which is betta/best

[bennett]

what would be betta to go for a 340 or 360 for drifting and track use but still road legal?

[Ali]

Entirely up to you really and how far you plan to go with the car, you'll be able to find 340s in 3door form easier than 360s but the drivetrain is weaker and if you go for more power you'll be looking at £150 for a custom steel prop. The 340 1.7s are meant to drift the best but still not really going to be enough power for drifting in the dry, if your going for an engine swap you can drop in the 1.7 turbo same as husky but requires a fair amount of work (some cutting and welding manifolds sorting out fuelling etc) but you'll need to spend £150 on the prop aswell. If your going the 360 route then go for the glt (unless your bothered about the mpg as its marginally higher with the carb), its around 115bhp but the drivetrain should take 200bhp+ (there are a couple with 300bhp and just doing gentle launches). Engine swaps for that are b200ft (2L turbo 155bhp) and b230ft (2.3L turbo 180bhp) which is custom engine mount and custom downpipe. You should be able to get both those engines to 200bhp easily. All depends on how far you want to go and what facilities/knowledge you have available but first step whichever you go for is going to have to be handling, Dai (classicswede) on here can sort you out for dampers, springs and lowering blocks and then get welding the diff if you want it as a drift car,
cheers
Ali

[bennett]

1.7 turbo same as husky

whats this???
i want to be able to turbo the beast.

[Ali]

Have a browse through his site, http://huskyracer.50megs.com/
the conversion isn't *that* complicated but theres still some fabrication to be done and you'd need to spend £150 on the prop which is why your probably better with a 360 as you can put that £150 into getting more power! If you look at the work Husky has done to reach 200bhp it would be a lot easier to reach this figure using a Volvo engine (B230ft + manual boost controller, turn up the boost and your there!)
cheers
Ali

[bennett]

does the 360 running gear fit the 340? what is the diffrence?

[jtbo]

does the 360 running gear fit the 340? what is the diffrence?

Almost everything is different, 360 has torque tube, propshaft is inside of tube and it is not really same as propshaft, also gearbox is differently mounted, fuel tank is different too, there is almost everything different under the car

[Japper]

It fits, but you can't attach any torque tube. You might wanna have that when you got loads of power. Maybe if you hold the gearbox into place with support rods or something like that.

[Jay340]

Afetr trying out this volvo drifting lark which im amazed at how good the volvo is, have decided to buy myself a 340 aswell as the one my dad wanted, just wanted to say thanks to bennet for asking all the right questions and thanks to the guys that have given the answers.

thumbs up to the volvo boys

[petefarrell360]

That's what we like to see, someone converted to the Volvo RWD goodness! Welcome and enjoy!

Pete

[Jay340]

Well from the 2.2 si vtec jap spec honda prelude, its quite a difference, but wow is the 340 good

[Ali]

Ahha so your the guy off driftworks then, you should try n get up to the meet with Nev n stuff so you can have a good look at some,
cheers
Ali

[bennett]

been looking on drift works but nothing.
but since talking to you all here i have taking a liking to the 300 i was going to look for a 740 turbo but am wanting a 300 now.

[Jay340]

Ahha so your the guy off driftworks then, you should try n get up to the meet with Nev n stuff so you can have a good look at some,
cheers
Ali

Tis me I have been up to meet Nev twice now, and im sold on the volvo things should get mine at the weekend, then its onto the engine tuning side of things along with the suspention etc etc