RZT5 Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 We are pretty much screwed anyway as new Camrys and Accords will out perform our carsAgreed. Its quite irritating.By the time I have enough money to buy a brand new car I'm not going to want any of volvo's offerings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exexpat Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 It will make me want to get rid of any "R" reference on my car.You're right, the additional 18hp over the 1997 T-5 puts your car into sacred land. I would just remove the badges of the R-Designed cars myself. Who cares what you call it. Bring back "SE" if it ruffles so many feathers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikS Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 maybe heico, or evolve, or IPD will sell their own tricked out version on the c30. i'd def be willing to pay for one of those.concepts only, but you can always dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RZT5 Posted February 11, 2008 Report Share Posted February 11, 2008 concepts only, but you can always dream.I wonder if they acctually built the engines in those cars and tuned them properly or if they just bolted on massive turbos and superchargers for show.I wish someone offered "staged" packages involving bigger turbos for these cars as there are for audis and VW's I mean how hard could it be to make 300 hp from the 2.5 liter LPT T5 in the C30, S40 and V50 with a bigger turbo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Che'_Moderator Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Why would they tune a supercharger that was not even hooked up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuDeKai Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 who could possiblely be making these decisions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 You're right, the additional 18hp over the 1997 T-5 puts your car into sacred land. I would just remove the badges of the R-Designed cars myself. Who cares what you call it. Bring back "SE" if it ruffles so many feathers.When Volvo introduced the R, it came with more engine performance and more things that you wanted to look at. With the latest R models, you got more engine, brakes that you didn't want to upgrade, suspension that was a cut above and styling,all in all a good attempt I think. Sacred land? Maybe not but you and I would still rather have an R than not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RZT5 Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Why would they tune a supercharger that was not even hooked up?The supercharger in the IPD C30 wasnt hooked up?When Volvo introduced the R, it came with more engine performance and more things that you wanted to look at. With the latest R models, you got more engine, brakes that you didn't want to upgrade, suspension that was a cut above and styling,all in all a good attempt I think. Sacred land? Maybe not but you and I would still rather have an R than not.I completely agree. It wasnt going to beat an M3 or an S4, but it was fast for a volvo and did have a lot of nice goodies i wouldnt mind having on my current car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellshock Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 Shitty, shitty shitty. Dont you just love big blues decisions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyWriter Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 The supercharger in the IPD C30 wasnt hooked up?the claim was that the drive belt wasn't on the supercharger. which from the looks of it was either a roots or twin-screw. they must have gutted the blower otherwise how do you get air through a positive displacement blower if it isn't turning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RZT5 Posted February 12, 2008 Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 the claim was that the drive belt wasn't on the supercharger. which from the looks of it was either a roots or twin-screw. they must have gutted the blower otherwise how do you get air through a positive displacement blower if it isn't turning?well thats dumb. I wonder how they came up with their estimated HP, haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyWriter Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 well thats dumb. I wonder how they came up with their estimated HP, hahaby estimate, natch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matchbox22 Posted February 16, 2008 Report Share Posted February 16, 2008 (edited) I guess it's time to go rip the R emblem off my 850 since it now means crap. Why can't they put the S60R motor inside the damn car w/the 6spd and then call it a R. Edited February 16, 2008 by Matchbox22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_P Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Sounds like they saw all of the people who put R bumpers, R emblems and Pegs on their N/A's and LPT's and they figured that they had missed the mark all these years by building in the incremental performance upgrades to the R models :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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