Seems like I'm incapable of posting about a car when I first buy it and it's even getting worse because this one I've been working on for more than 2 years already 🤣
It's a terrific 1975 Volvo 242 DL, with a B230F swap and an M40/M41. I aim to also make it at least a little bit terrifying with some tasteful modifications, hence the name Terror II as I'm inspired by the spirit of Mikael Karlsson's B21ET tractor, Terror.
The previous owner Thomas moved to Finland and was planning to hold onto it in case he ever came back but plans changed as they often do. It has had many owners over the years, the first of which won it in a raffle!
The original B21A had seen better days and seemed to have pretty worn rings as it was using lots of oil, although it started it barely ran. As a result, Thomas had organised a B230F with fairly low kms from a late model 740, which came with the car. Here they both are in all their glory:
I swapped the engine in at his family's place up in Chidlow with a bit of help from his brother Brandon and some of my mates, over about 6 weekends. While I was at it I threw some service parts at it - seals, water pump, tensioner, belts, leads, cap, rotor, etc. and a new radiator as it still had the original one which was falling to bits.
Unfortunately after a few drives the fan decided to fall off the front of the engine (even though it was definitely tight) and punch a hole in the new radiator. So I got another new radiator and this time installed a Davies Craig electric fan and controller which was a lot more successful.
Also unfortunately it turned out that the head on the B230 was corroded and after around 10 or so drives decided to make itself known. So I decided to get it fully restored and then put it back on the car.
After doing this for some reason I started having issues with the Stromberg 175CD-2SE that was on the car, no matter what I did it wouldn't start. I decided to rebuild the carby and with a bit of tweaking I got it running reasonably okay but not "well". I managed to successfully take it out to Classic Cars and Coffee at UWA once in March but had some issues getting the carby to cooperate while I was there, for some reason it was refusing to start. I tried and tried and couldn't figure it out.
As a result of all the issues with the carby I decided it was time to convert the car to EFI instead. I had already been thinking about this for a while and figured I might as well do it properly so that I can tune the car to work with future modifications. I'll do another post running through all the progress there soon as there's quite a bit to cover.
