This is an older vid but still one of my favotites, it's a total sleeper! :shock:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...olvo+850&hl=en
This is an older vid but still one of my favotites, it's a total sleeper! :shock:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...olvo+850&hl=en
When the 850's first came out, a Canadian auto magazine tested several Canadian made cars to find the "fastest car made in Canada". The supercharged Buick Regal was excluded since it had a wimpy speed limiter at 115 mi/h. So they had the Crown Vic police pack, the Camaro Z-28 automatic and Firebird Trans AM WS-6 6-speed, and a Volvo 850 station wagon
Now of course, the F-bodies were the quickest between 160-165 miles per hour (and that was a speed limiter at 165!) but the Volvo did 155! Meanwhile the Crown barely did 130.
Must have been fun to watch a pair of high performance V8 sports cars going around a racetrack with a damn Volvo station wagon hot on their heels
The Washington State patrol has several unmarked 850r's as patrol vehicles!Originally Posted by SmaartAasSaabr
My understanding is that they can be upgraded/modified to quite an impressive level, and on a reasonable budget, too.
A local Scooby enthusiast also has a late-model Cross-Country, and he mentioned that for about $$3,000 (parts, not including labor - but he's a self-wrencher, so that's a moot point), a "staged" kit from IPD could take the car up to about 400 horses, at the wheels.
Nice stuff.
as living in sweden this vid is no surprise to me ... the local blackraces (legal streetraces) show volvo's or saab with 600-1200bhp on the wheels and doing the quatermile in 6 seconds or so ... amazing
The engine in that volvo is closer too 400-450hp with probably 350 fwhp
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Sounds of turbo to me and around 400rwhp or fwhp....i don't know, i'm still shaking my head :? What the bloody hell :shock:Originally Posted by crazyVOLVOrob
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I am judging from the other modified T5s I have seen.Originally Posted by RadarRick
The thing moveds but it's not 400fwhp there would be know traction at full boost. My Volvo has traction problems at 200hp and my cousins at 260 is even worse
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If I remember correctly that car has 500+ HP, will try to find the link that show the mods!Originally Posted by crazyVOLVOrob
If I remember correctly that car has 500+ HP, will try to find the link that show the mods! Half way through the vid when he's on the freeway you can clearly see the volvo laying down rubber at 50+ MPH (it takes some serious action under the hood to do that)!!!Originally Posted by crazyVOLVOrob
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