Hi Greg,

Thank you and glad to help.

I like to screw around with the search engines. Usually Google and Bing. I see many rear wheel drive Volvo autos for sale and parts. So I post them here.

Not quite like the 1990s with many 1970s and early 1980s 240 and some 140s and 164s in the AutoTrader and Thrifty Nickel. Always craigslist.

I found your homepage with your Volvo 285!
http://users.rcn.com/gwong76/cars/car.html



Did you have to modify the engine support member, or fabricate a new one for the extra power. I read how some are able to reuse the factory engine support member, and merely weld support to fit the engine, yet end up forming fractures in the factory, if modded, engine support member, only to reinforce it it somehow.

Manual transmission.

You, like Mr. Yount, use the K&N cold air foam oiled filter for intake. So, I guess K&N is okay then, yet more so for performance?

Yep, another agree with you ... on the facegroup group:

V8 VOLVO CLUB
https://www.facebook.com/groups/217023333172/

One asks:
William Holman Why is it so slow? A stock 302 with a smaller supercharger will run those numbers.
Like · Reply · 21 hrs

The only reply thus far is:
Christopher Simons
My guess is the Conti street tires are limiting him somewhat
Like · Reply · 14 hrs

Glad that helps. Yeah, would the 960/90 IRS take that sort of power? I guess so? I have no idea.

Though, as I know utterly nothing about V8 swaps into rear wheel drive Volvo, would not a manual transmission meant for such performance yield better and more efficient power transfer. So long as as the drive know how and when to shift.

Though as efficient as autos are even into the late 1990s, I see race videos on the You Bube Toob, and those with auto seem to do well. The torque converter multiplying the torque while optimally upshifting. Even with a manual transmission meant for such strip, drag, and track performance, you have the instance the clutch is not engaged for the upshift. And then, you see other videos where manual transmission does much better. Though the V8 Volvo and the Mustang or other souped up auto may not be quite the same with vehicle weight and engine size, no matter the transmission.

I'd sort of hoped to soup up a redblock, like now 20 years ago, maybe. Then it was, "so it does not slow down mooring up a 6% grade". And now, stock 1990s 240, with the frail as heck M47, is about all I can handle. Though a 1972 164 with M410, a 1968 Amazon, and maybe a 1972 142, mildly souped up, or very well tuned factory default, is about all I can handle. When I get the large garage ...

I'll keep looking for more V8 rear wheel drive Volvos to post to this thread. I read about V6 swap in of Buick engines and such. Have yet to find any.

Hope that helps.

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