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12-19-2006, 07:26 PM
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you guys with your 4k pound road hogs, that are ill handling and have gm craptastic interiors. skip all the bullshit and get with the program. my volvo has the best of american motivation and solid euro body structure. the ergonomics are great and the trunk has room for four dead bodies. the safety is so good, my wife doesn't even freak-out when i take connector ramps at 90 mph.
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12-20-2006, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted by eurautodave
you guys with your 4k pound road hogs, that are ill handling and have gm craptastic interiors. skip all the bullshit and get with the program. my volvo has the best of american motivation and solid euro body structure. the ergonomics are great and the trunk has room for four dead bodies. the safety is so good, my wife doesn't even freak-out when i take connector ramps at 90 mph.
Yeah I don't think people realise how well Volvos handle with minimal work and the LS1 is probably the same weight as that turbo 4 banger and best of all they are really solid cars.
12-20-2006, 05:28 PM
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yeah my car weighed 3250 before and 3370 after the swap. i'd love to do a bmw swap but then you got bmw prices for everything else you need to upgrade. i can't say i was a huge volvo lover before this car but a ls1 changes everything.
12-20-2006, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by eurautodave
you guys with your 4k pound road hogs, that are ill handling and have gm craptastic interiors. skip all the bullshit and get with the program. my volvo has the best of american motivation and solid euro body structure. the ergonomics are great and the trunk has room for four dead bodies. the safety is so good, my wife doesn't even freak-out when i take connector ramps at 90 mph.
12-20-2006, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by eurautodave
you guys with your 4k pound road hogs, that are ill handling and have gm craptastic interiors. skip all the bullshit and get with the program. my volvo has the best of american motivation and solid euro body structure. the ergonomics are great and the trunk has room for four dead bodies. the safety is so good, my wife doesn't even freak-out when i take connector ramps at 90 mph.
12-21-2006, 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Cop Car
no one here obviously is thinking that a 4,000 lb car is going to make an LS1 faster. with a 4000 lb Caprice vs your 3400lb volvo the diffrence wont be that noticable, maybe 2 tenths. the price of getting a volvo that looks good would be substantialy more than getting a caprice or malibu, which have the same quality interiors as volvos from the same time periods.
12-21-2006, 05:45 PM
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hey i'm glad there are people that like gm products, otherwise i wouldn't have my engine. but if you think a gm and volvo interior are similar, you haven't sat yo *** in a comfortable, heated swedish seat. as far as the bubble bodies go...you need some serious hp to make up for a 700 lb weight disadvantage, but great, lets race....oh yeah, those are fine looking.
12-21-2006, 06:29 PM
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This is why they make all different kinds of cars... consumer choice! To each his own. Personally at the ripe age of 25, I think I'm still a little too young (and vain) to drive a boxy Volvo if I can help it. I am putting the 1994 940 in the station wangon/minivan category.
Originally Posted by eurautodave
you guys with your 4k pound road hogs, that are ill handling and have gm craptastic interiors. skip all the bullshit and get with the program. my volvo has the best of american motivation and solid euro body structure. the ergonomics are great and the trunk has room for four dead bodies. the safety is so good, my wife doesn't even freak-out when i take connector ramps at 90 mph.
12-21-2006, 06:35 PM
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4 door chevette with a quite muffler i know you will lose some hp with the restriction but you can put a scoop on it wide tires or anything else you need to make it fit or for per.gains and people would just laugh at you until you handed them their a$$ i know they are ugly and have crappy interior but theyre light and cheap dunno just my.02
12-21-2006, 06:36 PM
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Ahh, honestly I am pulling out as much of the Lucas wiring as I can. A little searching on a the forum at www.jag-lovers.com (much like this forum) will get you some good info. It's probably a widow switch... you can actually pop them out and clean the contacts. The archives are easy to search and FULL of good info, even on V8 converted models. LT1 swaps are supposed to be a breeze and very inexpensive.
Originally Posted by MattSt
I bought a 79 XLJ6 (the really long one) with a carbed 350 conversion already done. I'm thinking about doing a LS1 swap but I also have a S-10 that's begging for an LS1 and I just can't decide. The wiring on the Jag scares the crap out of me. I already have 2 windows that don't roll down. 
12-22-2006, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Thaniel
Maybe not in a straignt line but when braking and cornering weight becomes a HUGE issue.
12-22-2006, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Cop Car
why would you try to brake or corner a 3500lb car? might as well start with a camaro. this guy is talking about a car to daily drive, and he wants it to be fast, if someone wants an autox car they should be looking at vettes, RX7s, S13/14s and 240Zs. we cant start mixing things up here. either you want an all around car, you want a nice street car or you want a ***** to the wall car.
Maybe I'm the only one.
Oh, I forgot. My LS1 swapped 4-door WILL replace my Rx-7
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12-24-2006, 02:16 AM
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Found a few VERY cheap SVT Contours in my area. They're FWD, but if they could be converted to RWD and a LS1 fits...that'd be a pretty hot sedan.
Um alot easyer said than done
You could always swap in a FWD ls1...
12-24-2006, 01:23 PM
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I'm still here, browsing the Autotraders and Craigslist, with a text document opened of all the awesome suggestions I've gotten in here.
I'm leaning towards a '01 Crown Vic or 9C1 Caprice.
I'm leaning towards a '01 Crown Vic or 9C1 Caprice.
12-26-2006, 09:03 PM
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just get a 9C1 Caprice or a LT1 Impala SS and put a 396 stroker kit in it, AFR heads and a supercharger on it, youd walk away from most LS1 cars.
after hearing about how easy it is to change a focus to rwd, i was looking at an SVT Contour and i was like thats a great looking car, i wonder if its as easy to convert as the foci
after hearing about how easy it is to change a focus to rwd, i was looking at an SVT Contour and i was like thats a great looking car, i wonder if its as easy to convert as the foci