my 1995 turbo life, starting @ 12.10.2006 - lots of pictures

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my 1995 turbo life, starting @ 12.10.2006 - lots of pictures

Post by aibast » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:30 am

Tought of starting this story with my 480. First post on this forum was weather to buy it or not. As you understand I did.

This is how I got the car
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First of, the exhaust needed to be changed out. So fount a new one and fitted that. Then the rear brakes failed on me. Got new ones and fixed that. Then turbos wastegate got stuck from rust, fixed that also. The winter came and found that the original wheels were damaged and needed new ones for the next summer. Got these for the price on one new original Taurus.
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Next made a cargo blind to the rear
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Good driving for some time
Here is a pic when 160 000 km rolled on the odometer
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Then askes a local dealer for a front spoiler. it cost so much I almost fainted. So desided to make one myself
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Some time after that february 2007 I needed a new electric window motor. Used one cost as much as a rusted 480 turbo did. So got myself a parts car. Have given me a lot of parts by now :) So stripped it of all I could ever need and scrapped the body.
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then dicovered that the front springs where broken and needed to change the shocks as well. Found myself lowering springs.
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this turned the car from a passanger car to a sports coupe.
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And one time made a new spoiler for the car. The good old smiling frog pic
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on 12th aprill was my birthday
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and the first pic from summer 2007
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it was richmod time after that and car waited for a while

then just before changeing the turbo for T25G
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A bigger turbo was in.
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and tinted the rear windows
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after some track runs found that the stock exhaust is just way to small for richmoded turbo.
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So started on a 2,5" straight trough one
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After running around my turbo failed on me. The by-pass was killed by overboosting the turbo when the wastegate airhose broke. That resulted in turbo surge and that just killed the turbo totaly. Parked the car @ a frineds garage and started sourcing a new turbo.

But found some cool wheels
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So in the end went with a rebuilt stock turbo and got some better shocks as well.
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as I now had all the parts. Took the head of the engine
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then some port matching and cleaning up the channels.
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and here is the new metal by-pass so that I wouldn't kill my rebuilt turbo. Man does this sound cool :)
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got the new wheels powercoated
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and the engine head together
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february 2008 finished detailing the wheels
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febryary 14 2008 got the engine running again :)
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as the white front ligths where cracked I but on the older orange ones.
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then came the time for summertyres. Got to but my ATS Cup wheels on. Took some pics as well
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Anton from Finland sent me new front lights.
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and then on the 1st of aprill the snow just fell down so to speak. And the guy next door rammed my 480 driver door with his cars bumper. No damage on my car, scraped and tented bumper on his Daewoo
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got the new lights on :)
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now summertime and some roadtrips
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4th on june 2008. Hit a hole in the road so hard that it killed the front spoiler. Got my hands on a stock grill just added a moose power sticker.
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made a hood with vents for track runs on hot days.
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another roadtripp :)
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and the last thing. The alternator failed and changed that one out. All running well @ the moment. I'll keep you posted.
1996 850R 2.0 T5 - "Beebi R"
1994 480 Turbo - RichMod - sold to get the R
1992 850 2,5 20V - sold to get the R
1987 744 TIC - Haas Tuning - totaled by BMW
1973 142 GL B20E - sold

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Post by aibast » Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:32 am

the weather in here was fantastic for pics, so took some :) Also got the rear cluster polished up again. Cost me 2x4back of beer :)
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1996 850R 2.0 T5 - "Beebi R"
1994 480 Turbo - RichMod - sold to get the R
1992 850 2,5 20V - sold to get the R
1987 744 TIC - Haas Tuning - totaled by BMW
1973 142 GL B20E - sold

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Post by aibast » Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:10 am

Changed the color in the dash by removing the green tint where I could. Also the infocenter now is more or less yellow. Some parts are just made from green plastic. Here is the result. Now I can use what ever color bulbs I like :)
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it looked like this before
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1996 850R 2.0 T5 - "Beebi R"
1994 480 Turbo - RichMod - sold to get the R
1992 850 2,5 20V - sold to get the R
1987 744 TIC - Haas Tuning - totaled by BMW
1973 142 GL B20E - sold

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Post by aibast » Mon Oct 20, 2008 5:14 am

Just removed the rear trim from the inside to add some sound dethening. Got tired of tirenoise and water noise when driving in wet. @ moment just toing from the rear tu the front seats. Someday will do the front also. But man does I like the sound of my cars exhaust @ WOT. Nice smooth rumble. The resonators work great - no ricer rasp :)
1996 850R 2.0 T5 - "Beebi R"
1994 480 Turbo - RichMod - sold to get the R
1992 850 2,5 20V - sold to get the R
1987 744 TIC - Haas Tuning - totaled by BMW
1973 142 GL B20E - sold

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Post by aibast » Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:18 am

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the yellowish white wasn't that good so made the dash lighting red.
1996 850R 2.0 T5 - "Beebi R"
1994 480 Turbo - RichMod - sold to get the R
1992 850 2,5 20V - sold to get the R
1987 744 TIC - Haas Tuning - totaled by BMW
1973 142 GL B20E - sold

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Post by aibast » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:36 pm

just but my car to her winter hideout. See her again in the spring :)
1996 850R 2.0 T5 - "Beebi R"
1994 480 Turbo - RichMod - sold to get the R
1992 850 2,5 20V - sold to get the R
1987 744 TIC - Haas Tuning - totaled by BMW
1973 142 GL B20E - sold

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Post by aibast » Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:08 am

Dash lights are simple. Remove the dash, sandpaper of the green tint under the gaughes faces and from the infocenter plastic sheet (it looks white) Then apply red paint or red seetrough tape. I used rear light repair tape for that. And change out the 2 middle bulbs from 3W to 5W. Gives nice and even light then.

As for the wheels, they are ATS Cup wheels. The rear arches need rolling to make them fit with 195 tyres.

Exhast parts I got from a friend and a local club member.

And yep, now I need to drive around in my moms white Slowesta 1.4 N/A.
1996 850R 2.0 T5 - "Beebi R"
1994 480 Turbo - RichMod - sold to get the R
1992 850 2,5 20V - sold to get the R
1987 744 TIC - Haas Tuning - totaled by BMW
1973 142 GL B20E - sold

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Post by aibast » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:49 am

Soon going to get her out of her winter hideout to get her MOT ready. Exhaust needs some repairs.
1996 850R 2.0 T5 - "Beebi R"
1994 480 Turbo - RichMod - sold to get the R
1992 850 2,5 20V - sold to get the R
1987 744 TIC - Haas Tuning - totaled by BMW
1973 142 GL B20E - sold

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Post by aibast » Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:01 pm

Well the last adventure was that my fireextinqisher exploded in my car while driving and had to clean the powder from the inside of the car. Looks like new now. But here are the pics. My bro now drives her as I cant fit my childs stuff in my car and 850 is for that.
my older brother
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6kg red badboy on the pic. The one that let out all his power
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me @ the rear hatch
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"see we should also clean that"
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uuuuuuu, shes gona be clean soon
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and the proud owner of the car - Me again
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Face off
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1996 850R 2.0 T5 - "Beebi R"
1994 480 Turbo - RichMod - sold to get the R
1992 850 2,5 20V - sold to get the R
1987 744 TIC - Haas Tuning - totaled by BMW
1973 142 GL B20E - sold

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Post by aibast » Wed May 13, 2009 5:09 am

well I just sold my 480 turbo, and got a 850 R estate. Family has its sacrifices .
1996 850R 2.0 T5 - "Beebi R"
1994 480 Turbo - RichMod - sold to get the R
1992 850 2,5 20V - sold to get the R
1987 744 TIC - Haas Tuning - totaled by BMW
1973 142 GL B20E - sold

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