Hey. Hi. New guy, with Volvo.

Dang it doesn't let you zoom in enough to check inventory. what a rip!

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Michael LeCompte

Brian is referring to the wheel called 'Sirius' by Volvo. It is a 15" thing with I forget how many spokes that has enough room inside for my nice big brakes that are part of the Sellholm front suspension and brakes package I purchased.

Sellholm's kit of front suspension and brakes bolts in and has required none, zero, zip, nadda babysitting and has left exactly zero wheels out in the woods.

Congrats on your purchase. Enjoy it. Toss the old tires as they will be junk by now.

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JohnLane

Overkill is consistently more fun

Thanks, John. It warms the heart to hear from all a' you brickslingers.

The Sellholm bits - are you talking about "Selltech Mc Phearson 50 mm fjäderben komplett med komp och returjustering," or something else? (is that the price per side, or for a pair?)

Sean my ability to make Sellholm's website work is somewhat limited.

I called them up on the telephone and spoke with them about things and verified things via E-Mail.

It was shockingly expensive. It is worth it.

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JohnLane

Overkill is consistently more fun

rallybrick Wrote:
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> Better off with the 10 spoke 15" rims off a 740 turbo or
> 740 diesel (I think mid 80's).

These wheels? (known as "Sirius" wheels to the Volvo faithful)








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So Sean, any current pictures? Gonna come out and play sometime?

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rally gods would turn in their graves if they ever knew Lada's were now part of EU rallying!!!

Um...

Well, I *could* take new pictures, but they'd look a lot like the pictures that are already there. It's been a year of too much work, not enough play, and at least a little "oh shit, I have no skills, no equipment...what have I gotten myself into"-style buyer's remorse, if I'm honest.

I've gotten better.

Still have to do everything I needed to do when I bought it. To wit: seat bracket that will actually get my close enough to controls in order to drive, new belts, maybe new seats (? do these expire?), install of sooper bitchin rear shocks, turrets, 4link, and critically--get a handle on what it will take to bring the cage up to spec. I'm going to haul the heap down to Lawrence (aka Fidel from Turbobricks) at Knox Motorsports for most of the work.

Hopefully I'll be ready to go in some form for a few ice races this winter, some "rallycross" with SCCA, and eventually some stages by the latter half of next year (once I've gotten a little seat time and steel my nerve).

I see what you're doing, Ozgur...shame is a powerful weapon ;-)

Yeah, I have to admit : Its a shame that car is not out on the stages

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rally gods would turn in their graves if they ever knew Lada's were now part of EU rallying!!!

Yeah, yeah - I suck. I know.

Working on fixing that.

seanmc Wrote:
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> Um...
>
> Well, I *could* take new pictures, but they'd look
> a lot like the pictures that are already there.
> It's been a year of too much work, not enough
> play, and at least a little "oh shit, I have no
> skills, no equipment...what have I gotten myself
> into"-style buyer's remorse, if I'm honest.
>
> I've gotten better.
>
> Still have to do everything I needed to do when I
> bought it. To wit: seat bracket that will
> actually get my close enough to controls in order
> to drive, new belts, maybe new seats (? do these
> expire?), install of sooper bitchin rear shocks,
> turrets, 4link, and critically--get a handle on
> what it will take to bring the cage up to spec.
> I'm going to haul the heap down to Lawrence (aka
> Fidel from Turbobricks) at Knox Motorsports for
> most of the work.
>
> Hopefully I'll be ready to go in some form for a
> few ice races this winter, some "rallycross" with
> SCCA, and eventually some stages by the latter
> half of next year (once I've gotten a little seat
> time and steel my nerve).
>
> I see what you're doing, Ozgur...shame is a
> powerful weapon ;-)
>
>

Seats currently don't expire for NRS and RA doesn't require FIA seats. We do look at condition and mounting. So if a seat does appear to worn out it can be rejected at tech.

seanmc Wrote:
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> Um...
>
> Well, I *could* take new pictures, but they'd look
> a lot like the pictures that are already there.
> It's been a year of too much work, not enough
> play, and at least a little "oh shit, I have no
> skills, no equipment...what have I gotten myself
> into"-style buyer's remorse, if I'm honest.
>
> I've gotten better.
>
> Still have to do everything I needed to do when I
> bought it. To wit: seat bracket that will
> actually get my close enough to controls in order
> to drive, new belts, maybe new seats (? do these
> expire?), install of sooper bitchin rear shocks,
> turrets, 4link, and critically--get a handle on
> what it will take to bring the cage up to spec.
> I'm going to haul the heap down to Lawrence (aka
> Fidel from Turbobricks) at Knox Motorsports for
> most of the work.
>
> Hopefully I'll be ready to go in some form for a
> few ice races this winter, some "rallycross" with
> SCCA, and eventually some stages by the latter
> half of next year (once I've gotten a little seat
> time and steel my nerve).
>
> I see what you're doing, Ozgur...shame is a
> powerful weapon ;-)
>
>

Your BIG package was sent Ground UPS yesterday.....
Get that fawking thing going so you can go do big huge dough-nuts around Ozgurs car and service rig burying them in gravel so Ozgur will stop talking about another fawkin Golf, weeee'ze gots enough Golves already!!


Can you seee it? BIG BROADIES till Ozgur and crew and the car and van buried up to about knee high, jaws all slack and only thing he could possibly say : "coooool, mang, GOTTA GET ME ONE!!"

And gotta do the tooth-paste foam around the mouth deal when you go see Fidel.
And ask him to introduce you to my cousin Vince "The Terrible One", and you should oughtter try and lure Fidel and Lawrence into going out to somer eevnts and even being your service guy. Being the young horn-dog he is Vince really as ready to be "At your cervix, ma'am!"

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

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is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

I ll trade you for a mk2 GTI?

PS John:

You know I have a soft side for them bricks! (But The wife would kill me!)

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rally gods would turn in their graves if they ever knew Lada's were now part of EU rallying!!!

Yeeeeahhhhh...not so much, Oz. But if you're nice, I'll let you touch it.

Looking forward to my bundle of mechanical joy, John. Thank you. Will do my best to get the youngins hooked, proper-like. Oh, and spray Ozgur cute little krautbox mightily and frequently.

Glad to hear that about seats, Gene. 'Preciate the heads up.

There is a new rap song about owning a volvo here in Seattle on KEXP search the online play list to hear it kexp.org played right about 5:50pm today.

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In the long run reality always wins.

Sean, You might not have to rip out that cage. Does the car have an SCCA logbook? If it does, I suspect you could just add updates as needed and leave the 1.5" x.120" main hoop in it.

You will go right by my house on your way to Fidel/Knox's place so you should give a shout seeing as we are so close...

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