Texhotrod593

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I have a camaro with a build thread on here and i am busy with that along with a 4.8 swap turbo 67 mustang too but I just bought a car..

It is a Saab 9-3 coupe with the 2.8 V6 turbo motor. I hit the jackpot with this and bought it for a measly 2 thousand! It has 62k miles and a 6speed auto trans. My question is does anyone know what all should be done with this car. I am not looking to make 7thousand hp with it and it will be mainly my wifes weekend driver so i was thinking somewhere in the 300-400hp range if possible.

Does anyone know if these can be tuned? what will the stock turbo hold. I do know GM owned this company and it has GM written all over it.

Anyone??

Texhotrod593

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Bump...I really dont wanna join a saab forum guys! lol It looks like maybe the stock turbo is a garret t25? Not sure. Anyone have anymore on this bad boy?

atomic 6

HP tuners will tune that, and that turbo is said to be worth 280 hp.

Tighten the gap on the plugs, shim the wastegate, and scan with HP, or hit somebody up for a tune, the HP tuners site will have someone to help you.

Texhotrod593

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cool someone with some insight. I will check on the hptuners site. One question...what is shimming the wastegate about?

atomic 6

Quick and Dirty way to increase the boost, it puts more tension on the rod connected to the wastegate puck.

It is basically an easy way to increase the boost without changing the program in the computer.

But the plugs' gap needs to be closed up some or it can misfire with more boost.

Then you need something to monitor the engine vitals, after doing those modifications, to make sure everything is going OK.

Texhotrod593

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Sounds good. i think I will talk with a tuner. Have you had much experience with these engines/cars? I would have thought that the stock turbo would make more than 15hp more than what it is now but I guess I was mistaken...thats why I called on yall. What can I do besides tune and I guess turbo now to make around 300whp?

goats&guns

How in the hell did you get that for 2grand?

Texhotrod593

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HAHA well it was basically talking to a overly rich man that had no sense and didnt really care what he sold it for. He listed it for 10.5 which was already a good price for what they book for and I went to see it and talked him down 8.5grand within a week...easy peasy. I bought a 99 camaro SS with 53k miles in great shape back in 01(still have it) guy wanted 24k and I talked him down to 10k. i dont know how I do it...

Texhotrod593

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I also have bought daily driver cars in great shape usually around 100k miles like a 200sx, civic ex, mazda protege', and a cobalt all listed for 4k or more and never paid more than 800(the civic) between all of them. In fact the other were like 500-700 after I got thru talking with them. I guess I have a gift...I just wish i had a better gift at building cars! lol

Beanslsxnova

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well you gotta buy cars b4 you can build them. So I'd say the gift of negotiating is a good asset to have if you plan on building a lot of cars haha.

The Alchemist

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Vtuner out of Vermont is great with Saab's. He tuned my 2.0T and it made a huge difference.

runsfromdacops

im going to fly you out here to broker my next car deal

Texhotrod593

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I just checked out his website! Wow so far the best deal...I believe these are fwhp numbers but for 700 dollars 326hp 2900 dollars is about 393hp! not too bad I think. Thank you very much for the direction

Texhotrod593

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Haha...yeah I have had several local friends I have already helped them with a few of their buys. Most of the time they do NOT have enough patience to let me finish a deal for them lol