Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 07:25:23 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: Turbos?
in article 20050605215158.03806c85.nothingnospamo.com, Saab Guy at nothingnospamo.com wrote on 06/06/2005 02:52: > On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 01:42:53 GMT > Dan <dannospamam.com> wrote: > >> Did SAAB always make there own turbos or use a 3rd party? I would be >> especially interested in the 2004 9-3 Aero turbo details... > > > Dan, > > Saab used a company in the 1980s called GARRET, the in the 1990s, Mitubishi. > > We called the car a SAAB TURBO, but the Turbo wasn't a SAAB engineering feat. > I'd be interested in finding out what the Turbos were in the 1970s when they > started. They were Garrett, too. The technology started at Scania and SAAB/Scania applied the turbocharging method to cars. It was the research at Scania that led to the wastegate principle. APC, of course, was all SAAB and simply years ahead of its time. Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/
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