...................i just can't drive stock
This site is dedicated to my Volvo C70 Convertible
Purchased New to Me July 31,2007
73,000 miles
this car is a rare factory high pressure turbo manual vehicle. it had the optional dynaudio system in it with the goofy center channel. that stayed in the car for about 4 weeks. the day i brought the car home the very same night i tinted the car. Major negotiating points for me pre-purchase were worn out suspension, radio not working(no code), scratches on the bumpers, and messed up cluster lens(some kind of cleaner spray dulled the surface. Stole this car for $9825 includeing tax and tags wich comes out to close to $9000 pre taxes.One owne, some lawyer dude out of buffalo ny, car has alot of surface rust (typical of new england vehicles). can't see how someone can drive this car up there with the amount of snow they get and a convertible. car came with large stack of service records, great plus.
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Labor Day Weekend 2007 construction started, in 72 hours I installed the following.
Mostly Audio during this session
- K40 Dual Radar Antenna and Laser Jammer, rear LED and chirper hidden in center air vent. status led and front chirper in left dash speaker
- Eclipse AVN6600 Navigation Head Unit, Motorola IHF-1000 BLuetooth Handsfree, Eclipse IPod Adapter, Eclipse Sirius Tuner
- Autometer cobalt electronic boost / vacuum gauge
- Autometer cobalt volt meter
- Custom Pillar Pod to hold gauges
- Speedtuning USA ECU Tuning 17psi and 265hp best $200 i have ever spent!!
- Whelen CS690 Six Strobe Head Lighting System.
- Eliminated Rear Foglight and installed two heads in there
- Two heads in turn signals
- two heads in front corners
- Factory rear foglight switch turns on / off strobe lights
- brake pedal switches flash patterns
- Federal Signal Public Address System aka police siren
- Hadley Products 145 decible Air Horn System
- Compustar Pro Two Way Spread Spectrum Alarm Remote Starter Paging System
- Computrack Vehicle Recovery/Tracking System.This thing allows me to command the car to do the following
- Remote Start
- Unlock doors
- flash strobes and parking lights to find vehicle
- shut vehicle off if carjacked
- geofencing
all done via web, email, or text message from my phone
- Compustar Channel Expander. This little thing allows me to via remote control do the following
- open and close convertible top
- turn on / off strobe lights
- turn on / off police siren
- turn on / off airhorns
- JL Audio XR-650CSI 6.5" Two way Component system for front door speakers
- JL Audio XR-100 CT 1" Component tweeters in facory dash location
- JL Audio XR-650CSI 6.5" Two way component system for rear speakers
- JL Audio 1000/1v2 one kilowatt mono amplifier
- JL 300/4 full range amplifier
- JL AUdio 8w3v2 subwoofers in front doors
- JL Audio 12w6v2 (three subs) in a custom fiberglass/wood spare tire well enclosure.
- Stinger SP1700 Power Cell in the Trunk
- Direct replacement Custom High Output 210 Amp Alternator
- Two Stinger SP680 batteries in front
- Stinger SR200 High Current relay
- Removed DynaAudio Center Channel and installed bluetooth speaker, GPS, and Sirius antennas under the speaker grill
- 19" Foose DF5 Chrome Wheels
- 245/30/19 ToyoT1R Tires
- 6000K X-tronic HID H7 system for low beams
- 6000K X-tronic HID H3 system for fog lights
- 3400k (yellow) Nokya bulbs for high beams
- Whelen UHF2150A High Beam Wig-Wag Flasher
- Johnson Window Film 5% Tint all around with 5% tint band on windshield
- IPD Black Mesh Grill
- Debaged All Emblems from the rear
- Power Antenna on a Remote Switch
- OEM Wind diffuser (this thing allows you to have the top down in 50 degree weather and not feel it)
- Two bulk boxes of HushMat sound proofing
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Next round of mods happened sometime in the winter of 2007
- High powered single white LEDs in the rear panels
- High powered 25 white LEDs for front footwell
- Blue LEDs for all dash switches
- Eibach Prokit 8410.140, yes it will work on a convertible even though they say it will not work
- New Eclipse came out, so AVN6600 out and AVN6620 in, nice to be a Eclipse Dealer.
- Bilstein Heavy Duty Shocks / Struts
- ATECH Drop In Replacement Aluminum Intercooler
- DRT Slotted and cyro treated Front and Rear Rotors
- New Coolant Temp Sensor
- New Coolant Bottle
- IPD Sway Bars
- Quickbrick Motorsports Heavy Duty Sway bar endlinks
- 302MM brake upgrade
- Poterfield R4S front pads
- stainless steel brake lines
- Coolant System Flush
- two high Powered 25 white LEDs in rearview mirror
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Summer 2008 more performance stuff done
- Tru technologies S44 full range amp (runs circles around the JL 300/4)
- Eclipse SC8365 6.5" Three Way Component System in Front Doors removed the JL AUdio 8w3v2 woofers from the front doors
- Apexi Blowoff valve
- IPD HD Turbo Control Valve
- Volvo TD04-18t direct turbo replacement
- BSR 3" downpipe
- TME/IPD Cat-back exhaust
- 2002-2004 Volvo C70 Jewel Headlamps
before
after
- LED festoon liscence plate light bulbs in blue
- White LED Angel / Halos in high beam headlamp
- Painted Inside of headlamp black to give it more agressive loo, here you can see the yellow highbeam bulb
- New Black corner lights to match headlamps
video of light show in action, click on the picture
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Winter 2008 mods
- Volvo V70R Blue Gauge faces
- Blue 5 LED cluster bulbs x 4
- Blue 5 LED Turn Signal bulbs x 2
- Blue 5 LED Odometer Bulb x 1
- Amber 5 LED Info Center bulbs x 2 (originally had these bulbs go in the turn signals but blue was hard to read)
- Blue single LED bulbs for the switches
- White 25 LED Map / courtesy lights
- PCV System Service12/23/2008
- Double High and Low Beam LED Halos12/25/2008
- IPD Heavy Duty Boost Control Valve (waste of money POS) got P0236 and P0237 boost control solenoid codes from it.
- 85236 miles Jan 1,2009 OEM Vovlo water pump
- Dayco Timing Belt
- OEM Volvo Idler Timingbelt pulley
- Continental Accessory Belt
- Styling Motors Blue Silicone Vacuum Hoses
- Styling Motors Blue Silicone Turbo Hoses
- Styling Motors Blue Coolant Hoses
- Raggtop Convertible Treatment Applied
February 24, 2009
- 19" Moda R6 Wheels, got them from another Volvo Enthusiest but were in really bad shape. Sent back to the refinishers three times to get it straight.
- ABM Black Jewel Corner Lights
- Color Match Headlamp Eyebrows
- 2/28/2009
- NEW rear bumper installed to replaced the old scratched up one
- 03/08/2009 New Trunk Lip Spoiler
- 03/10/2009
- V70 "R" front bumper installed
- V70 "R" Front Lip from www.habrec.com
- V70 Front Fog Lights
- H1 HID Front Fog Lamps
- Foglight Rewired to turn on with parking light, 213 relay mod does not apply to 99+ cars. Obviously not a impossible task, just a PITA job.
- 03/12/2009
- V70R Front Bumper is ON
- 04/01/2009
- Headlamp Halos version 2.0
- 4/20/2009
- Wiper Plugs for myV70R front bumper, from a vendor in the Phillipenes. Highly do not reccomend these. Its a butt plug, only found out they fit like this after it got painted :(
before
after
- 5/10/2009
- Got one of the first StylinMotors Upper Radiator Hoses to complete the engine bay
- Baby also got a full compound and wax job, her first since we have been together.
- Installed a used EST Cold Air Intake with a HKS Yellow Mushroom Filter
- 5/15/2009
- Striped the Side, lots of pictures. hard to see since it's on a dark car. just the way i like it.
- 5/16/2009
- Carlisle Import / Kit Car National, the one and only show i go to every year. forgot to take pictures :(
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Winter 2008 list of pending mods
Undercar neonwhite led puddle lights- second airhorn system for the rear
