Saabel Garage; Chevy C1500 Pickup

[keme]

Thanks Mattias-M!

Visited breafly in the garage and made a change which do not enchanse performance, but makes oil filling a lot easier



Old oil fill up pipe from Saab 9000



New fill up pipe from Saab NG900

[keme]

Cams and camsprockets assembled.

[keme]

Timing set to about 1.4mm intake / 0.9mm exhaust @TDC, next some heat insulation to down pipe and new oil return pipe from turbo.

[keme]

Heat insulation to downpipe.



Engine back in engine bay with new bearings.



Hopefully King oil full fills its promises and engine will start soon

[David Herbertsson]

I really like your build and hope that the start-up goes well! The enginebay looks nice and tidy

/David

[keme]

Thanks David!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urArSlXXqXQ

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10 ... =2&theater

Idling!

[David Herbertsson]

Congratulations!!

/David

[keme]

Thanks David

Went to the garage today and got something done. Well, I put back exhaust pipe and did some styling



Somehow I like those both.

[Modlendingen]

Looks nice

[keme]

Thanks Modlendingen!



Fluid reservoirs connected to pedalbox

[keme]

"New" crappy front breaks. Got tired to do somekind of adapters for brake calibers, so I decided to put original parts back. Intresting to see how much EBC yellow stuff brake pads help with these breaks.



A bit something to keep stones out of the oil cooler core.

[keme]

Brake calibers and discs are from 60´s, but atleast brake fluid and brake pads are proper ones.

[Anders_Karlsson]

Nothing wrong with good old Ate stuff, calipers are a bit heavy.

Ventilated 278 mm discs from Commodore B GS/E should fit on your hubs, calipers needs a spacer of course.
I drove some trackdays with stock brakes on my Commodore in 2011, worked ok but at the end of the season discs started to get very blue...
My car is heavier than yours i think, almost 1400 kg and straight six iron engine in front. Less power than SAAB turbo engine though.

[keme]

Vented discs would be good, but they are rather expencive.

Video of todays TEST DRIVE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss-igGi3w7Q

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151528726417342

[keme]

Booked dynotime, one month left to get this ready for the dynosession.