Slow, Low and rusty old brick

[zipnip]

going to post some pictures and stuff about my daily ride, bought it for 4000 Sek, thats about 500 Usd, so yeah, not a huge investment, but it runs good and is in quite good technical shape, to be a 1984, B21a, pure carburator madness, 100 wild Hp, and a 4 speed.


sadly i have no pictures of it before i lowered it, because i was so ashamed of how it looked 30 feet high in the air with 14" rusted steelies.

but here are som pictures of how it was looking this summer, with 17x8,5 bmw y rondell rims, and 205/40








i built coilovers for it myself, the one you can buy for these cars are extremely expensive, and you cant really lower it that much.
i used some original struts, and shocks from saab 900 NG, they fit perfectly in the struts, but are 3" shorter, so i cut and remover that length from the strut, and welded together, cut off the original seat for the spring, and machined the strut to make the coilover sleeves to fit, and then machined the upper spring seat i got with the sleeves, so that it would fit the saab shocks, the springs i uset was 550lbs 7" i think, worked good

The Welds look bad, i know







i Also mounted them with the "quick steer roll correction" parts from Kaplhenke, to make the control arm and wishbone stay in the right angle, while the car is slammed, this part made a huge difference, recommend it!

[zipnip]

Winter time!

now the car is raised a bit, to fit the studded winter tires, who are 205/50, mainly because lower profile than that with studs are so god damn expensive, so i rather raised it until they fitted, but after riding like this for 2 months now, and driving hard, i've scraped up my wheel arches very much, but i cant raise it more, no way! it's to high already.



fun to drive in these times, full throttle and clutch kick in 3.gear, veery nice




also, i bought some new wheels, the old owner is going to ship them to me tomorrow i think, they are 3 split 15x7 OZ vega's, with 5x108 bolt pattern, my plan is to rebuild them to 16x9 and 16x10, so if anyone got some tips or know about parts for these wheels, yell out

[aprophet13]

Love this man!! can't wait to see the vegas on there

[zipnip]

Thx mate! Have som other rims planned too actually, 16" steelies that is going to be widened to about 10-11", and painted white, got alot of other bricks too so, but this is the main ride now ��

[t.han]

Very nice. Can't wait to see this all done up

[zipnip]

Read some on some offroad forum for jeep or something, and found out that many of them use 240 rear shocks, and they made a list of shocks that fitted bolt on, and the shortest on that list was front shocks for saab90/99.
So then i bought some shocks to see, and they were about 1,5-2" shorter than the original

Here they are all way in

Saab vs stock



And fully out

Saab vs stock

[Kyus]

Nice car! There's one around here with an 1JZ swap. Can't wait to see it finished.

[zipnip]

Nice car! There's one around here with an 1JZ swap. Can't wait to see it finished.

thanks man, aah that sounds sweet, been thinking about what engine to put in this one to, but i can't really decide, i've got a v70 t5 i got really cheap, and thougt about putting that engine in the 240, but i rather want an good old redblock, got one B21ET that i've had for a long time, think that one is going in, very customized though

[zipnip]

need some help, the seller and i aren't really sure if the rims are 2 og 3 split, i have read on some forums that if the centercaps are 2 pieces, they are 3 split, so far it sounds good but, it looks kinda 2 split from inside of the rim, does anyone know, need help with this please, have 2 pictures only from the seller, hope someone knows if they are 3 split or not.
i've already asked the seller if he could take of one tire too see but he didn't had the opportunity to do that

[t.han]

I did not know that about the saab shocks. That will be helpful when I need to replace mine. Thanks!

[zipnip]

I did not know that about the saab shocks. That will be helpful when I need to replace mine. Thanks!

you're welcome, they come without bushings though, but the original bushing for volvo shocks should fit

[philohlean]

Volvo's. Volvo's everywhere. Love it! Just finished the coilover install in my 240, wish mine was as low as yours right about now haha

[zipnip]

Volvo's. Volvo's everywhere. Love it! Just finished the coilover install in my 240, wish mine was as low as yours right about now haha

Hahah, yeah there's alot of volvo's going on here now, good!
You using shortened struts or original?

[zipnip]

Found an image on facebook with how it would look with an original 15x7 vega, i guess this is spaced out a bit but, looks nice, i think it would be awesomr when they are rebuilt to 16x9 and 16x10 👍👍

[zipnip]

Got the wheels now, they look good, i have made some small measures, but need to get the tires off soon so i can start working on them👍
I measured the diameter from one bolt hole to another across, and it was 12" ca, not a presise measurement but, ill do that later, so then the senter is 30 hole, and 12" +- 1/2" does anyone know what lips and barrels couls fit theese then?😊