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    My new car, Volvo 850R

    Went to view this Volvo last night, absolutely amazing car! Fully loaded and respectably quick, very clean bodywork and interior well looked after.

    Cruise Control
    Climate Control
    Air Con
    Heated Front Seats
    Electric Front seats with 3 memory settings
    Half Leather and Alacantra seats
    LSD as standard
    Polybush top engine mount
    HID conversion headlights
    141K service book stamped to 128k then serviced by independant Volvo specialists

    Definitely getting it remapped then it'll run about 300bhp, picking it up Thursday after work, can't wait!! Clio is now for sale and in the For Sale thread




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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Nice. Is the 850R AWD or FWD?

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Front wheel drive, R is the top spec

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Should be good fun with 300hp through the front wheels

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by boostjunky View Post
    Should be good fun with 300hp through the front wheels



    250bhp std

    From what i've been told they imported 200 into England and only 18 in manual..... which mine is

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    nice you can be on my team now turbo bricks ftw

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by raj View Post
    nice you can be on my team now turbo bricks ftw
    The quickest hearse in town

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    I know a good company re-mapping these for £150.

    They specialise in the volvo. They are in Bromsgrove, I think they called Hamish Lyndsey Motorsport.

    Good bunch of peeps.

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by Kenobi View Post
    I know a good company re-mapping these for £150.

    They specialise in the volvo. They are in Bromsgrove, I think they called Hamish Lyndsey Motorsport.

    Good bunch of peeps.

    Yep, the chap i'm buying the car off also mentioned Hamish as he's on the Volvo owners club forums. I found the HLT website earlier

    The 20 valve 5 cylinder noise sounds awesome

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Not as nice as my new car, but not bad. An old man's motor, for an old man. Does it smell of stale urine?

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by The new Bill J View Post
    Not as nice as my new car, but not bad. An old man's motor, for an old man. Does it smell of stale urine?
    Stale urine... Why you cheeky svine, old? As it's an old man's car it comes with a wig

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Would also like to say a big thanks to Shoppers The car was just off Jtn9 Ashford so we popped into see Chris and Charlotte, had a meal and he put us up for the night to save driving back late last night, cheers mate

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by Ricardo View Post
    Stale urine... Why you cheeky svine, old? As it's an old man's car it comes with a wig
    Oooh, can I have the wig, please?

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by Ricardo View Post
    Would also like to say a big thanks to Shoppers The car was just off Jtn9 Ashford so we popped into see Chris and Charlotte, had a meal and he put us up for the night to save driving back late last night, cheers mate
    Anytime my friend, youknow your always welcome to stay pop down & stay over.

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by Penfold View Post
    Anytime my friend, youknow your always welcome to stay pop down & stay over.

    Likewise, the offer is there when we move into our 2 bed bungalow..... With the biiiiiig garage

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Nice but why does it seem to have yellow lambo badges on the front wings?

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by Os8472 View Post
    Nice but why does it seem to have yellow lambo badges on the front wings?

    I thought that when i first saw the pics as it's the same shape as the lambo shticker. It says Volvo on the top of it and a moose or elk or something else. It's what they have as a symbol in Sweden, similar to the Spanish cars that have a cow.... or something as a shticker on the back of their cars

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by Ricardo View Post
    I thought that when i first saw the pics as it's the same shape as the lambo shticker. It says Volvo on the top of it and a moose or elk or something else. It's what they have as a symbol in Sweden, similar to the Spanish cars that have a cow.... or something as a shticker on the back of their cars
    Ah I though for a sec s previous owner thought it was a lambo and not a volvo

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    good cars..just try an get you hands on a spare g/box...cause if your syncros go
    there very awkward to get hold of..

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    so how much did you pay for it rich?

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    nice bit of power there mate .
    the question is how long is it gonna take before you start trying to
    stick that engine in a 5

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by raj View Post
    so how much did you pay for it rich?
    It was up for £2250

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Glad you took my advice mate No plug for me though

    Although they do an AWD version of it, they are more rare, more expensive and almost always auto (I think). They even did a twin exit exhaust version one year.

    Think yours should have traction control btw.

    Great cars, my mate has had a couple. I know the 5cyl noise you're talking about.

    Hope it goes well mate.

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by Trevhib View Post
    Glad you took my advice mate No plug for me though

    Although they do an AWD version of it, they are more rare, more expensive and almost always auto (I think). They even did a twin exit exhaust version one year.

    Think yours should have traction control btw.

    Great cars, my mate has had a couple. I know the 5cyl noise you're talking about.

    Hope it goes well mate.
    Many thanks Trev

    Yes it does have traction control which can be turned off, the chap im buying it off has a Volvo 850 T-5 chipped and says that without the LSD which the 850R has it's a bit of a handful at 300bhp

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Almost bought one of these bad boys myself.
    Really easy to get up to 300bhp as you say & are pretty bulletproof from what I read.

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    i'd give my left nut for a good one, im always looking on the net but there pretty hard to find a range to choose from. i guess people aren't selling them cuz there awesome

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by dangerous dave View Post
    i'd give my left nut for a good one, im always looking on the net but there pretty hard to find a range to choose from. i guess people aren't selling them cuz there awesome

    This 1 was on Pistonheads, my criterior was to fnd an estate, something with a bit of poke. The other alf's old man mentioned buying a Mondeo or Focus but that's not quite me

    I did see a nice looking Saab 9-5 Aero Hot estate, 2.3L turbo 230bhp estate, per chance i took a call last weekend from the Volvo owner saying it was still for sale..... End of, i knew i had to go look at it.... And buy it

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Update:

    Owned since Thursday and since then we've put some miles on her travelling up to Birmingham last night to see The Script. Anway, while we were up there we decided to head down to Bromsgrove on the way home to pop into HLM Tuning as they do the ECU upgrades on a few TD and turbo Volvo models.

    Right, well when i bought the car it had a (Hate saying it) Spec R Bleed Valve, i really didn't like the idea of having it on there and with this i couldn't tell unless running an aftermarket boost gauge whether it was running stock boost or adjusted to run more I don't know anything about what boost they run etc so it was good to be at HLM as they have an RR setup.

    So, the original idea was to swap the stock ECU for a upgraded ECU, the RR would give me a before and after to show the extra bhp and torque. It turned out that the Bleed valve was in place, someone had buggered about with the Boost Control Solenoid and messed about with the actuator etc, FAIL. I asked him (politely) if he could take the bleed valve off and to return it to the stock setup to which we gained 20bhp

    With the ECU upgrade it still wasn't showing it running more boost so it had to be upped via the actuator, apparently there was not much or no tension and took a bit of adjusting to get it sorted. Once adjusted he ran it up again and hey presto, 280BHP and 300ft/lbs torque at 1.3bar

    Talk about big difference in the drive on the way back home from Bromsgrove to home

    Before figures were approx 230bhp and the same torque, we weren't even gonna have the work done just pop our head in on the way home to see how it all works and see the facilities

    So, new Boost Control Solenoid, remove Bleed Valve, Adjust Actuator and Upgraded ECU, done

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    The springs are pretty weak in the Volvo actuators, hence the mass adjustment, much like most cars nowadays as they all run off solenoids.

    This going to be the next track car then, Ric?
    Last edited by Adam L; 19-09-2009 at 20:24.

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by Adam L View Post
    The springs are pretty weak in the Volvo actuators, hence the mass udjustment, much like most cars nowadays as they all run off solenoids.

    This going to be the next track car then, Ric?

    Deffo Solenoid, it cost me £65!

    Someone had blocked 1 of the ports off with a screw and rigged up the bleed valve, i assume to bypass the solenoid in some way and to use the valve to adjust the boost. Either way it didn't work, bhp was down maybe because they slackened off the actuator, i don't know the ins and outs but losing the valve, fitting new vacuum hose, then upping the boost to 1.3 bar we then reached the end figure with the upgraded ECU.

    Apparently stock boost is 0.8bar

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    I'm not sure why you'd try to block off a solenoid and then run a bleed valve in line with it, that's pretty stupid.

    At least it's all sorted now

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by Adam L View Post
    I'm not sure why you'd try to block off a solenoid and then run a bleed valve in line with it, that's pretty stupid.

    At least it's all sorted now

    Haven't gotta clue but yes, all sorted thank god. No Renault 5 for ages but the dastardly bleed vave still showing it's face under the bonnet!

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Bleed valves are all good, i've got one on the 200

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Quote Originally Posted by Adam L View Post
    Bleed valves are all good, i've got one on the 200

    At least yours is rigged up to work

    Anyone wanna buy a Spec R ball bearing type bleed valve

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    Re: My new car, Volvo 850R

    Looks smart rich good choice! always liked these myself

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