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<blockquote data-quote="mahc" data-source="post: 8881038" data-attributes="member: 645186">I ended up finishing that build after all but the car have issues. I bought it super cheap from an estate sale. The previous owner went through the scenery or jumped a curb at one point and all the bushings and mounts were annihilated especially on the driver side. The suspension was also shot. I fixed all that, changed the steering u-joint, also did the whole pcv system and after an alignment, the car was great. About a year after the build, it started leaking oil. At first I though it was the rear main seal but now I&#039;m pretty sure it&#039;s one of the rear cam seals. At that point I lost confidence that I could drive that car daily and a leaky car is kind of embarrassing so I went ahead and got a new car full of very annoying big brother features. So back to zero now. I will keep restoring the Volvo but keep it super light with a bigger turbo and a better differential or swap the whole drive train for one from a S60R/V60R.The system was an active 3-way with one sub all ran from a Clarion HX-D3. Morel Piccolo tweeters powered by one of the Alpine MSV-1050s, Dynaudio e430 mids powered by the other MSV-1050, Hertz ML1800.3 woofers powered by the Us Amp 2000x and the sub was a Hertz ML3000 matched with a Audison LRx 1.2k. Excessive Amperage alt and XS Power agm under the hood.[ATTACH=full]60374[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]60369[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mahc, post: 8881038, member: 645186"] I ended up finishing that build after all but the car have issues. I bought it super cheap from an estate sale. The previous owner went through the scenery or jumped a curb at one point and all the bushings and mounts were annihilated especially on the driver side. The suspension was also shot. I fixed all that, changed the steering u-joint, also did the whole pcv system and after an alignment, the car was great. About a year after the build, it started leaking oil. At first I though it was the rear main seal but now I'm pretty sure it's one of the rear cam seals. At that point I lost confidence that I could drive that car daily and a leaky car is kind of embarrassing so I went ahead and got a new car full of very annoying big brother features. So back to zero now. I will keep restoring the Volvo but keep it super light with a bigger turbo and a better differential or swap the whole drive train for one from a S60R/V60R. The system was an active 3-way with one sub all ran from a Clarion HX-D3. Morel Piccolo tweeters powered by one of the Alpine MSV-1050s, Dynaudio e430 mids powered by the other MSV-1050, Hertz ML1800.3 woofers powered by the Us Amp 2000x and the sub was a Hertz ML3000 matched with a Audison LRx 1.2k. Excessive Amperage alt and XS Power agm under the hood. [ATTACH type="full"]60374[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]60369[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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