Since this is the cool thing to do now, I figured I would formally introduce my wife's 97R to you guys. As I'm sure you all know, I found a Saffron V70R for her and it ended up being a money pit so we got rid of the vehicle while she was deployed and I began my search. I ended up talking to Juan and I asked about his 1997 850R white on tan and we ended up striking a deal! We flew out to pick it up and drove it from Houston TX to Mt Holly NJ (~1600 miles). Did the drive in 2 days and slept for a week LOL. She loves the car! Onto the pics
When we first picked it up
ran into one of these on the way
got home around 8PM, it was a lonnnnnngggg drive
true to my style, I took the entire interior out and cleaned the stuff out of it (monkey cleaning tan)
cleaned up really well
recently did a lot of work to it to include the following:
mishimoto blue intercooler hoses
mishimoto blue radiator hoses
SNABB blue upper IAC hose
eBay heater core
Volvo coolant
Volvo heater core lines
Volvo spark plugs
Bosch cap/rotor
Kingsborne blue 8mm spark plug wires
OBX strut brace
siliconeintakes.com blue vacuum lines
Volvo euro corner lights
Scantech e-code lenses
DDM 6k hids
HIR high beam bulbs
iPD blue upper engine mount
960 rear lit window switches
tan homelink visor
99+ backlit dome light
GROM aux input
BOSCH cam sensor
BOSCH MAF
and how they sat last weekend at a Volvo meet.
Rebuilding a spare 16T to put on it as well as a spare set of white injectors so we can make it a euro R once I have Matt (simply volvo) flash a Euro R tune on it.
I'll keep updating this when we do anything new, but it should be good for a while now!