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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 22:39:57 -0300 From: Dexter J <lamealameadingdongnopsamlamelame.org> Subject: Re: Adding turbo to non-turbo engine...
Salutations: > > With what?? All the blocks are the same, cast steel. > -- > Grunff Brother Grunff is completely right unless you are planning a heavy performance build - in which case your will want to pull apart everything under the hood and rebuild anyway.. Frankly - one of the actually really groovy things about front wheel drive in general and the SAAB in particular is that the engine, tranny and front clip is pretty much unit construction and very close to being the same mounts across several generations of SAAB model lines - at least classic - not sure about NG.. It always a simple thing to pull out the whole unit and bolt it on to another - until you get to the details.. The tricky bit is to pull the electric's through the firewall and replace affected controller units under the dash (instrument panel as one example) and the engine management CPU's and modules.. In truth - you should basically assume that when making a non turbo machine go turbo - you must be working from a 'whole' donor machine so several little things that seem unimportant rolling around the parking lot outside the shop aren't needed in the critical 120-180kph range.. :/ .. It is going to WAYYY more efficient to find a whole donor SAAB with a tatty interior and rusty body - but rocking little turbo than to convert a standing example into a turbo from parts supply. Anyway - brother Grunff - I had always thought the blocks were cast iron - not steel. I understand that to mean two different things. Am I missing something, you know, again?.. -- J Dexter - webmaster - http://www.dexterdyne.org/ all tunes - no cookies no subscription no weather no ads no news no phone in - RealAudio 8+ Required - all the Time Radio Free Dexterdyne Top Tune o'be-do-da-day Tim Tamashiro - The Best Is Yet to Come http://www.dexterdyne.org/888/162.RAM
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