Volvo axle for my Corolla......

one day ill do something stupid and try to buy one of those off you john, one day.

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Ahhhhh, right right. Thats the car I had pictured in my head but not being exposed to those cars I always say "Escort"

Very glad these threads can go where they flow, makes for some better learning.

Something tells me it's going to take some time to learn all the slang you guys toss around. Maybe a thread like "Guide to Rally Anarchy Language" is in order.

This is an Escort doing what GAWD intended them to do:


These cars, in MkI and MkII form --built 1968 thru 1980 are the coolest and most winningest cars the the whole parsec of the Galaxy....

They have brought Ford fame and admiration for 4 decades...

The disgusting lame POS sold in North America was sorta related to the thing called "MkIII" Escort but are nowhere near as good as the real MkIIIs, therefore they are not fit to wear the Escort name.
Thus being lame limp-dick things, we can only call them "Ex-squirts".

By mid 90s Ford did make a good fwd Escort, but of course we never got them... it had a unique engine that was said to be a productionized and improved 2.0 version of Fords fantastic "Cosworth BDA" from back in 1968...
BDA was 1.6 and made---way back then 210bhp---at 10,000 rpm.
BDG came in 1975, and was BDA with bigger bore and aluminum block, and made in '75-76 spec 252 bhp--at 10,000 rpm again and by 79 was doing 262@ 10k..

Shit like that breeds long term loyalty---who else has offered such performance for so long?

But we never got them and our roads are not narrow things barely 5 feet wide...and that's way I push Volvo 240 so hard.
It really is just a big Escort and sized for the US and Canadian roads

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See I am infatuated with those Escorts. Never see many of them stateside, too expensive I assume to get one here and all that fun red tape?

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The only axle I had a problem with, and we've done ~4 for corollas, was the 740 axle. don't try it.

The ring and pinion break on the carrier is below 3.54.
I don't think there are very many stock volvos with this ratio, so grab any axle you see.
The stock GTS ratio is 4.3.
we race the 1.6l engines with a 5.38, which is the business.

https://plus.google.com/photos/107360747547936712553/albums/5193618192222738913?banner=pwa

the axles I pick have the two ribs on the right when viewed from the input flange, and the two ears on the casting.

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See I am infatuated with those Escorts. Never see many of them stateside, too expensive I assume to get one here and all that fun red tape?

The import thing isn't all that bad. It's the cost of a prepped car. I think its do-it-yourself-income-redistribution with the working class guys who make things counter themselves the British right-wings wage policies that have led to a huge income gap much like here. So they say fuckit I'll charge this much for building a car cause the market will bear it...
And it'd be a real shame to buy a prepped car and find the cage doesn't meet the rules for cars Homologated after 2007, and have to chop it out like the poor guy in Idaho..

If I had to have an Escort, I'd call myself and find a road car in Northern Sweden that has never seen salt, maybe with a 1.3 or maybe a 1.6 in it, drive it to Gotheburg and send it on Wallenius Line to Tacoma.
of course I'd shove in 2 extra front windscreens, extra grill, blinkers, tape a extra hood on the top, then when it got here i'd have some of the most annoying things you might need here already...

Then I'd build it like a Gp4 car but do as they have been doing for a decade now in the North and use a Volvo axle, and like we've done, Volvo front bottom knuckles.

Engine I'd do a n.a. 2.3 Duratec, a Tran-ex 5 speed close ratio---but synchro cause it shifts just fine even being synchro (cause they don't have to brake the gears hardly anything when you have a proper close ratio) and call it good.

God knows what the build would cost but it's only money...
Thing is there's no advantage to a car like this that can't be found and done on a Corolla if you're fixated on short cars in the Escort or Corolla size....

Of course a 240 Volvo built to the same specs would be better here on the comparitively wider and faster roads and cost millions less and be no problem to patch up when the inevitable happens.

For example here's todays inventory at Pick-n-pull
Pick-n-Pull - Portland North [More Information]

9635 N Columbia Boulevard
Portland, OR 97203 US 503-286-6262

Store Layout Map | Part Pricing
Make Model Year Row Date On Yard
Volvo 240 91 0034 11/20/2012
Volvo 240 91 0048 10/29/2012
Volvo 240 90 0037 10/04/2012
Volvo 240 87 0032 10/24/2012
Volvo 240 87 0049 11/07/2012
Volvo 240 87 0049 11/12/2012
Volvo 240 86 0033 11/02/2012
Volvo 240 83 0045 12/07/2012

Pick-n-Pull - Portland South [More Information]

6241 SE 111th Avenue
Portland, OR 97266 US 503-760-5820

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Volvo 240 90 0035 12/07/2012
Volvo 240 90 0042 11/09/2012
Volvo 240 88 0036 12/10/2012
Volvo 240 87 0030 12/05/2012
Volvo 240 83 0032 11/28/2012
Volvo 240 83 0038 12/14/2012
Approx Distance: 147 miles
Pick-n-Pull - Sherwood [More Information]

19135 SW Pacific Highway
Sherwood, OR 97140 US 503-625-6141

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Volvo 240 90 0042 08/23/2012
Volvo 240 85 0030 11/13/2012
Volvo 240 85 0031 11/20/2012
Volvo 240 83 0042 08/29/2012

And up here:
Pick-n-Pull - Lynnwood [More Information]

18306 Highway 99
Lynnwood, WA 98037 US 425-778-3147

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Volvo 240 87 0042 11/13/2012
Volvo 240 86 0020 10/24/2012
Volvo 240 85 0016 11/26/2012
Volvo 240 84 0017 11/28/2012
Volvo 240 84 0020 10/24/2012
Volvo 240 83 0021 12/12/2012
Approx Distance: 24 miles
Pick-n-Pull - Tacoma [More Information]

2416 112th Street S
Lakewood, WA 98499 US 253-588-1775

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Volvo 240 86 0033 12/05/2012
Approx Distance: 47 miles
Pick-n-Pull - Arlington [More Information]

6323 172nd Street NE
Arlington, WA 98223 US 360-403-9505

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Make Model Year Row Date On Yard
Volvo 240 88 0015 12/04/2012
Volvo 240 87 0010 11/13/2012
Volvo 240 87 0018 12/12/2012
Volvo 240 86 0003 10/10/2012
Volvo 240 86 0012 11/19/2012
Volvo 240 84 0010 11/14/2012
Volvo 240 84 0012 11/21/2012
Volvo 240 83 0003 10/15/2012
Volvo 240 83 0016 12/06/2012

Here's Corolla:
Pick-n-Pull - Lynnwood [More Information]

18306 Highway 99
Lynnwood, WA 98037 US 425-778-3147

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Toyota Corolla 85 0038 11/02/2012
Toyota Corolla 84 0039 11/06/2012

Approx Distance: 24 miles
Pick-n-Pull - Tacoma [More Information]

2416 112th Street S
Lakewood, WA 98499 US 253-588-1775

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Make Model Year Row Date On Yard

Toyota Corolla 86 0024 11/12/2012


Approx Distance: 47 miles
Pick-n-Pull - Arlington [More Information]

6323 172nd Street NE
Arlington, WA 98223 US 360-403-9505

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Toyota Corolla 86 0009 11/08/2012
Toyota Corolla 86 0014 11/28/2012


Approx Distance: 125 miles
Pick-n-Pull - Vancouver [More Information]

9605 NE 76th Street
Vancouver, WA 98662 US 360-892-8906

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Make Model Year Row Date On Yard

Toyota Corolla 86 0007 11/28/2012
Toyota Corolla 85 0009 12/06/2012

Approx Distance: 131 miles
Pick-n-Pull - Portland North [More Information]

9635 N Columbia Boulevard
Portland, OR 97203 US 503-286-6262

Store Layout Map | Part Pricing
Make Model Year Row Date On Yard

Toyota Corolla 83 0037 10/03/2012

Approx Distance: 139 miles

Pick-n-Pull - Portland South [More Information]

6241 SE 111th Avenue
Portland, OR 97266 US 503-760-5820

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Make Model Year Row Date On Yard

Toyota Corolla 85 0040 11/06/2012


Approx Distance: 147 miles
Pick-n-Pull - Sherwood [More Information]

19135 SW Pacific Highway
Sherwood, OR 97140 US 503-625-6141

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Make Model Year Row Date On Yard
ZIP

A guy can drive a lot harder and stoooopider knowing he can patch a car back together easily...
The car is just a tool after all.

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240, get a 2 forty not 7forty

Width is different on the 747 K-car Grandpa series..

Ya oughtta ask John Reed out here in Portland is he's going to shit or get off the pot on if he's converting to 240 front knuckles cause if he does, which would be smrat cause he's driving hard and that 2.0 motor is heavier than thought, then maybe

MAYBEEEEEEE you could swap the stock Volvo axle shafts for his modded 4 on 4 1/2" ones. and he copuld go Volvo front and rear..

Unless of course you wanna go Volvo 240 knuckle in front, too.

I will probably just leave this car alone, and maintain what I have. Overall works fine and I have a ton of wheels for it. Haven't broken one of those beefed up JVL fortified 'Yota knuckles yet (and hopefully actually have a full spare set this year).

Next car, the exact path is yet to be determined...........

Next car just get a 240 Volvo, it's just a bigger Corolla with a really nice basic motor that has endless potential n.a. or turbo. Simpler and 40 to 1 ratio in the junk yards for all those "wear items" like hoods and grills and fenders and doors and glass. And they sold them thru '92 so 75 thru 92 gives you a lot more chances of finding stuff.
And no problem that its bigger, that's fine on any North American roads.

Yeah that is always a possibility. Or an XRatty but I would want it to look just like Sean's and wouldn't want to just straight up copy him (but his is so sick that you can't hardly blame someone for doing it). I do love my old Toyotas though, especially the Corolla. Nice, basic engine is probably smart but I don't always find that to be the most interesting path for me to take.

OK take your pick:



Bolts right in. Could not be simpler.

I'll take the green monster in the back thanks.

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240, get a 2 forty not 7forty

Width is different on the 747 K-car Grandpa series..

Ya oughtta ask John Reed out here in Portland is he's going to shit or get off the pot on if he's converting to 240 front knuckles cause if he does, which would be smrat cause he's driving hard and that 2.0 motor is heavier than thought, then maybe

MAYBEEEEEEE you could swap the stock Volvo axle shafts for his modded 4 on 4 1/2" ones. and he copuld go Volvo front and rear..

Unless of course you wanna go Volvo 240 knuckle in front, too.

I will probably just leave this car alone, and maintain what I have. Overall works fine and I have a ton of wheels for it. Haven't broken one of those beefed up JVL fortified 'Yota knuckles yet (and hopefully actually have a full spare set this year).

Next car, the exact path is yet to be determined...........

Next car just get a 240 Volvo, it's just a bigger Corolla with a really nice basic motor that has endless potential n.a. or turbo. Simpler and 40 to 1 ratio in the junk yards for all those "wear items" like hoods and grills and fenders and doors and glass. And they sold them thru '92 so 75 thru 92 gives you a lot more chances of finding stuff.
And no problem that its bigger, that's fine on any North American roads.

Yeah that is always a possibility. Or an XRatty but I would want it to look just like Sean's and wouldn't want to just straight up copy him (but his is so sick that you can't hardly blame someone for doing it). I do love my old Toyotas though, especially the Corolla. Nice, basic engine is probably smart but I don't always find that to be the most interesting path for me to take.

OK take your pick:



Bolts right in. Could not be simpler.

I'll take the green monster in the back thanks.

What? This one?


With the steel billet cams?



Now waht would you want that for?

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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.

Themz soam lumpy loabz...