I'm Maarten from the Netherlands and have bought my first Volvo in August last year, a V70 classic 2.4T from June 1999 (MY2000) with nice full leather interior and almost full options.
For now I have had a lot of bad luck with it, resulting in a motor swap a couple of weeks ago!
It started out as a 2.4T and now a (2003) 2.3T T5 engine is fitted with nearly 120.000km's on it.
The old engine used a great lot of oil, around 1 litre each 250-300km's and a compression test learned that the 3rd cylinder was losing a lot of pressure. And 2 other cylinders leaked oil into the carter. So this one was on the edge of dying.
But since I had a brand new LPG system fitted only last year as well as a new ETM, coils, headlights, wheels, nivomats (automatic suspension) and different drive shafts, there was a lot of money involved.
So i took the expensive way and went for an engine swap. Together with that I've changed the original Downpipe for a 3" one and have had a 100cpi race catalyst fitted . Fasttech (a local tuning company) will tune the engine management for the new engine on October 1st and than I should have around 300bhp to play with..
But enough talk, pictures are necessary here:
The way I bought it:
Exterior:
Interior:
I've fitted a aftermarket radio with aftermarket speakers for better sound (Pioner HU and Focal speakers)
A bit maintenance:
Now it looks like this:
I hope that it's not to much for a first time
Nice to be here, finally made an account after searching these forums over and over again for help..
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