Well, after a week of refurbing alloys, fitting strut brace, replacing Vac Hoses and fitting the top mount ( also having a new battery today as other had died) I took her for a test run....All i can say is WOW.....What a diff the strut brace makes, she now takes off in a straight line and powers down lovely not much spinning, Also Boosting a lot better with the vac hoses replaced so must have been losing a bit somewhere but the best has to be the noise from the Polybush topmount, i now know what people mean when they say the sound transformation is addictive, Kicked her down and my son said " sounds like a subaru" really meaty sounding now ...
But then we checked the 0 to 60 ( my son has a stop watch on his phone) and she does it in 6.1 secs, not bad for an old girl.....Best of all we saw the local boy racer turning just before us in his raced up Pug, he had a good 100yds on me, so my son Jack said come on dad ( got love sons, great for an excuse to hammer the car) and she caught him up and just sat on his arse, he was that peeved that he pulled on his drive and as i turned into my road he backed up and followed me to my house (about40yds) pulled up along side and said " what the f****ng hell is that" " That cant be an ordinary Volvo" ...Gotta laugh he was really miffed....I just told him i thought it was misfiring, not running right needs a bit of tuning, he drove off very upset....LOL....
But all in all very happy now with...still cant get over the sound just from the polybush top mount......
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