1994 Volvo T5, new daily smoker.

[tigran]

Well it's official i'm hooked on rapid swedish turbo barges, added bonus that this one is in estate form - perfek for parts chasing. Come with 220bhp from the factory (which this one was nowhere near) took it up to brum the other week to let RICA breather their stuff on it with their 304 remap. Absolutely rapid now - evo VI's are now history ;D Building up a stockpile of bits for it, bigger TD05 turbo, polybushed everything, reeeal nice alloy intercooler/radiator, some real high flowing injectors - something around the 395cc mark, some niice top mounts and springs and dampers to keep the whole shebang on the road. I'll keep the progress reports going as this is the only car i've got time to work on at the moment.

The overall plan is to have a continent-bashing uber cruiser that can stop and isn't too bad at handlng. 330 bhp is the eventual target. Anyhoo couple of pics, boring really as it's just a standard T5, will be tweaked looks-wise a bit so will stick some pics of that up as well.

[rmad]

Yay! to T5s (even though I might be selling mine).

[Charlie_B]

sweet i love these!
maybe a pair of moose stickers would finish it off nicely?

[mym]

very jealous

you be going for the bigger 302mm brakes as well then?

[dbizzle]

Hussah, we're T5 buddies! ;D

[penski]

Omnomnom...Thirsty?

*n

[rmad]

Nov 5, 2008 10:09:56 GMT penski said:

Omnomnom...Thirsty?

*n

Mine gets about 25mpg with everyday use.

[dave21478]

Was this the one for sale here very cheaply that was smoking badly? what was the cause in the end?

[incarsolutions]

how much was the remap??

[24vpaul]

Nov 5, 2008 8:13:16 GMT rmad said:

Yay! to T5s (even though I might be selling mine).

My thought to! ;D

Can I be cheeky, and ask how much for? and is it an estate

[tigran]

Swapped it for my marroon viva and gave £100 the way of the seller. The smoking i'm still trying to work out - i know for sure that the turbo seal is bolloxed - so sorting that with a td05 turbo. But the head looks like it's been run too hot at some point - the spark plug cover is warped. But there also seems to be the tiniest bit of mayo in the sump so i'm thinking there might be a HG problem - but i've done pressure tests on it and it seems fine.

Petrol wise i get about 300 miles to a tank, a tank being about 70litres. But that's just down to my really heavy right foot and how stupidly easy it is to cruise at triple figures in this thing.

Brakes wise i'm just going to stick some new pads, discs and braided lines on. And in january i'll get the 330mm upgrade with some 4-pots up front. I didn't see the point of faffing about with the 302 in the meantime.

The remap was £150 from HLM - it'll do for now, when i get the bits on it i'll get a custom map written.

But yeah just loving it at the moment (once i get the current running issue sorted on it).

[24vpaul]

tigran said:

But there also seems to be the tiniest bit of mayo in the sump so i'm thinking there might be a HG problem - but i've done pressure tests on it and it seems fine.

From what I've read about the 5 pot, a little bit of mayo is quite common and not much to worry about

[tigran]

That's cool. The real test is when i swap the turbo over if it still looses oil. It only smokes like a mofo on the overun so that looks to me like a typically borked turbo seal.

[24vpaul]

Sounds like it to me, or poss valve stem seals?

[Paul H]

No excuses for not being at the Ace for the Norse Meet on 23rd!!!

[adaptorman]

great moters ive had mine remaped via 304 ,have u any pics of ur injectors turbo ,as they told me i had to keep std turbo and injectors for this map ,mine was the 94 850 t5 lump as I'm runing in the rwd off my beetle ,what a monster runing 1.2bar offf boost lol ive also got a few spares ,includeing 5spoke 18rims and new tyres ,a remap chip rica ,but u se the bigger t19 turbo...

[nathan76]

nice car matey
labrador carrier looks with supercar performance
i,m still loving my modded one, awesome cars ;D