Anthon Volvo C70 GT T - The Swedish Couch - Sidan 4

Emmetelle · **Postat:** 2010-08-22, 22:03

Love the wheels, lowering YES!

What are you doing with the old ones?

Anthon · **Postat:** 2010-08-23, 09:35

spares!

itsme4g63 · **Postat:** 2010-08-25, 01:27

I wish you focused more on the go than the show man!

Anthon · **Postat:** 2010-08-25, 11:06

all in due time damian!

no point having go when brakes and suspension, and tyres arent up to it!

Emmetelle · **Postat:** 2010-08-26, 18:35

I hope this is as easy to tune as mine seems to be, soon you'll have more go than show!!

:O)

itsme4g63 · **Postat:** 2010-09-03, 03:03

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all in due time damian!

no point having go when brakes and suspension, and tyres arent up to it!

aye! I'm expecting to see some sort of fmic kit and full tbe soon on this car!

Anthon · **Postat:** 2010-09-03, 11:18

not a massive amount of room for front mount at the moment, big rad, air con unit, fans, and small cooler, have to have a looksee what some of the swedes are using. gotta start lookking at some HPT systems, might just fit a T5R turbo and get an itsfun chip, 3" downpipe, decat, FMIC, cams and see what that does. Gotta be good for over 300bhp!

itsme4g63 · **Postat:** 2010-09-11, 18:10

hows the trans in that thing? You have a factory lsd? If not, is there newer models with lsd equipped trans you can swap or oem options?

Anthon · **Postat:** 2010-09-11, 21:23

ive got a manual trans in mine, which is rare, as only 600 out of 26,000 of the C70s had it. im not sure in honesty about any of the models having LSDs, im guessing if any, it would be the T5R, or maybe the V8 S80s. Im pretty deffo that mine doesnt have one, but in all honesty, with only 163bhp at the crank, in a ton and a half of car, its not quick enough to notice....

itsme4g63 · **Postat:** 2010-09-11, 22:35

well, if you were to do a burnout, if there was no lsd then you'd see one patch line instead of two from your tiremarks since non-lsd is basically a one wheel wonder lol. Once you start making more power you want it to be distributed evenly through the wheels.

Anthon · **Postat:** 2010-09-12, 12:46

i understand how an lsd works! what im saying is, with such a small amount of power, i dont bother trying burnouts, as i'd look like a twat :D

itsme4g63 · **Postat:** 2010-09-15, 01:17

aye, I see your way of modding though cause if you get power mods = wasting more fuel and fuel=sooper expensive out there. I recently spoke with a proper englishman whom had moved to U.S. a couple years ago and he still can't get over the fact how much things like gasoline and food are generally much cheaper here in the U.K. He said the only way he's going back is to visit family members lol.

I dont know how heavy that volvo is but if it is a pig then getting more oomph out of it may be just what the doctor ordered.

Anthon · **Postat:** 2010-09-15, 09:35

its well heavy, not sure of the actual figure, but you can feel its weight just driving it.

we are currently at approx £1.12 a litre - $1.7 a litre, or $9.18 US gallon.

itsme4g63 · **Postat:** 2010-09-15, 19:08

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its well heavy, not sure of the actual figure, but you can feel its weight just driving it.

we are currently at approx £1.12 a litre - $1.7 a litre, or $9.18 US gallon.

Off topic but I always found it funny how the british are manipulated (at least I seem to think so)by having consumption listed as MPG yet the fuel is sold in litres; what a clusterfuck. I cant imagine that thing weighting over 3500 lbs but I may be wrong.

Anthon · **Postat:** 2010-09-15, 21:57

yeh britain works on two figures, metric and imperial. metric came in and imperial never really went away.

we use mm, cm, inches, miles, kms, all sorts! lmao

just looked it up, and it weighs approx 3200lbs, or 1450kg as we would use it