Blockpartie Posted July 17, 2017 Report Share Posted July 17, 2017 What is your post supposed to tell me? I have a bit of trouble in understanding what you are trying to express. It's nice and very interesting that you have an early T5-R that also was a press car. It's even nicer that you are restoring it to an even better condition than it ever was. That being said I just want(ed) to point out that your car was made with a drivetrain that complied with US regulations, but the rest was, like you say, special. Hence my comment that the rest of the world is to be looked at in terms of available equipment. Volvo says things and than does other things. Like offering a navigation system for the 960 and 850 in 1996 that now is largely forgotten about. Or the nightvision that could be ordered in '02 but never made it into production. Case in point: Your weird foglight wiring, although I have seen such a thing before, also on a model year 1995. The walnut mismatch is easily explained by the wood being a nature product, and possibly having faded from sun exposure. Australian Volvos are indeed different. Some of that was due to regulations, for example the normal Volvo alarm system (Guard or Guard 2) was not available. Instead a local system was installed prior to delivery. As far as I know this had to do with the Volvo system not being certified (for use in Australia). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaredR1 Posted July 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2017 This would be way cooler if I could actually drive around with this on there......but it's still pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaredR1 Posted July 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 I've been spending pretty much all my time sailing and working on school related activities the last couple weeks, so there hasn't been much happening here. However it was at the point where having both of my 850s out of service was about to impede my school (and possibly sailing) activities, so I finally got the new wheel bearing in today. Confirmed in the process that my AC clutch threw the shims, so I installed new ones with some loctite. Hopefully those will fare better. Also looks like I am going to be putting my 16T and a stock Volvo angle DP on here. The 15G is shot (using a quart every 1500 miles) and the magnaflow cat that has been welded into my stock DP is shot, too, so it's time to move on. Awesome The cat is throwing a permanent DTC - has been for as long as I've had the car - so it would be nice to have my CEL capable of giving me useful information (got sick of looking at it and pulled the bulb) It would also be nice if my car didn't smell like it is 23 years old. Aside from the environmental issues, it's also kind of not cool when almost all of my friends outside of engineering school (yeah you guys know where this is going) are at least as far left as I am and then I'm the one with the fast car that smells like it's killing the planet..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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