67 Volvo Amazon quarter flare for 265/35/18's, what do you think?

[superturbodiesel.com]

Oh, mother of God... dat p1800 is epic!

[softg]

in for more

[Beware]

Love the P1800!!!

I'd love to build a P1800 Estate with a 5cyl turbo 2.5L.....they're just too much of an uncommon car here though.

Look forward to more of your posts!

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

I couldnt take leaving the later grilles in this build, and I didnt have the best of luck sourcing a new facia, so this is what I came up for a solution.. I had some old style grilles that I bought off Ebay about a year ago, and it was bugging me that I couldnt use them, because they look so much better than the later grilles. Here is what I came up with, so I will show the relatively inexpensive and simple alternative, and hope this helps someone else in the same situation..

The first thing I did, was to make a poster board template of the later grille shell hole.. I had a donor grille shell, but it could be done on the car, so you dont have to take the facia off the car.





After you use a marker to outline the hole, you will cut out the template of the later grille shell hole, which you will then be able to use the early grille to mark the new hole position, which will leave the actual piece of metal that you need to weld in the later facia.

If you flip the grill upside down on the template, you can then find the grilles reference position on the the later hole template.. This is relatively simple, because most of the upper and bottom of the early and late hole is the same.





I used a 4.5in angle grinder with a cut off wheel to cut out the piece from the sheet steel.




After that, you can put the new filler piece in place, and then you will have a bit of grinding to fine tune the fit. Once that is done, you can tack weld it all in place, and then do some finish grinding to make sure your new grille opening is the right size and contour.

Once you are satisfied with that, you can then add the inside boxing sheet metal, by rolling it and tacking as your continue around the new opening.










After all that is tacked in, keep checking your new grill opening, so you can make sure nothing has change during the postioning and tacking procedure. After you are insure the fit is where you want it, you can then do the finish welding, which is where I need to continue from the pics seen.

It appears with just a bit of hammering and grinding, along with just a bit of filler, the early grilles will fit nicely. I still have to make the mount tabs at a later date, but I will wait until I get the new opening finished out nicely, because that could change something if I made the tabs now.

My grilles are not the straightest at this moment, so I will need to locate some better ones to work with for the final fitment.

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

Sorting out the lighting at this time, and will be trying to clean it up a bit.. I have some custom made HID Projector Headlamps that I had made, with the LED Halo daytime running light. They are smooth lenses, and smooth reflectors, which really make the headlamps very crystal and clean.

In the renditions the headlight ring in painted body color, and I think I am going to try it both ways, before I made a decsion on which one stays.. I am removing the chrome tail light housing, so it I leave the headlamp ring chrome that might look out of place. The renditions for the Amazon builds, have the headlight rings and tail light bezels painted body color, and I think that looks best.











For the rear tail lights, I wanted to clean up them up a bit, really only by getting rid of the gasket system. I found that if you do just a bit of trimming to the tail light lense, you can install it from inside the body, so I will be welding the bezel to the end of the quarter panel.. This will eliminate the need for the rubber gasket, and will allow me to paint and blend the bezel into the body, to give the quarter panel a completed look..

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

I am not sure if I should start another build thread on here, and transfer everything it took to get this point, into a new thread? I dont want to clutter up the site with multiple threads, but if the interest is there, I can do it.

[Dwob]

love this build, and that triumph, give that to me please.

[Dutchtouring]

not sure of the headlights but everything else looks amazing

[softg]

^ this

the hid setup looks a bit out of place with the feel of the car but I'm sure the functionality of it will be well worth it. otherwise, brilliant build and I'm loving the results so far

I am not sure if I understand your statement correctly about matching the front arches in style, but I used the uncut factory rear arches, so the actual roll under and shape of the opening is all the original Volvo.. I only popped the actual opening further out..

^ do this to the front