Recent content by mikeyboy123456

Hello Mate, Well my volvo mechanic told me the first ones were the quickest in terms of power delivery/acceleration,he reckoned the newer ones had different power bands,im no mechanic so i just took his word for it. As for the mpg i was living in east london at the time and it was total...

Sadly the time has come for me to part with my beloved volvo,its a 1993 manual and one of the first T5's ever made its a saloon and had over £2k spent on it since i bought it about 3 years ago. The body has a few dents where various nobheads have driven into it but the engine and running gear...

I am currently considering purchasing a 1997 volvo v70r awd,im just wondering though,i currently have a FWD t5 850 which was pretty easy to mod,does anybody know the tuning potential of a v70r awd? Im hearing mixed reviews,if anyone knows that'd be a great help. Cheers, Mike

T5 New clutch Cheers for the advice guys.i ended up getting the T5 remapped to 277bhp by a bloke called simon who worked for a firm called CCC.Top bloke as it goes I would recommend him. However....the new amount of power has pushed my poor tired clutch over the edge and I was wondering if...

Hello, Does anybody know the best place for me to get my volvo t5 chipped? I live in Essex but would travel out if its worthwhile. Im looking to get it running around the 290bhp mark. Cheers, Mike

Nice 1 Walter i shall have a butchers at ebay,by the looks of things its my downpipe thats gone so fingers crossed shouldn't need a whole new manifold! Hello Wayne as of yet I have done no mods other than a new set of xenon bulbs,i bought it two months ago for £600 and im just tidying her up...

ah right so im not going mad, performance manifolds for these are rare as rocking horse #!#!#!#!,the only reason I was looking to uprgade it is because mine had a got a hole in it and has turned into a mobile gas chamber,it sounds pretty awesome though so not all bad. Thanks for the help...

Evening all,names Mikey and im a new member and im having a great deal of trouble finding a new performance exhaust manifold for my 850 T5,any ideas anybody as to where I can find 1?