850R turbo gauge

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FleebleSquorm - 01 Oct 2005 15:40 GMT

Hi all,

When I hoof it in my 850R, my turbo gauge does not go all the way to the
top. It goes about halfway across the white.

My question is of course, should the gauge go all the way to the top or is
there reserve for an even bigger (!) turbo?

Thanks for your help.

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James Sweet - 01 Oct 2005 19:05 GMT

> Hi all,
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If it's like the guage in my 740, it only ever goes about halfway through
the yellow area, older cars had a red area which was later removed but
normal boost is only about half through the boost area on the guage. If it
went all the way to the end the overboost switch would cut out, that's bad.
I'm really not sure why they didn't put some numbers on the guage, but Volvo
never did use calibrated boost guages so they're not really terribly useful,
they only show you relative boost so you have to have paid attention to the
guage when things were working right to know if something is wrong.

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Virkon - 05 Oct 2005 19:13 GMT

It should go all the way... Look at this video:
http://850r.dk/movies/Volvo%20850R%200-170kmh.WMV

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K Bourke - 06 Oct 2005 01:49 GMT

Beauty bit of cinematography/driving...!

K.

> It should go all the way... Look at this video:
> http://850r.dk/movies/Volvo%20850R%200-170kmh.WMV
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