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    Thumbs up Moles T-5R (Project Olive)

    As all the usual suspects know, I've had the 855 T-5R a few years now and given it some welly down the 1/4mile, I still think I can squeeze a tad more out of the lowly 15g, 14.52 is brilliant but now the challenge is what can I get it to do? So some careful, but quite common mods ( and some not !!! ) are now required to push the boundary a tad as we can't let Frankie's 19t hybrid have all the fun !!

    I have already popped in a Pipercross panel filter and a HLM304 ecu ( courtesy for Jamest5r ), the car is decat, due to it collapsing and just knocking it out with the easiest cure to the problem and that, is then connected to a Jetex/BSR rear system and thats about it, the car runs on normal unleaded ( except race weekends ) as it is a daily drive, but I am just starting to experiment to whether the more expensive fuel gives me extra (more on that later if it works!!) and this is where we are at on a 14.52 second car with next to no mods (except slicks, to keep Frankie boy happy, but then he says they don't make a difference anyway...maybe he's right again folks...lol)

    So with Retro Rides Gathering, Trax 2013 and Shakey on 28-29 september it's time to get the 855 in the garage and fit some of the parts that have been gathering in the previous six months and giving it a check over before next months Mot

    As External Error and Claymore already know ( as they had been thinking on similar lines ) I have made my own R.I.P pipe ( just got one off a S60 and cut out the 90deg bend and jointed the pipe back together) was then fitted using a selection of orginal pipes to make it work ( as this will be altered shortly with the addition of one of Blackbeast's R.I.P hard pipes, photos to follow when the hoses arrive )

    First thing to do was get rid of the old exhaust manifold, that was cracked by the sound of it, oh and was it.......?????

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    so I popped in a Japanifold that I had off another forum member that had been lightly ported!!!! ( I had taken a bit of a punt here and found to my relief that the porting he had advertised was actually just a bit of a light heart'd attempt at knife edging, which I then exaggerated as far as I dared !!!

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    Current Volvo's 1995 854 Gul T-5R 1996 855 Olive T-5R 1997 855 Olive AWD 1999 V70R AWD and 2005 XC90 D5 AWD
    Previous Volvo's 1987 745 gle 1989 745 GL 1995 855 Olive GLE 2001 V70 p2
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