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volvo 300's in motosport
Posted: 15 Sep 2006 09:47 pm
by sven360
Plenty of drifters and a few road rally boys on here-'bout time we had a topic on who 's doin' what.
Me and our kid kick off this winter with the John Robson on 30Sept/01 Oct.
Let's hear what everyone else is upto

Re: volvo 300's in motosport
Posted: 15 Sep 2006 10:00 pm
by Carl
Not bloody much at the moment
Buying a house is draining all my money! Plus any time I do get to work on cars is spent on the 2 BXs and the misus' MR2 at the moment, so poor old Fioner has been sat in the garage for weeks without any interest being shown at all
Plans at the mo is as follows:
1. New front suspension (all ready and waiting to go on)
2. New brakes all round (just need discs and pads and I'll have eveything)
3. Do some local 12 cars and scatters, maybe some Nat B events depending on finances
4. Wales Rally GB
5. Rebuild the B230 I have in garage
6. Sort out stainless exhuast
7. Buy a cheap/scrap 240/740/940 and swap engine management into Fioner then lob the rebuilt B230 in for some cheap frills

Posted: 15 Sep 2006 10:26 pm
by sven360
Bloody hell Carl you're busy-pity it's on the wrong stuff
Still one day you'll get over your Citreon phase

Posted: 15 Sep 2006 10:28 pm
by Bilbo
ive seen a photo of the enduro guys on a forum recently doing a night event. sorry i cant remember your names but you were the ones in the voc mag !
not this 1 - but this is the father son i mean[?]
http://www.mandh-photography.co.uk/even ... g_0940.htm
Posted: 15 Sep 2006 11:10 pm
by Carl
Well the MR2 and one of the BXs is having work done ready to be sold, so with any luck both of those will be out of the way soon. If I get rid of the other BX it'll probably be to swap it for a Xantia Turbo/V6
I'm a sucker for older cars - which generally means I end up doing plenty of work on them myself. Really I should just go buy a decentish, reliable, economical car for my daily driver, but where's the fun in that

Posted: 21 Sep 2006 07:03 pm
by Bilbo
did a 12 car last night and it was good fun for me but not for my bro who was reading the maps. the roads were great,mainly single tracks and it was like driving on marbles alot of the time. my bro became ill after a short while and couldnt read the maps so used the tulips instead. managed to finish 7th after missing a few route checks. most of the other cars were full on stage prepared but the stnd volvo managed to hang on the bumper of them for short periods. we couldnt believe how fast they collected rc's.....
good fun though

Posted: 21 Sep 2006 10:11 pm
by redline
Is posing a recognised motor sport

Posted: 25 Sep 2006 04:29 pm
by sven360
redline wrote:Is posing a recognised motor sport
Only in Milton Keynes apparently
Me and Bilbo both driving on the Ropper this Sat-so 2 360's out
let's hope it's a good un

Posted: 26 Sep 2006 04:26 pm
by IvanAE86
I track my 360 a few times a year on tracks around the netherlands (zandvoort/spa/nurburgring), the rest of the year is spent saving up and fixing it.
Might take to drifting with it as well.. if some good instruction/practice days pop up that dont cost a fortune. Tried it with my toyota ae86 once but the damage i did to my diff cost me about the equivalent of 3 complete v360's

Posted: 26 Sep 2006 05:40 pm
by sven360
IvanAE86 wrote: the rest of the year is spent saving up and fixing it.
Must be the same worldwide then
Nice looking car there

Posted: 27 Sep 2006 05:18 pm
by IvanAE86
Thanks...
It wouldnt be so difficult to maintain, but as it is I have 2 other cars that also soak up time and money, so the 360 has to make due with whatever time I have left for it. Not being anyones daily driver has put it lower on the priority list.
BTW, I was looking at the vid of a drift UK event last sunday, which was won by an ae86 (might be the only one to appreciate that over here though), and I saw a 340 drifting amongst the bigboys in the practice runs.. might this be someone from V3M?
Posted: 27 Sep 2006 06:03 pm
by Ali
Yeah Paz won and that was Sid you saw in the blue 340 (registered on here as turbohaustouge but doesn't post that much)
Posted: 27 Sep 2006 10:16 pm
by ducatievo
As a side note Sid was voted best driver of the day, he came 8th in the end I think, knocked out by a D1 Driver in a tuned Skyline. Impressive considering he doesn't have a handbrake(!!!) and the car is a stock 340 1.7 with a welded diff and chopped suspension....
(he uses a combination of shift-lock and pumping the clutch to lose traction).
Posted: 29 Sep 2006 04:45 pm
by sven360
Well the KC's are sitting up front + I'm running one behind Bilbo so he'd better remove that interior mirror LOL
Hope it rains tommorrow and let the stupidity commence

Posted: 29 Sep 2006 05:00 pm
by Carl
Good luck guys!! Make sure the competitiveness doesn't end in 2 offs!!!!
