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Sorry to hear about your troubles- but OTOH each of these cars has given you 300K+ of service, so I really don't understand the 'not dependable' part. If your cars weren't dependable then there was no chance in heaven that you would be able to do that many miles between repairs. If your wife's Corolla handled better than your C900, something was awry there - just ask folks like damien who take their cars to the race track and have no problem holding their own against exotic an mega-expensive machinery. I know *my* 900T handles fantastically with just a few well judged chassis alterations, and I have driven almost any recent performance car here in Europe, including TVR, Porsche, Lotus, Evo VI, M3 and RS4. You won't be able to touch ANY of these with a 350 V8/RWD conversion. Ferchrissakes, you will be using a LIVE axle!! At best, it will be a straight line drag car.
There's lots of bad info about Saab modifying out there, several tuners that don't know their stuff and a whole host of guys so blinded by their own testosterone levels that they won't take a hint about their mods that they recommend to everyone might not be so hot. And there's very few of them who look beyond their dyno sheets to see the overall dynamic picture of a car. The c900 gearbox is not 'completely insufficient' by a stretch of the imagination. If you break the 'box, you are likely beyond the point where torque is converted into tire smoke instead of forward motion. People are winding up their stock turbo's to 25+ psi, and find themselves lucky to retain halof that towards the top end of the RPM range. Then they wonder why their gearbox takes a dump - after all they only had like 200 hp... As for the engines - well you said yourself you got 300+ K miles out of them. Somehow I don't see that haapen often with hotted-up Chebby's... If you break a Saab 4-cylinder, you either have been very unlucky or you did modifications that weren;t catering for the engine's basic needs: fuel, air, control over intake and (importantly) peak combustion chamber temperatures. For years ago I got my head slagged off here for suggesting water injection because Corky friggin' Bell said it was a band aid and you don't need it. Now look at how many on this forum use or plan to use it - seems people have wised up in the meantime...
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