It's a four-cylinder that was designed by lopping off one bank of a V-8. Thus the angle.

But it is a good engine. They come from the factory with forged cranks, pistons and rods. I've tore down a motor from a '80 turbo with over 100K miles on it, and the bore and taper were still within factory specs.

A good resource:

http://www.saabnet.com/

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

I used that site to advertise my car when it was time to get rid of it. I had already gotten an insurance settlement so I just wanted to give it away but not to a junkyard. Well, there was the car, and probably nearly another ton of parts that all had to go to a willing "buyer" which wasn't extremely hard to find.

I did get some emails asking if I would part with some of the most valuable parts that I had, and I'm sure that they wanted them cheap. This included a ported and polished cylinder head that had not been used since the machine work was done, with a matching intake manifold for dual Webber 2-bbls and a not-very-streetable camshaft. Yea, right, I'm going to give that away by itself.

That would not have suited my goals of getting out of that brand with a minimum of fuss.

-twitch- old style message board...


saabcentral, what about them?


I'm probably not going to buy one of these cars tomorrow but, If diesel gets higher I might

Quirky, like the car.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Quirky, like the car.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

http://westpalmbeach.craigslist.org/car/629918248.html


what do ya think? The seller is going to take more pics for me and give more info. I like the color

Carefully inspect the suspension mounts, and especially the top rear shock absorber mounts for rust. I've had two 99's let loose there. One was easy to fix, the other was very hard and needed a bunch of metal welded in.

They also have rust troubles at the bottom of the side doors and the bottom of the B pillars, but these won't cause trouble while driving.

The 5-speed manual is based on their venerable and robust 4-speed used in the 99 and shares a lot of parts. However, when I say "robust" it is in comparison to the older V4's where the transmission was a very weak spot. The engine is very easy to work on except for the water pump which is located under the intake manifold and pressed into the block.

Is that still a K-jetronic (CIS) system?

Friend of mine from this board tried to buy a W123 Mercedes, that ran, from the junkyard. Apparently, once the title and DMV paperwork goes to the junkyard, and they set in motion the steps to dismantle the car, IT IS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE to reverse it, and issue a new title that makes the car driveable. Even if YOU could stop and reverse the process, yo might get stuck with a SALVAGE TITLE.

YMMV of course by state, this is California I am talking about....

That is something to think about. Your best best is to make friends with someone at the Pick n Pull to "flag" a car that looks good, when it comes in, and for you to be able to buy it right then before the paperwork gets started to junk it.

It can be done, most Pick n Pulls DO have a mechanism to sell a complete running car, and every once in a while they will put a couple or a few complete running cars up for sale at the yards.

Usually, though, they prefer to simply have them be parted out, and hope they can make more money selling individual parts off them.

Never hurts to ask.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

A salvage title on an old SAAB isn't the worst thing in the world. It's not like any of them go for high dollar.

lol That's very true.

My basic point still remains, and it is this, usually once the paperwork to DISMANTLE the car - any car - gets started by the junkyard it is VERY hard to unwind it.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

the junkyard saab, I don't even know if it runs. I bet it was sent there because of a head gasket issue( what appears to be a common issue once the miles rack up). The only funny thing was when we sat in the car and looked up. Thumb tacks, everywhere!!!!


Insurance on a 900 seems cheap to me. Full time student will yield me about $178 a month for the car... same company would want $250 ish for my Mercedes...


seems cheap to me, I'm 19 so.. that seems cheap

In California, yes. In Nevada, not so much.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.

Oh yea, thumbtacks in the headliner. How did I forget about this issue?

I never had the problem. Either the headliner stayed in place, or had been removed by a prior owner. One of the cars had the cloth part with the backing foam removed, and the underlying polyurethane foam was spray-painted black. Another simply had the whole assembly removed from the car, leaving you looking at steel with dampening tar attached.

And if the harmonic balancer bolt snaps, as happened to a friend of mine, it means.... a big job.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma