98 V70 AWD - Long Term Companion. Loads of little changes, the Volvo with a twist.
96 850 R Estate - Pink Pus, project pulled from the weeds!
Oh, plus a glorious (but dead) 01 Alfa 166 V6 and a 05 Liquid Yellow Clio 182.
No probs! What turbo is it a 16t?
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
My Ebay Items http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/quik.connection
Yeah I. M gonna do some adverts on some places..or just buy the v70r that's on flebay lol....
MoleT-5R (Tuesday 10th March 2015)
Not too much going on but lets have a little update anyway
Bought a DA polisher finally as a few weeks ago I made the decision to attend the big Gaydon VT event in April, it'll be my first ever meet/show whatever so might as well get the old bitch pretty.
Looking forward to it chaps
Been stripping that R some. It's good pulling a different car apart, when it's your own car you hold back with the fear that you may break something whereas on a breaker it matters less. Nevertheless I haven't broken anything anyway! More confidence gained, well done R
Anyway, the other day I deemed it time to fit the R blue dials. I wanted to keep my mileage so just swapped the dial faces over, dead easy!
P80 R Dials Apart by AcidicDavey, on Flickr
I still used my old surround as I previously installed some chrome rings.
P80 V70 R Dials Installed by AcidicDavey, on Flickr
I've managed somehow to dislodge one of the lights for the bottom display so it has to come out again! I'm running cheap chinese LEDs for the gauge back lighting.
Anyway, here are some pics I haven't uploaded in here...
05-03-15 001 by AcidicDavey, on Flickr
05-03-15 003 by AcidicDavey, on Flickr
And a random from today, shows how the wheels fill the arches properly (too much?).
20-03-15 001 by AcidicDavey, on Flickr
98 V70 AWD - Long Term Companion. Loads of little changes, the Volvo with a twist.
96 850 R Estate - Pink Pus, project pulled from the weeds!
Oh, plus a glorious (but dead) 01 Alfa 166 V6 and a 05 Liquid Yellow Clio 182.
V70 Graham (Saturday 28th March 2015)
Nice work, and your right about hanging back on jobs, I do it all the time till I feel confident on giving something new a go, next is the six manual into our v70r awd an easter project I'm feeling and confident too...
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
My Ebay Items http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/quik.connection
Biff (Saturday 21st March 2015)
Doingitsideways (Saturday 21st March 2015)
Last edited by jamesy12345; Saturday 21st March 2015 at 12:24.
Haha, don't worry chaps, that's saved Steve some ££
Just Adrian, when you do eventually get your act together and 6 speed your R don't rub it in how much of an improvement it is, Dave'll be jealous enough already
With this nicer weather arriving driving this knackered auto with the windows down slowly is painful. Being slow and gentle at town speeds and the 'box/torque converter/angle gear rattle, press the throttle harder and it's silent, that's my excuse officer and I'm sticking to it
98 V70 AWD - Long Term Companion. Loads of little changes, the Volvo with a twist.
96 850 R Estate - Pink Pus, project pulled from the weeds!
Oh, plus a glorious (but dead) 01 Alfa 166 V6 and a 05 Liquid Yellow Clio 182.
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
My Ebay Items http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/quik.connection
98 V70 AWD - Long Term Companion. Loads of little changes, the Volvo with a twist.
96 850 R Estate - Pink Pus, project pulled from the weeds!
Oh, plus a glorious (but dead) 01 Alfa 166 V6 and a 05 Liquid Yellow Clio 182.
MoleT-5R (Sunday 22nd March 2015)
Cheers Steve, it would have been rude not to fit them
Another non update incoming...
Random pic from last week.
22-03-15 003 by AcidicDavey, on Flickr
Well today I've been very busy fitting stuff off the R onto this.
I fitted the SC900 and amp. To do this I had to remove the seat and carpet etc.
Whole list of bits I ripped off the other car for this and fitted today...
-SC900 and amp,
-Aluminium dash radio surround (as mine had some scratches were as this is mint!),
-Driver's A and B pillar trims as mine had stains on,
-Driver's carpet and sill trim as again they're better in the R,
-Centre console but with my old trim and and armrest etc.
Took about 6 hours just to fit the above somehow today, changing those dash trim panels suck!
Had the binnacle out again to replace left trip bulb, it was fine until I changed to the R faces then as soon as I turned the lights on it blew, typical!
Anyway, we don't care about all that, I'm being boring again , have a couple of pics.
Stripped ready to start reinstalling the new bits...
27-03-15 001 by AcidicDavey, on Flickr
Here's the amp required to run the SC900 with the 3cd changer. Annoyingly, the R doesn't appear to have the Dolby processor thing, but there is a wire that goes directly from the radio area to the fusebox area, it gets lost behind the dash, isn't the Dolby processor meant to be behind the radio near the heater box etc? Also, what is that thing at the bottom of the pic? An aerial booster? I ask as this was connected to the rear driver's side window and connected under the boot floor, my car has a bare terminal on the glass where this was connected on the R?
SC900 Amp 1 by AcidicDavey, on Flickr
Amp installed... Makes my rear carpets look dirty but it is just the lighting!
SC900 Amp 2 by AcidicDavey, on Flickr
That's it, was too dark for any completed photos but we all know what it looks like
In the future I plan on buying a late C70 for the centre speaker dash, SC901 and dolby processor if my R indeed doesn't have it.
Was definitely worth swapping over from the SC805 though, I'm no audiophile or anything (if I was I wouldn't be installing this crap lol) but it definitely produces are much richer and slightly bassier sound. I'm happy
98 V70 AWD - Long Term Companion. Loads of little changes, the Volvo with a twist.
96 850 R Estate - Pink Pus, project pulled from the weeds!
Oh, plus a glorious (but dead) 01 Alfa 166 V6 and a 05 Liquid Yellow Clio 182.
jamesy12345 (Friday 27th March 2015)
Interesting I never expected the stereo amp to be under the drivers seat..!!
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
My Ebay Items http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/quik.connection
If you've a SC 900, I wouldn't both with a SC901, we've got both in our collection of cars, and the only difference I've found is that the 3 channel setting can be used on FM on the 901, whereas it can only be used on the CD on the 900.
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