1968 Volvo project Pure Volvocity by 68EFIvert

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Thanks for the comments guys. I am not sure about the one piece roof glass. As of this time it is not available but if it becomes available I will give it serious consideration. There are pros and cons to this mod but if I can't get it by the time I need glass it becomes an easy decision.  

The hydroboost unit bolted in easily with room to spare. It was the hoses that I encountered the problem with. There is not room on the bottom of the unit to run the hoses without having them run into the wheel well. I did not want to do that and could not reposition the the hydroboost the opposite way because it would interfere with the valve covers. If you were running a 4 cyl there would not have been a problem and I would still have it on the car. If I find out that this setup doesn't work I will look into electric assist for the car but that would require reworking the pedal ratio back to where it originally was for factory power brakes.

Once the car is on the road I will give you some feedback on the braking as well as how the car overall works. On a side note to this, I have hired Ron Sutton http://www.ronsuttonracetechnology.com/ to look at all of the geometry of the suspension. The case is using Sweedish Ops suspesnion as well as my own tweaks to it for sway bars, shocks and spring rates. He will look at the front and rear of the car to give me an idea of how it should work and how to optimize it. I am confident that the suspension is good but I will get feedback from Ron as to what it will take to make it great. He will provided me with spring rates, sway bar rates for my objectives as well. It is up to me to decide how far I want to take this. For example, if Ron says I need to raise the upper axle mounting point 5" to create more traction for the car I may not do that since it would involve the removal of the rear seat.

1-5-2016

The car will be primarily a street car but will see some track time. I am setting the car up so that it is easy to change sway bars and adjust the shocks if I need to. I will keep you posted on what I find out. I do know that the rear suspension geometry isn't very good from the factory and will likely have to be addressed. The upper link really should be mounted over the axle which will increase the ability to transfer the weight to the axle. The original design does not do that and quite honestly may not need to due to the lower power output than what I am dealing with. From what I understand the upper bar would be about the same distance above the axle as the lower bar is below but I could be wrong about that and that is why I have hired a specialist to help me out. If that is the case it would make sense. It give you the leverage of the weight of the car to better plant the tires where the lower mount provides more of the push forward.

I was at the body shop yesterday checking on progress and there isn't much to report. He has been spending most of his time getting a car ready to go out to interior late this week. The other guys should start working on the front end either today or tomorrow. I hope to have some pictures to show next week on the progress of fitting newer style angled headlights into the car.