So. I just picked up for $1,500 a 94 940 from a guy who races VW's, and knows cars. It has an IPD cam, mild non turbo, it's great, but not super sporty turbo, but it also has a ton of suspension mods, parts, konis, biltsteins, lowered, came with three sets of wheels, and a BANGIN' system, which I and my Son love. The system, w/kicker, amp, speakers up the whazoo in the front cabin, all fabbed in place, alone are worth the price I paid. Score. It's going to be my new dependable daily driver. Guy was meticulous with maintenance records, 2nd owner, and was his wife's car. Drives better, handles better, than any 940 I've ever driven.

BUT...instead of curing my want for a sporty turbo brick, it's made it worse.
I want ponies. Given I have 2 940 wagons, albeit one is a Regina, would it be sane to just go with the 94 940 stock turbo? or "Go For the Gold" and get a 760 Turbo Intercooler, 1990. With the 4 cylinder T.I. There's both available to me, the 760 is almost a guarantee mine if I want it.

These are getting harder to find, so I want to build up my stock. If I had a garage, and fewer junkers, I'd find a way to buy both, I'm disalbed and not rich by any means but I've got stuff to sell, it's what I do at home to make extra cash on the side, I sit on c's list and buy low/sell high guitar stuff mostly.

What say you? LOVE my new 940. The suspension steering upgrades are a must from now on. Half of what makes it fun.

And the big question I want/need answered is my little research has yielded that volvo put the M45 trans on the non turbos, and the M47 trans on the turbos, and that stressing a stock non turbo tranny is not in the best interests of the car... When I think about buying and rebuilding, porting, etc. my final conclusion is to just get a stock Volvo that was meant to be faster, and work on that.

I've always wanted a 760 T.I. the want is strong on that one, the "Ferrari Wagon"... but the 940 1994 would make a lot of parts commonality among a small fleet I'm building.

Thanks gentlemen! Been a long time since I've been here, health crap kicked up again, broken spine...a few times, new weird latin names for new weird rare diseases, but I'm doing very well in the Swedish station wagon dept.