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So it looks like you cut slots into the cowling area so the 122 fender rails can sit down lower. I was going to ask this earlier, because it looked like they had bottomed out and it wasn't going any lower.
What does that do to the fender fit? Does any E30 inner fender have to come off? Can it go any lower, or can you do the rest with springs?
Another question - maybe you covered this earlier? How did the wheelbase just work out almost exactly to an E30 wheelbase?
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Originally posted by LateFan View PostSo it looks like you cut slots into the cowling area so the 122 fender rails can sit down lower. I was going to ask this earlier, because it looked like they had bottomed out and it wasn't going any lower.
What does that do to the fender fit? Does any E30 inner fender have to come off? Can it go any lower, or can you do the rest with springs?
Another question - maybe you covered this earlier? How did the wheelbase just work out almost exactly to an E30 wheelbase?
I cut the A pillars down low and then trimmed up into the fender mounting "rails" on the Volvo body to get it low enough.
Fender should be good. The Volvo fender goes up from the flange outward. The front corner of the core support needs to come out. I'll tie the center to the fender rails. It's as low as I'm going to take the body. The rest will be suspension based lowering.
I don't know how it worked out. I just had the Volvo measurements and measured a TON of other cars before finding that this matched pretty well. I tried measuring every Volvo possible (to try and keep it in the family) as well as lots of other cars, but they're all too wide. There's a guy who did something similar with a Miata chassis and a different Volvo, but he had to lengthen the chassis by 7".
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Ah, right. What I guess I meant was, make the conversion really nice, so that when
some butthead like me tries to pick it apart, all the potentially messy 122/e30 joints
look like they were always like that.
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with an amazon and 2 e30s in the barn.now, sometimes I just mess with people. It's more entertaining that way. george graves
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