So me and a few friends from RetroRides chipped in and bought a £350 car for a drifting event - kinda to prove to ourselves that a weekend's motorsport is possible for not alot of money.

I drove the car up to Buxton - a Volvo 740 Turbo (180bhp) which was fairly tidy if I'm honest!

Here's a video that I shot with Jonovlov's GoPro (cheers mate):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqimODIgu9U



Unfortunately it threw a rod on the second day. Yes, a B230FT threw a rod. I decided that as the car was in my name we'd drive it to the scrapyard and I'd salvage pretty much everything I could get off (I'm now the proud owner of a full leather interior and set of wheels ). Then, 10 miles later a hole emerged...

http://www.facebook.com/v/47091621627226
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/ ... 72268&ev=0


Bye Volvo, you were awesome. I would have kept it if the engine hadn't have gone





Here's to the next one!

Ha! looks like great fun man.

Cheap motorsport is for winnarz!

Since it's a 740, it definitely wasn't an ET?

No, late 740s had the FT

Just that it's a changeover year, which is why I wondered. If it's an FT it'll only have had 163bhp. Although that's pretty irrelevant with a hole in the block now

So you're right! Unless the wiki page is wrong. So am I right in thinking the early 740s had the ET with 180?

Hi mate.
That looked like great fun
Cheers Mark.

Looks alot of fun! is FT turbo and intercooler, what is ET? K-jet turbo and intercooler? does the F in B2xxFT stand for lh?

your a set of animals lol, glad it was a good weekend, i came to catch up with you on sunday but you was about somewere, gutted i didnt get to do all weekend, did you get anymore videos from the weekend?

Whats that at the back?

wiganer31 wrote:your a set of animals lol, glad it was a good weekend, i came to catch up with you on sunday but you was about somewere, gutted i didnt get to do all weekend, did you get anymore videos from the weekend?

Yeah, we were up in the stands feeling sorry for ourselves I've got about 30 mins of footage but it's only more of what you see in the vid.

Attack2001 wrote:
Whats that at the back?

Nissan Prairie As seen at RRG12 going up the hill with exhaust exiting out the rear window

Speedy88 wrote:Nissan Prairie As seen at RRG12 going up the hill with exhaust exiting out the rear window

I remember my Grandpa having one of those, sliding rear doors were epic

any that get a flash of my 360 on track lol, wanna see how the 360 looks on track but noone takes videos of my because im a terrible driver lol

looks like a top weekend! i normally spend that much going places like Bournemouth and Cardiff for party/ drinking weekends! I think this is much better spent..you could very quickly end up with a load of 7 and 240s outside your house tho lol