well back to the discussion.
I have met and spoken to the people from Volvo Motorsport VMS at the Group-A meeting at the Volvo Museum G?teborg two years a row. First meeting 2014 to celebrate Volvos first win in ETC and DTM and second meeting 2015 to celebrate Volvos total win in ETC and DTM.
They remember working on my car and confirmed that my car is a genuine 242 Turbo Evolution. Even pre owner confirms that. He knows and have spoken to working people at SAM. They were working with the Evolution cars at Volvo Motorsport and they claims that my car had the same parts installed showed in the homologated documents, Group-A turbo, intake manifold with yellow injectors and cable harness and LH-jetronic air mass meter for water injection and plastic intercooler. The big Group-A aluminum intercooler was not available until the middle of 1984, I have a document from Volvo that claims that.
My car was also equipped with a 1983 scp 405 head and 8360220 Group-A camshaft, Euro 115 fuel distributor and euro 027 ignition distributor and no lambda.
SAM bought my red car 1987 and another white Evolution from Volvo motorsport. The white car was later equipped with a roll cage they used it as a practise car for rally. Later the white one got stolen and never came back.
Here is an image of the white car from the B21ETL-Group-A install documents from 1984 when the aluminum intercooler was available. You can tell it?s a US-model it has the B21FT cable harness and US headlights you can see two locking pins, one for the grill and the other one for the headlights. The euros only have locking pins for the grill.
Another cool thing to identify if its a Evolution is to look at the red label on the belt protector the engine digits are 800, I have heard that only the Evolutions got that number.
All Evolutions sold overseas doesn?t have the special parts installed. Why? well that must have been a big issue for Volvo, Carlifornia emission issue, guarantee issue and more I think.
Isn?t that cheating? Yes but everyone is looking for loop holes in regulations.
I also heard that the name of the man from FISA who inspected the cars was Boris von Breitenbuch. They were randomly inspected in the USA, 250 cars on the west coast and 250 on the east coast, don?t know if it?s true.
/Daniel