Thefuzz
New member
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2011
- Location
- Falun, Sweden
Hey guys.
I've been lurking around for a good while now, thought it would be time to do a projectthread.
Most because I need some pressure to accually do stuff on the car.
A ****load of my time, I'm working, and the wagon is my summer DD, so this will be a
DD-project, but never the less. Lets go.
Lets start with some history.
Bought the car about 5 years ago, having a dad thats a huge volvo-fan and been around all of his cars, there was no coincidence I got a volvo.
(picturebombing inc.)
It sat on Galaxys with stock everything when I picked it up.
A year later, I thought it would be cool to paint those in the same color as the trimming.
Did some misc. stuff too it aswell. Had the wipers for the lights removed and the hole got some plastic in it, got them painted and mounted.
Ran a + from the fronts the the fender-indicators so they are lit all the time, with missmatching blinks, rad!
The year after that., I got some cool 17" from an 850, painted those in the same color, ran 20mm spacers all around. About the same time, I got some lowering springs.
From there I fitted a 16T turbo, running 1 bar/14.5psi, with a full 3" exhaust, 200cell cat. and a really small Simons muffler. Sounds neat.
Got injectors from the S60 T5, like 390cc or something. Threw in a different fuelrail and a Tomei Type-S FPR. It runs pretty good.
Computers a chip'ed from VikingChips, so it doesnt blow up.
Although I think I need bigger injectors, currently looking at 550's.
Stock clutch, diff and that stuff.
After all this, I hang around all the JDM-kids with their slammed golfs, civics, S14 and whatnot. So I got prettymuch hooked on that, but being a volvo-fan, I decided to work on the wagon. Because wagons are cool.
At first I was looking at the Rota D2 18" wheels.
Luckily my current set found its way onto a swedish buyandsell-site. They are Work VS-S5 from like 1995, I thought they looked cool, they where close to my town and was only like 220 bucks. So I bought 'em. Got a pair of 3.75" lips from Image Wheels for the rear, polished the front 1.5", had the centers painted and rebuilt em.
This is pretty much where I am today.
Still runs the same engine setup, as I mentioned, it needs bigger injectors. And a new and stronger clutch would do it good.
I have a bunch of stuff lying around, waiting to be fitted. I just need to find some freetime to actually do it (And I need to wait on my camberplates to be delivered). Got a new alu, welded IC, should maintain the boost better. Got some TB-coils and springs for the rear, from a pickup truck. Also some 35mm spacers, for that cool fitment.
Besides that, I'm thinking 19t. A friend installed one into his 940, runs great. So I can't be worse than him. And maybe a BBK. BBKs are cool.
I think that is all, see you in the next post, where I hopefully will be mounting all the damn suspensionstuff.
I've been lurking around for a good while now, thought it would be time to do a projectthread.
Most because I need some pressure to accually do stuff on the car.
A ****load of my time, I'm working, and the wagon is my summer DD, so this will be a
DD-project, but never the less. Lets go.
Lets start with some history.
Bought the car about 5 years ago, having a dad thats a huge volvo-fan and been around all of his cars, there was no coincidence I got a volvo.
(picturebombing inc.)
It sat on Galaxys with stock everything when I picked it up.
A year later, I thought it would be cool to paint those in the same color as the trimming.
Did some misc. stuff too it aswell. Had the wipers for the lights removed and the hole got some plastic in it, got them painted and mounted.
Ran a + from the fronts the the fender-indicators so they are lit all the time, with missmatching blinks, rad!
The year after that., I got some cool 17" from an 850, painted those in the same color, ran 20mm spacers all around. About the same time, I got some lowering springs.
From there I fitted a 16T turbo, running 1 bar/14.5psi, with a full 3" exhaust, 200cell cat. and a really small Simons muffler. Sounds neat.
Got injectors from the S60 T5, like 390cc or something. Threw in a different fuelrail and a Tomei Type-S FPR. It runs pretty good.
Computers a chip'ed from VikingChips, so it doesnt blow up.
Although I think I need bigger injectors, currently looking at 550's.
Stock clutch, diff and that stuff.
After all this, I hang around all the JDM-kids with their slammed golfs, civics, S14 and whatnot. So I got prettymuch hooked on that, but being a volvo-fan, I decided to work on the wagon. Because wagons are cool.
At first I was looking at the Rota D2 18" wheels.
Luckily my current set found its way onto a swedish buyandsell-site. They are Work VS-S5 from like 1995, I thought they looked cool, they where close to my town and was only like 220 bucks. So I bought 'em. Got a pair of 3.75" lips from Image Wheels for the rear, polished the front 1.5", had the centers painted and rebuilt em.
This is pretty much where I am today.
Still runs the same engine setup, as I mentioned, it needs bigger injectors. And a new and stronger clutch would do it good.
I have a bunch of stuff lying around, waiting to be fitted. I just need to find some freetime to actually do it (And I need to wait on my camberplates to be delivered). Got a new alu, welded IC, should maintain the boost better. Got some TB-coils and springs for the rear, from a pickup truck. Also some 35mm spacers, for that cool fitment.
Besides that, I'm thinking 19t. A friend installed one into his 940, runs great. So I can't be worse than him. And maybe a BBK. BBKs are cool.
I think that is all, see you in the next post, where I hopefully will be mounting all the damn suspensionstuff.
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maybe not so strange as rota wheels has a replica of almost every famous rim there is
Also one of my thoughts.. look @ avatar 
