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I hail from CT, close to the NY border. This is one area that is saturated with Saab's (all models, all years). The funny thing is that you can never find any in the local junkyards--go figure!
I would definitely welcome meeting up with you (if you're from the same locality). In fact, another frequent post'er here on this board lives fairly close to me, and would also enjoy connecting.
The Abbott guy is correct: each car/engine is unique. That's the same reason why you must play around with plug gaps since one measurement may not work on another engine no matter how similar they might be to each other.
I thought your mpg's were just like mine (18/26)? I still have the window sticker and those are the figures displayed on it. So even though we have modded our cars, they still produce the expected mpg's.
BTW, when I was doing all my research into modifying my car (before I actually went and did it), I had my local dealer contact the Saab Performance Development group (supposedly somewhere here in CT), inquiring into the risks applying more power to an autobox. The reply was that the ZF can easily handle it, and more. They routinely had modded 9K's to 300+ hp and had no problems with the autoboxes. The dealer also told me that he has far more sticks coming in for tranny work than autos, and this was the case for two service departments of two separate dealerships he is a manager of! He was actually quite surprised to hear that the ZF autobox was viewed as a fragile tranny. Kinda makes you think if the comments you read about the autobox are backed by factual data, or just mere speculation.
Joe
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