First Drive at Full Power in My Saab 900 Turbo - It Rips! 

Well done Jacob. She's looking Good! 185BHP is plenty for a 900Turbo they tended to understeer so unless you really want to start messing with brakes, suspension, stiffening braces and poly bushes. You're better off keeping it as standard and enjoying it as a classic retro weekend driver

@@Lamster66agreed, not much planned performance wise for this car. At least for now

@@AutoAutopsy It's why I never bothered modding my 1999 OG 93 Aero that much. It's poly bushed and has the steering rack brace 95 Aero brakes 17" double Y Aero alloys and a Viggen style front bumper from the 2001 spec Aeros. Power is 205BHP standard which is scarily too much on a 25 year old car that could do with better suspension. It can bite if you give it the gas I've had it facing the wrong way once or twice especially in the british winter on bumpy country roads.

Saabs were great when kept in tune, I have never bothered with any modification . Working on them is alot of fun as I am just changing the alternator on 93 convertible Turbo so happy new year to all and keep up the good work on these vids!!!

@@SuperIman1990 Turbo SAABs always benefit from a remap. All good if you do stage1 and leave it at that otherwise you dive down the rabbit hole of changing parts to keep up with your aspirations for power. Years Ago I had a 9000 2.3 CS Turbo( full pressure) I bought it already tuned/mapped by a company called Techniq. it was putting out 350+bhp It went like stink was 0-60 in around 5sec with all the wheelspin( without that it would have been a lot quicker) it could spin the wheels in top gear at 100mph and I bottled out of a top speed run at 165mph (it would have topped 170 easily but I pooed my pants) eventually it destroyed the gearbox at 115K and at the time the rebuild was about twice what the car was worth So I bought a 9000Aero and Scrapped the CS I had an NG 93 Aero that was stage 1 mapped which I sold 3 years ago when I got my Audi. I still have my 1999 OG 93 Aero hot coupe which is mostly standard with a few bolt on mods that frankly it needed.

Awesome, you’re right! Thanks so much

Lol! Glad you’re enjoying the content and the binge. Happy I can help ya out. Enjoy the car 😁😂🙌🏼

Happy new year! Thank you

Awesome! Yeah it’s definitely on my list of jobs in the future

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Thanks for the tip!

SMH! Always a pain, lol

literally the worst. I just did an old land rover discovery1 ; it doesn't allow you to drain all the oil; it's always a mess of oil everywhere when I change it. Why would you engineer a vehicle to not be able to drain the old oil out of it?!? how is that intelligent? Every time you change your oil, you probably get like a minimum of a quart of dirty oil remaining - except for that one time, where I filled the oil without putting the plug back in...that time I got all the old oil out.

Thank you. Good tip. I’ve always heard it’s been to do the change while the car is hot. I might have to try draining overnight next time

Happy new year!

Same to you! Thank you!

Thank you! 😊

You too Steve 🫶🏼

Thanks!

thanks for the recommendation! I will have to look into that

Happy new year! The Bentley manual is so helpful; I can’t tell you how many times I’ve consulted it! 🤣

Lol, good to know I am not the only one doing that! Yes - the belts are a bit of pain being on the back :(

Interesting metaphor 🤨

Thanks so much for the advice! I will have to look into doing all of that 🤨🤨

You too! 🙌🏼🇸🇪

Interesting, I did not know that. Thanks!

@bentlarsson4033; my non-airbag steering wheels always have play to pull like 1cm out from the column. Is that due to this broken spot-weld you're talking about? It seems to me it happens when you swap to a pre-airbag wheel maybe? even if you swap the steering column with it? But that weld you're describing would make sense. Thankfully it's never an issue, just a little concerning.

Exactly 😉

I am not well enough versed in that chassis to give you a good breakdown - I would say all of the normal things for any other car!

Thankfully mine has no cat, so I’m good there!

His channel is awesome 👏🏼

That sounds like a cool retro-swap! I believe A-Z performance sells them, but that’s it :(

It's 185BHP I agree with poly bushes but the rest is only really necessaty if you intend to drive it hard. The 900s understeer quite badly anyway which suspension will improve but not cure.

I’d love a set of 16in Aeros. New suspension is arriving soon!

I did it entirely myself with the help of some great friends. It’s all detailed on my channel, if you’re interested in seeing the work involved! Here’s the video going over the cost and parts I replaced: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tTA5VZN_KnE.htmlsi=ISkHvE-IbriRlVUu

Awesome thanks! I will check it out! @@AutoAutopsy

Good tip…I might have to just do that then. Tbh, the rest of the headliner is 90% fine so that makes most sense!

@@AutoAutopsy if you're going for kind of a high-end finish, probably try to match it. The sunroof just pops out the top (first the top half, then the bottom with the headliner material); it can be done in a day.

Great. Thanks 🙏🏼

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