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Posted by Dean (more from Dean) on Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:46:45 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: 1995 Saab 900s questions...., Eric, Wed, 31 Oct 2001 18:27:19
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Your high compression engine uses a conventional knock sensor. The ECU will detune your ignition timing to suit the fuel that you use. So there will be more power with high octane fuel than low. Other things affect the knocking situation other than fuel. Combustion chamber deposits create hot spots which will cause knocking, so these cause the engine to detune even for permium fuel. Dirty injectors cause bad fuel spray patterns which result in poor mixing etc. This also can promote knocking and the ECU again detunes. To deal with these combustion chamber deposits and injector deposits, use premium fuel, as all premium fuels contain solvents which help reduce these. Use Techron Concentrate every 8000 miles or at least 2 times per year. This will aggressively work on these deposits. Follow the instructions on the bottle. If this product has never been used before, do two consecutive treated tanks of fuel.

Use synthetic oil or semi synthetic. Keep the plugs in good shape, they should be clean and properly gapped.

Your biggest concern will not be, but should be, not killing your self. Experience is often learned the hard way. You need to be able to handle the vehicle in tricky situations. So the steering should feel right and not be vague. Make sure that the brakes are in good shape. The inboard read pads can get rust bound in the caliper slots (pistons not the issue). And you need good tires. Cheap tires with great wear properties will be dangerious in the cold and wet. Your tires and brakes are your lifeline. And it helps to have good steering too. Most of the folks on this board are quite old by your standards. And we all will freely admit to doing some very stupid things in cars when we were young. Some of us were lucky and some can tell some very tragic stories about them selves and their friends. And please note that the folks who lost their lives in accidents are not here to express their concerns and opinions.

A story in spirit with the above.

I had a 1969 Opel GT. It had a 2L engine and was a small car that looked like someone shruck a Corvette. I had it a long time and parts were a problem at times. I purchased one that was wrecked. A father and son got it used and repainted it and fixed it up over a winter. The son took it out in the spring and totalled it. I purchased the wreck. I need some rear axle parts and as I tore it down I found that all four rear caliper pistons were siezed and useless. I tracked down the previous owner, the father, and gave him sh*t about his son driving a car with no rear brakes. Yes the son was driving in a dangerous fashion, but the cards were stacked against him!

take care!

95SET, 130000 miles, lots of goodies

drs_advice :)

So think about the brake and tires as you go. You will need these because of inexperience and 'youthfull exuberance' you will do some things that in hind sight look stupid, and you will need every advantage you can get to save you bacon and your Saab.

You may not have a rear sway bar on your vehicle. If not perhaps someone who has upgraded there SE or turbo model will give you a stock rear sway bar. That might improve the handling. Or you could spend around $130 for a heavy sway bar that might be too much. There could be some old Abbott sway bars out there to from some who have gone that route and then to the SAS product.

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