Volvo 850 T5 Kompressor

Volvo 850 T5 Kompressor

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claymore

155 posts

192 months

Saturday 21st December 2013
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Fattyfat said:
Quoting myself from 2 years back and since then I've followed the project on and off across various forums and watched the youtube vids.

Have to say I love it now, totally bonkers smile
Thank you sir smile

claymore

155 posts

192 months

Saturday 21st December 2013
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Davie said:
If this ends up being twin engine'd, you sir are a fooking hero!
And to answer everybody else, Twin engined, twin turbo, twin supercharged smile, so should be a nice reliable 800bhp.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 21st December 2013
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Mental, in the best possible way smile

ManOpener

12,467 posts

168 months

Saturday 21st December 2013
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Totally bonkers.

carpetsoiler

1,958 posts

164 months

Sunday 22nd December 2013
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Just read through the whole lot. Awesome! Sounded incredible on the hillclimb day, somewhat incongruous and all the better for it. biggrin

Not too keen on the decals, but if it's what you like then... who am I to comment! Keep up the frankly awesome work!

s p a c e m a n

10,752 posts

147 months

Sunday 22nd December 2013
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rofl Insane.

That £1k budget was blown out of the window with all the boost wasn't it thumbup

claymore

155 posts

192 months

Sunday 22nd December 2013
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s p a c e m a n said:
rofl Insane.

That £1k budget was blown out of the window with all the boost wasn't it thumbup
Lol, yes the £1k budget has gone, but it probably still owes me less than two and a half grand, and it will be well south of three and a half to get 750 to 800 bhp smile, it does help having a few sponsors mind smile

claymore

155 posts

192 months

Sunday 10th August 2014
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Just a little update to bring this up to date,
The rear of the car was stripped down:



Angle grinder out:



pop the front clip in:



Then weeks of welding:





Time to go in:





Gear sticks:



And that's it up to date.

Veeayt

3,139 posts

204 months

Monday 11th August 2014
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Madness. Kudos to you, Sir

furrywoolyhatuk

682 posts

153 months

Monday 11th August 2014
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How have I not seen this thread?! Can't wait for the second engine to be up and running. Hat off to you my friend.

firemunki

361 posts

130 months

Monday 11th August 2014
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With just 1 engine, just 1 turbo and just 1 super charger, it's obvious it needs a 2nd engine!

Bluehawk

494 posts

165 months

Monday 11th August 2014
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Shedding gone mad!
I LOVE IT

FRA53R

1,077 posts

167 months

Monday 11th August 2014
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Having just got back from a boozy weekend, I was concerned that this topic was a hallucination caused by alcoholic excess and sleep deprivation.

Immensely glad to find out i'm not going mad. I'm pretty sure you are though! Two twincharged engines in a Volvo T5, sounds like something out of Mad Max!

Stedman

7,213 posts

191 months

Monday 11th August 2014
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WTAF

claymore

155 posts

192 months

Monday 11th August 2014
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Radiator and first stage intercooler in:





Supercharger waiting for brackets:



One of the two Mini fuel tanks in place:



Gear selection all sorted:




claymore

155 posts

192 months

Wednesday 13th August 2014
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Second stage intercooler fitted smile










CB2152

1,555 posts

132 months

Wednesday 13th August 2014
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That first picture made me chuckle. It seems ironically appropriate that to engineer a twin engine/turbo/supercharged Volvo T5 BTCC-esque estate which will outrun most things on the road and sounds like a rally car.....



.....you poke the intercooler out of the roof.

Many PH points awarded surely? thumbup

Also, Jag XJ(?) steering wheel?

Pebbles167

3,417 posts

151 months

Wednesday 13th August 2014
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Is it as fast as a peugeot 107 that was seen on splitter suffers recently? wink

claymore

155 posts

192 months

Wednesday 13th August 2014
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Pebbles167 said:
Is it as fast as a peugeot 107 that was seen on splitter suffers recently? wink
I don't think so, that thing was as fast as a 1.4 polo wink

claymore

155 posts

192 months

Wednesday 13th August 2014
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CB2152 said:
That first picture made me chuckle. It seems ironically appropriate that to engineer a twin engine/turbo/supercharged Volvo T5 BTCC-esque estate which will outrun most things on the road and sounds like a rally car.....



.....you poke the intercooler out of the roof.

Many PH points awarded surely? thumbup

Also, Jag XJ(?) steering wheel?
Jag XFR wink