Project V70 2.5T ME7

[deathrider311271]

I thought it was about time i started a project thread for my V70 2.5T.

I bought this car 1st March 2010 from LUTON im the 3rd owner of this car, the first being Bedfordshire police force using it as a training car, the second owner was an elderly gent who just pottered around in it until it developed an engine fualt.

At which point i bought the car for £350 plus my Peugeot 406 2.1TD Estate with 12 hours MOT left on it.

At this point i had done some research and was hoping it was just an ETM fault, no such luck, it turned out to be cylinder 3 had no compression, so i sourced an identical engine with full history and just 34k miles done.

At the time of the engine swap i also replaced the water pump, timing belt, auxillary belt, V70R clutch, Scorpion stainless exhaust, spark plugs, oil and filter,fuel filter and pcv system.

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Soon after some T5 alloys were purchased from a member on here (Pacman) and also a strut brace was fitted along with the projector headlamps as my headlamps were terrible and one lense was cracked

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Then i had a Miltek downpipe built at a whoping £950 with 100 cel cat

no pics available unfortunatly

[smithy]

Nice motor I really liked my v70 2.5t and it was very quick too with just a remap .the torque was wild .then I rebuilt the engine with a couple of extra mods then it really moved .

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this was quickly followed by V70 2002 T5 alloys Amaltheas

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And more recently i have had a C70 rear axle fitted with new brake lines from front to back, braided brake lines 302mm front discs and Ferrodo ds2500 pads all round.
I also fitted a 16T with white injectors and wound the boost upto 9.5psi which took the power upto approx 240bhp.

In the last few weeks i have changed wheels again for V50 T5 alloys running 235 40 18 rears and 225 40 18 fronts with 5mm spacer on fronts, soon to be replaced with 10mm spacers and camber bolts

with the most recent mod being a V70R front bumper and full V70R interior getting rid of the horrible beige seats being replaced with nice black

[deathrider311271]

just a little update, i bought a K24 a few months ago and have slowly been getting all the other hardware together too do the conversion, ie S60R exhaust manifold V50 T5 one piece exhaust gasket water pipe gaskets oil pipe gaskets green injectors water pipes oil pipes and intercooler.

Fortunatly for me i have a very good mate who owns a garage so we set about swapping the turbo and associated hardware on friday night, not a straight forward job on a P1 V70 as i was led too believe, lots of mods required.

It took us about 1.5 hours too remove the 16T and manifold, then the fun began, V50 T5 exhaust gasket needs one of the corners triming too fit correctly (where the part number is) easy enough and we had the manifold on within an hour, next came the K24, it wouldnt locate on the manifold due too the water pipe that runs at the back of the engine as it ha 2 take offs one for the heater matrix and one for the turbo, the turbo take off was the problem, at this point it was 3am on Saturday and after lots of head scratching and swearing we decided too call it a night with a plan hatched.

Onto Saturday, up at 8am and down too the local motor factor too get some water pipe, didnt sell it in the right size, so onto next motor factor, they had 3 different ones, i only needed approx 3" straight piece, one was £19 shaped item and the other from some unknown car was offered at £2 so i took it with the appropriate jubilee clips, anyway we cut the offending pipe and rejoined it, hey presto K24 now fits.

Only 2 of the pipes from S60R/T5 fit as they should, oil return pipe and top metal water pipe too turbo, the other 2 needed modifying in some way which took a lot of time.

Too cut a long story short we eventually finished the turbo install at approx 8pm tonight with one of Graeme Weche's 3" MAF too turbo pipes. Big thanks too Graeme for sorting this pipe so quickly for me.

Finally we did a full oil and filter change and we did a final check for any leeks, none found so my mate took it for a quick blast up the road and feck me it looked very quick and sounded completly different too the 16T fitted car. Then i took it for a spin and was shocked at how quick it was and was even more shocked too see 25psi, where the hell has boost/fuel cut gone?????

Due too the insanely SMALL download limits i cant upload all the latest pics showing the new turbo, intercooler and pipework!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway here are some pics:

[V70 Graham]

Wow, this car has certainly come along way since you bought it, great work.

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[WOODY T5]

It's coming along very nice mate looks loads better keep up good work

[T5frankie]

Good to see someone going a different route to the normal t5 route. Are you not supposed to lower the compression?

[smithy]

Good to see someone going a different route to the normal t5 route. Are you not supposed to lower the compression?

No you just run less boost

[jdavis]

Great work there!

[AndysR]

Good progress, car looks nice

[stribo]

Great looking project, interested to see what results you get with the LPT engine, which obviously isn't LPT anymore.

[martybelfastt5]

Great work car is looking superb and as said nice to see a 2.5 get this treatment

[deathrider311271]

not long too waite now the car is in now for its map, should know in the next 2 weeks what this setup is capable off

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Anyway a small update, issues have been found as my car is plod training car, well after lots of investigation work and parts i have replaced it turns out plod have the R map installed as standard. On top of this with me fitting the R clocks it has caused conflicts in the mapping so i now need to fit the standard clocks back in too get the final map sorted. The issue is Rick cant get the boost or timing advance stabalised because of the conflict between the ecu and R clocks.

Unlike the earlier motronic 4.3/4.4 where you can change the clocks without issue it appears you cant on the ME7 models, even on Vida Dice when plugged in with the R clocks in it comes up with the VIN of the original R and auto awd so there must be some software in the clocks somewhere.

So unfortunatly wont get the car back or results until new year now

[V70 Graham]

Another ME7 pita, hopefully sorted soon in the new year mate.

[LiamT4]

Whats the point of the police fitting the "R" map on your car, as its a different engine and turbo? Where they being numpties or did it actually give an increase in performance?