How do you pronounce Saab?

Oh, never tried one on a Toyota. That sucks. Stick with Saabs and BMWs then...

the å in danish and swedish has an aw sound... So if Såb was the pronunciation in danish, it would phonetically translate to S'awb(emphasis on the primary syllable)

Yup. Why do you think I'm back. I reckon it is nowhere near going, although there is that niggle always there. Just like it is supposed to be a non-interference engine, but you never know whether in the genuine 140k miles it has done, it hasn't needed a gasket and the reciept "lost" so the head has been skimmed.

WRT to being non-interference, it either is or it isn't and that should be easy to ascertain.

It has to do with the piston crown / valve design, not how many times the block or head has been skimmed. I don't think it is possible to shave them so much as to make a non-interference engine become interference. The compression ratio would change too much and it would run like crap. If the shaving has taken place you are supposed to use thicker gaskets to take up the slack and not change the compression (much).

It was a turbo engine, when running the compression changes massively when boost builds, and it is one of those wonderful systems that "learn" the last 50 changes. If you pulled the EFI fuse, or battery, apart from idling, it would "run like crap" until it had learnt the new optimal settings, even as far as stalling at junctions etc. Needed a few "adaption" runs to set it up nice.