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(Not*) Mediocre 242

I've always been annoyed with the ignition coil bracket I had. I really disliked trying to remove the countersunk allen head screws right by the firewall. So I made a new coil bracket with quick latches. It now pops on and off with no tools.

I also moved the coils a little closer to the intake side of the head to get the plug wires a little further away from the turbine housing/exhaust.

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yoshi wires are resilient. i had one resting straight on a downpipe for several hundred miles of ripping and it was unaffected.

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On black friday there was a deal for a Bambu X1C 3D printer combo, so I ended up picking one up with a thin Christmas present excuse.

Anyway, I've not had any door speakers since I swapped the door cards since I didn't want to mess up the nice door cards or spend money on new thin speakers. The speakers I have aren't especially nice, but they came with the car, they work, and they don't cost me anything now. I printed up some brackets to mount the speakers I had into the doors behind the door cards. They're printed from PLA-CF which isn't the ideal material for this job due to potential heat concerns, but that's the filament I had and they'll work for now.

The speakers now remain in the door when you remove the door card and hide nicely behind the stock speaker grilles. There really isn't much room between the door frame and the glass so I had to make a few iterations to ensure the speakers clear the window glass as it moves through its travel.

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I also ended up going to Hot Import Nights and they gave me a participation trophy for the Hottest Volvo. They didn't have much choice though as it was the only Volvo there. I didn't take any pics, but I found these two:

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Got any photos of the door panel installed? Assume it just looks stock, but wasn't sure. Is there a frame from an original speaker screwed to the door panel, with the grille clipped to that?
 
towerymt said:
Got any photos of the door panel installed? Assume it just looks stock, but wasn't sure. Is there a frame from an original speaker screwed to the door panel, with the grille clipped to that?
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Here's a door panel installed with speaker behind it:
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I don't really know how the speakers were mounted from the factory, but my grilles are just held on with plastic posts and push nuts. Both my current and old door cards have the posts, but they were cut on my old door cards. Here's what the cut plastic posts look like on my old cards. There is nothing else on the door card to hold the grilles on.

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I see. I had a CD player & front speakers installed at a Circuit City in my first 240 about ... 23 years ago. The trick they did was to cut away the stock speaker "guts" and keep just the metal frame. Then stack that frame over the aftermarket 4" speaker, and screw it all to the door panel into those metal clips like your panel has. Then the grille snaps onto the original speaker frame, just like stock. Removing the door panel would require disconnecting the two wires to the speaker.

Original speakers would have been screwed to the door panel.
 
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I see. I had a CD player & front speakers installed at a Circuit City in my first 240 about ... 23 years ago. The trick they did was to cut away the stock speaker "guts" and keep just the metal frame. Then stack that frame over the aftermarket 4" speaker, and screw it all to the door panel into those metal clips like your panel has. Then the grille snaps onto the original speaker frame, just like stock. Removing the door panel would require disconnecting the two wires to the speaker.

Original speakers would have been screwed to the door panel.
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That makes sense, and I get why they would do it that way. I just don't like the speakers on the door panels and would much rather have them in the door itself.

I really want to get rid of stock fiberboard style door panels anyway, but haven't found a good solution yet. I need to scan a door frame.
 
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This armrest came with the seats when I bought them, but I never installed it because it interferes with the seatbelt/center console in the stock location on the seat. I printed up a test adapter to see if I liked having an armrest and I'm kind of on the fence both looks wise and function. I'll have to raise it every time I want to unbuckle the seatbelt or pull the parking brake. I wonder if it's just going to be up pretty much all of the time.

I'm not sure if it will be annoying or not, but I'll probably make some refinements and print an adapter out of nice strong material and install it to see what I think. What do you guys think? Especially people who have had armrests installed.
 
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This armrest came with the seats when I bought them, but I never installed it because it interferes with the seatbelt/center console in the stock location on the seat. I printed up a test adapter to see if I liked having an armrest and I'm kind of on the fence both looks wise and function. I'll have to raise it every time I want to unbuckle the seatbelt or pull the parking brake. I wonder if it's just going to be up pretty much all of the time.

I'm not sure if it will be annoying or not, but I'll probably make some refinements and print an adapter out of nice strong material and install it to see what I think. What do you guys think? Especially people who have had armrests installed.
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Why not update to the later style seatbelts and center console? I am doing that on my 245 since the original seatbelts were disgusting/faded. Only issue is you would have to probably pull seats and carpet to remove the center seatbelt thing.
 
i do not like having an armrest in a 240, for the reasons you mentioned. it's less annoying in an automatic, although your shifter is probably tall enough (and not H-patterned) so as to not interfere with throw, but in my experience the seatbelt thing alone is annoying enough to make it not worth it.
 
302ftw? said:
Why not update to the later style seatbelts and center console? I am doing that on my 245 since the original seatbelts were disgusting/faded. Only issue is you would have to probably pull seats and carpet to remove the center seatbelt thing.
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I didn't know later style seatbelt would be long enough for a 242. I like the seat belt fasteners in the middle, but I've never been in a 240 with the later style. Pulling seats and carpet goes pretty quick on this car. I've done it a bunch.

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i do not like having an armrest in a 240, for the reasons you mentioned. it's less annoying in an automatic, although your shifter is probably tall enough (and not H-patterned) so as to not interfere with throw, but in my experience the seatbelt thing alone is annoying enough to make it not worth it.
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It's probably worth testing for a while to see how annoying it is, but I bet I end up not liking it.
 
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I never put one in because of that same location of the seat belt receiver. On the 86+ seat belt setup it probably works a bit better.
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I have an OEM armrest on my ‘93. I only use it on a long drive when I don’t need to shift. Always raise it back anyway to unbuckle
 
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