Three years ago, I had to sell my S70 T5m 1998. after spending ALOT of money into it, it was time to move to another project/plan for the future so I sold the car to a guy in Montreal who took good care of the care. He replaced about everything that I would've replaced (sunroof, front seats, hood). He drove the car for one summer and sold it to a friend of mine in Quebec. I had an eye on it everyday. that guy was beating the crap out of it like no one ever did! car went great the first summer but started to have problems on the next one. The guy remplaced the transmission for the first time in June 2012, he also had to rebuild the turbo in august 2012. In september, the turbo restarded smoking a lot of oil but he kept beating it. before the end of september, the transmission blew again so instead of buying another used one, he had this one rebuild from A to Z and bought a brand new turbo. After this he drove the car for 2 days and spun a rod so the car went in storage early in october 2012. I kept in touch with the guy and saw that he was REALLY broke and could'nt afford the engine replacement. Last week, I made him a ridiculus offer that I thought he would've decline but he was so depressed that he accepted! I parted out my 850, kept Coil-overs and sold everything else since the ''new'' car had already everything I had on the 850 and a lot more! so I bought the car back 3 years later and it was still looking the same, same wheels, same mods, even the same tires. So here is the entire project from when I bought it to when I sold it and from when I rebought it to the present!
First summer:
A couple of mods during the winter:
Green HID were installed for about 2 months before I got caught by a cop
Second summer was a big one, lots of time and money were involved
one piece cold-side piping
interior
3'' turbo-back exhaust
Bully Stage 2 clutch kit with single-mass flywheel
Spanky's fresh Td04hl-18t
dyno time: 270WHP at 19psi
New wheels (19'' adr's)
then i sold the car.
insert three years here!
Last week:
when I rebought the car:
installed the Standard Suspension Coilovers
How it sits right now
it will need 15mm spacers in the front and 20mm spacers in the back! I will also have to make a choice on what front lip I will order. if you guys have any ideas, i'm open to any suggestion. I'm also open to any comment on how the car looks! performance wise, it will receive a RN 2.5T engine in the next few weeks and everything else will remain exactly the same. the car needs a little of body care so everything is going on the look for this summer!