Boosted242

Hello fellow car nerds! As you might have seen already i am in the process of transplanting the whole rear suspension off of a 350z onto my old and crusty volvo 242 DL... Now, i have the subframe already, but haven't yet got all the arms and hubs etc, so i can fit it all up and see what massacre i need to do to the 242 to start mounting it all up. Can anyone tell me the dimmensions of the rear axle in between the hubs? That would give me a tiny little idea of how wide the car will be as i know the 350z is way wider in the back than the 242, but by how much? And also i am gonna be using some wide ass Cosmis XT006r in 18x11 ET8 sizes in the rear, so that escalates it all even more. Cheers for watching and all yourt imput! Adam

Hey there folk! So here it all goes... As you might have seen from the intro duction, i have an old 1981 Volvo 242 dl that i am restoring into some kinda restomod fun haver street car that i can hoot around whenever i get fed up of my daily whatever it is at that time. Little backstory... I always loved Volvos, especially the old bricks, even when i lived back home in Lithuania, always fancied one as there were plenty of them in turbo guise, but never had a chance to do it. When i already lived in the UK, i boughta volvo 240 saloon and swapped in a good old turbo redblock into it, with some more supporting mods and so on and had arounds 270bhp in it, that worked well and lasted a while... I've done some hillclimbs in it, went santa pod a few times and had a really good time. Also, went to Lithuania with a few friends back in 2014... Then the 242 came along, which i have never thought i will eveer be able to own... Considering Volvo has sold only 5 242 GT's in the uk... There's probably around 30 ish cars in the UK now from allover the world... The car got imported into Lithuania (where i am from originally) in 1999, and lived there for a bit, where the owner did some little rallying in it and some other car stuff. Then in 2002 the MOT finished so it got parked up in a damp garage and left til i bought it and got it brought up to the UK in 2015... The idea is to adapt the whole rear subframe in the car so i can switch from a solid axle into an independent rear, so i can set up the geometry however i fancy so i have all the grip and allignment. I am plannting to use the whole rear and also the gearbox too, most likely a CD009 as it can take all the power i want in the car, as per plan. As far as i know the 242 (or any volvo 240) is exactly mil to a mil as the 350z inbetween the axles, so that's why it sould work (Not as it usually work when you do it lol)... I want the car to be a fully legal street car with some creature comforts and so on, but it will have a little roll cage just in case, and it will be fully seam welded to add to the chassis strenght. So far i have stripped the car all down to bare shell, while i lived in Chepstow and had a garage in theend of the garden, and also, i started cutting and repairing the rust... I have cut some parts of the front end/chasis rail and inner arch and replaced with some good offcuts off a newer car and so on, and attacked some other rust, and then, the inevitable happened and we got evicted from the property as the landlady has sold the house... Ah well, then the 242 got moved to a container where it lived for 2 years or so... While i was in the garage at my house I started doing some youtube videos out of boredome, as it was that flu season that noone wants to talk about any more... So here it is... I'll be interested to see some measurements of the rear suspension and also maybe have a chance to have a look at how it is all mounted in the rear as i will need to make it work with what i have on the 242 to adapt the subframe and shocks... Cheers for having a looksie! ADam

Thanks for the heads up!!

Thanks bud, expect some silly questions soon haha ADAm

Howdee folk! How's it all going? My name is Adam, i am an old volvo fanatic and i am currently doing a little youtube documentary/series about my ole volvo 242 that has seen it's first daylight rays in may of 1981.... Now... You might think, how a volvo 242 is in any way related to the nissan 350z? Oh, here it goes... My plan is to implement the whole rear running gear of a 350z into my 242, where the solid axle originally was. So there we go, now you know. I have a youtube channel called Boosted242, same as my user name here, and have some videos of the previous shenanigans that happened with the car. Please have a looksie if you want to do so. https://www.youtube.com/@boosted242 I am hoping to learn alot about all the 350z bits and make it all happen and maybe, if all goes well, post it all here whenever it's being done. Cheers!