Monday 4th June 2007

Quick Volvo, Australian style

Cool Aussie-Jap-Swede creation

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Not quite what Volvo intended...

Sometimes, we see the work of a like-minded enthusiast, and we just smile. There’s no need to explain the merits of their work – that it exists is enough.

This is one such example. Just imagine your own look of surprise as this Volvo 244 GLE smoked past you. There’s something deeply endearing about old Volvos anyway, let alone those that can muster nearly 300bhp.

The beast is powered by 2.5 litre, 24v, twin-turbo inline ‘six’ Toyota engine producing 279bhp and 268lb ft of torque. That should be enough through the rear wheels to make things more than interesting.

Not your average 244...

It’s the brainchild of an Australian Volvo enthusiast who has dubbed the car '264TT-R'. For those interested, the precise engine type is 1JZ-GTE/R154.

The bloke’s next project seems to be fitting a V8 to his 1979 242GT. Good work sir…

More info: http://www.csapo.com.au/volvo/index.htm

Source: Carscoop and you, Mr Fortune.

...and we thought the old BTCC Volvos were cool...

Mission control - Swedish style

 

[Road_Terrorist]

It's not that unusual, plenty of Volvos have been modified, like this twin turbo LS1 example
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/9cd6869c-6501-4...

[sprinter885]

Maybe had too much XXXX !

[bencollins]

Fy fan, den jävla helt galen fitta!

[RobPhoboS]

I love seeing stuff like this.

Like on the 'Getaway(s) in Stockholm' discs, on the extras there are always crazy Volvo's or Saabs

[busta]

279hp is hardly ground breaking, especially in something with as much room under the bonnet and weight as a volvo.

Maybe somebody should do a PPC style 27 litre meteor engined volvo? Would probably drop straight in

[scottiedog]

Interesting choice of engine but as Road Terrorist mentioned, its pretty common. A guy close by has a 400BHP Chevy 350 conversion in a 740 Estate, tried selling it on ebay for $5000 but the smog laws in California would make sure that you would have to go to hell and back to get her on the road legally. Still I used to see him using it as a daily driver to work...

Lots of other (more, imho) interesting conversions on the net, I know one guy who was building a Ferrari Replica from an old Datsun 240Z and stuck a V12 BMW 750IL engine under the hood, guy must be a fricking wizard to pull something like that off!

[NiallOswald]

This is even better:

http://www.jesus242tic.se/jesus/icons/artikel_euro...

As is this:

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/16fd39ff-c421-4...

530bhp from a 2.3l Volvo engine is a proper tuned Volvo!

There's an incredibly tasty 600bhp Amazon estate somewhere on the web, it's a work of art.

EDIT: http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-1967-Volvo-A...

Edited by NiallOswald on Monday 4th June 20:33

[flattotheboards]

it would be a pretty decent Q car.

[AndrewW-G]

scottiedog said:

I know one guy who was building a Ferrari Replica from an old Datsun 240Z and stuck a V12 BMW 750IL engine under the hood, guy must be a fricking wizard to pull something like that off!

The 750 engined GTO replica is actually being built by a woman!

[predding]

V8 donk in a 242 - now that's what I call a cool idea.

[gruffgriff]

Ta for the link Niall, this is absolutely smashing!:

http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-1967-Volvo-A...

But I`m torn between admiration and contempt for the guy in this vid:

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/16fd39ff-c421-4...

Excellent car control and a hilariously over-powered and under-tyred machine, but drifting on the highway in traffic?! And posting a video of the crime?

Does anyone else remember the Cosworth powered 240 Estate that won Custom Car magazine`s Street Car Challenge series a few years back? Nobody laughed at the stick-on draylon body decoration.....

[sprinter885]

The engine & engine bay in http://www.seriouswheels.com/cars/top-1967-Volvo-A... looks one of the most immaculately prepped one's that I've seen-beautiful.

Guy in Streetfire vid must have shares in a tyre Co.. !

[Miguel]

AndrewW-G said:

scottiedog said:

I know one guy who was building a Ferrari Replica from an old Datsun 240Z and stuck a V12 BMW 750IL engine under the hood, guy must be a fricking wizard to pull something like that off!

The 750 engined GTO replica is actually being built by a woman!

Does anyone have more info on this car? A website, perhaps?

[Vedrfolner]

A friend of mine has 360 bhp in his Volvo 850 turbo. The tuning needed to do this is not very expensive, so I think a lot of modded Volvos will have either that or the tuning step before it: 280 bhp. 360 bhp is the limit of the original 5-cylinder turbo engine - it will need extensive modifications in order to produce more (multiple times...).

I know that there was an orange Volvo with more than 600 bhp at the Norwegian Gatebil shows, but I can't find pictures or videos of it. This car is now dismantled. I can't remember if it had a V8 or just a turbo.

At the Gatebil 2006 meetings there was this extremely ugly white body-modded Volvo with more than 400 bhp. I think that they had a kind of fan in the rear that was designed to suck the car to the ground - a technology that was banned from FIA racing in the 80's.

The Gatebil Taxi, a project car made by the company itself, is this year a Volvo XC90 with more than 700 bhp. It should be easy to find information about it on www.gatebil.no

[NiallOswald]

I'll have the engine out of the Amazon (truly something special, isn't it!) in this:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y300/Volvokiller/...

Which I believe has now been painted 'properly' and has a T5 under the bonnet

[Frimley111R]

The pedals and seats and steering wheel..WTF!!!

[FestivAli]

The Volvo in the main story qualifies as carbage. It'd be better if he'd kept it as a sleeper; no horrible wheels, stupid exhaust extensions and 'London 2012' pedals. Now that 600hp Amazon on the other hand is a custom car most ridiculously cool. It looks so professional.

Anyone here ever been to the Melbourne Motor Show? There's always that Datsun 240Z based GTO replica in the Shannons line up outside the main hall at Jeffs Shed.

Ali.

[busta]

FestivAli said:

'London 2012' pedals

[scottiedog]

Miguel said:

AndrewW-G said:

scottiedog said:

I know one guy who was building a Ferrari Replica from an old Datsun 240Z and stuck a V12 BMW 750IL engine under the hood, guy must be a fricking wizard to pull something like that off!

The 750 engined GTO replica is actually being built by a woman!

Does anyone have more info on this car? A website, perhaps?

A woman! Even more amazed, how did she ever get out of the kitchen and in to the garage? hehe, no, major respect, I am struggling with just dropping a V8 in a XJS, its supposed to be easy

Miguel, ummm, I think its on hybridz.org, search the forum and there are some amazing pictures on there.

[264TT-R]

Frimley111R said:

The pedals and seats and steering wheel..WTF!!!

FestivAli said:

The Volvo in the main story qualifies as carbage. It'd be better if he'd kept it as a sleeper; no horrible wheels, stupid exhaust extensions and 'London 2012' pedals.

Frimley & Ali, I am the owner of the car in the article. Regarding both your comments, the modifications to the seats, steering wheel, pedals and exhaust are all there to serve a purpose, and are not intended to be "rice" or just for show. The seats are actually racing buckets with proper harness holes for a racing harness, and the camera exposure has distorted the colour of them, they are actually a deep red, unlike the faded pink it seems to look like in the picture.
The steering wheel is a replacement for the standard 15.5" volvo wheel. I don't need to tell you both why this needed replacing.
The pedals are anodised aluminium drilled racing pedals, made for grip, unlike the standard, slippery rubber units.
The dual exhaust extensions are no more (the picture is outdated), they have been replaced with a single exhaust cannon, again serving a purpose to quieten the 3" exhaust.
As for the wheels, well, the look of those are your opinion, which of course you are entitled to. However, they are 7" wide and have 205 wide tyres on them, unlike the standard 5.5" Volvo rims with 175 wide tyres. Again, I don't need to tell you why the stock items needed replacing.

Ali, the only thing I wish for you to consider before naming the car "carbage" due to a couple of small aesthetic issues that do not appeal to you, is to try to understand that the modifications made to the car ALL serve a particular purpose, and that at the end of the day, is packing a mean, powerful engine that can stand toe-to-toe with the V8's and most japanese performance vehicles.

Oh and I don't think that changing the pedals would make it any more or less of sleeper

Edited by 264TT-R on Sunday 1st July 15:29