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- Paul Halliday
November 12, 2005, 4:10 pm
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Hi everyone,
I've found myself falling in love (again) with the SAAB Sonett. This one, in
particular: <http://saab900.hu/images/kepgaleria/tort/800/H94-07.jpg
We didn't get these cars in the UK and they're bound to be rare, globally.
Does anyone know if there is a kit-car copy? Would the body panels be easy
enough to fabricate? It's a bit of a pipedream, TBH, but I'm just exploring
possibilities. Anyone have any structural schematics?
If a kit-car was available, what engine should I run? Personally, I fancy an
inline B234T, but normally aspirated B202 with throttle body stacks would be
a blast and probably more suited to the car, given the weight. Would a turbo
be too much for the car? Should it sound more "throaty" at the intake? I've
no idea what these car should feel like to drive, or sound like. It'd be
nice to be reasonably authentic, with more modern engineering.
Thoughts?
Paul
1989 900 Turbo S
http://saab.go.dyndns.org /
Re: SAAB Sonett Kit-Cars?
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:10:56 GMT, Paul Halliday
It looks pretty similar in size, and probably weight, to the Fisher
Fury I'm currently building. The most popular engines for those tend
to be around 130 to 160BHP, making for a very fast car. There are a
few running silly power from Cosworth turbo engines, which does
certainly make for huge straight-line acceleration, but these cars
generally turn out to be slower around a track than, say, a well
sorted Rover K-series.
If you're after a really quick track car, then a bike engine would
probably be the way to go. You might have trouble finding a Saab bike
to take it from though!
Cheers,
Colin.
Re: SAAB Sonett Kit-Cars?
Paul Halliday wrote:
I've fancied a Fury for ages - they're lovely cars. If you want too see
one in the flesh, get yourself down to Exeter next weekend:
<http://www.car-shows.co.uk/exeterkit.htm
We're going to be there on Saturday, so if you're going, let me know.
--
Grunff
Re: SAAB Sonett Kit-Cars?
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 12:35:49 GMT, Paul Halliday
And since the side-pods are separate, you could replace them with
louvered aly to make it even more similar...
I didn't know that.
[googles]
Hehe, everyone else tries bike engined cars. It just had to be Saab
that tries out car engined bikes :o)
Cheers,
Colin.
Re: SAAB Sonett Kit-Cars?
The SAABSA, a BSA bike with a `61 SAAB two stroke engine,
owned by Bob Sinclair, formerly of SAAB USA;
http://users.adelphia.net/~rsinclair3/saabsa.jpg
Erik carlsson driving it; http://www.vsaab.com/images/current/bike1.jpg
Bud Clark working on it; http://www.vsaab.com/images/SAABSA_800.jpg
an entirely different one; http://www.vsaab.com/images/current/thord1.jpg
--
MH
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'91 900i
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