Kevin - Volvo, Yota, Honda....

[kcdehart]

Wow, that's enough variety to land you in favor of most people here. Welcome!

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Can never have too much variety when it comes to vehicles



The Volvo is a *bit* of a unicorn. Only 20k or so C30s brought over to the US between '07 and '13. There are ~3,000 2011s. The guesswork begins here since Volvo doesn't actually give out detailed production numbers (I've asked). Probably 1,000 of those were R Designs (upgraded suspension, interior trim, exterior aero stuff). Gonna guess around half of those were 6-speeds. So, I'm happy I was able to find this one. I went to Delaware to get it lol

So far I absolutely love it. It's a blast on back roads and the 2.5L T5 has TONS of torque everywhere.

Here's an interior pic. I'm a huge fan of the light/dark contrast in the seats. I did also find myself some OEM 'C30' floor mats after taking that pic just to keep things nice. It's looking pretty good for 94k miles.


These came in the mail yesterday and some pearl black 18x8 +40 (stocks are 18x7.5 +52) Enkei TY5s should be showing up today or tomorrow. I actually really like the stock wheels, but all 4 were at least slightly bent when I bought it (enough that they eat through tires) and at $750 each for new ones...or $250 each to repair em....buying new wheels seemed like a better idea since it was in the plans anyways.


As of right now the only mod is an 'E Focus' engine torque mount that I installed since the OEM mount was toast and flimsy from the factory anyways. The passenger-side engine mount also needs to be replaced (I'll do that later this week, too).

My future mod plans include: drop-in filter (open elements don't really gain much), muffler delete, downpipe, intercooler, stage 3 tune (like 280-300whp/320-340wtq if I'm lucky. These don't make a ton of power on the stock K04 turbo, sadly), rear sway bar, EBC/Hawk brake pads....I'm sure the list will just get bigger lol

I've got YEARS of plans between my 3 vehicles at the moment. I've apologized to my bank account in advance.