Because the Volvo is...well....Volvo, it has a 5 on 4-1/4" bolt pattern. Who uses a 5 on 4-1/4" bolt pattern? Really? Apparently, old,old Mopar and Puegeot. Good luck finding custom Peugeot wheels in the U.S. Trust me, I tried. The only custom wheels offered for Volvo's are either genuine Volvo wheels or knockoffs of genuine Volvo wheels. That doesn't leave to much for variety and partly the reason all lowered 240's have the same style wheels.
The plan is to make a much more common wheel fit, say a 5 on 4-1/2" bolt pattern. I am eventually going to swap the rear end for a 9" to handle the power of the 2JZ, so it seemed natural to use a Ford pattern. The front hubs can be re-drilled for the pattern as well. However, until that point, I am just going to run some adapters that I got off of everyone's favorite internet auction site. For a little under $90, it seemed like a good way to tell if everything was going to work or had the possibility of working.
