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:lol: Just posted on your other thread. Good info Hussein. I'll post mine up when I get around to it. Keep us informed if you change it again :lol:

Still working on my SAS but up next for fun stuff to do is a CAI. I was gonna "borrow" your old setup but naturally you post this I assume just to screw with my head lol. First what is the enclosure? I that something you fabricated yourself? Second I was wondering if this may become more restrictive than having an open element as apparently there is not as much space between the filter and the enclosure especially at the top. Not sure if that matters with a large diameter setup like yours.

lol thanks. I've been thinking about this for a long time but now that I have one I am debating on just using the bumper as is for modifiying it would mean destroying it if I messed up. I mean after all it was your car that made me wanna get one and yours just has been painted.(I wont mentioned the little imperfections I have seen lol) I assume it would involve cutting out the upper 5 centimeters of the mid hole, stretch it out from the vertical and horizontal, and attach it. Fiberglass then bondo, sand then paint. But I may just not even mess with it.

Haha don't act like I have any idea what I am doing performance wise. I assumed that roughly the same amount of air would hit the intercooler. I just think it looks cool. I'm sure it will be a pain in the ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD to do tho. Just like it was to download GIMP and learn how to use it to make that half assed image lol. And I did see that pic I just wasn't sure how it all came together. I guess we will see when I take the seventy bumper off. That is the only way to learn.

This is why I ask. I wanna do something like this to my bumper.

So I was looking it over your FMIC redo. You cut the bumper right? How is the clearance between that and the bumper cover? And what size what that intercooler? NVM in your save file for the intercooler pics it says it is 28x8x35

90 percent of people here will never buy a new Volvo so I've never taken much stock in the company. Don't get me wrong I am a brand loyalist but besides maybe the C30 new Volvos don't do what the Rs did for me. But as long as Volvo engineers stay ahead of the game as far as safety innovations and concept design then maybe they have a fighting chance. A few billion is no laughing matter so we will just have to see what chinese ownership does to our brand.

Plat is a great color. Don't see many around and there was one on this board for like 2 seconds. Good to see you round.

I'm surprised you didn't get a higher torque number. Next question is when are you gonna take the new tune out!

You're gonna need a skid plate to protect that finish! Hussein always thinks outside the box. Didn't know you had a less than ideal tune. Are you gonna dyno it soon? Your old one had your ~300whp am I correct?

No I'm not talking about The 850 Rear Wheel Drive dream again. I've been there as we all have and we all know how that dream ends... you wake up to reality and spin the hell outta your front tires to forget. Not the Dream Car Dream; I wasn't cruising in a black 1970 Charger 440R/T or a E39 M5-both of which are out of my credit limit. This is the point where I say I don't buy much into dreams. I don't really. I don't usually tell people about them either. But they mean something as I'm sure we have all heard about the importance and/or the meaning of them in the past. The usually fall into 4 categories for me: Friends, Family, Sex, and Cars. This dream obviously is about cars. Or a car. I'm talking about The 240 Dream. That's right. The 240 Dream. At first it came about a year after I had my S70 when I was still totally enamored with it. It came every so often after that. Not much to it. Just a fantasizing dream about which I was back in or about to be back in a 240 again. Nothing major. But this one was was far more vivid than the others. I don't know why. It was set some where in the country and I had come across a road with two 240s sitting on the side of the road, neglected. One was a red pre-'85 turbo wagon. The other was a gold post-'85 sedan. I talked to the man inside about the cars and their current position. He told me both were more or less for sale. I went to inspect the two. The turbo wagon was in far better shape and needed less work which immediately told me it cost more. But it had features I wanted like the quad headlights, turbo, stick shift. The sedan was an NA and was in much worse condition. The interior was awful, the lights were yellowed and cockeyed, oil was all over it. And it was automatic. Needless to say I never wanted to drive the turbo. I had the owner drive it. It ran like crap. The transmission was shot; it creaked and popped when put into drive, it held gears, and it would stay in park without forcing it. The engine smoked needlessly as I could tell many gaskets were long gone. But I loved it. It held so many possibilities. I could hear my self in the dream telling my self what I was going to do with it and how much time I would spend with it. I could see a future in this relationship beyond that of any I have had before. But then I woke up. Mouth dry, wanting to sleep more to get back into the dream and finish the deal remembering the bargain I was about to get. Dreams are just that: I'm dumbe. But I've never wanted another 240 more than I want one right now. And it's all because of I'm dumbe.

Everyone has to argue any good idea. Why? Chuckie dude has a great idea. Let him run with it. He is going to anyway. And if not a huge argument will ensue. Do it. Che. Seriously. Incentives on building the best Volvo around? It is so mad its genius. And it will draw in more quality members... !!!

Odds are I can do more with money than a pre decided part.

Oh, I see it. Wait... did you do this again or is this the pics of you taking it apart? Either way, sucks man. Stock rods?

Hate to sound like a noob but... What the hell are we looking at?!