Gary has head work down to a production line science. I think it took us about 1/2 an hour to do the valve seals & Volvo 240 valve spring upgrade in my T5 head for the hillclimb car.
Nice, your brothers car was cool. I have 3 classic 900 automatics, always a challenge keeping them going... The Turbo 2.1 Liter T5 w/ the te05 turbo / automatic was a great combination, but eventually the trans says "no more of this!" It would make 60MPH inside of 6 seconds with good tires...
It most likely did not run low on lubricant. The car does have a trans cooler, but it feeds and returns into the main case. I am rolling it around in my head now and am kind of wondering. My initial thought was that, well maybe, we had tightened those 3 bolts down to friction tight, but they were no...
The "kit" for the 88 most likely includes the plastic parts for the oil feed pipes that your 88 has but 89+ does not. IMO, if you are running an 88 or back head those SHOULD be replaced while it's all apart. Was not aware that those alone added $100 to the price.... But they probably shoul...
The TD04 16t on my SPG (hillclimb car) which does see street use has spool up that in my opinion is just as good as a Te05 and probably better than a T3. The only thing with that is it seems to be able to create a LOT of low down torque, especially on a cold day, which probably isn't the best thing ...
I have seen this failure before. Happened in a strong running 87 900 turbo street car that I bought for $300 many years ago. I assumed it was due to a pinion bearing failure at a good speed, but I did not know this 1st hand.
I'm not exactly sure if this applies to "What did you do to your Saab today" But it's Saab related... About 2 weeks ago some guy in a motorhome who wasn't watching his tail-swing clipped the 2010 9-5, he tagged the rear bumper and busted the tail light and the light bar. He had insurance a...
Great pics, I think the one of the 91 coming in was just after the trans bit the dust. Neither car finished this weekend "without a scratch" but then again nothing major. I think the eeuro car got tagged right rear by someone, and someone got our left front. Nothing significant on either c...
My feeling is that if we wanted to run a slower car with dead reliability, we should use a Diesel Mercedes, not a classic 900... I really like the 900 in every other respect than the trans, We can make this thing reliable & have the power, but it's not going to be free, that's for sure... But I ...
Kip is an awesome driver, no doubt about that. I sure felt bad that you didn't get any seat time aside from practice day I do have high hopes for next year though, maybe we could even take it to a few hills or autoX's if we get it back together this winter.