Blue 850 T5 manual estate

Thought I would start a thread of my t5 that I have owned for 2 years now and done some little changes to it over the time.
When I first bought it.
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fitted boost guage
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RIP kit made and fitted
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de-badged rear
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de-badged front and grill painted black
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front speakers changed for these
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rear speakers changed for these
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18's painted and fitted with new 225/40 tyres
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all door trims wrapped in carbon film and moose badges with swedish flag fitted on wings
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rear windows tinted in dark smoke
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front strut brace fitted
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Kicker Solobaric sub in Kicker box fitted running of Diamond Audio mono 600 watt amp
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Diamond amp wrapped
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Next is too lower on some Eibach springs which arrived today and got new dampers coming in next couple of days and then poly bush the suspension after the mot in march as I replaced the lower arms last year before mot and also going to do 302 brake conversion and then get hlm map in spare ecu.
May look for r front bumper if its cheap

The carbon trim looks pretty good and get some blank trims to go under the headlights

I like the CF wrapped side trims.......thinking of doing this on my silver V70. Dod you take the trim pieces off to wrap? If so, how do they come off?

mate, if you take em off you will have a mare putting them back on as their seriously stuck on! think you would end up doing em in situ!

There not to bad, pop it off at the front and they slide back leaving the clips on the door, of vice versa, ill go have a look!

No unclip at back and push forward

thanks for that info dan i have been wanting to remove mine to paint them for some time but didn't want to pull them in case i broke clips................game on now...........thanks

There's a rubber plug in the back of the door and it's got a torx screw in but use a magnet as they are a pain if u drop them and then they slide forward the wing ones pop off just open the doors slightly for the door trims to slide them forward.
I took mine off to do them as will be a pain if you try to wrap them on the car.

Got some new shocks/dampers and some h&r springs and new top mounts for the rear and new spring top mounts for front struts. Getting those nivomats off the rear at long last.
Did start it today but with disc in back is gone takes it toll on me and had to give up I'll wait till another day when it's not so cold and when I'm up to it plus think I'll wait till the missus is off at a weekend to give me a hand.
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Stripped bumpers of the colour coding so their now grey again just got to do door strips now.
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Fitted DVD headunit that I got cheap of a mate so when I go to a show and get bored or tired got something to do.
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looks sweet
i like alot

Rob

Looks good, but needs hitting with a stick

Soldered the abs ecu this morning when I had a night when I couldn't sleep so 4-30 am soldering and fitted back on and seems to work fine now.
Took recirculating valve off to find that the seal had twisted inside out so made a plate and blanked it off as had some 5mm alloy plate in the garage.

Finally fitted suspension
Big difference in new vs old springs
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I'll take some of how it sits once it's settled and when I've cleaned it as its rotten.

Got a descent day to take some pics of the car now its lowered on -30mm H&R springs and new shocks.
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looking well mate

looking good indeed suits the drop

Really nice look car, subtle mods :)

Thanks guys I'm happy with it now but I would of liked it a little lower but it handles well now and the suspension is so much better than the Nivomats that was on the rear.
think I need to do a new list as think poly bushes, 302 brakes, remap, maybe a bigger turbo when funds allow.

Tried something new.
Standard handle
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z...5/b581d7ba.jpg
Carbon wrapped
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Been to a classic car show today and took pic of my car outside the castle
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z...o/IMG_5062.jpg

A nice old ruin......the castle's not bad either :haha:

Finally got new cv fitted today. Had to take hub off and mount in the vice and hit the cv joint for 20 minutes before it would move even soaked in oil for 2 hours but brand new cv joint fitted now. Going to fit new one to other side so more swearing to come.

hi mods look good would like to know did the speakers fit straight into the door or did you have to do some cutting to make them fit also do the speaker grills still fit as i like to keep it looking standard thanks ps what is the code for the rear speakers thanks

Changed the alloys to another set of 18's. black Ronals
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Also fitted poly bust to top engine mount as only had it for 12 months and fitted the subframe inserts and also put new steering rack on which took a while but nice and light now.
Just need to do some more poly bushing and get a new clutch but not sure what clutch is best or where to get it from.

Marshalls in notts do genuine 850R clutch kits for around 200 quid which i thought was cheap compared to ebay and most auto factors

Had a few issues as of late as 15g turbo decided to start smoking so swapped in a second hand 16t turbo which was a big mistake as it lasted about two weeks and then started to smoke and then fill the intercooler and pipework with metal so that was fun.
So big strip down began and fitted a brand new 16t turbo with angle flange and cleaned out all the intercooler, inlet manifold and all pipework and made a 3 inch downpipe and mated to the 3 inch exhaust I made the other month.
3 inch dp
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The parts used for dp
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New turbo
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And fitted
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Also moved the horns and removed the air con radiator as its not used

Nice update how you finding it with the new turbo

It's pulling much better now and sounds completely different and taking it easy at moment as not had great luck lately.
Need to get a remap as got a few mods done now and have some injectors to fit too.