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Having been bitten by the Volvo bug and needing another FWD car for the MG drive unit testing.... Along came a 2003 Volvo V70 P2 diesel with a snapped timing belt and ...sparse service history. It had also been "converted" to commercial for motor tax avoidance and thus has no back seats. Sigh.

Anyway, will be getting started on it hopefully next spring. Am seriously considering sourcing a parts car either in the UK or Europe if one comes up at the right price.

The bonnet opener Nyland: what the heck is this thing?

Very sexy to have a test car for every drive train

Damien said the brass bonnet opener is a pipe clamp

But there are some replacement parts on the way to Ireland

Even though this project hasn't really started yet, I started to gather some CAN logs from my Volvo S60: https://github.com/damienmaguire/Volvo- ... 5244S2 M56

Perhaps someone wants to play around with it as well?
As far as I know, these are the first public logs of of HISPEED and LOSPEED CAN busses of a P2 Volvo (pre-facelift).

While working on the engine mounts for the MG drive unit in my V70 I, I also started working on mounts for the V70 II that Damien has:
https://openinverter.org/forum/viewtopi ... 224#p88224

The position of the V70 II engine mount is more favorable, so it's possible to use the original mounts without a relocating bracket (blue is the mounting location in the V70 II that I have to contruct a mount for): In the background you can see the angle different of the V70 I mount in the background compared to the V70 II mount: It is close, but at least on the Drive Unit side of thing it'll fit: