Miata Drivetrain in a SAAB 96

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01-27-2014, 10:22 AM

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Awesome.

01-27-2014, 12:04 PM

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Awesome progress. Love the shade it appears in the inside pics. Can't wait to see this bad boy progress even more.

01-27-2014, 12:16 PM

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Stein for pres.

01-27-2014, 12:46 PM

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Interested in seeing this completed, need HD video of big smokey burnouts once its all broken in.

01-27-2014, 01:11 PM

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Wow this car is awesome!!! I cant wait to see it finish coming together

01-27-2014, 07:31 PM

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Looks absolutely incredible. Props to you.

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01-27-2014, 09:18 PM

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01-28-2014, 12:02 PM

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Love the colour! Looks great!

01-28-2014, 03:02 PM

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Sub'd to this awesome shiii....

Looking at the most recent pics vs. the pics of the car when you first picked it up...jeez, mind bleeewwnnnn

02-04-2014, 12:27 AM

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Starting to get it back together. Brakes and fuel back in. Harness is routed. All harness wires will be concealed behind the original SAAB inner fenders except for a couple of little places where it will have to poke through. Makes for a nice wire tuck.

Also built a coolant reroute spacer.

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02-06-2014, 11:47 PM

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Working on wiring. I hate it. So I stopped.

Finished the coolant reroute. Tapped the oil pan for turbo drain. No reason to not reinstall it and start hooking things up. Passenger side is tight but enough room to fit everything. Plenty of room for the turbo on the driver's side. Going with a TD04 from a WRX.

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02-07-2014, 03:03 AM

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God, I love this project! Props given.

02-09-2014, 11:00 PM

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Saw these and it reminded me of this thread

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02-10-2014, 07:24 AM

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Stein, you're doing this wrong. You need to take pictures of every single part spray painted black.

02-10-2014, 09:18 AM

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These guys will be racing this car in the 100 Acre Wood in MO pretty soon. (If any of you remember forum member "modernbeat", that's his car).

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The Rally America event, Rally in the 100 Acre Wood is coming up in a few weeks. If you are anywhere St Louis you should come out and see rally stars and chumps competing in this event. Billed as "real cars, real roads" it is one of the best rallys in the US.

Rally in the 100 Acre Wood | February 21-22, 2014

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02-16-2014, 11:22 PM

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Turbo manifold and downpipe fabricated. Well, the downpipe is just tacked. Ran out of argon for my TIG.

Got the radiator, fans, intercooler mounted.

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02-16-2014, 11:31 PM

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Interesting manifold design. Any more pics of the process?

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02-16-2014, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by turbofan

Interesting manifold design. Any more pics of the process?

I'll get some when I pull it back out. It's basically a flowish log like I built for my NB a couple of years ago and like sturovo is building now with one extra el to top mount it. I didn't have room or side mount the turbo with the SAAB inner fender there and I have plenty of hood clearance plus the top feed intercooler it's easy in and easy out.