Volvo 480 Club Europe

I am not an out and out 480 'fanatic' but I do tend to agree with the above points, why take a serviceable car remove the engine and junk the rest, there are far more mundane Renaults out there as a donor? To be honest, the engine we had our eyes on is allready located at a junkyard it was pulled f...

I am glad you have seen 'the light' so to speak, and seem a nice chap, have you thought about getting a 480, they are actually very nice to drive, and would look good alongside an RX7 :lol: No I have not considered that, and by the look of thing regarding spare parts it probably will never be up fo...

Without some really interesting fabrications a wankel in a 480 would probably be less than easy.. I don't know of any successful transverse installation of a 13b engines but haven't really looked that hard either tbh.

I see that I've touched on some sensitive issues, I will not pursue this venture further here.

is it really that bad with spare parts for the b18ft block? in that case I feel bad for you. Coming from the first gen Mazda rx7 crowd I know what it's like.

Take care!

the project falls into the category of what to do with the money and time that should be better spent elsewhere... my brother in law has an old mk1 renault 5, which has this really wierd front end that does not accept much in the ways of engine upgrades, where as the mk2 are much closer to drop-in c...

Hi I am looking for some dimensions for the B18FT powerplant and some of it's surroundings. What's the width between the mounting bolts for the subframe? What's the "footprint" of the engine (as in how much space must there be to fit the engine and gearbox between the frame)? What's the outer distan...