Volvo 480 Club Europe

Joolz, Might have a Volvo badge on your car but the engine is not a Volvo engine. It's a Renault engine and his put it in a Renault.

so maybe you should join the renault engine owners club

martinholmesuk wrote: maybe you should join the renault engine owners club

This was the closest match I could find Mart, and it doesn't look all that appealing.....

http://www.renaultownersclub.org/discus ... 1153307244

Stu.

martinholmesuk wrote:Joolz, Might have a Volvo badge on your car but the engine is not a Volvo engine. It's a Renault engine and his put it in a Renault.

so maybe you should join the renault engine owners club

Hang on, I'm pretty sure there's a fair bit of Volvo engineering that's gone in on it.

It was also a diesel engine originally you know! Doesn't mean you should try sticking diesel in it

stu chacks wrote:
This was the closest match I could find Mart, and it doesn't look all that appealing.....

http://www.renaultownersclub.org/discus ... 1153307244

Stu.

Aye Stu..which is why I'll still be here moaning and puttiing my tuppenth happeny in for a while yet

Mart....after almost 10 years of 480 driving I can assure you I do know its a renault engine

Good stuff Joolz glad you know what your driving

stu chacks wrote:

martinholmesuk wrote: maybe you should join the renault engine owners club

This was the closest match I could find Mart, and it doesn't look all that appealing.....

http://www.renaultownersclub.org/discus ... 1153307244

Stu.

Im on my way to sign up now! lol

martinholmesuk wrote:Joolz, Might have a Volvo badge on your car but the engine is not a Volvo engine. It's a Renault engine and his put it in a Renault.

so maybe you should join the renault engine owners club

And Porsche had something to say in it as well... aside from the chassis part of things, where Lotus was fair enough to give some (well earned) advise.

All in all... it's a Volvo!

What did Porsche do to the engine? Fueling part??

dave wrote:What did Porsche do to the engine?

Probably about as much as they did to the Seat Ibiza 1.5, basically bugger all

robin_xr4i wrote:

dave wrote:What did Porsche do to the engine?

Probably about as much as they did to the Seat Ibiza 1.5, basically bugger all

I thought they did the suspension

I was under the impression they reworked the manifold and upped the power quite considerably!

volvo-bigbrother wrote:

robin_xr4i wrote:

dave wrote:What did Porsche do to the engine?

Probably about as much as they did to the Seat Ibiza 1.5, basically bugger all

I thought they did the suspension

No, Lotus are supposed to have been involved with the suspension (although I haven't seen any proof, and the suspension doesn't use and Lotus parts I'm aware of).

Porsche wrote the engine management system (which then got edited by Volvo).

The suspension was worked on by Lotus.

Not quite sure what Porsche done-i get the impression that it was just general tweaking rather than anything specific...

Found this article though, here. Made some interesting reading...a 480 16v eh?

where are these prototypes.......anyone know?

I NEED the turbocharged 2.0 ltr

Dan the 480 Man wrote:Found this article though, here. Made some interesting reading...a 480 16v eh?

Hehehe, I wrote some of that, so it's mostly bollocks probably!

Brasco wrote:

Dan the 480 Man wrote:Found this article though, here. Made some interesting reading...a 480 16v eh?

Hehehe, I wrote some of that, so it's mostly bollocks probably!

Cool! How come?

Dan the 480 Man wrote:

Brasco wrote:

Dan the 480 Man wrote:Found this article though, here. Made some interesting reading...a 480 16v eh?

Hehehe, I wrote some of that, so it's mostly bollocks probably!

Cool! How come?

Unless the subject has been locked, you can edit it. I fact I've just edited it again... someone had the audacity to label it a 3 door hatchback...

It's a bloody coupe! That's the problem with Wikipedia, any old person with an axe to grind can put in... see the end of the article

you are so cruel!