Hi guys thought id pop by and say hello, bought a 1997 S70 T5 last march but had it stored until a couple of weeks ago, needs some work doing but managed to get it back to working order and motd ect Will get some pics and info up soon as struggling as have no laptop no more so will work a way to do it all on the ipad Hope all the people iv known for a while on here are all good so hi to you all Stay tuned :)
Hi there good to see your back, not too many S70's about these days....gets some pic's up mate
So here we go, these are the pics from when I bought it
Main bodywork issue
So after I bought it it was sat a while at a friends until I managed to free space in my garage, first thing was to replace the perfos with some Mondeo ST wheels I had that had brand new tyres on, so drilled out the centre bore and started the fitting
Next issue to address was the cutting out and not starting when warm, diagnosed as blocked cat so removed it and smashed all the internals out, ha to get a new centre bracket as had to grind off
Next issue was a sidelight not working, found out that a previous owner had cut off the part where the 501 fits so thanks to deathrider (Simon) he had a headlight wiring to hand so that was fixed
I do have a lot more pics but this is hard to do on an iPad, started the front end detail but I now had 2 x wings and a bonnet to send off for respray and looking for an R front bumper to make complete, but this is how the front end is looking
Trying to find some spoiler brackets as they are rotten
Started a rear end detail but had to pull it out the garage as a I got a seriously rotten v70 t5 in to break for the manual conversion which is now on the cards
Lots and lots of plans on the cards over the next year or 2
Thanks to deathrider (Simon) for help with the bits like a decent battery etc
That's all for now folks, stay tuned
Looks a worthy project :)
It's my S70's brother ;)
Still toying with manual converting mine...
[QUOTE=Doingitsideways;809792]Looks a worthy project :)
It's my S70's brother ;)
Still toying with manual converting mine...[/QUOTE]
It's only a weekends worth of work if you get a donor car :)
Haha so much alike but yours is much nicer right now lol Thinking of doing the wheels in graphite or similar but not sure yet
[QUOTE=Nealevo;809793]It's only a weekends worth of work if you get a donor car :)[/QUOTE] Yea I have all the bits but waiting till I have all new parts to put on like clutch and full service etc etc and then going to blow over the engine bay while I'm at it
[QUOTE=Nealevo;809793]It's only a weekends worth of work if you get a donor car :)[/QUOTE] What chance would you have then though? You can't even beat an auto off the line! :lol: Mine is definitely a 200 yard car though. Any closer and you see alo the duct tape and cable ties.
Welcome back bud, where ya been?
Very long story mate lol
[QUOTE=Doingitsideways;809799]What chance would you have then though? You can't even beat an auto off the line! :lol: Mine is definitely a 200 yard car though. Any closer and you see alo the duct tape and cable ties.[/QUOTE] It's not who gets off the line first it's who crosses the other line first and you sir was always second
Welcome back Darren. :D