Wagon wanted, FL or surrounding states: E34, E39 or RWD Volvo

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Casting a wide net for this one. RWD Volvo, 6cyl E34, or M52 E39 wagon with a good body. Florida or bordering states only unless it's a smoking deal.

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Wow. Zero interest in etas at all but that is a pretty car and I really dig that cloth interior....

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That engine bay is enough to make a guy sick, he didn't even clip the ends off the zip ties
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The STI is definitely a tuner car, you have to tune it, they've had essentially the same specs since 2008 or something those hatchback STIs were really cool, the saab version even cooler.

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Can't get help? I thought Ca was car guy heaven?



Depends on where the rust is. Floor pan? Easy to fix because it's not cosmetic. Compound curved exterior facing panel? No thanks....

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Move to Florida, there are some houses near me for sale and I wouldn't mind having you as a neighbor. No dumpster brats here, and no worries about your MR2's ECU or your E46's oxygen sensors either :...

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No. I've been clicking around from thread to thread on forums since the early 2000s, this is slower than it ever was back then even though my connection is faster than it ever has been. I grew up on the...

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This. Anything else is speculation, and since the head is off it's borderline trivial to measure everything needed to determine compression ratio....

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Man I can rebuild an engine in a weekend if I have all of the parts, rust on the other hand you have to strip the car down and spend many hours doing prep and finishing work to fix correctly even if you...

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E85 is a non-starter for me. Limited availability. The bigger injectors I'm working on, I have some 60lb injectors in my M42. I need to pull them and get two matching ones, then upgrade my MAP sensor...

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Maxed out my injectors this week, duty cycle in the mid 90s at 18/19psi of boost. It's still not fast enough.

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Is it worth the hassle? These days you'd probably wind up buying a car that is basically sight unseen (pictures don't count unless extremely thorough) and probably rusty if you don't manage to find someone...

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It’s bad. I manual swapped an automatic car once and drove it before and after, big difference. Tuned a turbo 325 with an automatic, doesn’t like to rev out even at WOT and it smoked a couple of transmissions...

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Very nice car. One of the better looking red cars I've seen. I like that it appears to have working AC, so many swapped street cars lack it for no good reason.

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Hoo cares?

I've seen some of his videos, interesting enough to skip through at times. Watching them the whole way through is a tall order though.

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Ouch, that wagon is going to be expensive. Collectible I guess, steering wheel is on the correct side and all, looks like it's in decent shape though the visible corrosion means there's most likely some...

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Common problem with M42s, if the thrust surface has wear scars or is not perpendicular to the the main journals the crank is junk. I'd guess it is. M44 crank in a stock bore M42 makes a 1.9L stroker,...

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Better get that sorted out, because that's a single circuit master cylinder and if there's a leak while you're driving around you lose your brakes in short order. Absolutely no safety margin aside from...