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Hi,
After 7 months straight of factory work... i finally got ahead of the game enough to "splurge" a little on a new car. It's a long story, and i'd best start from the beginning. Late last year i bought the car, a 1990 saab 9000 turbo, with 98000 on it and in perfect condition, aside from one thing. The Automatic trans was on it's way out, acting up sometimes by not going into drive, or popping out of gear. I figured i could do a conversion to 5 speed myself when it died, after reading some posts off here of people who've done the conversion to 5-speed. Anyways...$3000 for the car... and 6,000 miles later the tranny goes. My options were sell it in the broken condition for cheap, and take a loss: replace the auto box and drive a nice automatic... or convert it to 5 speed as planned. The work proved itself to be more difficult than planned, and i had it done at a shop, but i decided to have other performance mods done as well. On top of being converted to a 5-speed with an Eriksson rebuilt tranny... i had a 300HP capable clutch disk added, a fidenza aluminum flywheel, full abbott racing exhaust from turbo back, all new bilstein shocks and struts, lowering springs from Swedish dynamics... all cross-drilled brake rotors from eeuroparts.com and axxis pads...K+n intake... an abbott racing motorsport dump valve, ECU performance chip, and DI/APC performance chip. I think that's it. I've driven it in this condition for a while now, and i love it, but it's still lacking. I'm only 80% sure that i'm going to roast the car next to me at a stop light... and i need to have that extra 20% somehow. What would all of you turbo junkies out there suggest that i do next??? here are the links to see the pictures of my bill for all this work... the bill was three pages long... i bet i'm going to get a ton of crap from some of you on how much i spent... and you're going to tell me what i could have gotten instead, and for how much cheaper it would have been... that's all fine and dandy, but the money wasn't an issue for me at all... so please keep you focus on what i should spend and get NOW, or else keep your opninions to yourselves, ok? Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
http://www.geocities.com/griffin800/bill1.html
http://www.geocities.com/griffin800/bill2.html
http://www.geocities.com/griffin800/bill3.html
here's a pic of the car too, haven't done to much appearance mods... but that's ok because a pretty decal or paint job isn't adding HORSEPOWER... and i think it's pretty funny that someone on the road will see "just a normal lookin stock saab" and wonder how the heck it beat them down the road...haha
http://www.geocities.com/griffin800/bling.html?1016613319190
posted by 64.30....
, Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:13:01
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