139 horses from 5.0 liters?

If you want to start a business in America, you need permission from the state. If you engage in an economic practice that’s not approved, you go to prison.

Let me check in with my uncle to see what permits he needed, if any, to start his small publishing business in the early 90s. As the son of a “counterrevolutionary capitalist” (the government’s words) he didn’t exactly have powerful connections to draw upon.

I did not say it “needs” a Pontiac motor. I said that’s what I would want as LS motors are being done to death. This project did not need to watch every penny of the budget (a legit concern for we normals) so why not keep a Poncho motor? Dare to be different.

If you owned one of these, popped a curb and needed a new front knuckle and control arms, I’ll bet $4600 would be cheap. If I owned a working Diablo, I’d buy this to disassemble and keep for parts. Hell, I’ll bet replacement costs on the brakes would cost close to the asking price.

We could, if there wasn’t some ass meandering along at 50 (and not in the right lane) for no reason in particular.

As am I. :)

I cant speak for the other groups but if you take a look at Volvo enthusiasts you will find many of them are millenials with 3-4 cars each, doing pretty amazing builds on basically no budget. Junkyard turbos, handbuilt exhausts, DIY engine management, the list goes on. It amazes me what some of these guys can do with…

Oh, and what is the point of 43mpg if it had to cheat to get it? It is speculated that any fixes are going to lower that number as well as performance.

It is called a winter front. It is to help the engine warm up to running temperatures in cold weather environments.

It’s actually not the PRV engine. That was a V6 used in later models (and the DeLorean). The 164 has a Volvo B30 which is a six cylinder version of the B20.

What Bosch fuel injection? Them’s carburetors all up in there.

NP squared. You can’t find one in that condition in Sweden for that price, never mind North America. The leather seats look to be in good shape, the body appears to be rust-free, and for the cherry on top, it’s a manual. Most 164s in North America that I have seen are automatics.

It’s ludicrous, but I’d buy it. Rare + manual + green = NP.