suffolkpaul
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Retro Free - just a pug 406 with 230k miles on it...
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Jan 27, 2007 22:11:43 GMT
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if you need to find a gearbox try calling abbott racing..they are bloody expensive for buy their tunging gear (although it is all made in house and very good quality) however I know for a fact they have sh*t loads of old saab bits in the old cow shed (now dyno room).
they are in WIX in essax (not far from clacton..an easy google find.
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tigran
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Jan 27, 2007 23:02:28 GMT
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Would never have thought abbott would have anything other than high end tuning bits. Will give them a bell. ta.
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1964 Rover P5 i6 1987 BMW 525e - The Rusty Streak 1992 Micra K10 2001 BMW E46 316i 2002 BMW E46 330Ci 2013 BMW F31 320d 2018 BMW G31 530d
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suffolkpaul
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Retro Free - just a pug 406 with 230k miles on it...
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Jan 27, 2007 23:06:17 GMT
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i worked for them for a little while reprogamming ECU's whilest i was at uni.
those brothers are so tight they never threw anything away.
Giles is the chap you probably need to speek to.
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Jan 27, 2007 23:21:49 GMT
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Abbott? Very pricey! Know they're stuff though.
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suffolkpaul
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Retro Free - just a pug 406 with 230k miles on it...
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Jan 27, 2007 23:27:15 GMT
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certainly pricey for all things new but you would be surprised at what they have sitting ...unless they have had a massive clearout in the last 8 years (sh*t was it that long !?!?!?!?!?!?) they would be surprised as to what they have kicking around!
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tigran
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Jan 29, 2007 18:25:51 GMT
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It's go go go! Just need to find some time to fit it. 8th engine that car has hauled about now, i'm gonna miss the beastie.
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1964 Rover P5 i6 1987 BMW 525e - The Rusty Streak 1992 Micra K10 2001 BMW E46 316i 2002 BMW E46 330Ci 2013 BMW F31 320d 2018 BMW G31 530d
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suffolkpaul
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Retro Free - just a pug 406 with 230k miles on it...
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Jan 29, 2007 18:32:57 GMT
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where from tigran? did you get the whole lot? turbo etc??
your going to miss a foucs??
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tigran
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Jan 29, 2007 18:40:11 GMT
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From a orsum classic car dealer in Greenfield, beds. It's the na engine but the gearbox will fit apart from slightly differing ratios - which i really don't care about.
Yeah i'm going to miss the focus, it's a little gem with the little tweeks i've done to it.
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Jan 30, 2007 16:51:02 GMT
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I worked for them for a little while reprogamming ECU's whilest I was at uni. those brothers are so tight they never threw anything away. Giles is the chap you probably need to speek to. Giles is a really nice bloke, I haven't seen him for years but he used to work for Garneys and Hill in Ipswich before I started my apprentiship there (many moons ago), I never worked with him but he would regulary pop in to see everybody in the latest mad SAAB. Small world
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tigran
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Well the 'new' IC arrived yesterday. Should have hsits and giggles trying to fit it - it's bloody mentalist size-wise. Will get some pics once i've managed to nick the camera/be in the same county as it it.
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Last Edit: Feb 2, 2007 17:09:00 GMT by tigran
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tigran
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Oooozat (tis benji a mate of mine)? Got the engine pretty much stripped out but being beaten by the nearside mount at the moment, the offside is off and the front un is loosened. It'll be out tomorrow.
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tigran
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Feb 10, 2007 16:46:53 GMT
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One last bar steward bolt doing my (excuse the pun) nut in. Need to get le big drill out methinks.
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tigran
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Oct 10, 2007 11:06:57 GMT
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PROGRESS! Got picked up yesterday by all round nice bloke Steve Lofty of SS Motors. Got some pics to put up later, he had all sorts of cool old skool saabs in.
So hopefully this'll be terrorising the streets next week some time.
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Oct 10, 2007 11:28:34 GMT
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Wootah!
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Oct 10, 2007 12:09:19 GMT
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Looking forward to seeing this zipping along without the clatter!
Drove a lovely 900 Turbo at the weekend. They really are tasty motors.
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Oct 10, 2007 14:11:41 GMT
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Cool! I'd totally forgotten about this
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tigran
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Oct 10, 2007 20:51:09 GMT
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I hadn't, been counting down the days to me getting an hactually fast car. The slowness of everything else has been excrutiating Ooooh big empty space Gearbox from this plus old but good engine = fun to be had. Other cool tat that was parked up at his unit Mmmm This sonetti was totally fapworthy Saab got there decades before the supercar makers with the flat undertray
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Ruki
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Looking good Tigran nice to see you over from Barryboys
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tigran
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May 30, 2008 22:56:34 GMT
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Well a bit of progress. Just belted it back from southampton to bournemouth in a cocophony of turbo chatter. It's orsum. Now has a really neat alloy intercooler and i shall be winding the boost on as soon as i get a bleed valve. Will get all the interior out this weekend and get it mot'd next week. Woop! p.s. it spanks the out of my 9000 2.3 fpt on the way home, not that we were racing of course officer.
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tigran
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May 31, 2008 20:54:55 GMT
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Right, have re-thought my plans of getting a car together for the pbmwc. Thinking of using the 900 t16 as a car in the toyo pre-93 racing saloon's. So have started stripping it out. Have got as fas as emptying the boot down to metal and taking rear doorcards out. Will get the rest of the back out tomorrow and get some pics up. Plan is to get it mot'd then get a set of gaz coilovers on and track it over the summer to get used to it and see if it's actually any good. Will also use it to get to learn brands for an ards test. If i pass/the car's alright i'll start getting it track prepp'ed.
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