With all due respect, I'm thinking the last 5 words of your first sentence are more accurate than you could ever imagine. :-)
Seriously, this would be an expensive undertaking that could result... nay, most likely would result... in an ill-handling piece of crap, unless you know a good chassis engineer that will spend the time and effort to make sure what you're installing is carefully matched to what you already have (the front suspension package). I'm not talking just spring rates and sway bars here - roll centers, camber gain, and all that other stuff that has to be right with a capital "R", or you risk ending up with a nightmare.
And incidentally, even if done correctly, this is not an automatic 2 or 3 second reduction in lap times. If IRS were a handling cure-all, the 142 with it's live rear axle would be an also-ran against all the IRS-equipped cars in SCCA ITB racing. For instance, the BMW 2002's and 320i's (running at lower weights than the Volvo, BTW) do not exactly run and hide from the 140... the cars are very evenly matched in ITB.
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Gary L - 1971 142E ITB racer, 73 1800ES, 02 S60 T5 BlueBrick Racing
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