1993 Saab 9000 - Now with 3 gears.

[langers]

sounds like a cool project, ive always been interested in the 9000"s. i have to go to ABBOTT RACING sometimes (only ten mins away), they have some propper lairy stuff in their!!!!!

[Robinxr4i]

Saab 9000 are cool end of.

Good work tigran, i am sooooo jealous!

[tigran]

If anyone sees an AA rep in the near future could you please provide them with a light lynching.

Thankyouplease.

Had to go to an important meeting in london. Pull over for a sec and kill the engine to make a call to check where it is and with whom and so on. Turn the key - and nothing. Just turning over not firing. Didn't think at the time to say it was a terminal fault so just called out the AA. Roadside truck turned up and had a poke about, then pulls out a brand new direct ignition cassette out of the truck - that's what's failed.

Turns out AA wanted £300 for that. I said thanks but no thanks, just get a low loader/spec truck and get me home so i can grab another car and sort it myself. Apparently you can't do that as once they get your car running they don't have to provide any recovery services. So it was be stranded as Neo Bros was already shut and i couldn't get there anyway, or pay the fuckers £300. Like a jesse i did the latter and was on my way.

They shall be getting a very pissy letter from me though, and i shall be using up all the recovery i can going from at least north england/scotland to bournemouth. Again, fuckers.

/rant

[Thrasher]

WTF !!! £300 !?

Ouch man.

I would like to see the pissy letter though !

[tigran]

Oooh mark my words it'll be pissy alright

[mcbodge]

I'd wanted one of those when they were new, but test drove a 9000 Aero a few yeas ago and was disappointed. The handling was awful and the autobox felt blunt. I drove a 9-5 Aero and that was the same -quick in a straight line, rubbish in bends.

[tigran]

Yeah i never bought it for being fast in the bends i bought it because it is the comfiest car bar none, that's great for racking up 13k miles in 4 months and the prospect of 300bhp for peanuts. I love it. Anyhoo had a chat with the AA - no need for a pissy letter:

With the whole 'pay £300 or stay broken down saga' of yesterday. I rang em (the complaints dep.) to get the complaints ball rolling. The guy talking to me was a nice bloke and after i cleared up the fact that the part was fitted first to fix the car, i was then told the price and refused relay he agreed with my POV that it was indeed Bullplop.

So they've gone by the price that Neo Bros charge of 140+vat. Which leads to the AA sending out a refund of ~£137. Which brings the price to what i'd have paid to buy a new one, but saves me the hassle of hauling ass to waltham cross and getting my fingers mucky.

So i'm happy with the AA.

[Siert]

That's a good way of sorting things!

[lordyoung1980]

These engines do bolt up to vauxhall boxes as long as it was made after 93,PPC mag have a little snippet were they dream up a modified car and this months is an Omega with a SAAB turbo lump.

[tigran]

Well it finally has a bit of oomph to match the rather lary exhaust on it. Fiddled about with a bleed valve over the weekend, finally got it working ok but have had to disconnect the apc, which is a shame but until I get enough monies for a proper re-map it'll do.

Its slightly slower than the 2.3 fpt of mine - so i'm guesstimating it's on about 12-14psi of boost at the moment. Don't really want to take it much higher at the mo (maybe wind it up to about 17psi) without an intercooler, which has been sitting in the boot now for about a month waiting to be fitted - must get round to that and wind the boost up properly. Taking it down to tcs tomorrow to check out what the fuelling and so on is doing and hopefully hook up a boostguage to see exactly the psi it's running and get it set up.

Pics + vids from the RR tomorrow.

[tigran]

Took it down to TCS's rolling road to see what it was doing with upped boost and so on. First of all - top service down at tcs and i'll be using the RR there a lot. Nice bit of kit! Anyhoo on to the conclusions - it was running rough as a badgers when it came in, power curve was all over the place and it was making maybe 120 flywheel ponies. After a lot of fiddling with the boost and other hoses we managed to squeeze 147 (iirc) out of it, so it's now at the same level as it was when it was new. The thing that's holding it back is the bad fuelling and seems to be a shagged actuator. So i'm off to elk parts to order those, some new hoses and then i'll be back on the rollers to see if we can get the car back to rude health and somewhere nearer to the 180-200 mark.

Also really need to install the intercooler before the next run.

Some pics:

[trackclassicsports]

hmmm i really should get better lighting installed for better photo op's lol

Nice to see you guys, looking forward to getting a nice satisfying bhp increase for you next time ;-)

[tigran]

Well i don't think it'll be down to yours for a bit tom - i have worked out a clever '3-gear mod'. What this consists of is a lot of burning clutch form 3-rd gear starts, and a complete lack of the first two gears. Down at neo bros' now so they can have a look at it.

I will be getting my 900 T16 back soon that was running very good power before so i should be down at yours end of this month/beginning of next, maybe with a couple of other saabs to stick on the rollers. ;D