Volvo 854 T-5R Olive green
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The radiator has been leaking from both end caps for a while now so bought a new one from PFS along with the correct oil cooler pipe seals and metal clips. Forgot to take pictures of install!
Only took one as it was coming apart.
One thing I did do though was clean the header tank out whilst it was all apart and it came up really well with very little effort.
Intercooler
Very tight fit
Only took one as it was coming apart.
One thing I did do though was clean the header tank out whilst it was all apart and it came up really well with very little effort.
Intercooler
Very tight fit
Deathmole said:
I recall seeing this car on the VOC forums many years, at least I think this is the one, a green saloon owned by a guy with that name certainly springs to mind anyways.
Lovely car, great choice! Do you have a thread for the Gul too?
Yes the Olive green T-5R was a well known car on the Volvo forums, there is a build thread on VOC forum. Lovely car, great choice! Do you have a thread for the Gul too?
Link for my thread on the Gul
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Cheers
Stedman said:
thebraketester said:
They do have very square corners and fit much wider than a normal road tyre. Looks great, and they will work a treat!
Thanks. It’s a slow project at the moment due to new house and other cars.
Dropped steering wheel off at Royal Steering Wheels last week. The original was looking pretty worn compared to the one on my Gul so I decided to go for 2mm thicker rim, black Alcantara with mid grey stitching. Should be back next week.
Just looking at front seats now, reclining buckets.
This Is what I’m thinking of fitting.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=corbeau+rrb+clot...
Jaaack said:
That's a cool looking car. Love the style, plenty of small mods adding up to look very track focused (which it is, by the sounds of it!)
Love the chunky rubber. Makes a massive improvement -great tyres too!
I've got serious garage envy!
Thanks.Love the chunky rubber. Makes a massive improvement -great tyres too!
I've got serious garage envy!
I’ve not tracked it yet. The previous owner took it to the Ring quite a few times though. It’s not a car you want to drive too far in as it’s very stiff suspension and quite noisy inside, good fun though. I have 2 T-5R’s and they drive so differently. The other one cruises along quite nicely even though it has KW V2 Coilovers and a few other bits where as the green one is like driving an old 90’s touring car lol.
Garage isn’t that great inside yet as doesn’t have any electric plus a couple of broken windows. I’m doing the windows this week but having to repair a rotten frame as well. I’ve run a 10mm armoured from fuse box in the house to garage but that’s it so far!
It’s 38ft long though and has an inspection pit which is handy. Only been in the house 3 months so all takes time and money.
Hoping to do a few trackdays later on in the year so going to fit an external oil cooler. The standard oil cooler built into the end of the radiator isn’t up to keeping temps down on track.
Setrab oil cooler which is huge, same length as radiator.
Test fitted it up as had front of car off. Won’t be plumbed in for a while as waiting for a few other bits to arrive from the U.S
Setrab oil cooler which is huge, same length as radiator.
Test fitted it up as had front of car off. Won’t be plumbed in for a while as waiting for a few other bits to arrive from the U.S
External oil cooler install is finished. Car went up to Tim Williams to have later sump fitted along with take off plate, new oil lines and Improved racing oil stat.
Not going to be any high oil temp issues on track as on the road the temp has dropped by 30c from 100c to 70c when cruising on M way, a bit too low for road driving.
Also had the oil pump changed to a XC90 T6 one to give higher oil pressure when hot. Old pump failed with pressure relief valve sticking open, luckily this happened at idle so no damage done.
Next job is to remove the under performing Gaz Gold coilovers and replace with KW V2/V3.
Can see it being another year at this rate before any track time!
Not going to be any high oil temp issues on track as on the road the temp has dropped by 30c from 100c to 70c when cruising on M way, a bit too low for road driving.
Also had the oil pump changed to a XC90 T6 one to give higher oil pressure when hot. Old pump failed with pressure relief valve sticking open, luckily this happened at idle so no damage done.
Next job is to remove the under performing Gaz Gold coilovers and replace with KW V2/V3.
Can see it being another year at this rate before any track time!
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