I got a lot of positive comments about this car from the Saab facebook group so I thought I'd post it up here for you lot to have a look.
It's not quite finished yet but you can see the direction of travel we're heading in.
It's not a full restoration or anything quite that grand. I dropped in a rebuilt engine and gearbox which has had some sprucing up. It has the Saab 9000 direct ignition cassette instead of a distributor which is a much cleaner look. It has the long ratio gearbox so with the standard rev limit it could technically hit 162mph. In the real world that means 120mph is easy to get to and sustainable and at the proper UK motorway speed it is quiet and economical.
What's interesting about this car is that I've converted it to use the later engine management from a Saab 9000. That combines the three elements of engine control in one OEM ECU. Boost control, ignition and fuel all in one box. With OEM programming so it is smooth, reliable, fast and economical.
You have to get the flywheel CNC machined with a pattern for the crankshaft sensor to read. Normally the sensor disc is inside the engine block on the end of the crankshaft but you can't replicate that setup in the 900 as the engine block is significantly differently shaped compared with the 9000. The 9000 block is straight and the 900 one is canted 45-degrees.
You get to take off all this old carp and replace with more up-to-date stuff. You can see the original ECU Bosch LH 2.2 (1) the distributor which has a hall sensor on the side and a vac advance capsule to provide a very basic ignition advance / retard system (5) and the original boost controller - it's actually not a bad unit but it is standalone so does not talk to the fuel computer or the ignition system and that can limit performance (4)
It has a lot of other renewals like steering rack, radiator, engine ancillaries, shocks, roof, seats, wheels, paintwork, carpet - all either rebuilt, refreshed or replaced.
I was thinking about selling it but having done the work I now don't want to. Can you blame me?
It's not quite finished yet but you can see the direction of travel we're heading in.
It's not a full restoration or anything quite that grand. I dropped in a rebuilt engine and gearbox which has had some sprucing up. It has the Saab 9000 direct ignition cassette instead of a distributor which is a much cleaner look. It has the long ratio gearbox so with the standard rev limit it could technically hit 162mph. In the real world that means 120mph is easy to get to and sustainable and at the proper UK motorway speed it is quiet and economical.
What's interesting about this car is that I've converted it to use the later engine management from a Saab 9000. That combines the three elements of engine control in one OEM ECU. Boost control, ignition and fuel all in one box. With OEM programming so it is smooth, reliable, fast and economical.
You have to get the flywheel CNC machined with a pattern for the crankshaft sensor to read. Normally the sensor disc is inside the engine block on the end of the crankshaft but you can't replicate that setup in the 900 as the engine block is significantly differently shaped compared with the 9000. The 9000 block is straight and the 900 one is canted 45-degrees.
You get to take off all this old carp and replace with more up-to-date stuff. You can see the original ECU Bosch LH 2.2 (1) the distributor which has a hall sensor on the side and a vac advance capsule to provide a very basic ignition advance / retard system (5) and the original boost controller - it's actually not a bad unit but it is standalone so does not talk to the fuel computer or the ignition system and that can limit performance (4)
It has a lot of other renewals like steering rack, radiator, engine ancillaries, shocks, roof, seats, wheels, paintwork, carpet - all either rebuilt, refreshed or replaced.
I was thinking about selling it but having done the work I now don't want to. Can you blame me?
.....now go stick it in reader's rides 