TC's V70R resurrection thread.

[Tomcat]

just letting you know that your V70R sounds EPIC!!! in my vain effort to catch you in my sprinter today, i managed to set off my tracker (harsh acceleration) lol Bo11ocking off the boss will be delivered on friday...

Thanks bud, I love the way it sounds at the minute, though it's a little boomy round town when you give it a clog full it sounds amazing.

[Tomcat]

Just flicking through my photo's and found two similar shots..

Before:


After:

[AndysR]

Looking very mean Craig

[Jim S70R]

Looking good TC, your efforts have certainly paid off its a real credit to you.

[t5 pete]

stunning tc keep up the good work and get my spoiler done

[martybelfastt5]

excellent turn round tc you have done a great job!

[Tomcat]

Thanks guys, just got to get the mechanicals sorted and a few odds and sods of trim...Then it's 3inch down pipe and a custom remap.

[Biff]

Looking forward to the 20th mate to see it myself. Would you be able to sort me a splitter for then please? It's time I started getting my cosmetic bits for the revamp in the spring.

[Tomcat]

Biff I can do bud but it'll be payment up front I'm afraid,been stung once too often in the past. If you want one Ill give you a pm a bit nearer the date if that's ok?

[Biff]

Biff I can do bud but it'll be payment up front I'm afraid,been stung once too often in the past. If you want one Ill give you a pm a bit nearer the date if that's ok?

That's smashing mate, I've got funds building up again now I'm married. Lol
Keep seeing the splitters on cars & it really is missing & it will set it off more when I lower it.
Cheers mate, happy now.

[T5RatherAmusin]

looks cracking TC!

[Tomcat]

Finally got time today to check the compression on the engine. I checked it cold and hot and there's very little difference, book says it should be between 11-13bar mine where all around 12, very little in them all maybe.2 of a bar something like that, but that could be just down to not cranking for the same amount of time on each one. Soooo it's gotta be either stem seals or the turbo. As I now have a rebuild kit for the turbo that's my next move, I'm off around the 21st for a week so that'll be when I attempt it.

[Tomcat]

As I had to take the sparkplug cover off today to do the compression test I finally decided to cut and polish the cover, looks loads better now..



Speaking of sparkplugs though I had a look at the colour of the plugs when I took them out for testing and they all look a little er...white/pale.. I thought they where supposed to be a nice browny colour?... Is it running weak?

Appologies for the pic being blurred, the sun was shining and I couldnt see the screen to see if it was in focus or not. You can sort of get the picture though?..

[stribo]

No, white is fine, back when I started driving.you could tell your car was running well if the inside of the exhaust was white.

[Tomcat]

Not been on much latley what with feeling completley jaded and uninterested, however I feel a little pick me up coming in the form of a new design for the rear bumper, maybe over the chistmas break from Uni.


This is something I knocked together in photoshop this morning,ignore the sides of the bumper they didnt turn out quite how I'd wanted but you get the idea,this will be getting made just for my car.

[M-R-P]

I'm not 100% sold on the diffuser but the sides would work nicely (I see what you were getting at with the pic, angles like that are hard to produce)

[partsforvolvos.com]

this car is looking so nice now compared to when i saw it with the previous owner i am starting to think you swapped plates with another car

good work mate. good to see another R that will go for a few more years now rather than deteriorate and eventually get broken.

[T5frankie]

Not been on much latley what with feeling completley jaded and uninterested, however I feel a little pick me up coming in the form of a new design for the rear bumper, maybe over the chistmas break from Uni.


This is something I knocked together in photoshop this morning,ignore the sides of the bumper they didnt turn out quite how I'd wanted but you get the idea,this will be getting made just for my car.

that looks great mate

[Biff]

Different that tc, I await your results!

[Tomcat]

this car is looking so nice now compared to when i saw it with the previous owner i am starting to think you swapped plates with another car

good work mate. good to see another R that will go for a few more years now rather than deteriorate and eventually get broken.

Lol, thanks very much...