Andy's '88 Volvo 745

[philohlean]

Wagon looks fantastic man, reading this makes me sad that I'll be saying goodbye to my brick in a matter of months

[notmarshall]

Ideally with an 8" wide wheel you'd want et10 in the rear and et20 up front for maximum clearance. People have used 10" wheels in the past but that require pulling, whereas my rear quarters were rolled and I still have the stock fender liners in the front.

my stock liners are long gone due to driving with huge front tires for a while with my coils maxed out haha. and I was probably going to cut and pull the rears a little and maybe to 9", but my car isn't near as clean as yours so I'm not too scared to cut it up a little haha,

[fortbrick]

my stock liners are long gone due to driving with huge front tires for a while with my coils maxed out haha. and I was probably going to cut and pull the rears a little and maybe to 9", but my car isn't near as clean as yours so I'm not too scared to cut it up a little haha,

Yeah, cutting was not in my best interest.

[fortbrick]

This should be interesting. Adjustable strut mounts and quick steer roll correctors going on.

[fortbrick]

Another cross-post from turbobricks, just to keep this updated as well.

Got the quick steer/roll correction spacers and the adjustable strut mounts installed in early March and had the car aligned. Have to give a big thumbs up to Ben at Kaplhenke Racing for designing these great products for cars that not many people have an interest in. I'll have to take some photos of how it all turned out.

Took the car to Water by the Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky in the end of March. The car did great, and fun was had, but a few concerns became apparent. The days are limited with an m46 in this car. Between the in-operable overdrive and overall lack of satisfaction that comes with shifting this bowl of macaroni and cheese between gears, the time has come. I have begun gathering parts to swap it over to a t5, and hope to find a bolt on solution to the less than desirable shifter location. The front flange on the catalytic converter rusted off before the trip, so the car made the almost five hundred mile trip running with the downpipe wide open. Still battling a bit of steering wheel shake between 50-60mph. I attribute this to the cut studs on the car or simply the adapters. Looking into getting the wheels redrilled to 5x108 to hopefully alleviate that issue and allow the use of a larger tire.





Installed an OBX catback system and coupled it to the stock downpipe as a temporary solution to the leak, although some crazy sounds come out of this with it running wide open. Took it out for a quick shakedown run. Have a 3" downpipe from Jesse and a hybrid 19t in the works so I didn't make it too pretty.

[Jannes123]

Looking seriously cool with some proper wheels! Both of your cars look extremly clean too altough they have been driven that much. Here in finland we have a lot of old volvo bricks, but only few look as clean as yours . A common upgrade for the poor gearbox here is to change it to volvo m90 from a 940. Its a easy swap and m90 is alot better. But when dealing with some power bmw zf gearboxes from e36's is the way to go .

[Golden Gramps]

Your brick is stupid clean. Keep up the good work!!

[fortbrick]

Looking seriously cool with some proper wheels! Both of your cars look extremly clean too altough they have been driven that much. Here in finland we have a lot of old volvo bricks, but only few look as clean as yours . A common upgrade for the poor gearbox here is to change it to volvo m90 from a 940. Its a easy swap and m90 is alot better. But when dealing with some power bmw zf gearboxes from e36's is the way to go .

Thanks! It has a few love marks, but it's definitely a survivor. After the suspension is complete, one of the following projects will be swapping the m46 out in favor of an m90 or a t5 from a 80's Mustang.