Volvo 240 Lowering Springs

[presario85]

Would you take £100 delivered Julesy (hermes would deliver to me for aroun £8)? thats all my budget would stretch to.

Any chance I could get a pic or measurements of the bracket you used wooble? I see someone has a flathood eggcrate (minus the badge) up on the forums atm so if the brackets look like something I could knock up, I may take a punt at it.

[john h]

Originally Posted by presario85

Any chance I could get a pic or measurements of the bracket you used wooble? I see someone has a flathood eggcrate (minus the badge) up on the forums atm so if the brackets look like something I could knock up, I may take a punt at it.

Hi,

Not sure how Wooble mounted the grill, but the extract below from Ste's thread shows how he did it. Easy really, just a spacer to move the top mount forward a little. Go for it!

John



"Decided to reward my hard work with some motivational (but still productive!) things this weekend. My original grille had 3 of its 5 clips broken and would have fallen straight off on the first emergency stop, so in return for lending him my early style spoiler, john has lent me his egg crate grille (shamelessly copying from Antz here...)



Stipped the outer surround off it and keyed up the chrome surface with 240 wet paper. Worked well. Sprayed it with several thin layers of red oxide.

Evidence that i do masking occasionally!



Outer surround



Inner part painted and re-assembled



Obviously this grille would originally be from a car with a flat front, so would not have sat flush with the front edge of the bonnet, so i made these little brackets out of plastic. Plastic worked well because they point slightly downwards and they sort of grip the grille in a spring loaded way to help secure it tightly. I could have put it on with cable ties quite easily but im no bodger!



Fitted! Looks awesome! It even makes the front end look flatter because the bottom edge sits in flush with the headlights, creating a continuous line from side to side





I intend to fit galaxies to the car, and also we wanted to get some photos of the two grey GLTs together before Johns goes to its new owner so I cleaned the car down properly. Got all the tar spots off (took me an hour! Must have been parked next to roadworks or something) and gave it a polish

Borrowed two of johns galaxies...







Two grilles compared





Obviously the galaxies had to return to Johns car so I went to my storage garage and dug out my old (ex-Thor) virgos. Two needed refurbishing again so I did that. And fitted to the car....



Looks reasonable and far better than the mismatching wheels but i can barely wait to refurb my own galaxies and get them on.

Car is starting to look saweeeeeet! Im dead chuffed!!"

[wooble]

I did pretty much the same thing as Ste but my brackets were made of a piece of steel strip I had laying around. I think I spaced the top out by about 25mm, just drilled two appropriately sized holes, filed off the rough bits and painted them black. in my case, the bottom lugs were snapped off the grill so I filed off the remains and made some more by screwing some mini L-shaped shelf brackets to the bottom of the grille and stretching PVC tubing over them so as not to mar the paint on the car.

[Antz]

I did mine an even easier way. Cable ties.