Hi Messrs. Starkie and Stevens!

"The car division was spun into a separate company."

Include the Volvo 164 and the mighty B30 engine as an early brick?



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Best with M410 gearbox. Most with BW35, so maintain band adjustment occasionally and use quality fluid.

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Home built 165 Estate!


Same for 142 with M410! As stock as stock can be from the factory to get to stage 0 tune! Be nice to gain some efficacy in fuel economy and power. Easier to do with B20, yet B30 is more about torque and is smooooooooth.

Very much want a 740 / 940 normally aspirated manual gearbox. Fine with Bendix Rex / Regina. Yet want four-piston brake calipers unless the single piston sliding caliper does okay.

I dunno about 740 / 940 IRS when the seals, bearing boots, and mostly, the bushings, all begin to go. The hipsters drive these to the ground and then ask, "OMG, why," while the drifters laff whether IRS or solid live rear axle goes with an "OMG, destroyed, next RWD and 740 behind a Turbo+ (adds Turbo to an NA) engine."

I'd go with urethane bushings on an IRS service. Maybe uprated springs yet by all means maintain ride height and do away with Nivomat if one can.

The Volvo 240 Story

How is NewMexico240 and his 780 IRS?

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