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Transmission Deep Dive

Exploring uncharted waters. I scored a factory Saab/Saturn F25/F35 complete factory service tool kit (woot!) and set about doing my first...

Random Unicorn.

Every so often some luck is involved. I happened to see that a 1999 lightening blue Viggen was dropped off at the local Albuquerque...

Adjustments To Camber

The first round of parts were able to get me to ~1.5deg of front camber. So more was needed. I called and talked to T3 who did a custom...

First Track Weekend

Lists. Perhaps 80% of my professional life is drafting and conquering lists of things to do, a skill meticulously trained to those in...

First Start Up

I should have taken a picture of all of the wires I chopped from the looms in the car. Just imagine a large Rubbermaid tote of wires. I...

Downright Dirty Driveshaft Group

Quite a bit is asked of the the components responsible for transmiting torque to the drive wheels in a front-wheel-drive car. So I set...

Wheel and Tire Group

When I was a kid assembling 1/24 scale Tamiya sports car models, I was never much interested in assembling the wheels because I felt the...

Suspension and Brake Groups

Although the power train would remain somewhat factory-based, the suspension was opened up to the catalogs of available parts. I will let...

Engine Group

Saab reliability. Factory reliability. Road racing is hard on engines and so I decided to take a card from the Saab 'conservative first,...

Interior Group

The general themes are NASA safety compliance and informed feedback on the health of the engine. Being that the Saab TWICE security...

New Part Smell

Can we just agree that the internet peoples are sometimes flat wrong. The Mazda rotary is reliable. And Saab parts are economical and...

First New Paint Since Finland '99

Due to unique timing and COVID, the friendly owner of a major chain of body shops took on the task of painting my race car. I think Saab...

Steering Wheel, An Important Driver Need

I have always wanted a Sparco steering wheel. But getting one to fasten to the factory steering column was a bit tricky. Momo makes an...

Sunroof Buttressing

A long time ago Saab/Valmet actually built a few Viggens for the Flight Academy that had sunroofless sheet steel. But just about every...

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