The Wolf - Volvo 480 Turbo

[Cerberus]

Ok... Well time to start an install thread. In vain hopes that it will help
me keep making progress...!

(this is going to get a bit picture intensive... apologies!)

First off.. The car -




I've just SORN'd the Jag.. So work on getting 'the wolf' going has to accelerate!

She's LPG'd so cheap to run... but right now I can't afford to insure both
and I can't be doing with insuring it for just a few months.. so when it ran out
at end of Feb she got parked up. Good job I can walk to work!

But.. Back on 'the wolf'.....

We lovingly refer to the lil red car as 'the wolf' because I had to de-badge it
to stop people keep trying to buy it! Now they don't know if it is an ES or a Turbo
so they leave me alone. (wolf in sheeps clothing. This thing is chipped and puts
out 170bhp!)


Dodgy 'sideways' shot of the interior. I've swapped this out now for a 'half leather'
interior.


Only cost me £30!


Getting a bit of a nose job.

This car cost me £100 and came with a suspected failed gearbox. Boy did it make
nasty noises! So off it came...


And the source of the nasty noise turned out to be cheaper than a new gearbox!


So... Attention turns to the PC install (Thats what yr waiting for afterall)

Heres a pic of the dash...

Note the 3 guages, heater controls and empty din slot on the left hand side.
Screen will take up the din and the guages have to be relocated.

Thing is I didnt want the boooost guage to be moved down to the lower cubby
I wanted it to still be easily visible.
So I had a look at the clock. Reasoning that I won't need it once the PC is in
it seemed a perfect place to put the booooost guage.

I gutted a clock, sliced up the 3 guages to seperate off the booost guage...

and frankensteined the clock into a boost guage.
(a spare clock shown for comparison)


Fit's in the original clock location (obviously)

so now time to sort out a way to mount the 7" LinITX screen....

I have 193mmx110mm to play with so the original screen case wasn't going to fit
without having it's buttons lopped off. Luckily we have a laser cutter at work..
so....


Hot off the laser cutter, new screen surround.

Fit's quite nicely

(yeah I know.. slight macro problem with that pic.. sorry!)


Screen attached to the new surround, with mounting 'ears' added to the frame.


And of course it just 'has' to be FreeICE. It's been the easiest FE to get doing
all the stuff I need so far!



** to come **

Mounting the lapdog in the boot
Mounting the 4Chl Amp in boot.
Mounting screen frame into the dash.
Figuring out how to put 'Thelma' into the volvo
(The TrafficMaster from my old 'scrapped' Vectra 2.0L SRi
I miss her dulcet tones!)
And the wifey just got me this for my birthday (and I didn't
ask for it, was a surprise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Un_QXJnh0U&feature=user
I think I will actually put it in the car and wire the TrafficMaster
through it...


and... errr... loads of other stuff (including pads n disks all round and a trip
to see the MOT man!)

Here's a quick vid... I got a new camera for xmas.. this was my first attempt
at video editing on the PC.. So what better than a quick tour of my sheds!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLuyvRnJFZE


I guess I'd better get working on it now....!
Cheers all!
cerbs

[ccsnet]

When you say laser cutter do you mean you can cut stuff ?

I'm after a couple of blanks for my DIN screen sides ( can sort measurments ) and I think Glitch may need some thing too..... do you recon you'd be able to do some thing ?

Terran

[Cerberus]

Originally Posted by ccsnet

When you say laser cutter do you mean you can cut stuff ?

I'm after a couple of blanks for my DIN screen sides ( can sort measurments ) and I think Glitch may need some thing too..... do you recon you'd be able to do some thing ?

Terran

Erm.. yeah probably.. Is just a matter of sneaking in there after hours..
If you can grab a copy of Techsofts 2d Design... Draw whay you want in
that and send me the file.. Then I can just send it to the cutter (like a printer
job) and it slices it out of acrylic... Engraving is possible too (as you can see
on my screen surround)

If you send me a drawing with measurements on I can draw it up in 2dDesign
too.. so don't sweat if you can't rustle up a copy...

cerbs

[ccsnet]

Originally Posted by Cerberus

Erm.. yeah probably.. Is just a matter of sneaking in there after hours..
If you can grab a copy of Techsofts 2d Design... Draw whay you want in
that and send me the file.. Then I can just send it to the cutter (like a printer
job) and it slices it out of acrylic... Engraving is possible too (as you can see
on my screen surround)

If you send me a drawing with measurements on I can draw it up in 2dDesign
too.. so don't sweat if you can't rustle up a copy...

cerbs

Yeh - its nothing complicated as its just a small retangle.... I'll sort some thing later kids dependant.....

Terran

[Cerberus]

Originally Posted by ccsnet

Yeh - its nothing complicated as its just a small retangle.... I'll sort some thing later kids dependant.....

Terran

Groovy....

So... gonna tell me how great my progress is now?

*grin*

cerbs

[~Rob]

Originally Posted by Cerberus

We lovingly refer to the lil red car as 'the wolf' because I had to de-badge it to stop people keep trying to buy it! Now they don't know if it is an ES or a Turbo so they leave me alone. (wolf in sheeps clothing. This thing is chipped and puts out 170bhp!)

So err... I'll give you 50 Francs for it


Install looks good so far. I'm jealous of the screen already!

[2Fast]

Fansuperdooperdabbydozy so far matey. Like the laser etching.

[Cerberus]

Originally Posted by ~Rob

So err... I'll give you 50 Francs for it


Install looks good so far. I'm jealous of the screen already!

Thanks guys....!

I'm having an inspiration and motivation crisis at the moment... Hence starting this
thread... I figure putting some pics up would spur me on and yeah I was kinda hoping
for some kind words... so that's helping...

har har n00b...!

Seriously.. ppl would knock on the door, at least 1 a week..

Best ones are the ones that ask "Wanna scrap the red car mate?"
When I'd offer them the grey one they suddenly loose interest... how dumb
do I look?? (Don't answer that!)

Even the pizza delivery guy tried to buy it twice...

Still.. nicely de-badged now... and overnight the requests to purchase stopped.

I didn't realise they were so popular...

And no-one is complaining about a bit of 80's nostalgia yet... s'a good sign...



cerbs

[exploding_penguin]

nice. love the screen nice detail on it. wish i had a laser cutter getting fed up with fiberglass!!!

[lez]

what engine is in that, my brother bought two cars as a buy one get one free type deal, and one was one of those in blue, it could fly...........

[Cerberus]

Originally Posted by lez

what engine is in that, my brother bought two cars as a buy one get one free type deal, and one was one of those in blue, it could fly...........

It's got a 1.7 Renault lump in it!!

Th missus boiled the black one dry 4 times (leaky water pump) and the head gasket
seems to have survived... strong ol lumps...

The 1.7 Turbo gives 120bhp out of the box and a £50 ECU remapping gives you
an extra 50bhp...

Happy days!

I'm off to Newport Pagnell now to see the folks... and my 2 Spitfires! yay!

cerbs

[Baj]

I used to have a black one of them.
Leaky boot hell, the trip computer is flakey as hell too. I loved the leds inside the door locks though. More cars need that.

I see you have the prancing mooses too

[lez]

Originally Posted by Cerberus

It's got a 1.7 Renault lump in it!!

The 1.7 Turbo gives 120bhp out of the box and a £50 ECU remapping gives you
an extra 50bhp...

I have not looked at remapping and things, but I have the 12v 3l PRV lump, I'm sure a remapping thingy would make that go better....

[Cerberus]

Well after a trip home to see the folks I have collected my 8inch sub and the
6x9's that I had in the Spitfire (many moons ago) The Spit is nowhere near finished
and I'm too far away from it to work on the restoration... so... I'm going to use them
in The Wolf.

The 6x9


The Sub



Then we went for a wander around the shops today and I managed to talk the
missus into allowing me 15 mins in Maplin (I paid with 30 mins in a dress shop!)
and aquired myself a 2 channel 200w amp with a built in low pass filter


Happy days....

About time I got the screen installed in the dash.. and started on building the false
boot floor.

Will be a while tho folks... Family stuff... but updates will be coming soon!

cerbs

[Cerberus]

and if my new soldering iron weren't DOA and/or I had a working car to go replace it...

it would be bloody finished by now....

*grrrr*