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    Back with an S70 T5

    Hi guys thought id pop by and say hello, bought a 1997 S70 T5 last march but had it stored until a couple of weeks ago, needs some work doing but managed to get it back to working order and motd ect

    Will get some pics and info up soon as struggling as have no laptop no more so will work a way to do it all on the ipad

    Hope all the people iv known for a while on here are all good so hi to you all

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    Hi there good to see your back, not too many S70's about these days....gets some pic's up mate

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    So here we go, these are the pics from when I bought it










    Main bodywork issue



    So after I bought it it was sat a while at a friends until I managed to free space in my garage, first thing was to replace the perfos with some Mondeo ST wheels I had that had brand new tyres on, so drilled out the centre bore and started the fitting






    Next issue to address was the cutting out and not starting when warm, diagnosed as blocked cat so removed it and smashed all the internals out, ha to get a new centre bracket as had to grind off



    Next issue was a sidelight not working, found out that a previous owner had cut off the part where the 501 fits so thanks to deathrider (Simon) he had a headlight wiring to hand so that was fixed



    I do have a lot more pics but this is hard to do on an iPad, started the front end detail but I now had 2 x wings and a bonnet to send off for respray and looking for an R front bumper to make complete, but this is how the front end is looking



    Trying to find some spoiler brackets as they are rotten



    Started a rear end detail but had to pull it out the garage as a I got a seriously rotten v70 t5 in to break for the manual conversion which is now on the cards



    Lots and lots of plans on the cards over the next year or 2

    Thanks to deathrider (Simon) for help with the bits like a decent battery etc

    That's all for now folks, stay tuned
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    Looks a worthy project

    It's my S70's brother



    Still toying with manual converting mine...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doingitsideways View Post
    Looks a worthy project

    It's my S70's brother



    Still toying with manual converting mine...
    It's only a weekends worth of work if you get a donor car

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nealevo View Post
    It's only a weekends worth of work if you get a donor car
    Yea I have all the bits but waiting till I have all new parts to put on like clutch and full service etc etc and then going to blow over the engine bay while I'm at it
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nealevo View Post
    It's only a weekends worth of work if you get a donor car
    What chance would you have then though?
    You can't even beat an auto off the line!

    Mine is definitely a 200 yard car though.
    Any closer and you see alo the duct tape and cable ties.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doingitsideways View Post
    What chance would you have then though?
    You can't even beat an auto off the line!

    Mine is definitely a 200 yard car though.
    Any closer and you see alo the duct tape and cable ties.
    It's not who gets off the line first it's who crosses the other line first and you sir was always second

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    Haha so much alike but yours is much nicer right now lol

    Thinking of doing the wheels in graphite or similar but not sure yet
    Back with a 1997 S70 T5 SE

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    Welcome back bud, where ya been?
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    Currently rocking Volvo's finest V70R 2WD Manual

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    Very long story mate lol
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    Welcome back Darren.

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