One Week 1700 miles no problem for a car bought on ebay for $300. Everyone who normally throws a "why bother?" my way thought I was crazy. Car runs great except for a few things.
Brakes-- yikes. They stopped working about 300 miles from home. I pulled the MC resevoir tank and the brake fluid looked like oatmeal. Brake failure light was on from the time I first cranked the car up. I cleaned out the tank and put new fluid in. Fluid is not being lost so I assume I just have a fair ammount of air in the lines. OR--- I hope I just have air in the lines. Car will stop if I stomp on the pedal.

Vacuum/air pump- Funny story. I got gas about 150 miles from home, cranked up the car and it sounded as if a cat was stuck under the hood of the car.... It sounded AWFUL. I got out and saw that one of the belts was about to melt off because one of the wheels were not spinning. I couldn't figure out what this thing was. I knew it wasn't the altenator, not the power steering, not the compressor. I saw a hose coming from the back and figured it was the water pump. I know it makes no sense but in my mind, neither did a 6 cylinder Volvo. So I cut of the belt and cranked up the car. Let it run for about 5 mminutes. Temp didn't change. After about 45 minutes of swearing and frantic phone calls to every car guy I knew I just yelled "THIS CAR HAS A VACUUM PUMP" I felt dumb. So what does this thing do anyway? Car ran fine without it as far as I could tell. Or at least the car ran about as good as it did before.

Rust-- I now understand why rust is an issue. I tried to jack the car up with the supplied jack under one of those little hooks things and almost rippied it off. How in the world am I supposed to jack this car up without breaking it in half? Car has lots of rust along the sills and in the floorboard areas. It's almost hard to find solid metal around what I would think would be jack points. I'm not sure how to get under it to bleed the brakes or even take the tires off. The bleed screws appear to be in OK shape. I've been dousing them in PB blaster for the eventual removal.

Otherwise I love this car. It does have the BW35 but once it got up to speed it just sailed.
Thanks in advance,
Jerry