Recent content by Volvo Heretic

OK, Its still icy outside and I'm not getting anything done in the garage, so I was just wondering? I just so happen to have a 180 amp Hobart wirefeed welder I have owned, but never used for 20 years, (and not until I rewire the house for 200 amp service). I also have been handed down an ‘89...

It finaly broke above freezing here today and I want to go out and play with the Hondas and Ninjas. Even if I can't beat them, I am louder than any of them. Time to get this thing running right again and upgrade my crap from stage -3.4 to closer to 0.0. Where should I get ignition parts? Local...

Ok, so, the twin TD04h 13c trunk mounted turbos won't happen any time soon unless my mother in law wins the lottery,:roll: but I probably can afford to swap out rear axle gears. The high speed long distance cross country jaunts are over and about all I want to do now is intimidate some Hondas on...

Could someone proficiant in Photoshop modify my Volvo for me? I would like to see how it would look like with the roof and cowl moved back 6" with 6" taken out of the body behind the doors and 6" added to the hood and front fenders. I would surely appriciate it.:oogle:

After watching my kids play with their Wii game, it got me to thinking of my lifetime goal of figuring out how to make my car corner flat as if on rails like some of the Mercedes cars, but without their exotic shock system. So? how about replacing the sway bar end links with small hydraulic...

Battery keeps going dead, drains faster and faster. 6 month old Wall Mart battery. Alternator output is 14.7 volts and charged battery is 12.5 volts. If it were bad alternator diodes, do I just put an ohm meter between the output terminal and the body of the alternator to test it? (Chevy Lumina)...

I was recently watching my buddy?s lake pump with out an air tank ballast enter a jack-hammer cycle against the pressure switch when somebody (not me) closed a spigot valve. It would cycle from 0 to 90 to 0psi in about a second. This got me to wondering what happens to the air in the intake...

While I wait for the economy to come back and my mother-in-law to win the lottery and my government bailout check, and since my whole goal in life is to build the 1800 that Volvo couldn't/wouldn't, what would it take to build a B304 Redblock? Thanks to John V and Fidel, the dilema of getting...

I am getting ready to talk to a couple of machine shops about redrilling my wheel hub and axle bolt patterns for 1/2"x3" screw-in wheels studs . The wheels have 11/16" holes (.6875" diameter) and the s/st shoulder style lug nuts have .687" diameter. So, the difference in diameter is .0005", thus...

I just watched a History Channel Modern Marvils show about salt. One segment was about the Melonite process for surface hardening steel (nitrogen and carbon) in melted salt baths which yielded corrosion resistance equal to stainless steel. Anybody know more about this...

So, since I was so rudely cut off in the middle of a post, will those Mazda calipers bolt right up to the 164 spindle and rotors like a 240? I would think that they have the same ATE calipers. The rotors are 272,2mm x 24mm (10.7165” x .9449”) but I don't know what the rotor offset is. I could...

I just made a video of my exhaust sound and will post it as soon as I figure out how to transfer it from vhs to dvd. I used to have 6 into 2 into 1 exhaust and didn't like the sound nearly as much as the current 6 into 2 in there now. So, considering how much work will be required to stuff a...

So, it has been said that a high rear roll center is not a good thing, why it that? I have read that idealy, the rear end should roll steer towards the inside of the corner and that having the rear axle point away from the corner is a bad thing I am trying to visualize my lowered rear...

The Volvo seats are to say the least, crappy. Anyone have any suggestions of another brand to look for in the JY? Not to many choices out here in North Dakota to look at. I thought of dune buggy fiberglass seats, but it was a long time ago that I sat in any, and the drugs probably dulled the...

I read in a Hot Rod mag. that a mustang guy set his static advance from 10 deg. to 15 deg. to help performance. Will this work on my vacume retard distributor? Does it help?