The time has come....she is now for sale! :eye-poppi
Please see link to 'FOR SALE' forum here...http://www.vpcuk.org/forums/showthread.php?65472-Lee-s-V70R-M66-2004-(loaded)-black-Atacama
I'm...
The time has come....she is now for sale! :eye-poppi
Please see link to 'FOR SALE' forum here...http://www.vpcuk.org/forums/showthread.php?65472-Lee-s-V70R-M66-2004-(loaded)-black-Atacama
I'm...
This is a known phenomenon and can easily be remedied by adjusting the exhaust slightly to pull it away from the propshaft.
Firstly, you may have excessive play in the center support bearing on the...
Update time,
Finally fitted the XC 90 front brakes (rears will follow)
painted the rims in The Volvo 932 Colour (darker grey)
put on a set of Michelin Pilot Sport 4's in 235/40/R18
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Today I replacing the headlight lenses....
And covered up the orange corner lights.
I found some sort of hexagon reflective tape on aliexpress wich did the job nicely.
The process is quite...
I was surprised to find out just how cheap the rear bumper trims are from Volvo. All 3 parts for a little under £100.
Takes 5 minutes to remove old trim using a Boning tool (no need to remove rear...
I swapped out the old pen holder for a second hand 'New' one (these are virtually impossible to find now - I got lucky!)..
Before...
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Bushes arrived...
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Rear fitted...
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Fronts...
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Fronts pressed in...tried different techniques
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Had to sand the insides a fraction...
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Been on the lookout for a proper polestar in the proper colour.
Found one at last It's the 2L 4 pot supercharged and turbocharged with the carbon pack and some factory options as well.
Just over...
Fitted yesterday, the old plugs taken out of my 2010 C30 T5 were the original with nearly 53k miles (annoyingly the Ford Motor Company stamped iridium versions), glad to get the new plugs in, easy...
So it was time to make the brackets for the 320mm conversion.
Made some templates with different offsets to see which would work the best
https://i.imgur.com/k8h6GsAl.jpg
Chose a 13mm offset...
Yes.
This project is all over the place at the moment, need to make a list and start doing one job at a time.
So far I've got one of the brake calipers/bracket ready and have managed to get a set of...
At Snetterton for first race of the year.32338
Had a guy come up to me when tinkering in pits way more interested in the R than any race cars.
Walks up when drivers door open going, "Whoa and...
100% yes!!
The Vast ecu may have to wait, not easy convincing the missus that I need to spend lots of money on a 23 year old car !
Holy thread revival!! I'm now the proud owner of M853! Bought if off you in March this year. Still going strong!
Had the gearbox fitted, with an R clutch, new driveshaft, new downpipe, new PAS...
Been some time since I posted. Ongoing boost issue still not resolved but seeing as she's now due a timing belt, I thought I'd get that sorted first before progressing.
So, on 26th of this month...
Saturday was MOT time for it pass without any advisories ☺.
The DPF is working fine.
http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r499/harveysr/Mobile%20Uploads/2018-08/20180811_125445_zpsoiowhruk.jpg
Same here :)
http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r499/harveysr/Mobile%20Uploads/2018-06/20180626_200625_zpsqhzh0owi.jpg
Given the fact that clearly the suspension is in need of overhaul and that it is obviously tired, saggy and unresponsive....I'd stick with the OE route because you said the car is a daily/family car!...
About a 6 months ago, I noticed the rear wiper motor acting odd. It would occasionally stop in random places on the rear screen, rather than doing the full sweep. This was intermittent until two...
Over the last 4 days I've been removing the 2.3ltr lump and installing the 2.5ltr engine.
It took 2 evenings after work to remove the old engine.
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Then on Saturday it was a...
Get the harness from a scrappy that specialises in Volvo, Braydon motor company for example, then buy the subwoofer complete from the site that Ricardo posted. Otherwise, your going to waiting a very...
Well not much to report but just got it's MOT done today, pass no advisories. ;)
This test was the first with the TME down pipe fitted so I was curious what the numbers would be.
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So my oem fit struts were getting tired and they weren't lifting the tailgate the last 6" without me pushing up. So I decided to replace them.
I bought Stabilus struts and as you can see they're...