My name is João Vale and I found this very interesting and usefull forum when a friend of mine asked me to help him returning his mothers 1981 Volvo 345 1.4 back to the road (and in the future, pushing it to the track
).We got it to work this month and the project is the following:
- Get it to work reliably and take it to the Portuguese equivalent of the MOT;
- Overhaul the suspension and uprate it (I'm thinking on a front coil over conversion);
- After the car proves it self reliable suspension and brake wise, start gathering parts to make an engine swap (2 liter from the Volvo 244 I think...).
The Renault 16v engine is and expensive engine here in Portugal and this project is on a tight budget. We want a car that is fast enough to have fun. We don't need massive power under the hood.
That's why we turned to the B19 engine that the 345 also had.
I would apreciate any info you could give me on this conversion. I have to make this conversion on this car because it's a car with history in my friends family and he doesn't want to part with it. The structure is very sound and it only needs a bit of maintenance to be roadworthy.
When I get good pictures of the car I will post them here.
For what I've been reading over here I have to swap the cross member to fit the B19 engine right? I would like to see pictures fo the B19 cross member so I could understand the diferences and, if I'm lucky, recognize one on a junk yard.
What is the potencial tunning on these engines? We were thinking in buying one and port and polish the head and fit a pair of twin weber DCO carbs to get 100+ bhp. What do you guys think?
Regards!
