I'm in the USA and enjoy watching Australian V8 Supercar racing. Your Ford Falcon is one nice looking car! I'd never heard of Holden before finding this series and was curious about them in general. By other posts it appears they're in the GM family.

As far as conversion, for ideas try:

http://www.converseengineering.com/

They sell kits for Ford 302 it looks like. Perhaps others? Click on "In house built cars" for examples. The 960 Volvo with a 393 is incredible. 500hp, 500ft/lb torque. Just the thing.

Regards,
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Erwin in Memphis, '95 855t

gday perfect sleeper.
as an aussie myself i would love to chuck a 308 holden in my volvo but ill stick to the turbo for now. there used to a 200 series going around town (murwillumbah NSW) and it had a 350 chev in it so it has been done before. but with the 740 because its a big car you should be able to drop a V8 engine in it. i would myself be looking at a 350 chev just because its more powerful and probarly better than the old holden motor. good to see a volvo with a big V8 in it.
brownie (87' 740 turbo)

Perfect Sleeper ...

Just wondering .... HOLDEN, I believe is a division of General Motors ... is there any chance that the HOLDEN 5.7 is in reality a Chevy Small Block 350 ? It so , MANY people have been down this road before you .....

BTW I truly enjoy watching the Aussie V8 Supercars races on satellite here in Nova Scotia ... what NASCAR USED to be ... at least you guys still start out with a production vehicle
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Brett Sutherland & the 1.5 million mile 122 Canadian

G'day Perfect Sleeper,

I am also from Australia, Melbourne to be exact. Not alot of performance orrientated volvo's down here so will be quite hard to do the conversion.
Where exactly are you from?? I would be very interested to see how you go with this conversion

Regards,

Murray

Hi

The Holden V8 is not really common outside Australia go to this link below this is a Aussie board and ask this Question. There is a person on the board
he goes by the name tony66 he own a shop in Melbourne that converts volvo to V8s volvos. Or goto the V8 forum on the brickboard they mostly talk about ford and chev engines. Click on the fourms tab up the top of the page and you will find the V8 fourm link in there

//groups.yahoo.com/group/OzHotVolvos

George

Cars I own

Restoration project

Personal import 1974 144gl B20a M40
1975 264gl B27e with Cr 5speed getreg box

Everyday car
1986 760GLE B28f/AW71

Cars I have owned
1982 244GL B23e/M45

I think the Holden V8's are very closely related to the GM small blocks, so dimensionally, it should work the same ... the only issue is that Jags That Run still hasn't published the book for the 700-series yet, though the 200-series could apply just as well.

-- Kane ... BTW, the V8 board could offer a bit more help.
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Blossom II - '91 745Ti/M46 ... Bubbles - '74 144GL/BW35 ... Buttercup - '86 245GL/AW70 ... The Wayback Machine - '64 P220/M40