Hey guys!

[g96nt]

So.. I've been a member of the wrong NewEngland Motorsports for 3-4 years.
I guess I'm not too bright.

My name's Craig.
I've been around forever. I've gone to a couple of the kank cruises.
(this is the past year)

I've had a ton of cars, and I've made all of them significantly faster.

Right now, I have a Saab 9-5 Wagon:



Which is currently on jack-stands. The engine is being rebuilt because I cracked a piston on my way home from C&C last summer.


Right now, I'm driving a recent pick-up.
It's a cream yellow '95 Volvo T-5R
It's an awesome car. It's pretty rough around the edges, but it's a blast.
It's got a forged 2.4L from a '00 V70R with a 19t, and green giant injectors. It's been swapped to a manual trans, and has a bunch of other mods.

It's the first car I've bought that I didn't do the work myself, and it's turning out to be kind of a headache; trying to figure out what has/hasn't been done, and finding that things have been skipped. I'm working on it, though.
It should be "done" in the next couple months. Then, I can get back to the Wagon.

I've had a couple other projects, too.
I've had:
5 Volvo 240's
5 Saabs (900, 2x 9000, 2x9-3, and 9-5)
3 DSMs
2 Galants (first was 4g63-swapped, and I'm working on another, now)
and now, the 850 T-5R

so... Hi...

[ill_eagle94]

Welcome Craig! Good to see you joined up here! That Volvo looks great!

[Th3Juggernaut]

welcome. yellow volvo is pretty cool, good luck with the projects.

[MrSupra9-1-1]

Nice projects!

Welcome!

[TrueRedMS3]

Welcome!

[OVRBST]

Welcome Craig!

[bayside blue]

welcome.

that volvo is awesome. i wish i could find a cheap 850r with a manual swap

[Kevinoffroad4x4]

Welcome! Pics of the dsms and galant!

[MaliBoost]

Welcome. I love volvos, me and my friend used to kick the sh*t out of his 850 T-5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb6pCT8dyRo It was all stock except the "intake" if you can call ripping out the air box and putting an autozone air filter on it with a thrush welded muffler.

[packofqtips]

nice cars. i have a friend really into saabs and volvos. he got a saab aero built up and his father has a volvo with a blown 302 in it

[ElwaysLate]

Welcome!!! I'm not too bright either sometimes!! Love the Volvo!!

[RichGTS]

welcome! love that style saab

[g96nt]

Thanks, guys.
from what I'm told, the Volvo dyno'd 300whp, and 350lb/ft last year at carlisle.
I don't know if it still has that in it how it sits, but I'm going to see what I can do about bringing it closer to 350whp. I think it's not tooo far from being there.
new FMIC, and tune, and we'll see. I think the turbo's about tapped, though.
I love how well the Volvo is received. Almost everyone knows exactly what it is, and there's always someone that has had one, or been passenger to someone beating on one. The Yellow seems to get people's attention. I've heard there was only 140-ish yellow sedans made, and less than 40 yellow wagons in the single year the yellow was offered. I've wanted one forever. It was really awesome to find one in this "condition"

let's see about dsm pictures... I've had a bunch, but there's no real pictures to speak of on the earlier ones. they were more or less a stock 91 FWD a/t, and a stock '92 laser RS AWD.

Here's the last Eclipse; it was a '90 GST Dyno'd 300whp/288tq @ ESP



It was a pretty budget build: 6-bolt motor with evoIII 16g, 2.5" exhaust, FP2 cams, ebay FMIC, FIC injectors, walbro 255, and DSMlink 2.5.
I was happy with it. my goal was a 110mph daily driver. I managed 114mph with it in 100% street setup, down to wheels/tires.

Here's the Galant. I haven't owned it in more than 6 years.
I loved the car. it was awesome to have such a unique swap:
kind of big pictures...




When I moved back from PA, I didn't have a driveway to do work on, I let Eurodesign do some work on it, and it never ran again. (I drove it into the shop, and had to have it flat-bedded home)

Here's the new project:
(try not to laugh... I'm going with a "reverse rice" idea, here)

[g96nt]

nice cars. i have a friend really into saabs and volvos. he got a saab aero built up and his father has a volvo with a blown 302 in it

When the Wagon's done, it'll have forged pistons, green giants, walbro 255, a custom manifold, and the evoIII 16g from the eclipse.
I'm expecting 350-380whp.





As it was, before I cracked the piston, it was making about 275whp.
That was on a stock aero turbo, 3" exhaust, FMIC, "t5 cams", and tune.
The "t7" pistons are known to crack above 300hp, so I was pretty much expecting it.


I also just had it repainted, too:


The thing's just about 100%.
just needs the motor put back together, which I've been REALLY lazy in completing.

[Boosted Euro]

WELCOME TO THE SITE! .

were you the wagon at the dyno day at smg last year?