Speedy88 wrote:I bet your neighbours love you anjo, taking up 3 parking spaces

we have more than enough parking space over here so luckaly that's not an issue

If you count your neighbours driveway as a free parking spot (like I did... ) there are enough spaces indeed...

"those damn volvos are on my drive again!!!!"

That's what my neighbours were thinking too last year...



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Only yesterday a neighbour came up to me and said "you're on foot? With your three cars?" Since I had two cars parked outside his house at the time, I didn't push the point that I've got 5 cars ATM

Tom

more goods, again with thanks to Dafhobby:




all i need now is nikkel finish brake line and a pair of front shocks and my new storage/workingspace offcourse! it's allmost time to get started

first badge of powdercoated parts was ready today next week the rest is done but those parts aren't for the 343 (neither is 80% of these tbh )


what was part of this pile of parts is the airfilterhousing! (and another one for a V3C 343 owner)

all seperate parts:


recirculation valve:


inner work assembled and adjusted:


new cagenuts, found in my nuts n bolts stockpile


and the whole thing in one piece:


neirly finished, the housing will be completed with the famous stickerkit from Robbert-Jan Veraa offcourse!!

i was also having a bit of starting problems a few weeks ago, i never got to fixing it and all work was done in a rush; last week i saw the points were burned in so i replaced them. the bitch still didn't start so today i got all spare parts to refurbish the distributor and took it off the engine; half hour ago i looked at it for a minute and noticed the points were adjusted at 4mm no wonder the bitch doesn't start!

still gonna refurb the thing on sunday, if it won't start at the end of that day i'll convert the thing to Renix fridayafternoon

That air filter housing is a piece of art

A Renix conversion in one afternoon?

Tom

Dude, you never stop amazing me.

you should be restoring volvo stuff full time.

Im sure theres not as much money in it though.

Believe it or not... he hates Volvo...

that's true the 300 series is the only thing about volvo that i like

so this afternoon i took on the ignition part of things, cleaned the distributor; placed new points + adjusted them, new condenser; plugs, leads, dizzy and rotor arm.
put the distributor back in place and timed it:


then i sat down, pulled out the choke and started it, barely 2 cranks later it went perfectly!

placed the powdercoated airfilterhousing:



there is a brandnew winged-nut going onto the rear of it, detailwork counts

then desided to take it for a spin since it performes nice again





it drives awesome, nowhere near as good as the 340Turbo in terms of power, handling etc but it's just a perfect car for comfy cruising; sitting back and relax.

just fitted the stainless petrol cap i had lying around



looks good imo

also tried this brandnew reflectorplate but didn't like it on the car..


that reflectorplate will be for sale, pickup only.

doesnt that reflectorplate make the car illegal man?
dont you need the rear plate to be displayed at all times?

i just threw it on there to see how the rear would look. if you place the reflectorplate the license plate has to be placed somewhere else, for example below the right side of the bumper; you also have to get lighting to it.

volvodspec wrote:i just threw it on there to see how the rear would look. if you place the reflectorplate the license plate has to be placed somewhere else, for example below the right side of the bumper; you also have to get lighting to it.

I hadnt considered the lighting issue too.
Lot of trouble to go to really.

It looks cool.
But not THAT cool.