Thank your neighbors who insist on driving into Manhattan for paying congestions fees for me too. I would suggest you drive s different car to the train station and the Volvo back but the Moderators may feel that is less than helpful

Happy New Year, Bruno!

So I figured I'd start a new thread on this project that I stepped into a couple of months ago. It started with me rescuing a '99 V70 that was headed to the scrap yard. 161k miles. Desert Wind paint. It had apparently been sitting for 4 years after being overheated and warping the head. The owner th...

Made some progress over the last couple of evenings. Valves are now all nice and clean. Looking forward to lapping them. I've got to say that the process has been almost therapeutic.

Started with the base coat, finally. I just did the drop coat after these were taken. I've prepped a lot for this, high build primer, got blocked down, then I put another layer of epoxy as a sealer over that and I wet sanded it with P600 paper https://i.imgur.com/hiMVQe1h.jpg https://i.imgur.com/bhz...