazine, I was very intrigued and began to request for other VW magazines, the whole stretch and poke German style was mesmerizing to me, 15x13 wheels on a mk1 Golf with widebody kit was like crack to me, I can't stop looking at them, this continues through out late 90s into early 2000s before the forums thing take off.
So now I had more money than just keep the car running, I want to try some serious lowering, at that time, only 2 companies made coilover conversion kit, and one of them was MVP, so I bought the last available set and get cracking:
Do keep in mind, this was low to me at that time:
I guess you can see a pattern here on what I like to do with the car.
For those of you don't know me nor the car, this is a 1991 Volvo 740 SE, not exactly a common car as it was the last year of Volvo 740 and to Volvo NA made these cars with lots of options for a Volvo back in the days, and this being one of the last ones made, my dad bought it back in 91 with intention of taking European delivery, but he never did since work didn't allow him to take time off, so instead of having a Canadian assembled 740 SE, this one was made in Belgium.
I began driving the car back in 99, I've always liked this car due to its strange shape and my attraction to boxy vehicles, and I've also began slowly to modify the car since then, at first it was just 3" turbo back exhaust and Apex lowering springs, life was good and I loved the car:
This is how it looked from 99-2003, I couldn't afford much other than previous mentioned mods along with insurance and maintenance.
When I was a child, my uncle would often bring European car magazines back from their travels, and I've began to see "kafer" style in a German magazine, I was very intrigued and began to request for other VW magazines, the whole stretch and poke German style was mesmerizing to me, 15x13 wheels on a mk1 Golf with widebody kit was like crack to me, I can't stop looking at them, this continues through out late 90s into early 2000s before the forums thing take off.
So now I had more money than just keep the car running, I want to try some serious lowering, at that time, only 2 companies made coilover conversion kit, and one of them was MVP, so I bought the last available set and get cracking:
Do keep in mind, this was low to me at that time:
I guess you can see a pattern here on what I like to do with the car.
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