Volvo 480 Club Europe

another solution:

the "check brocken lamp" unit only compares the resistance between two sides of the car.
so if you connect the sidemarkers symmetrical, the unit wont see any errors. plus you will be informed if a sidemarker bulb is broken

the electric adjusters from golf ii will fit without problems to the 440 and 460 series. i dont know if they will fit on a 480 because of the popup mechanism. i already have two of them and wil try to install them soon, will post the results whether it worked or not. additionally you will need a swi...

The Cd value is 0.34 for a 480 the frontal area is 1.84m^2. didn't know that the Cd value was known, sorry (i mean there was a topic a couple of years before and nobody could say the right Cd value) where do you get it from? btw: 0.34 is a quite good value for a 80's cornered car. so did someone me...

Accuracy is quite relative. ^thats true :) it could be usefull for comparing between two same cars, but it would say nothing about the real power output. here are some "error" sources: driving uphill or downhill you dont know the Cd value of the 480 driving with or without popus creates a different...

dont try the thing with the screwdriver.

if you have already removed the dashboard the you can simply push the clips from the inner side of the dashboard and so remove the surrounds

Just an URGEND little question : how do I remove the air vents of the dashboard without breaking stuff ... the plastic becomes very brittle after many years, so there is no solution for removing the vents without damaging some of them. try to heat the vents up (but not too much because the upper "s...

I might be able to give you a dynosheet in return.

which accuracy do you expect from this measuring?

+/- 50 hp?

So, this 480 driver is becoming more and more happy thats just how it should be :) maybe there was something wrong with the cat before, when the car runs better now? i like the turbo spool sound too! @crispy just search for carpc on this forum, there are all the pics. i am rebuilding the whole pc s...

Williewammes wrote: Nobody can tell if the insides of the cat are harmfull, so it's better to be carefull with that.

it is VERY harmfull, i hope you didn't breath in some of this dust

looks good!
nice to see someone realize what i was thinking of (i made the photoshop pics)
the front clusters seem not to fit right are they?
i'm currently trying to do the same... will post my results soon

p.s. i love the color!

snow in berlin:

@ murf: i couldn`t find the "turbo" pic, i will post it if i find them, but here are the 480 pics:

here it is: http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk/for ... php?t=9374

hope my english is understandable

according to the post "Modding the backpanel - keyhole-less trunk!" here is the promised tutorial. in this tutorial i will create a "turbo" badge for the panel above the glovebox. at first things you will need : http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Rednaxela999/badge/5fa83214.jpg el foil converter...

So then Red, you reckon you could knock one of these 480 glowing badge things up then? Put me down for one (as long as it looks that cool!)... I agree with the big badge thing, thats why i took mine off. I'll have to look for a 700 series down the scrapper now... i'm not trying to sell them and i d...

well its really easy to make the glowing logo, i already made a couple for me and for my friends, so thats not the problem. the costs for the logo will be around 15-20€. the expensive part is the converter which makes 110V out of 12V for the el foil, but once you have one you can connect as many f...

ok next idea, what about dodge challenger style?

something like that?

hmm, glowing badges i love them
maybe i will try this too, in addition to the two glowing badges inside

the only problem is to rebuild the middle panel

these wheels will be fitted with special wheel spacers, so your ET(offset will be 35. additionally you will need "center rings" to make the wheel spacers fit to the volvo.