Carbon_R

What up Pras, dude hit me up to catch up been too long 😁

You have the 6 puck disc like mine?

I have a full face disc.

Using a Spec 3 with the S70 and it is pretty harsh. I was hoping the 3+ shows a little more comfort..

Nah, it will smooth out once you get around 1k on it, it's a hard face clutch so it takes longer to bed the clutch in.

About two months ago I removed the tranny to fix a nasty tranny oil leak that developed (sealer didn't do it's job).

I added Royal purple 75W-90 (50%) with 75W-140 (50%) gear oil which gives an end viscosity of 110 and so far the gear noise at low speeds it's nearly zero and the box feels smoother (except for the clutch disc rattle).

Do you guys have issues with gear noises at low speeds (5-20mph)? like a whinning sound or clatter kinda hard to explain.

Once its up and running, let me know if the SPEC 3+ rattles your gearbox to death and how do you like the feel of the clutch.

At first mine was pretty harsh (jumpy) when you let the clutch out and now it's smooth and feels like a stock clutch but with one heck of a bite

Nice project, keep up the good work..

Wow, LPG. That will be awesome in CA, no more smog checks but with a big turbo

But, to each their own. I don't like it and wouldn't do it personally, but obviously others like it so more power to them

The sad part about project Pras is that we won't be able to see the work with our own eyes. Sometimes pics don't do a car justice in order to appreciate the work that has gone into it. I've seen this before on other projects.

Based on his write up, I expected worse, but it came out pretty decent IMO, I give him a for creativity.

I must agree with Johann, the previous color looked amazing on his car.

My.02

Raf

Well, I think it looks good but I've never been/will be a fan of the color "RED", not to forget yellow

Too each's own.

Dang Pras, I see that your dental cleaning work hasn't been the greatest. Know wonder your leaving LA to India

Raf

Dang Pras, I feel ur pain.

A bit of advise for any member on this forum that tries to under take a detailed project like the few of us have done or are doing, at some point it becomes a nightmare, so please, do your research and budget accordingly.

I had my share of issues which you're well aware of but I wont get into that since we are chatting about your project.

I heard that you also decided to changed the color, WHY???? it looked so pimp before IMO.

The only thing I can say is that I hope the end results make you happy or satisfied. I'm sure Aaron will get the motor figured out but you will never get your $$ worth out of the car, might as well keep it for a while or until you return.

Too bad you live far from me because I would of given you a helping hand, now post pics and quit ranting

Raf

It's about time Mark

Raf

DANG Resa, I guess humping his wagon isn't enough

Doug might get jealous

Raf

Before

Motor

After

Motor

Pics are not the greatest since I had to make them 56k friendly, not much has changed

Raf

Thanks CJ, how's your dog doing?

Def, next meet my ride will be there:)

Prassuede, you look like a pimp with the red scarf, now all you need is a bunch of hoes around you, ha-ha..

Pat, awesome you made it home, now get to work on that flathood..

Raf

What up Prasuede/Jay/Mike, Tahoe joke , glad that you guys made it down safely, did you like that IS burn out, ha-ha.

I wanted to thank Jason/Pras/Mike for picking me up and letting me cruise in both rides, awesome cars. Jason's car is hot too, the paint is in amazing condition plus the other goodies he added in less then 4 days, crazy!!!.

Prasuede, your ride is pimp, crazy drop, I got a few thumbs up while cruising on the freeway

I'm too lazy to post all the pictures from the meet but follow the link below, nice to meet all of you who attended and hopefully my car will make the next meet.

Ben you're a big pimp and awesome car too, way too much to list..

For those of you that didn't make it, we didn't miss ya at all jk..

Later,

Raf

LINK

can you really "blame" India and China for being smarter? Right, I didn't think so

Darn you Pras, someone has to take the blame

Raf

Less than 5 years ago a sheet of 5/16" steel cost me $125.00 it now costs me $295.00 for the exact same piece of material. Inflation is alive and well regardless of what you may think.

Let's not blame Canada for that, blame China & India for high steel prices

CJ, I was asking Scott back in 01 to come out with this kit before I went hog crazy on my car and they didn't want to do it, so I did my own thingy as alot of board members did. I'm glad that IPD finally pulled their head out of the fox hole and decided to do something for the Volvo community but I think is a bit late on the game, a lot of us are way over there head in terms of performance options and configurations

God speed to IPD..

Raf

Peter, paint the calipers purple

Black gets my vote.

Raf

No need, ha, Why not???

I would rather have coil packs any day over our sorry distributor cap/coil design. This is huge improverment over stock system for the <98 Volvo's but for you 19T fellas I can understand having it as an option.

Raf

Yes I know it streams to AIM and MOTEC but poorly. Its fine tuning is weak compared to others in its class. It is by far the cheapest though

And CAN enabled

Have you seen the firmware upgrade for the 034EFI, not too shabby.

Raf

Nice pics + a nice Socal day

All the cars look great, maybe next year I can make it to V3.

I hope you guys/gals are coming up for the Tahoe meet, lets geta huge caravan going

Raf

:o swcheet ride...

How much power is the motor rated at?

Raf

Pure hotness

Let's talk about the motor

Raf

Thanks for the update but can you share some pictures with us

Raf

Any new updates??

Charles have you tried to contacting Kinesis or Iforged?

They do a lot of sponsoring for BMW/Audi's, I bet there game for a new R..

Raf

Leather is the way to go Charles, classier

Raf