CLSMark
Banned
Edd couldn’t be bought. Has my respect
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Ah, I thought that looked uncannily like the old Ford V4. I had no idea Saab used those. Bloody awful engines! Paxolin timing gear that used to wear stupidly quickly, the most ridiculous distributor drive known to man that half the time ended up with the hex drive rod ending up in the sump if you had to take th dizzy out, poorly cooled cylinder heads and bad valve burn, my favourite one was the fuel pump. It sat on the very front and was driven by a cam on the front of the camwheel, meaning the lever arm on the pump was about a foot long. By the time the movement reached the pump, it was tiny, so any wear in the pivot soon ended up with no fuel delivery. Damned things used to stall all the time as a consequence. I mastered the technique of whipping out the pump and bending the lever arm just enough to get going again. Overall, a heavy, gutless, noisy unreliable clunker.
It wouldn't surprise me if Saab re-engineered a lot of the V4 engine. Just as they did with all other technologies they borrowed and shared over the years. It seems that that ethos was what contributed to their eventual downfall.
I have to respect them for that.
Not to be a pedant or anything, but the fourth car in the Type 4 chassis group was the Fiat Croma. If I recall correctly, all but the Alfa shared the same front doors as well as platform.I was going to suggest the Fulvia engine! I'm going to take a wild guess that you are a Saab fan Graeme I never quite made it into a Saab, although I did come close once or twice.
There was the Saab 9000/Thema/164/Tipo crossover too wasn't there. And Lancia used the PRV V6 for a while too.
Been some odd partnerships over the years.....
I can't get into this series, too much seems overly staged, can't be doing with everything in USD and the endless need to explain the simplest of things
Why remove and replace the engine and trans but not repair the leaking manifold at the same time? Or did I miss that bit?
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