Coming along beautifully, what a great build idea.
Coming along beautifully, what a great build idea.
The axle is back in the car all painted up, as the cover is aluminium so it got polished, The suspension was loaded so all the suspension bolts could be torqued up to the correct settings.
The stainless Magnaflow double offset silencer arrived in the post this this week along with a couple of stainless 90 degree bends, there shouuld of been a couple of 45 degree bends but I was let down by a well known ebay company. The silencer was positioned on a axle stand to comfirm it was in the right place, it misses the diff by 25mm
The two 90 degree bends then where offered up to get the exhaust over the axle, I`ve put a flange between the bends so the exhaust can be removed. I started car up and was very surprised by how much the straight throu silencer reduced the exhaust note, on idle you it sounds like a standard exhaust but rev it and it has a nice throaty sound. The turbo makes some nice noises with the recir blanked off and running standard 940 lpt boost.
1996 850 T5 AWD - Self tuned M4.4 ECU with COP`s, B5254T ( S60R internals in a 850 block ) ostrich 2.0 , VXR injectors @ 3.8 bar, K24 turbo with a 6+6 compressor wheel, 3.25" MAF, top mounted Dump Valve, RN Exhaust manifold, 3" downpipe with 200 cell cat, 2.75" Stainless exhaust, Brembo calipers, S60R brake discs, stainless RIP kit, 3" Throttle body,
Looking good, your making a better job of it than the 850! (Body work aside)
1996 850 T5 AWD - Self tuned M4.4 ECU with COP`s, B5254T ( S60R internals in a 850 block ) ostrich 2.0 , VXR injectors @ 3.8 bar, K24 turbo with a 6+6 compressor wheel, 3.25" MAF, top mounted Dump Valve, RN Exhaust manifold, 3" downpipe with 200 cell cat, 2.75" Stainless exhaust, Brembo calipers, S60R brake discs, stainless RIP kit, 3" Throttle body,
Biff (Thursday 30th April 2015),craigoodwood (Friday 1st May 2015)
That exhaust looks fantastic, any chance of a sound clip/vid once she's up and running?
1996 850 T5 AWD - Self tuned M4.4 ECU with COP`s, B5254T ( S60R internals in a 850 block ) ostrich 2.0 , VXR injectors @ 3.8 bar, K24 turbo with a 6+6 compressor wheel, 3.25" MAF, top mounted Dump Valve, RN Exhaust manifold, 3" downpipe with 200 cell cat, 2.75" Stainless exhaust, Brembo calipers, S60R brake discs, stainless RIP kit, 3" Throttle body,
Be able to move under its own steam, first port of call mot.
Going to be a little cracker this one, I think cars like this brought back from the dead are the future, going to worth a lot too... this has got me scouring the smaller free papers for old Volvos, shame I don't have any of Rob's talents
On today list of jobs, fit prop shaft, spray head buckets and fit clutch master.
The prop didn`t take long to fit so it was on to fitting the clutch master, now that was a differnt story. The master dosen`t have captive nuts in the bulkhead it uses good old fashon nuts and bolts which makes lif fun trying to hold the bolt in place to get the nut on. But got they in the end then it was on to bleeding it, that was a mixture of sucking the clutch fluid through the system then pumping it with the pedal. Once the clutch was bleed I discovered the bitting point was on the floor. So in to the man cave to make a longer push rod. (it`s only a temp measure until I can get some 8mm bar)
Then it was on with the head light buckets, I brought some chrome spray from ebay to do this.
BEFORE
AFTER
It`s not as good as new buckets but should give off enough light for the MOT.
All most finished
Then this little problem showed it self.
http://www.vpcuk.org/forums/showthre...lls&highlight=
I no what I`m doing tomorrow.
1996 850 T5 AWD - Self tuned M4.4 ECU with COP`s, B5254T ( S60R internals in a 850 block ) ostrich 2.0 , VXR injectors @ 3.8 bar, K24 turbo with a 6+6 compressor wheel, 3.25" MAF, top mounted Dump Valve, RN Exhaust manifold, 3" downpipe with 200 cell cat, 2.75" Stainless exhaust, Brembo calipers, S60R brake discs, stainless RIP kit, 3" Throttle body,
MoleT-5R (Tuesday 5th May 2015)
After sorting the stalling problem out it was on to the passenger door central locking fault.
The door wouldn`t lock with the central locking but if I locked the passenger door with the key then unlocked the car with drivers lock it would unlock. Took the door card off and sprayed the lock and linkage with WD40 and all sorted. The inside of the door card looked like fungs breeding ground, this due to the fact that the plastic liner had been removed from the door so out came the duck tape and a bin bag and 5 mins later door had be sealed.
1996 850 T5 AWD - Self tuned M4.4 ECU with COP`s, B5254T ( S60R internals in a 850 block ) ostrich 2.0 , VXR injectors @ 3.8 bar, K24 turbo with a 6+6 compressor wheel, 3.25" MAF, top mounted Dump Valve, RN Exhaust manifold, 3" downpipe with 200 cell cat, 2.75" Stainless exhaust, Brembo calipers, S60R brake discs, stainless RIP kit, 3" Throttle body,
Not long now!!
I see what you mean about the clutch bearing pushrod, I've read about it when reading about the conversions, has to be extended quite a bit
Fitted the boost gauge this morning, looks a bit lonely.
Then this afternoon gave her a wash (first one in over 10 years) the paint work on the bonnet & roof is a bit rough, it was like sand paper and it can stay that way. Just wanted to wash the grim and tree sap off didn`t scrub to hard so moss is still growing in certain areas. Where the paint work has worn throu on the boot I`m just going to lacquer over it (it called character )
1996 850 T5 AWD - Self tuned M4.4 ECU with COP`s, B5254T ( S60R internals in a 850 block ) ostrich 2.0 , VXR injectors @ 3.8 bar, K24 turbo with a 6+6 compressor wheel, 3.25" MAF, top mounted Dump Valve, RN Exhaust manifold, 3" downpipe with 200 cell cat, 2.75" Stainless exhaust, Brembo calipers, S60R brake discs, stainless RIP kit, 3" Throttle body,
Looking good, comparatively it's certainly less of a brute than the T5-R in the pictures, it's certainly going to surprise people.
When is the MOT? Will you be applying some light tuning? I suppose it doesn't need a cat with the age of the vehicle which is a nice bonus.
The marks are true provenance, or whatever the antique collectors call it.
Last edited by kmb; Monday 4th May 2015 at 16:40.
1996 850 T5 AWD - Self tuned M4.4 ECU with COP`s, B5254T ( S60R internals in a 850 block ) ostrich 2.0 , VXR injectors @ 3.8 bar, K24 turbo with a 6+6 compressor wheel, 3.25" MAF, top mounted Dump Valve, RN Exhaust manifold, 3" downpipe with 200 cell cat, 2.75" Stainless exhaust, Brembo calipers, S60R brake discs, stainless RIP kit, 3" Throttle body,
kmb (Monday 4th May 2015)
Patina might be the word I'm looking for
Glad for you it's all back together, just need the mot now
1996 850 T5 AWD - Self tuned M4.4 ECU with COP`s, B5254T ( S60R internals in a 850 block ) ostrich 2.0 , VXR injectors @ 3.8 bar, K24 turbo with a 6+6 compressor wheel, 3.25" MAF, top mounted Dump Valve, RN Exhaust manifold, 3" downpipe with 200 cell cat, 2.75" Stainless exhaust, Brembo calipers, S60R brake discs, stainless RIP kit, 3" Throttle body,
Tbh it's been done in pretty quick time considering the condition it was in when you got it, 4 months ish
oblark (Monday 4th May 2015)
It needs a massive boot spoiler.
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