I keep being seduced by RWD

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I keep being seduced by RWD

Post by glasgowjim » Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:54 pm

Yes I find myself looking at 340 / 360s :shock: . I cant help myself :crazy:

Is it cureable or am I being stoopid :?

I keep thinking its big and I can toss bikes and everything into it and who cares its not a 480 :x

bolt a big kick ass towbar onto it. Use and abuse it like a big tractor!

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Post by durty » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:41 am

Do it

i love my 360, can take it out and throw it around and not worry about it getting damaged

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Post by LANTIN » Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:33 am

You could go for a 7xx or 2xx volvo aswell, bigger boot, better tractor.

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Post by esta » Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:14 am

You must not ignore these RWD pangs!!


The needs are incurable and once you have the RWD you become hooked! ;)
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Post by martinholmesuk » Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:47 am

right on! :D
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Post by aibast » Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:54 am

I still miss my 744 turbo :cryhard:
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Post by Speedy1st » Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:53 pm

Yeah, driving reverse only to finally have RWD really is difficult in rush hour.


and, oh, my neck.
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Post by Murf » Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:08 pm

Skip the 240 if you want to get sideways, my dad had a 240 glt and the only ssurface i could get it sideways on was gravel!
Was pretty funny seeing a huge car like that sideways though! :lol:
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Post by chris1roll » Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:46 pm

I got my parents 240 sideways quite a bit.....
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Post by aibast » Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:37 am

get 700 series it has a better balance than the 200, or a 300 with a turboengine. 300 has a perfect weight balance,
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Post by esta » Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:26 pm

aibast wrote:get 700 series it has a better balance than the 200, or a 300 with a turboengine. 300 has a perfect weight balance,
Plus there is something about the 700 series saloon (especially in black!) which looks so "pimp" but without having to get the windows tinted or the car lowered, it just looks so good as it is!!
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Post by Yossarian » Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:37 pm

Barge-like RWD cars will often understeer a lot before they oversteer. They will be lairy in wet conditions if you are going all-out, I imagine; I will have to wait until I'm on a track to find out.
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Post by martinholmesuk » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:14 pm

turbobricks is the place for big volvo rwd chat. Very good forum.
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300 series

Post by V480TI » Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:31 pm

Did I miss something :: 300 series turbo ???

I know the 300 series 2.o is great fun but didn't know there was a turbo ??

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Re: 300 series

Post by VanDerGraaf » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:06 pm

V480TI wrote:Did I miss something :: 300 series turbo ???

I know the 300 series 2.o is great fun but didn't know there was a turbo ??

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There isn't but I think a lot of people are fitting B18FTs in them!
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Post by gltease » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:16 pm

also the red block turbos find their way into the 360.
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Post by robkendall » Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:01 am

get a 340, they are top rate fun.....the polycrap diff is a bit of a pain, sometimes strips but they are damn good clean fun
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get one, its only 1 more car after all

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Post by Chris_C » Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:39 am

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Still havn't got it finished though, it's parked a fair way from me. Only custom part on there is the exhaust manifold, and it will need a custom downpipe too. Redblock turbo's are slightly easier to do, but I was attached to that car (a 340 rather than a 360)
the polycrap diff is a bit of a pain, sometimes strips but they are damn good clean fun
Eh?? The diff is not a worry at all, unless someone has been at it with a MIG. I've never known one fail, the box/diff combo is fine as long as you don't spend all day spinning up one wheel. The prop on 340s on the other hand...

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Post by bkf_uk » Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:49 am

i belive a 360 with a b18ft engine is meant to be quite good fun, or so i am told any way, saying that a standard 340 isnt to bad as long as your happy to wait a cuple of centuarys to get any form of acceleration from them!
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red block turbo

Post by V480TI » Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:38 pm

Just wondering, what is (or means) a red block turbo ??

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