Calling all 850-R lets see pictures

glowbug · Post by **glowbug** » 31 Jan 2012, 16:39

Hello to all. Just wanted to see how many 850R series wagons or sedans are here on this site. Show off your pride and joy and include a picture or two, and a little info. I will start with mine.
1997, IPD tune, IPD exhaust, K&N filter. (for now)

NewToVolvo850s · Post by **NewToVolvo850s** » 31 Jan 2012, 18:14

You should check this out https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums ... hp?t=25271 its 53 pics of members volvos

NewToVolvo850s · Post by **NewToVolvo850s** » 31 Jan 2012, 19:18

53 Pages*

Post by **rspi** » 31 Jan 2012, 19:25

Man, you mean 57 pages of new member photos. It took me 1/2 of a day to get through that thing. It is awsome though.

As for R pics, I posted a few on the New Member Photo Thread. But I'll post one or two here.

I got my car May 2011 from a meth addic so YES I got a good deal on it. The car had a bad tranny, first and second was bad. I drove the car with the bad tranny 1,500 miles home.

It was pretty solid other than that. The guy that sold it to me never drove it (could not register it) so I spoke to the PO-PO and he was an older guy that kept the oil changed and repaird things that he knew was broken. Had a recent tune up and ran/runs real strong. It had steel wheels on it so I had to install Titans on it (I had a set at home). Mechanically it was a 3, cosmetically it was a 2. I'm slowly bringing it back up to 5 / 5.

The car had 188,000 when I got it. Has 197,000 now. New PCV, new roof rails, new wheels and tires, lots of clean up.

D_V_ENT850R · Post by **D_V_ENT850R** » 31 Jan 2012, 21:58

Here's my 96 854R. 163,000miles! OBX 3" turbo back, Short Ram, phenolic intake spacer, MSD coil, 8mm wires, MBC set to 14psi stock tune, and in two days my 17psi tune will be here! Can't wait! Running 15.1 @ 92mph on a 100 degree day at the track!

glowbug · Post by **glowbug** » 01 Feb 2012, 16:35

Nice, the Titan wheels deffinately adds to the car's stance and agresiveness, from the looks of the pic, that car looks like a 9 on the outside. Nice job cleaning it up.

rspi wrote:Man, you mean 57 pages of new member photos. It took me 1/2 of a day to get through that thing. It is awsome though.

As for R pics, I posted a few on the New Member Photo Thread. But I'll post one or two here.

I got my car May 2011 from a meth addic so YES I got a good deal on it. The car had a bad tranny, first and second was bad. I drove the car with the bad tranny 1,500 miles home. It was pretty solid other than that. The guy that sold it to me never drove it (could not register it) so I spoke to the PO-PO and he was an older guy that kept the oil changed and repaird things that he knew was broken. Had a recent tune up and ran/runs real strong. It had steel wheels on it so I had to install Titans on it (I had a set at home). Mechanically it was a 3, cosmetically it was a 2. I'm slowly bringing it back up to 5 / 5.

The car had 188,000 when I got it. Has 197,000 now. New PCV, new roof rails, new wheels and tires, lots of clean up.

Post by **rspi** » 01 Feb 2012, 16:40

Thanks. I did complete the Forever Black around the bumpers but the spoiler has a couple of cracks and the hood has a couple of chips not to mention the scratches that I may try to wetsand.

Post by **rspi** » 01 Feb 2012, 16:44

Here are a couple of before photos:

I'm working on blacking out the engine compartment.

glowbug · Post by **glowbug** » 01 Feb 2012, 16:46

D V ent850r , yours looks like its about ready to cause trouble, and the black hood grille, totally adds to the car. I like it, I always had a eye for the wagon but the black sedan or yellow, I would jump on one tomorrow. If the price is right of course ...

850_GLT_Owner · Post by **850_GLT_Owner** » 01 Feb 2012, 17:42

My R isn't to glamorous just yet, needs work, but this is a picture I took of my first car and my R. The setting isn't great, but I like how it came out with the shadow covering the black R and the sun hitting the white GLT.

doesn't seem to format correctly. Link to the full picture http://imgur.com/r87bI