Rally noob, looking for some RWD Volvo direction
Posted by Eakin
John Vanlandingham Elite Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
You'll be fine, and if more guys would get easy, basically right car that were easy to mod the scene out there would eventually grow... Friends don't let friends buy Blue Subarus. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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John Vanlandingham Elite Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
The Volvo box looks like they didn't ever enlarge anything all the way back to the B18 in the 50s--not until the M90.
I say this with some good certainty because the never changed the block deck height, or bore c-c or stroke, or main bearing size, or compression height--all the critical machining dimensions from the B18 all the way to the last B23 and on the B230 is was only main bearing and rod bearing and rod c-c they changed all the way to the end of the cast iron block motors. What worked for Farfar o gumman out for a drive on Sunday with a car maxing max 65bhp but never revved past 2200 simply doesn't work for hard core hoonification.. When I living in Sweden and driving to obscure tracks and sand pit in the boondocks on the weekend, if ever there was a line of 8-20 cars crawling along, it was ALWAYS a grandpa in a Volvo that was at the head of the line, ALWAYS. That's who the car was marketed to, designed for, and for that it worked fine...It was the same in the mountains here going skiing, but then it was a Volvo wagon. Here's the cure: Volvo bellhousing with simple mods: 
And GM V8 trannie bolted to it: 
Only the gear stick needs to swoop back in a 7 series. Excellent rations 1-4 and a realistic 5th if one is gear down a bit like 4.3. Common GM output yoke, Spicer 1310 u-joint, a simple mount like this: 
And here it is in a 240: 
As for the rear shocks and the axle location, the 2 problem areas, easy cure for anybody who can weld: Towers welded in something kinda like this: 
And long links---once the stupid kidney bean shaped tank is booted. Sumpin lime this only a tad longer cause the volvo is longer. 
End up wif sumpin like this: 
Nice piccies here: http://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=27782&page=7 John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
John Vanlandingham Elite Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
a'nudder juicy piccie:
see the turrets or towers in back.. That's the way to do it--except I prefer eyelet mounts on top  John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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John Vanlandingham Elite Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
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You know, I sometimes have to read your posts four or five times to suss out what you mean, and even then I'm not so sure.
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Scott Creech Professional Moderator Location: Jane, MO Join Date: 12/02/2012 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 415 Rally Car: Audi 90 Quattro (WIP) |
John Vanlandingham Elite Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Then you're thinking too hard. Don't think. Metaphor and visualisation. Go with the flow, or as we used to say (in some way vaguely referencing so accurately some sensei) Glow with the schmo.) If that doesn't do it copy and paste and ask, "wot da fawk youse mean, mang?" John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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