well where to start.
I got a call from a mate that was working as a valeter at a volvo dealer's in motherwell saying that there was an 850 been traded in and was going to be scraped and that he could get it cheep if i wanted it so went to see it and i couldn't believe what i was seeing. less then 5 minuets later i was driving home in a yellow 850 t-5r auto with a spotless interior and no body damage (tho the paint had seen better days) and it had just had all the brakes renewed as well as the rear calipers. I ran the car for about a year and then decided to do a manual conversion so got all the parts i needed and changed it my self in my front garden
while i was there i changed the rear main oil seal and fitted an R clutch
the new seal is different to the old one its got a sort of felt ring on the out side of it.
once all the stuff under the bonnet was done i fitted all the interior parts.
this picture show the difference between the two pedal boxes
this it the inside all finished. and because all the parts i got came from another t-5r the gear knob and the center console all match the rest of the interior
So i ran it like this for about another 6 months or so then after going to a few mini meets decided that i had to do something about the paint. so as one of my mates is a spray painter he said that if i got the paint and other stuff need he would do it for free. when we eventually found some where to do the job it was started.
the guy in the red is my mate that painted it and the guy sanding the bonnet is my wee brother. the only panel that needed replacing was the front wing it had the usual rust behind the bumper but other than that there wasn't anything needed.
wraped and primed.
5 coats of volvo 607 yellow paint.
and a whole 5 ltr of lacker.
once all that had been done it was left for about a month to fully harden and then it was machine polished.
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I have done a few other things too. Iv fitted a RIP kit that i got for a fiver from a scrapyard and the 302 mm disk conversion the different head lights with hid's in them and red silicone hoses. iv also got an 850 R spoiler too just need to get it painted first. That's just about it just now next thing to do is the exhaust and the turbo and then get it remapped and maybe fit uprated rods at some point.
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