I worked with a guy in the mid 90s who had one in CO. It was black and very cool, never saw under the hood though. I've never seen one before or since.
Love this one. Quite a pleasant surprise when you popped the hood. I recall there was an adapter kit specific to Windsor Fords for Volvos. Paul Newman had a later model 5.0 wagon.
IIRC, Paul Newman's conversion company for these was called Converse. I should have kept my old 740 Turbowagon and done this to it when the 4-banger went south.
David Letterman was his investment partner in racing so he had one built for him as well. They were 960 wagons with a super charged 5.0 Dave still has it.
Great overview Steve! I did that swap into an '82 242GLT with the 5.0 HO and the T-5. I upset a lot of "sports cars" and the occasional Mustang with that car.
The ford V8 was a little easier to fit in without oil pan issues due to the distributor being in the front. The GM V8 had tougher fit with the rear mounted distributor and firewall. Granted they still fit as it has a large engine bay.
@@williamgolden839 The Fox body Mustang 5.0 has the "double" oil sump pan and when it is centered on the Volvo crossmember the engine is perfectly placed. So much so that the T5 shifter is centered in the transmission tunnel opening. I didn't even change the front springs as the suspension drop was only about 1 inch with the Ford. For a Chev engine things are tighter and heavier to complete the swap.
I used to work with a guy that had 2 of the Bertone coupes. Always thought they were kind of ugly with the lower roof line. I've owned lots of 240s thought. Very well built cars.
Back in the very early 80s I had a 1976 264GL; same engine, 4-door body with the "upright" greenhouse and "ugly", sticky-outy taillights. Mine had the "euro" headlights with the wipers/washers (that basically seized soon after getting the car.) The trans was a 4-speed manual with an electric overdrive; a small switch on top of the shifter engaged the overdrive (when it worked...) Steve is absolutely right about the cams in these engines. More the point, they suffered bad oiling to the top-end (oil passages were easily clogged I guess) and the cams basically ran dry. I remember pulling the rocker covers on it and finding it bone dry. Mine ate the distributor bushings (driven off the right-side cam IIRC). I did get it running again but it was always noisy and pretty lethargic. Interesting history on that engine: It was originally to be a 90-degree V8 but for various reasons (energy shocks, taxation) two cylinders were lopped off to create a V6, one with a weird 90-deg bank angle and uneven firing order. I really loved the look of the Bertone 262C in those days and still find them quite attractive now, some 40 years later. That one looks to be in great shape.
Steve I think it has that Bertone trim tag because Bertone didn't just pen the bodies but also manufactured them--they kept their relationship until the famous 780 Wedge coupe--another beaut!!
My mom has been a volvo owner since 73, and I remember when these came out, they were the super fancy at that time. Im selling her 91 240, it has about a quarter million miles, but I think its good to go another quarter million
Yes! Love that car I had one during my college years. I paid a hefty $1500 and sold it to a Swedish collector and it paid my books and architectural materials for a semester. Love that plush ride and sticking elbow out window with the low top was a great gangsta vibe!!
All the 200 series cars were the same, the only difference was how many doors, the roofline on the 262 Coupé along with the windshield being about 2'ish inches longer due to the chop and they changed the cowl in 1986. Volvo built them for a variety of engines inline 4 cylinders with and without a turbo, the PRV V6 even a VW/Audi diesel inline 6. The basic chassis went unchanged from 1976 to 1993.
Rewatching this episode and wishing you a complete recovery, Steve. This was one of my favorites. Had I been more imaginative back in the early 80s when I had a Volvo 164, I should have considered at least measuring for a V-8:swap. With all the room on each side of that 302, I wonder if a Cleveland would fit?
I had one of the first year 5 speed cars. There were only 250 5 speed cars. My dad bought it new and I got it when he was done with it. Mags you were right! The VPR engine ate cam shafts so bad that the dealers hole sawed the firewall on both sides and put rubber plugs in them so you didn’t have to remove the heads each time a camshaft failed. I think we replaced them 4 times from 1978 to 1994.
Seen one for real in the day. I always liked the roof design. What s sleeper with the 5 litre. Can you imagine slipping in a 383 or 440! I could go for that!
I recall at least 3 of these running around Santa Fe nm when new. The silver grey with darker grey roof vinyl was popular. There was a psycho pharmacist who had one. A drunk driver, pill popper! The low roof was really handsome. I recall being impressed.
I flipped a few Volvo’s. I enjoyed them. I always wanted a 240 GLT wagon with the 5 spokes. Then I had a 740? Wagon. It was nice. That I wanted to put a Chevy 350 with a 5 speed. So many ideas, so little time and money!
Years ago, there was a chopped Volvo wagon in Columbus, Ohio, that was built using the windshield from one of these. When I lived in Athens, I got to do some rust repair on a coupe, that was owned by Diana Ross's sister. I made a pencil rubbing of the Bertone stickers it had, and a friend had an early decal cutting machine who made a bunch of us copies of that sticker. Those rear axles were popular with local street rodders, due to the disc brakes they came with. Maybe the bolt circle was 5 on 4 1/2"?
The bolt circle is 5x108 on basically every Volvo from the 60s forward except some 4 lug ones otherwise only the hub and et has changed a bit during the years
Hey steve thr engine is called a prv. The last generation of the prv v6 was much better the than the original one. By 1987 they finally got all the bugs worked out of it, especially since it was designed as a v8. Oil passages in the head clogged up very easily so oil changes had to be done exact on time or it would starve the cams of oil.
The Volvo V6 had issues with cam wear from the aggressive profile. The later ones were definitely easier to work on, the Bosch mechanical fuel injection was horrible not to mention the distributor and plug wires were mostly under the intake manifold. Eagle used a PRV6 in the Premier. The Premier exhaust manifolds were a high flow mod for the Volvo cars.
I never said they were good, I just said the V6 in the 760GLE was easier to work on. At least the distributor and rear water pump hose were not under the intake manifold. I currently have two Coupés, they are a reminder of how much I cursed when one would roll into the shop. Well I guess most of them got towed in.
My old man had one of these. It was a silver one with a black vinyl top and black interior. He has limo tint on it, back when you could still do that, and it was like a cave inside that thing. He had it up until the late 80's when he sold it to a Swedish guy who took it to Sweden. It was a pretty cool car and one of the first I ever drove. It was underpowered with that engine, though. Would have been nice to swap it out.
Awesome, my bosses Cousin has a black one that he put a 5.0L, 5 speed in. This is sweet. My old co-worker has an 80 242 with the 302 with dual 4 barrels and 5 speed.
I remember reading about these Volvo V8 5.0 swaps in Car & Driver. Someone in the northeast, maybe in Maine, started doing them. He swapped in the the Mustang driveline using as many donor parts as possible, including the exhausts. That's why the two tailpipes are not symmetrical. Also adding a resister to the tachometer to compensate for the extra two firing cylinders. Paul Newman had a Volvo wagon with a Chevy V8 5 speed, David Letterman may have had one also.
I remember reading about those about 30 years ago, apparently the police in that area got into a car chase with a Volvo wagon their cruisers just couldn’t touch and chased it all over. There was some thought it was Newman in that wagon since he lived in the area at the time.
The first “sporty” Volvo is actually the P1900, made in a small number before the P1800 - a convertible with a fiberglass body. I think they made about 50 of them….
Dang that Charger behind you though. That needs to be in a garage. Were dual carbs common on the four cylinder engine? Another channel showed around a '68 sedan the other day and it had a dual carb setup.
What a sick swap! I love my ‘91 240 wagon with the 117hp 2.0, but I wouldn’t mind a more powerful (yet reasonable) powerplant in it. A 250hp V8 seems like tons of fun.
I always thought of these as Volvo's pimpmobile. I rode in one once back in '92, nice comfy cars. The crown emblem is a Volvo item denoting excellence.
I work at the local napa. One of my customers had a Volvo 240 with a 5.0 swapped in it. Wicked car.. somebody ran into him and it got totalled.. he found another one already built with a cammed 5.3 ls.. love those cars
That's a 66 Volvo "Amazon" wagon in my picture, just a simple rugged car. The B series four cylinder engines they used then look like something out of a tractor, with two SU carburetors. Probably because they also used them in tractors and boats and probably cement mixers for all I know. This one I upgrade from a B18 to a B20, or 1.8 to 2 liters and an overdrive transmission. That got me a few horse power I never noticed and a little quieter ride on the highway, when I remember to hit the overdrive switch. Need to start driving it again, loved it but I bought a modern BMW and got spoiled by all the creature comforts. 😆
Those 2.7 PRV V6's were not a bad thing as such but the smaller oil feed galleries to the Cams meant that if you didnt do 7500 mile oil and filter changes or used a cheaper oil they would get clacky real fast lol The US conversion kit at the time came from a company called Jags that Run or JTR and was a simple chromoly tube bolt in setup for SB Ford engine and the AOD Transmissions. The beauty of the V6 Volvo was that the brakes, suspension and even the power steering pump could be retained and were more than adequate with a 302 or 351 and the kits worked fine in 200/700 and even 900 series RWD Volvo's. I prefer the 760 platform for a V8 swap, easier too re the speedometer as its electronic with the sensor in the diff pumpkin but having converted and dailyed both id swear that the Volvo Engineers had V8's in mind when they first designed the 200 series and subsequent RWD platforms. BTW, early 164 Volvos had a 3.0 inline 6 both carby and Bosch D jetronic EFI injection NOT the PRV V6
I like. The. Charger next to it
you could argue that the 164 was the first luxury Volvo, but the bertone is a special car.
74 164E and yup, id agree.
Yes, Steve made a mistake on this one, the 164 was the first Volvo luxery car, this is the second
All I care about is that sweet Charger in the background.
That Charger is beautiful
I worked with a guy in the mid 90s who had one in CO. It was black and very cool, never saw under the hood though. I've never seen one before or since.
You have to talk about that Charger!
Who ever did the swap did a GREAT factory looking Job, I would love to own it!
Yeah, I like that the airbox is still there.
I used to have an 87 Volvo 780 Bertone turbo. That thing drove like it was on rails, pulled like a train, had a loud turbo and had an elegant interior
When my daughter was in grade school one of the other parents had the 780 turbo like you had. It was top notch understated elegance!
Volvos own pimp ride.
My neighbor in L.A. had one (early-mid 90's) in blue and I lusted after the thing...so exotic for Volvo.
Remember looking at one of these Bertone Volvo's at Music Country Motors when I was a kid, it was only a dream at that time!
Love this one. Quite a pleasant surprise when you popped the hood. I recall there was an adapter kit specific to Windsor Fords for Volvos. Paul Newman had a later model 5.0 wagon.
Someone back then had a smart idea to make a kit for the Ford swap.
Didnt Wayne Carrini buy that one?
IIRC, Paul Newman's conversion company for these was called Converse. I should have kept my old 740 Turbowagon and done this to it when the 4-banger went south.
@@edfrawley4356 he couldn't afford to keep it as usual, had to flip it 🤦🏻♂️
David Letterman was his investment partner in racing so he had one built for him as well. They were 960 wagons with a super charged 5.0 Dave still has it.
I had the 780 bertone my friend had 2 of the 262c always at Carlisle foreign show
Great overview Steve! I did that swap into an '82 242GLT with the 5.0 HO and the T-5. I upset a lot of "sports cars" and the occasional Mustang with that car.
Did you have to change the oil pan? I know a small block Chevy is the more popular engine swap
The ford V8 was a little easier to fit in without oil pan issues due to the distributor being in the front. The GM V8 had tougher fit with the rear mounted distributor and firewall. Granted they still fit as it has a large engine bay.
@@williamgolden839 The Fox body Mustang 5.0 has the "double" oil sump pan and when it is centered on the Volvo crossmember the engine is perfectly placed. So much so that the T5 shifter is centered in the transmission tunnel opening. I didn't even change the front springs as the suspension drop was only about 1 inch with the Ford. For a Chev engine things are tighter and heavier to complete the swap.
Awesome find Steve !
Paul Newman also had a Ford V8 swapped Volvo.
Saw it on some car show.
It was a real sleeper.
Probably David Letterman's. I remember him trying to talk him into the conversion on one of his shows.
Luxury hotrod!!
i likey that fast back charger!!
Paul Newman had a 5.0 Volvo wagon. Wayne Carrini had it for sale. Must have been fast as hell.
Adam carolla talked about this car. I think it may have been in his Newman doc. Paul paid a guy to make it a badass turbo Volvo.
Paul also wanted to blend in where he lived. One of his daily drivers was a VW bug that he brought to the shop where I worked, circa 1979.
Their was one of these parked for years somewhere that I passed often. I would need to be hypnotized to remember just where. 😵💫
I used to work with a guy that had 2 of the Bertone coupes. Always thought they were kind of ugly with the lower roof line. I've owned lots of 240s thought. Very well built cars.
WOW I had this beauty 1980 Bertone coupe & 1991 bertone coupe ,lost both due to hurricane Sandy miss them dearly. 🍻cheers
Great video and cool car. Hope someone saves it.
Would really like to know more about the Charger beside it.
Letterman and Newman both had the wagons with 5.0 ford power.
Hey Steve, loved this video as a current Volvo owner, its right up my alley!
Back in the very early 80s I had a 1976 264GL; same engine, 4-door body with the "upright" greenhouse and "ugly", sticky-outy taillights. Mine had the "euro" headlights with the wipers/washers (that basically seized soon after getting the car.) The trans was a 4-speed manual with an electric overdrive; a small switch on top of the shifter engaged the overdrive (when it worked...) Steve is absolutely right about the cams in these engines. More the point, they suffered bad oiling to the top-end (oil passages were easily clogged I guess) and the cams basically ran dry. I remember pulling the rocker covers on it and finding it bone dry. Mine ate the distributor bushings (driven off the right-side cam IIRC). I did get it running again but it was always noisy and pretty lethargic. Interesting history on that engine: It was originally to be a 90-degree V8 but for various reasons (energy shocks, taxation) two cylinders were lopped off to create a V6, one with a weird 90-deg bank angle and uneven firing order. I really loved the look of the Bertone 262C in those days and still find them quite attractive now, some 40 years later. That one looks to be in great shape.
Steve I think it has that Bertone trim tag because Bertone didn't just pen the bodies but also manufactured them--they kept their relationship until the famous 780 Wedge coupe--another beaut!!
Paul Newman had a hopped up Volvo wagon with a Ford V 8 in it
This wrecking yard is gonna be getting a lot of new customers soon! Hell, I'd buy that thing for a daily!
1969 164 was the first year of a luxury Volvo.. But an excellent presentation. The six cylinder engines were used in the Marcos sports car!
You are correct !!!!!
One of my favorite cars of all time.
Thank you as always. Did not expect a lesson in Latin but thank you for that as well, I didn’t know that of Volvo. You are a true Renaissance Man.
The 242 GT was always my favorite, but this Bertone was a close second.
Looks like the Body are in Good shape , worth saving
Drove a Bertone in Europe. Nice car. Please review,the Charger sitting next to it!!
and I love seeing you review Volvos as well.
My mom has been a volvo owner since 73, and I remember when these came out, they were the super fancy at that time. Im selling her 91 240, it has about a quarter million miles, but I think its good to go another quarter million
I remember seeing one of these in Auto Trader back in day. Come to think of it I have a box full of 80's Auto Traders stored away somewhere 🙃
Yes! Love that car I had one during my college years. I paid a hefty $1500 and sold it to a Swedish collector and it paid my books and architectural materials for a semester. Love that plush ride and sticking elbow out window with the low top was a great gangsta vibe!!
Loving the Charger beside it
262C's front windshield is also less upright, not just chop-top; the engine bay is wide because the V6 were really wide.
All the 200 series cars were the same, the only difference was how many doors, the roofline on the 262 Coupé along with the windshield being about 2'ish inches longer due to the chop and they changed the cowl in 1986. Volvo built them for a variety of engines inline 4 cylinders with and without a turbo, the PRV V6 even a VW/Audi diesel inline 6. The basic chassis went unchanged from 1976 to 1993.
Dear Sir !! .................... OUTSTANDING Vlog !! ................ Bless
The Volvo wagon and coupe are my favorite!
A V8 swap makes them great!! That's a sleeper sure to wake up anyone!😄👍
Rewatching this episode and wishing you a complete recovery, Steve. This was one of my favorites. Had I been more imaginative back in the early 80s when I had a Volvo 164, I should have considered at least measuring for a V-8:swap. With all the room on each side of that 302, I wonder if a Cleveland would fit?
Wow that’s one cool car! It should be restored! Thanks for the great info and video!👌😎👍
Steve, I can't speak to the Volvo PRV 6 cylinder engine, but the Delorean engine was a 2.85 liter, 90-degree single overhead cam PRV V6.
I had one of the first year 5 speed cars. There were only 250 5 speed cars. My dad bought it new and I got it when he was done with it. Mags you were right! The VPR engine ate cam shafts so bad that the dealers hole sawed the firewall on both sides and put rubber plugs in them so you didn’t have to remove the heads each time a camshaft failed. I think we replaced them 4 times from 1978 to 1994.
Bertone may be best known for the Lamborghini Countach. Making this a baby Lambo.
Heck with the Volvo i want that charger behind you !
Pretty cool stuff
Seen one for real in the day. I always liked the roof design. What s sleeper with the 5 litre. Can you imagine slipping in a 383 or 440! I could go for that!
Those big lumps do not fit. Small blocks do and the Ford is the smallest. I have seen in Volvos Chevs, LS, Holden V8 and one 4.4 Leyland
@@ldnwholesale8552 I thought of that after I saw your comment. I was just thinking of MOPAR since Steve has has so much on that kind of stuff.
I recall at least 3 of these running around Santa Fe nm when new. The silver grey with darker grey roof vinyl was popular.
There was a psycho pharmacist who had one. A drunk driver, pill popper!
The low roof was really handsome. I recall being impressed.
Love it! I have a couple videos of a 1980 262 Bertone with a high compression small block Chevy with a double pump Holley 4150 carb!
😱66 charger sitting right behind you
I flipped a few Volvo’s. I enjoyed them. I always wanted a 240 GLT wagon with the 5 spokes. Then I had a 740? Wagon. It was nice. That I wanted to put a Chevy 350 with a 5 speed. So many ideas, so little time and money!
I would be glad to drive this one. Even the engine swap looks OK.
Awesome car, a real sleeper with that V8....plz do a vid on the black Charger behind you!! 😁
Yes, please, just finishing up with a 426 Hemi in my 66 Charger. Would love to hear about the black one :-)
Need to talk about that charger behind you
Looks like some aftermarket headers on that bad boy too!
AC return hoses connected/coupled via a tube and worm-drive clamps...
Years ago, there was a chopped Volvo wagon in Columbus, Ohio, that was built using the windshield from one of these. When I lived in Athens, I got to do some rust repair on a coupe, that was owned by Diana Ross's sister. I made a pencil rubbing of the Bertone stickers it had, and a friend had an early decal cutting machine who made a bunch of us copies of that sticker. Those rear axles were popular with local street rodders, due to the disc brakes they came with. Maybe the bolt circle was 5 on 4 1/2"?
The bolt circle is 5x108 on basically every Volvo from the 60s forward except some 4 lug ones otherwise only the hub and et has changed a bit during the years
Hey steve thr engine is called a prv. The last generation of the prv v6 was much better the than the original one. By 1987 they finally got all the bugs worked out of it, especially since it was designed as a v8. Oil passages in the head clogged up very easily so oil changes had to be done exact on time or it would starve the cams of oil.
RPV sounds better, Rocket propelled Volvo!
yes and the prv6 also had a 90 degre angel not a 60 degre if i'm not to be mistaken haha
The Volvo V6 had issues with cam wear from the aggressive profile. The later ones were definitely easier to work on, the Bosch mechanical fuel injection was horrible not to mention the distributor and plug wires were mostly under the intake manifold. Eagle used a PRV6 in the Premier. The Premier exhaust manifolds were a high flow mod for the Volvo cars.
@@ahow8017 there was nothing good about the prv v6's😂
I never said they were good, I just said the V6 in the 760GLE was easier to work on. At least the distributor and rear water pump hose were not under the intake manifold. I currently have two Coupés, they are a reminder of how much I cursed when one would roll into the shop. Well I guess most of them got towed in.
love it-!
I can only remember seeing these cars silver with a black top. Although rare, apparently silver was a popular color on them.
creativity has no limits,, nice swap ,,,
My old man had one of these. It was a silver one with a black vinyl top and black interior. He has limo tint on it, back when you could still do that, and it was like a cave inside that thing. He had it up until the late 80's when he sold it to a Swedish guy who took it to Sweden. It was a pretty cool car and one of the first I ever drove. It was underpowered with that engine, though. Would have been nice to swap it out.
My newest car is a 91 volvo 240 wagon! I love the little thing. It eats up the mileage while my 66 newport sits around at the house lol.
Awesome, my bosses Cousin has a black one that he put a 5.0L, 5 speed in. This is sweet. My old co-worker has an 80 242 with the 302 with dual 4 barrels and 5 speed.
Never mind the Volvo, I’m more impressed with the Charger!
I didn't even know there are the things to know about cars that Steve knows.
I remember reading about these Volvo V8 5.0 swaps in Car & Driver. Someone in the northeast, maybe in Maine, started doing them. He swapped in the the Mustang driveline using as many donor parts as possible, including the exhausts. That's why the two tailpipes are not symmetrical. Also adding a resister to the tachometer to compensate for the extra two firing cylinders. Paul Newman had a Volvo wagon with a Chevy V8 5 speed, David Letterman may have had one also.
I remember reading about those about 30 years ago, apparently the police in that area got into a car chase with a Volvo wagon their cruisers just couldn’t touch and chased it all over. There was some thought it was Newman in that wagon since he lived in the area at the time.
Newman actually gifted that car to Letterman, may be same one or had one built for him
Steve, do a "talk around" on the black 1st gen Charger parked next to the Volvo...1st gen Charger had a superior interior to 2nd gen
He covers it in another video
The engine is the best part of that Car - Excellent Vid !
The first “sporty” Volvo is actually the P1900, made in a small number before the P1800 - a convertible with a fiberglass body. I think they made about 50 of them….
Sounds like a private reserve batch, so unobtainable you couldn't really consider it.
Theres still all the 90s-00s T5 and R version volvos, probably a better choice if someone wanted a sportier volvo lol.
Dang that Charger behind you though. That needs to be in a garage.
Were dual carbs common on the four cylinder engine? Another channel showed around a '68 sedan the other day and it had a dual carb setup.
Side draft SU type carbs were common on the Volvo 4 cyl.
Straight facts about the Charger!!!
Wait... we talking about the Vulva with that 67 Charger sitting there?!
My dad had a '83 Volvo 265 with that same V6...
It went well, but yes, it was a fussy engine.
Get well Steve>>>!!!
What a sick swap! I love my ‘91 240 wagon with the 117hp 2.0, but I wouldn’t mind a more powerful (yet reasonable) powerplant in it. A 250hp V8 seems like tons of fun.
I’ve seen this car driving in my area of mass back in the day during cruise ins. Very odd and rare
Awesome sleeper
I always thought of these as Volvo's pimpmobile. I rode in one once back in '92, nice comfy cars. The crown emblem is a Volvo item denoting excellence.
Looks like a nice wide engine bay. Perfect place for a coyote.
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Love the engine conversion. Where can I get a Steve Mags T shirt?
I work at the local napa. One of my customers had a Volvo 240 with a 5.0 swapped in it. Wicked car.. somebody ran into him and it got totalled.. he found another one already built with a cammed 5.3 ls.. love those cars
5.0 was better
You’re the man Steve!
That vinyl roof was mandatory to cover the chop top welding seams.
Looks to nice to be of the road same with the charger
Oh man. I always saw that at that yard, it used to have plates on it last i saw!
That's a 66 Volvo "Amazon" wagon in my picture, just a simple rugged car. The B series four cylinder engines they used then look like something out of a tractor, with two SU carburetors. Probably because they also used them in tractors and boats and probably cement mixers for all I know.
This one I upgrade from a B18 to a B20, or 1.8 to 2 liters and an overdrive transmission. That got me a few horse power I never noticed and a little quieter ride on the highway, when I remember to hit the overdrive switch.
Need to start driving it again, loved it but I bought a modern BMW and got spoiled by all the creature comforts. 😆
is that Volvo (and that Charger) IN the junkyard, or are they employees cars? They look a little too nice to be in the boneyard.
right!
I rather like that Volvo , wish I was close by it would come home with me
240 for ever! I have one.
there were a couple 5.0 conversion kits in the 90s . I think even Car and Driver had a single page article on 1.
Im sure there still are in sweden
I learned something new once again brotha!
Those 2.7 PRV V6's were not a bad thing as such but the smaller oil feed galleries to the Cams meant that if you didnt do 7500 mile oil and filter changes or used a cheaper oil they would get clacky real fast lol
The US conversion kit at the time came from a company called Jags that Run or JTR and was a simple chromoly tube bolt in setup for SB Ford engine and the AOD Transmissions.
The beauty of the V6 Volvo was that the brakes, suspension and even the power steering pump could be retained and were more than adequate with a 302 or 351 and the kits worked fine in 200/700 and even 900 series RWD Volvo's.
I prefer the 760 platform for a V8 swap, easier too re the speedometer as its electronic with the sensor in the diff pumpkin but having converted and dailyed both id swear that the Volvo Engineers had V8's in mind when they first designed the 200 series and subsequent RWD platforms.
BTW, early 164 Volvos had a 3.0 inline 6 both carby and Bosch D jetronic EFI injection NOT the PRV V6
You can only improve it when you bolt in a Ford. I've seen that same swap in a few Volvo wagons.
Nice sleeper !
Nice swap. would love to hear it crank up
Interesting wasn't expecting to see a v8 swapped into a Volvo
What's the deal with the black 66 or 67 charger behind you ?
I was wondering about the charger also