Tommi’s Saab Site

Niklas Enander from www.classicsaabracing.com had a little boutique at the IntSaab2011 event selling various performance parts for the two stroke and V4. I decided to buy the Pertronix breakerless ignition kit for the two stroke just to minimize any ignition problems and improve reliability.

There’s two versions of the kit for two strokes – one for Saabs with the vacuum hose that goes from the firewall to the distributor and one for those without. I don’t know what the difference is but apparently there is a difference since there’s two kits. The kit cost around 180 euros so it’s not exactly cheap.

So, dad decided to install it and here’s a few pics.

The distributor was taken apart, cleaned, lubricated etc. Also, dad went through all the spare distributors we had and sourced better gears.

In dad’s opinion the Pertronix was quite easy to fit and the car also started right up after installation. The car runs pretty nice now, but I still wish new gears for the distributor were availlable.

I asked Niklas if there are any plans for manufacturing new gears for the two stroke distributor but the answer was no since they would be very expensive to have manufactured. Apparently the design is pretty difficult and requires special machining.

I bought a new project. It’s a 1969 Saab 96 V4 Rally car – originally built to Group 1 specs. The body is in a bad shape and the technique is missing, but it has some competition history from 1976 to 1977. My dad is already working on the body and I on finding the suitable parts. I’m not going to do a high level restoration – the goal is to make something closer to Gr2 that I can have some fun with on the Saab Club track days and on ice…

Tikkis already helped me out with the UK spec manifold and dual Webers…

Check out this Saab “96″. I think that’s really going to be something when finished!

The project site: http://www.neobrothers.co.uk/-pg-23.html

… But it will not be ready. Unfortunately I have not been able to work on the car during the summer, so it will not be finished in time for IntSaab. But I will bring it on a trailer anyway.

It is in running condition though – we managed to sort most of the problems on that department. Here’s a short video:

Starting to sound pretty healthy to me

I finally got all the electrics sorted out. The car has combined wire harnesses from 1964 (engine), 1966 (cabin) and V4 (rear), so there was a little bit of figuring out what connects where and which wires are not needed… But it’s all working now:

Front parking lights.

Rear end is close to finished.

Stone guards.

I’m trying to figure out if this is the correct locking knob for the door – I have a bunch of different sorts…

Windscreen wipers.

Rear shelf in place. Still needs the front edge rubber which hasn’t been cleaned yet.

Basically I can now fit the dash! I still need the little card pieces in the footwell and need to do some sound insulation. Also I do not have the headliner and need to make it myself or have one made…

I’m hoping that I will get the Sport seats before IntSaab. I don’t know if I can get the car completely finished before it but hopefully it will be in good enough shape that I can bring it to the event anyway.

Some progress on the two stroke again. I managed to get a Saab 95 front window rubber from a fellow Saabclub member and the old rear window rubber was only cracked at couple places so it was used as such.

Rear fenders are in place. The rubber strip between body and the fenders is thicker than the original but then again it hides some of the fitting problems (it’s not that easy to make everything fit perfectly on car that has been rolled over and has parts from many different donors).

Check the photos: