Johann

In preparation for the coming track day,

Will stay NA for the time being until I have sorted out the bugs and hopefully have VVT working. Have been waiting for the paint work which took way to long and was only finished hours before our annual Volvo meeting, we call it the "after summer meeting". Wanted to have the car on it's feet before that meeting. Last sticker was added late last night.. The meeting today was great fun!

Some progress.. Most of the engine done, Rolled the car outside on it own feet, The very badly damaged front and rear bumper were repaired as good as possible. Also had a spare hood painted. Still needs some tidying up left and right. Ride height needs some attention also. The titans were the old wheels of the DOP T-5R. Had them media blasted and repainted.

Some minor progress with the yellow, Started installing the BC suspension, . ECU is in and mostly wired. Injectors, coils and most sensors tested. Zeitronix wideband still needs to be installed, no exhaust yet.. Dash needs a few wires still and I need to make a check light panel. Ordered leds for it. Installed the older 850 style aux bracket with steering pump and alternator but unfortunately this doesn't go well with a new style thermostat, I knew that.. , so I changed back to the old style.

My vinyl cutter computer went dead last week. Prepped another computer to operate the good old Roland and did some track day preparation while testing the new setup..

The car is similar to the S40/V50 with the new V60 interior only slightly smaller. Drivetrain is identical to the S/V60 DrivE T5( 2.0T5 FWD)

The black out was a key point for me. :-) On most models there is no choice or option. You are simply convicted to the chrome or brushed aluminium parts. I believe there is a "sports edition" option now for the V70. The V40CC also comes with black trim. Weird thing is that I ordered this car without the badges which is an option why not leave the choice to the customer with all the models. 366 km so far. Drove the car on the autobahn yesterday and had the speed up to 220 km/h while trying to respect the break in. RPM's were still well below 4K.. Suspension is settling. Felt like overinflated tires at first but that has worn off a bit. A fun car. Even in D mode but then the start/stop and some other ECO stuff like quick down shift is active. There is plenty of torque from very early on. The efficiency of the drive train can also bee seen in reviews of this model and the former 5 cylinder T5. With 9 hp less the 4 cylinder is the quicker car of the two.

Picked the car up today and drove 170 km with it. Next to the P, The Polestar tune is already installed yet I have been told there is some sort of break in routine in the ECU for the first 300 km's. Doesn't matter because I want to take it easy for the first 500-1000 km anyway. That is for as far as taking it easy is possible. You never know how much throttle is actually applied with today's ETB trickery. The car is interesting. Of course not a Polestar from a suspension refinement point of view but it has inherited the positives of the Ford Focus platform, also the negative being the noise "channel" from the front struts, Tires are a bit noisy when cornering. Same experience as the C30 and also the C70. RS500 it could also be noticed. Suspension is firm. Engine/drivetrain is, from what I have experienced so far trying to keep it blow ~3500 rpm, extremely efficient. Noticed similar behaviour with the XC60. With the 6K RPM redline it appears to be a lesser performer but the torque starts at very low revs and the short gear ratio's are a good match. 166 km/h in 8th gear showed 2500 RPM .. Engine sound isn't very inspiring.. When selecting sport mode nothing changes like with the Polestar with it's awesome exhaust sound. Bit of a bummer or simply spoiled. :-) Also booked a track day today for November 9th. Spa Francorchamps. Emiel will be the co-driver.

Swededemon number 14 or SD14 has arrived.. two weeks early! Last Friday I visited the dealer to show off the pimped XC60 which has been designated SD12 btw, The brushed aluminium accents were painted piano black, The trunk liner was painted white, The 20" Polestar rims were glass blasted because I didn't like the color used, will become black like the accents now but slightly matte. While chatting outside on the parking lot a truck arrived with two Volvo's on it one being heavily wrapped in a protection "suit".. Only the Cabron Edition and the XC90's are being delivered in this wrap at the moment so I was a bit surprised. Turned out the be a pretty loaded D4 showroom car. The dealer checked the status of my order but no chassis number was present yet and delivery was set for week 38, The week of September 14. Last Tuesday I visited the dealer again for some technical information and while driving toward the dealer building I could see the earlier delivered D4 already unpacked on the parking behind the building but right next to it there was another wrapped V40 .. I thought no way but it turned out to be my ordered V40 which was delivered about half an hour earlier. This was big surprise specially because no chassis number was available before the weekend. Next day I visited again helping unpack the car just because I was curious :-) The car will be delivered this coming Tuesday.

Started rewiring the car. First the rear. Parking lights, tail lights, number plate lights, fog light, backup/reversing lights, turn signal lights and brake lights. After that the main front loom. This is the loom running from the fuse/relay box to the steering column, wipers, front lights and also hold wires for the motormanagement, OBD and some other stuff. Most has been removed. Starting the puzzle, Empty fuse/relay box to start, After some time... What is left for now after putting it back in the car, Also stripped the light and hazard switches from the dash loom and added them to the main loom. What is working now, Parking lights, turn signal lights, low beam, high beam, hazard function, horns, wiper all modes. Also added wires for the fan relay, coolant and brake fluid levels, dash turn signal indicators and the fuel pump relay wired to standalone specs which is different from how Motronic is handling the fuel pump. Using OEM fuse locations for powering the standalone and engine stuff. Added a new radiator, Sourced some bits and bolts from the junk yard for fixing the headlights, fan, shifter cables and some other small stuff. Also horns from an Alter 1 850 and a fuel rail from a 10v with an old style 300Kpa FPR. Swapped the injectors from the RN rail and went creative matching the fuel lines to the rail with the VVT solenoid in place, Missing PS pump, alternator, top engine mount, a few wires and a hose, Oh, also came up with a name, SwedeDemon Ex Rally Car ..

Some more work done on the loom. Updated the firmware of the Link ECU. Did some basic configuration and tested the IAT, CLT, TPS and MAP sensor. Installed the loom on the engine, Also bought a very experienced driveshaft set,

The R disc doesn't cover the full surface of the 707 PP. With the R PP the "missing" friction surface area isn't present. With my white 850 M66 conversion I tried to use an S60R friction with the 850 R PP. Here it was the other way around. Friction surface was larger than PP surface plus the friction was roughly a mm to thick. I wonder if the 707 also doesn't need a 9 mm thick friction plate.

225/35 does better. Also suits the 850 better.

Thought so. P80 isn't an official name for the platform. Probably a US thing.

I guess you mean 800 series? I have fiddled a bit with them.

I have driven S60/V70R .. I will get used to a large turning radius..

The V40 is pretty much identical to the outgoing C30/S40/V50 from a suspension layout point of view. I always had great fun with my former C30T5 and hope the V40 will behave equally.

Some progress on the track car, Installed the engine and gearbox. As mentioned the gearbox comes out of SD11 as does the flywheel. Used the 850R pressure plate which has been used in SD11 with the S60R friction for a while. Still had had the new 850R friction which came with the pressure plate. Replaced the rear main seal while at it. Also exchanged the P2 exhaust manifold for an 850 GLT NA manifold. After the engine was in I stripped the loom which came with the engine and mocked up the new routing of the loom. Decided not to use drive by wire throttle so a few more wires need to be added for TPS, MAP, IAT and ICV. Will be using a Link standalone and want to try to get the intake VVT working. Intake manifold will probably an 850 turbo manifold with a GLT throttle body for now.

He doesn't know it yet but he has to. Before the end of the year to be more precise. This because he will be needed as either a navigator or a driver.. In the last month there has been a very impulsive development at Area 34. Januari this year I received the Polestar V60 as a replacement for the Lexus IS-F. Both being powerful cars I never took the Lexus to the Ring but being the Volvo nut I am I decided to take the Polestar for at least one lap mainly as mentioned for the photo and the sticker. There are also a few other reasons for probably not taking this car to the Ring anymore. Never say never but this isn't a real track tool. It is a great daily driver and long distance cruiser and for those reasons I am very happy with the car which btw exceeded my expectations. During the time I drove the Lexus('s) I also drove a Focus RS500 with the intention to use it as a track car. For reasons it didn't happen as often as I wanted and added to that I thought the car was a bit to special to modify for more dedicated track usage. In the end I used that car more or less as a daily driver next to the Lexus but the Lexus was more fun.. so after three years I decided to trade this car for a C70 Convertible also as a gesture to my wife. She had been talking about a convertible for years.. And a gesture it turned out to be given that I haven't had much seat time in that car since. The C70 did 15K km in little over one and a half year while I have only driven 22K km in the RS500 in little over three years including a trip to the UK and to Sweden with this car. Last year I took the C70 to the Ring because I was "between" cars and did a sight seeing lap together with Emiel and Travis. In total I think I didn't drive it for more than 1000 km. In the mean time I had a second hand S60R also with the idea to use it as a track car on occasion. Drove one lap at the Ring and at the Bilsterberg circuit and sold the car earlier this year mainly because there was no real click... And it needed a lot of maintenance and even more to keep it going. Another thing was that it gave me a sense of "been there, done that". Time moves on and modern cars are prove of that. Nowadays we have flippers on the steering wheel and cars do a lot thinking themselves. Even Volvo went that route with the nasty side effect of dumping everything more than 4 cylinders. I thought it was a shame to ditch the 5 cylinder. Still think that way. On the other hand in the last year or so I also started to appreciate what Volvo is doing. The Polestar is still a 6 cylinder but I have driven newer models either as a loaner car from the dealer or just because the dealer offered me a car to test drive. In my country we have had the Ford era with most of the engine configurations being 4 cylinder Ford or PSA engine's already and they didn't do to bad. We have driven a 1.6 Diesel C30 for a couple of years ourselves and although not a performance car by any means it always was a pleasure to drive. Now there are the new VEA, or in the US called DrivE, engine's with the 8 speed AT. I have driven a couple of models equipped with these engine's and was surprised how they handled. Last week we traded the wife's XC60 for a new XC60 4 cylinder T5 AT8 including flippers.. Don't know how it will perform in the long run but the outgoing XC60, 2.0 5 cylinder diesel MT FWD, never missed a beat in the 4 years of ownership. The 8 speed gearbox is fun. Not the old Volvo slushy AT behaviour and in flipper mode it shifts faster compared to the Polestar which in all honesty doesn't do all that bad. After negotiating the trade of the XC60 about two months ago I learned a thing or two about the new engine and gearbox configurations and while I still think it is a shame Volvo isn't offering a manual transmission in the higher powered gasoline versions anymore I also thought, like mentioned earlier, that time moves on and most car manufacturers take that same route. DSG or twin clutch or whatever it is called. It was also during that time that Volvo introduced a limited edition model for Europe called the Volvo V40 Carbon Edition. At first I didn't think much about it until I received an email from Polestar introducing somewhat disappointing tunes for the new VEA engine's. Doing some more reading on the subject lead to that same V40 Carbon Edition again and this is where impulsiveness showed it's ugly head. .. Next day I visited the Volvo dealer and twenty minutes I had bought a car unseen. Some time September I will become the owner of a V40 Carbon Edition.. 100 car's are destined for the Netherlands. I thought production was set for after the holidays but to my surprise there was a diesel version on display at the Volvo Experience event I attended late last month, And another one arrived at a dealer nearby last week, The first pictured car is a D4, the second a T5. The car I opted for is a 2.0-4 T5 AT8version. Added optional flippers, Polestar tuning, adjustable steering force and the tinted rear windows. The stock power of the T5 is 350Nm and 245 hp. The Polestar tune will bring it to 400Nm and 253 hp. Biggest gain will be mid range, roughly 25 hp. Added to that Polestar promises optimised shifting behaviour. Car comes with 19" wheels, 235/35-19 tires. Carbon roof and mirror covers. Gloss Black accents and window trim. Slightly more lowered suspension and a rear spoiler. All other the car is mostly R-design.

This was also an avoidable accident.. Should have waited till the track dried up .. Emiel didn't run out of talent but out of space and as it appears only by a couple of mm. I looked it up, I think you US people say hindsight is 20/20. It hurts though . .

We had a meeting at the Ring yesterday. A nice opportunity to take the Polestar 60 mainly for photos and the sticker.. Photo's succeeded, Earned it's sticker, The weather was mixed dry and sunny and rain from time to time. Took the P for a lap while it was still dry. The P did great. The driver a bit less. Haven't driven in a while and the P took some getting used to. It is a heavy car. Flippers. Traction control / anti skid turned out to be a bit to protective losing a lot of power. Maybe I should have turned it off before the lap. Switching it off is buried in the Sensus menu and trouble started on the latter part of the track so no use to go through the pages at that point. All in all a great fun day with a bit lesser ending but it's up to the person in charge to report about that.

Mainly for the reflection. The CY of course is terrible to look at all the time. White could be done but needs more care to make it look good. The satin black was the easiest option. I wanted to paint it RAL 7011 like the engine bay at first but once the bay was done I found it to be to shiny.

Well.. I don't know.. Because I can? I am thinking about lengthening the shifter arm to shorten the throw. I have driven cars with the short shifter on top of the gearbox and I don't really like it. I think lengthening the arm will give a different en better feel. Maybe will do so later on and thought it would clear some space. Received a steering wheel today. Also added the Stack dash in the partially mounted dashboard. Bought the Stack 7 or so years ago to install in the SDM car but it never happened.

Loctite 5188 I guess is your best bet or Loctite 510 which is more heat resistant, less flexible and needs longer curing on Aluminium.

Made some spacers for the shifter, The plastic bottom cover has build in spacers roughly 35 mm hight. These are 20 mm higher.