I was just about to comment on that, it's big enough to stick a knäckebrödsmacka through. Congratulations on discovering the rust, other than that the car looks great. Happy to see one driving around.
Might i suggest trying to get in contact with ThisOldTony who has his own youtube channel for everything related to tooling and manufacturing custom parts or whole machines? Maybe he could help you in a collaboration for a new baseplate?
In the early 80s I was working in the Middle East in a port city. A friend bought an old small Honda Civic. It was quite rusty (salty tropical air) with holes in the floor just like your lovely Saab. It was a great little car though, zippy engine and fun to drive. One day, we were returning from work in it and got involved in a very slow shunt in a traffic line. No one hurt, but the Civic just collapsed in the middle in a shower of rusty flakes. Never seen that before or after, but I guess it happens! Lucky you rolled back the carpet. Maybe they can weld in a plate or something?
Most old hondas only half a front chassis. once the floor goes youve got nothing holding the front to the back. I have seen many honda crashes with the front end in one place and the passanger half in another..usually with a blanket over the passenger side to cover the dead. older hondas are really bad in crashes.
Ask AvE if he'll mill you a new carb base plate, he's got a 5-Axis, he can do it. Edit: He probably also has any fitting you could imagine available for the PCV and Booster lines.
Buy a cheap tarp to put under whatever youre stripping. Afterward just fold it up and toss it. Basically eliminates cleanup. A big garbage bag can be used for smaller parts (test the stripper on the tarp first as ive had a couple dissolve on me:)
I was brought home from the hospital (being born) in a 1970 model in New Jersey. 10 years and four states later, we sold it here in Omaha. Flash forward to last year and see that it lives three blocks from me, beautifully restored! That engine noise takes me back. I can still remember that Saab smell. Great video.
Man, that sound takes me back! Me and my twin brother had one when we were 18. It was hillariously easy to go sideways round bends on the dirt roads by the means of left foot breaking.
Lovely car. For a while, in my teen years, I was a Saab mechanic and I never got a chance to see one of those 2 cycle Saabs running/ driving. Keep it up with the repairs. She's a beaut!
Sounds fantastic! I’m glad your Saab is reliable enough to drive now and it is looking a lot better with the repainted ‘bonnet’ ;) I admire that you’re driving it and improving things when you can. It’s good to still be using it as intended. I look forward to seeing you work on this car and the others. Despite your amateur level of experience, you do really good work and it seems like you truly do learn from what you do.
Gotta' tell ya' how much I've thoroughly enjoyed watching this series on your 96. Brought back memories of my previous Saabs. I've had a 93, two 96's, one a Monte Carlo that I rallied for two seasons, rolled once and a 99. Once the carb and water pump issues were ironed out thought you've got a good driver until revealing the rusted pan under the carpeting. Broke my heart. Sorry to see that but w/o a supplier for floor panels, other than a donor car, there's little help.
Congratulations 'old bean' ! Nice cameo of your Dad. You both did a 'cracking' job on the bonnet. Meanwhile here in Arkansaw, my dear Saabrina is undercover. Waiting for spring while I gather parts. Cheers!
Wow, great videos on fixing a real great little car! I had 4 of those as my first cars from -94 to -99. And i rebuilt engines in the same curious way. A friend of mine would have torn his hair out! He was constantly going on about the poor and dirty conditions in which we were building our engines. Me and my brother both built 130 hp engines with 2xWeber DCOE 45 carbs on moosehorn-intakes. I love your sense of humor too. Made me giggle several times. I feel we would make the best of friends, haha :) I will use this as a source of inspiration to finally getting around to fix my own 96. It has been sitting in a tent in my backyard far too long.... Keep on Saabing!
Nice car! I have had 2x Renault R8, Fiat 600D, Mercedes W123 240D, Honda Prelude 1st gen and Alfa Romeo 146 boxer. Saab 96 is one of my dream cars! Keep up the good work, you do have talent!
Ours was bottle green and died in 1979, when it was T-bones on a summer vacation driving through France, I was five at the time. I loved the sound of the engine and regularly fell asleep on the back seat when we drove around.
AS an 18 year old I had a Vauxhall Viva (UK). It was the early 70's. It was my first car and I knew nothing. Within 3 months I had discovered the huge holes in the front wings 'repaired' with wads of newspaper and Bondo. This was at the same time as I discovered the floor was rusted out completely by listening to Sabbath on my new cassette radio and headbanging in the car. It's a singular feeling barreling down the M1 motorway at 70ish and you feel the carpet deform under your feet as the floor is ejected from the car. My best friend Barry gave me a screwdriver and a magnet when we got home and we went on a car based archaeological dig. That car was a death trap and of course the bloke I bought it from disavowed any knowledge of the issues. It's fun to watch you struggle with these 'ahem' treasures but I love my 2003 Honda Element which I bought from new and has been utterly boring in it's reliability and structural integrity. Keep up the good work. Watching you struggle is an absolute hoot.
Cold galvanizing compound for the rust. It will loosen and lift up existing rust and not allow more to form. Just re-apply when the rust lifts up after a few days or weeks.
I enjoyed the videos - moreso since my first car was a 1968 96 monte-carlo and I owned and worked on several since then. One suggestion I have that I did on a later 96 was to replace the exhaust with a single (larger) center pipe system. Requires a new set of headers but I found a sonnet mechanic who welded an additional ~3 inches into one of those headers (since the 96 engine sits higher than the sonnet) effectively lowering the point at which the two-into-one scavenging effect happened, actually giving it a slightly better low-end torque as well as allowing the engine to breath easier. Not sure if / when you may read this - but great job on the videos. (I actually still own a walnut monte-carlo steering wheel and a set of honeycomb sonnet rims on the decreasing chance that I will ever again own a 96 to customize). Best of luck! Jim
Finally!!! The thousands of times I hit the refresh button for this video, it finally paid off, lol, love your videos and your sense of humor, loved Tyler's (now Fred's) burnt Ferrari video, the trabants are interesting vehicles (my father-in-law told me about them) and really all your stuff is pretty cool even if it's not supercars, keep up the good work and have a good day
I once fited the exact same carb on my first car, a Datsun 1600 (510) in Australia. I pulled it from a Ford Escort and found an adapter plate on some other wrecker Datsun, even had the same air filter. It definitely made a difference on that car...damn I wish I still owned one of those
I had one on a Gemini, on an adapter plate. More power, smoother running and nice sound. Eventually I upgraded to a pair of 40mm IDFs. Man, those really woke it up, and what a glorious noise.
That looks like a fun car to ride thru the flint hills! Or anywhere! Come get me i'll pack a picnic! So enjoy you&your videos. Thankyou for taking time to record& post you😁
Try POR-15. The system will leave a glass/cermaic like coating that strengthens the panels and stops rust. Then you can prime and paint it. As far as I can tell only the actual paint is special. The degreaser is like simple green and the primer is normal high build primer. The silver will do a better job filling in holes.
Back in the 70's, I had a 1967 Firebird with a 326ci V-8 2bbl. I found a 4bbl manifold and matching carb and threw it on. I was hoping it would do doughnuts and torch off the tires! NOPE! LOL. At best, it had a bit more low end grunt. Bummed out. Learned later that all I had to do was install 4bbl. heads, and cam! Didn't go there. Oh, like your SAAB, it sounded bad ass when I floored it!
Something like POR-15 may help with rust. My dad and I used it on our '63 Ford Falcon Futura convertible. Chemically bonds to the rust and stops it spreading. There may be newer products too, this was the late '80s...
Nice job, Robert! The best part of putting twin Webers on my old Celica is definitely the sound. It sure didn't make it fast either :D If we're ever in the same state we should take a drive!
Tremendous fantastic great work, Rob! I enjoyed following and watching this project since day 1. Super cool to see how it all turned out very nice in the end. Well deserved credit for the effort and time and dedication you put into learning about the engine rebuild on your own. Can't wait to see how Project Trabant goes!
For future reference, you can somewhat easily remove old paint using WD-40 and light abrasion, like one of those sponges with the rough side. That seems to be pretty useful.
I do have the vacuum plate for your carb setup. The original one. But too bad, shipping is too expensive, othervise I would donate that piece to you! Keep up the good work!
New subscriber here. The Trabant engine rebuild got me hooked. Really great channel and your right the odd stuff is whats of interest (at lease to me). Cheers.
As an owner of a 1973 96 here in the uk i would just like to say the bonnet panel gap won't ever be great, mine isn't it sticks up about 3/8''. Shame about the state of the floor mine is solid throughout but has the same cosmetic issues to the exterior like yours. Got a shed full of spares so if you ever require anything I may well have it.
Get some ospho rust remover. Clean off the loose stuff and spray it a few times with ospho in a hudson sprayer. Once everything is black and stable lay on some fiberglass roving. An old rusted up burn barrel is good practice.
Ever want to see a real life school bus conversion like the one you mentioned in your truck camper video? Come a few states over to Indiana and drive mine :) only caveat is it’s not finished yet, but it’s a work in progress...
@Aging Wheels 3:51 You may not have got the power gains you expected because you removed the original air cleaner and replaced it with an aftermarket. Yes, I know they can flow better but you are now sucking hot air in from around the motor. Even on a mild day where the ambient temperature is 70deg the air under the hood can get up to 115. If you put these numbers into the formula used to correct bhp under different conditions, it works out at around a 5% drop in power due to the fact that hotter air is less dense and therefore contains less oxygen. It is the reason "old school" tuners used to add hood scoops and "turkey pans" to keep the air entering the carb cool.
I enjoyed the Trabant rebuild so much I just had to watch this. In fact I enjoyed them so much I forgot to "like" them, apart from this one , oh, and I've subscribed as well. Keep 'em coming.
on the underside of the hood I would have just sanded the paint so the new primer could adhere. than painted it seems like you made a lot more work for yourself, oh well came out looking good either way
Wonderful sound it's making now. Couldn't help but notice that there's a significant amount of daylight showing around the driver's door frame. Is this because of a missing seal?
Food for thought big carb with out the cam and exhaust to match is probably the reason for the lack luster performance. Could you try a "Colortune 500 Lean/Rich spark plug Tool" on the Saab or Trabant?
that rust is an immediate issue, its just going to get worse. my dad once told me about a friend of his who was driving an old ford and the floor was so rusted the drivers seat just fell through the car while the guy was driving in it. the guy didnt get hurt, but i imagine you dont want that to happen.
I had a 74 2002 in 88 to 89 inside the boot and wheel wells and around the quarter with the side surface mounted gas cap; scraped up all loose rust. used liberal amounts of "rust converter" on any oxidized steel. primed, sanded, primed and used krylon grey/silver on the visible quarter panel. had to bondo the trunk floor to keep rain water from splashing up into the trunk and submerging the full size spare in there with more than a gallon of disgusting gutter water. without restoration, a chemical and fibreglass war with corrosion can be waged, that will keep the wind from howelling when the saab gets up to its remarkably intense velocities, until the time that you want to have a whole new floor pan installed in the classic.
If you don’t have time/resources to deal with the floor issues properly right now, take the carpet out, clean off the loose rust, and brush some black or clear Por 15 on it so that, at least, it won’t get worse.
Interesting series. I would jump on the floor rust now, rather then put it of. I mean you are seated on the rust. Would be a huge surprise if it let go and you were grinding your bottom off on the road... lol
Yes, there's a gap above the driver's door. It's just some missing weatherstripping.
I was just about to comment on that, it's big enough to stick a knäckebrödsmacka through. Congratulations on discovering the rust, other than that the car looks great. Happy to see one driving around.
Love your content man. Keep em coming
Might i suggest trying to get in contact with ThisOldTony who has his own youtube channel for everything related to tooling and manufacturing custom parts or whole machines? Maybe he could help you in a collaboration for a new baseplate?
Heat shrink and electrical tape should do it for a year or two
I was going to comment on that. I was thinking “Man, that’s one heck of a panel gap”.
Dont delay on that rust. Fix it now and fix it well. And dont skip the small spots. Get em now while theyre easy
As my dad would say "it doesnt go faster than sound, it just sounds like its going fast".
Damn, your fake driving FX have gotten a lot better
At least he knows how to fake the steering now.
Wesley Van Pelt 😂
In the early 80s I was working in the Middle East in a port city. A friend bought an old small Honda Civic. It was quite rusty (salty tropical air) with holes in the floor just like your lovely Saab. It was a great little car though, zippy engine and fun to drive. One day, we were returning from work in it and got involved in a very slow shunt in a traffic line. No one hurt, but the Civic just collapsed in the middle in a shower of rusty flakes. Never seen that before or after, but I guess it happens! Lucky you rolled back the carpet. Maybe they can weld in a plate or something?
Most old hondas only half a front chassis. once the floor goes youve got nothing holding the front to the back. I have seen many honda crashes with the front end in one place and the passanger half in another..usually with a blanket over the passenger side to cover the dead. older hondas are really bad in crashes.
Ask AvE if he'll mill you a new carb base plate, he's got a 5-Axis, he can do it.
Edit: He probably also has any fitting you could imagine available for the PCV and Booster lines.
Buy a cheap tarp to put under whatever youre stripping. Afterward just fold it up and toss it. Basically eliminates cleanup. A big garbage bag can be used for smaller parts (test the stripper on the tarp first as ive had a couple dissolve on me:)
I was brought home from the hospital (being born) in a 1970 model in New Jersey. 10 years and four states later, we sold it here in Omaha. Flash forward to last year and see that it lives three blocks from me, beautifully restored! That engine noise takes me back. I can still remember that Saab smell. Great video.
Man, that sound takes me back! Me and my twin brother had one when we were 18. It was hillariously easy to go sideways round bends on the dirt roads by the means of left foot breaking.
Lovely car. For a while, in my teen years, I was a Saab mechanic and I never got a chance to see one of those 2 cycle Saabs running/ driving. Keep it up with the repairs. She's a beaut!
"When I choke it, it just wants to die..."
Yeah... lol
I love the old Saab and the Presenter is the dog's danglies. Good job Dude. Thank you for posting.
Congratulations in the new 2 barrel carburetor being done!
Nice to see the two-barrel conversion up and running! I wish you all the very best good fortune dealing with the rust issue.
Sounds fantastic! I’m glad your Saab is reliable enough to drive now and it is looking a lot better with the repainted ‘bonnet’ ;) I admire that you’re driving it and improving things when you can. It’s good to still be using it as intended. I look forward to seeing you work on this car and the others. Despite your amateur level of experience, you do really good work and it seems like you truly do learn from what you do.
Tack så mycket for taking care of this piece of Swedish heritage.
Gotta' tell ya' how much I've thoroughly enjoyed watching this series on your 96. Brought back memories of my previous Saabs. I've had a 93, two 96's, one a Monte Carlo that I rallied for two seasons, rolled once and a 99. Once the carb and water pump issues were ironed out thought you've got a good driver until revealing the rusted pan under the carpeting. Broke my heart. Sorry to see that but w/o a supplier for floor panels, other than a donor car, there's little help.
Congratulations 'old bean' ! Nice cameo of your Dad. You both did a 'cracking' job on the bonnet. Meanwhile here in Arkansaw, my dear Saabrina is undercover. Waiting for spring while I gather parts. Cheers!
Wow, great videos on fixing a real great little car! I had 4 of those as my first cars from -94 to -99. And i rebuilt engines in the same curious way. A friend of mine would have torn his hair out! He was constantly going on about the poor and dirty conditions in which we were building our engines. Me and my brother both built 130 hp engines with 2xWeber DCOE 45 carbs on moosehorn-intakes.
I love your sense of humor too. Made me giggle several times. I feel we would make the best of friends, haha :)
I will use this as a source of inspiration to finally getting around to fix my own 96. It has been sitting in a tent in my backyard far too long....
Keep on Saabing!
Nice car! I have had 2x Renault R8, Fiat 600D, Mercedes W123 240D, Honda Prelude 1st gen and Alfa Romeo 146 boxer. Saab 96 is one of my dream cars! Keep up the good work, you do have talent!
Ours was bottle green and died in 1979, when it was T-bones on a summer vacation driving through France, I was five at the time. I loved the sound of the engine and regularly fell asleep on the back seat when we drove around.
AS an 18 year old I had a Vauxhall Viva (UK). It was the early 70's. It was my first car and I knew nothing. Within 3 months I had discovered the huge holes in the front wings 'repaired' with wads of newspaper and Bondo. This was at the same time as I discovered the floor was rusted out completely by listening to Sabbath on my new cassette radio and headbanging in the car. It's a singular feeling barreling down the M1 motorway at 70ish and you feel the carpet deform under your feet as the floor is ejected from the car. My best friend Barry gave me a screwdriver and a magnet when we got home and we went on a car based archaeological dig. That car was a death trap and of course the bloke I bought it from disavowed any knowledge of the issues. It's fun to watch you struggle with these 'ahem' treasures but I love my 2003 Honda Element which I bought from new and has been utterly boring in it's reliability and structural integrity. Keep up the good work. Watching you struggle is an absolute hoot.
Cold galvanizing compound for the rust. It will loosen and lift up existing rust and not allow more to form. Just re-apply when the rust lifts up after a few days or weeks.
Great to see it back on the roads! But now I’m jealous and want a V4.... lol
I enjoyed the videos - moreso since my first car was a 1968 96 monte-carlo and I owned and worked on several since then. One suggestion I have that I did on a later 96 was to replace the exhaust with a single (larger) center pipe system. Requires a new set of headers but I found a sonnet mechanic who welded an additional ~3 inches into one of those headers (since the 96 engine sits higher than the sonnet) effectively lowering the point at which the two-into-one scavenging effect happened, actually giving it a slightly better low-end torque as well as allowing the engine to breath easier. Not sure if / when you may read this - but great job on the videos. (I actually still own a walnut monte-carlo steering wheel and a set of honeycomb sonnet rims on the decreasing chance that I will ever again own a 96 to customize). Best of luck! Jim
Finally!!! The thousands of times I hit the refresh button for this video, it finally paid off, lol, love your videos and your sense of humor, loved Tyler's (now Fred's) burnt Ferrari video, the trabants are interesting vehicles (my father-in-law told me about them) and really all your stuff is pretty cool even if it's not supercars, keep up the good work and have a good day
Yeaa
Hope you get a chance to drive it on winter roads. Nothing handles ice and snow like a Saab 96. I bought mine new in 1973.
It is harder to weld up the floor pans when you are over 65.
A grinder and paint, make me the welder I ain't. Good job, dude! Glad to see your projects coming along.
That's a glorious sound.
I once fited the exact same carb on my first car, a Datsun 1600 (510) in Australia. I pulled it from a Ford Escort and found an adapter plate on some other wrecker Datsun, even had the same air filter. It definitely made a difference on that car...damn I wish I still owned one of those
I had one on a Gemini, on an adapter plate. More power, smoother running and nice sound. Eventually I upgraded to a pair of 40mm IDFs. Man, those really woke it up, and what a glorious noise.
I look forward to your next video, I'm sure it will help boost my self esteem and give me a laugh. PS its bonnet in Australia too.
That looks like a fun car to ride thru the flint hills! Or anywhere! Come get me i'll pack a picnic!
So enjoy you&your videos. Thankyou for taking time to record& post you😁
Love the video, made me happy to see a conclusion.
Try POR-15. The system will leave a glass/cermaic like coating that strengthens the panels and stops rust. Then you can prime and paint it. As far as I can tell only the actual paint is special. The degreaser is like simple green and the primer is normal high build primer.
The silver will do a better job filling in holes.
Back in the 70's, I had a 1967 Firebird with a 326ci V-8 2bbl. I found a 4bbl manifold and matching carb and threw it on. I was hoping it would do doughnuts and torch off the tires! NOPE! LOL. At best, it had a bit more low end grunt. Bummed out. Learned later that all I had to do was install 4bbl. heads, and cam! Didn't go there. Oh, like your SAAB, it sounded bad ass when I floored it!
I love your little blue Saab 96. ❤️
Something like POR-15 may help with rust. My dad and I used it on our '63 Ford Falcon Futura convertible. Chemically bonds to the rust and stops it spreading. There may be newer products too, this was the late '80s...
The satisfied and proud smile at the beginning is the best present for Saint Nicolas Day!
Uncle had that engine in a mk 1 transit breakdown vehicle , he improved the pull with an upgrade camshaft.
You did a fine job it's a beautiful car!!! greetings from Slovenia.
Nice job, sounds great and really nice looking car.
Sounds great and glad to see her in good health
My SAAB 96 -72 has a 2-port solex with the 1700 cc engine, and it's sounds just as beautiful as yours..🥰🥰🥰🥰
Nice job, Robert! The best part of putting twin Webers on my old Celica is definitely the sound. It sure didn't make it fast either :D If we're ever in the same state we should take a drive!
Tremendous fantastic great work, Rob! I enjoyed following and watching this project since day 1. Super cool to see how it all turned out very nice in the end. Well deserved credit for the effort and time and dedication you put into learning about the engine rebuild on your own. Can't wait to see how Project Trabant goes!
Holy crap, that engine sounds like a dream come true! Now I want to drive one badly! It's an eargasm!
This is a good channel!!!
Greetings from Serbia!!!
For future reference, you can somewhat easily remove old paint using WD-40 and light abrasion, like one of those sponges with the rough side. That seems to be pretty useful.
when you chemical strip paint, you need to cover the stripper on the paint with plastic to keep in the volatile compounds
I do have the vacuum plate for your carb setup. The original one. But too bad, shipping is too expensive, othervise I would donate that piece to you! Keep up the good work!
I used to have one of those. Haven't seen one since at least 1993
New subscriber here. The Trabant engine rebuild got me hooked. Really great channel and your right the odd stuff is whats of interest (at lease to me). Cheers.
Please keep the videos coming
to get the most out of the carb , bigger valves and tubi exhaust , what comes in must come out
@Bernhard Jordan is not a 2 stroke, its a 4 stroke V4
@@ChamonixMatrix right on the money ;)
@kevin paul halliday in my country ''rockers'' means biker's like hells angels and bandidos etc :)
@Bernhard Jordan it's a 4 stroke engine not a 2 stroke
Looks awesome....
Looks great, these Saabs have great lines. How about a putting some sound deadening on the under side of the bonnet.
It's a fun car to drive. Owned one for a year. Unfortunately rust is a major problem.
You could check with This Old Tony about making that carb plate for you. He does some pretty awesome machining!
0:00 - 0:19 Best opinion on a car ever!
Bravissimo!!!! Music to my ears!
Pretty Cool..!! Engine sounds Great !!
5:50 bro it's 70 years old, dont worry about it looking perfect
Oh, I'm going to worry.
As an owner of a 1973 96 here in the uk i would just like to say the bonnet panel gap won't ever be great, mine isn't it sticks up about 3/8''. Shame about the state of the floor mine is solid throughout but has the same cosmetic issues to the exterior like yours.
Got a shed full of spares so if you ever require anything I may well have it.
She's a beauty! Good job
Get some ospho rust remover. Clean off the loose stuff and spray it a few times with ospho in a hudson sprayer. Once everything is black and stable lay on some fiberglass roving.
An old rusted up burn barrel is good practice.
Fiberglass will make things worse --- i had such repairs on my car and it was keeping water under the fiberglass rusting 4x faster ....
Beautiful Car, Great Job !
looking good!
Ever want to see a real life school bus conversion like the one you mentioned in your truck camper video? Come a few states over to Indiana and drive mine :) only caveat is it’s not finished yet, but it’s a work in progress...
@Aging Wheels 3:51
You may not have got the power gains you expected because you removed the original air cleaner and replaced it with an aftermarket. Yes, I know they can flow better but you are now sucking hot air in from around the motor. Even on a mild day where the ambient temperature is 70deg the air under the hood can get up to 115. If you put these numbers into the formula used to correct bhp under different conditions, it works out at around a 5% drop in power due to the fact that hotter air is less dense and therefore contains less oxygen.
It is the reason "old school" tuners used to add hood scoops and "turkey pans" to keep the air entering the carb cool.
I enjoyed the Trabant rebuild so much I just had to watch this. In fact I enjoyed them so much I forgot to "like" them, apart from this one , oh, and I've subscribed as well. Keep 'em coming.
I had a new one of those in the seventies and I replaced it with a 99EMS. Nice eccentric old car
My favorite thing about Aircraft brand paint stripper is that if you read the label, it says "Not for use on aircraft."
Lmao what?
Almost bought a Saab 96 after watching your videos!
Good job
OMG, bonnet if you're in the U. Khay :D I love this guy!
Fast road kent camshaft ? Will make use of the extra air intake from the twin weber .
Nice old girl.
Good on you for your persistence.
on the underside of the hood I would have just sanded the paint so the new primer could adhere. than painted it seems like you made a lot more work for yourself, oh well came out looking good either way
May as well keep the bolts in the bolted on panel . That way if it's needed it's already available !
ah yes. splendid job sir.
Wonderful sound it's making now. Couldn't help but notice that there's a significant amount of daylight showing around the driver's door frame. Is this because of a missing seal?
Yeah, he said he's just missing some weatherstripping, but the gap is normal.
Let's hope you can replace that floor pan with something benign, before you have a second collection of Saab spares.
Thanks Robert!
Such a beautiful car 😍❤️
you are the greadest, enteresting' and funny youtuber about cars
Food for thought big carb with out the cam and exhaust to match is probably the reason for the lack luster performance. Could you try a "Colortune 500 Lean/Rich spark plug Tool" on the Saab or Trabant?
No doubt it will now blow the doors off the Trabant. You've made a race car. Albeit, ...
Seriously, congratulations, it sounds terrific.
Damn, it sounds pretty good actually
Holy crap, get some new door seals! I can see daylight between the body & the driver door
Damn, that small engine sounds amazing
Good video.
that rust is an immediate issue, its just going to get worse. my dad once told me about a friend of his who was driving an old ford and the floor was so rusted the drivers seat just fell through the car while the guy was driving in it. the guy didnt get hurt, but i imagine you dont want that to happen.
Liked it with the blacked hud. Euro rally look to it.
I had a 74 2002 in 88 to 89 inside the boot and wheel wells and around the quarter with the side surface mounted gas cap; scraped up all loose rust. used liberal amounts of "rust converter" on any oxidized steel. primed, sanded, primed and used krylon grey/silver on the visible quarter panel. had to bondo the trunk floor to keep rain water from splashing up into the trunk and submerging the full size spare in there with more than a gallon of disgusting gutter water. without restoration, a chemical and fibreglass war with corrosion can be waged, that will keep the wind from howelling when the saab gets up to its remarkably intense velocities, until the time that you want to have a whole new floor pan installed in the classic.
Love those old Saab's nice job, does this mean we have a floor pan replacement welding jobby to look forward to!.
LOVE THE INTRO
your a brave man
If you don’t have time/resources to deal with the floor issues properly right now, take the carpet out, clean off the loose rust, and brush some black or clear Por 15 on it so that, at least, it won’t get worse.
Yes, the access panel is a moot point now. Good luck.
Interesting series. I would jump on the floor rust now, rather then put it of. I mean you are seated on the rust. Would be a huge surprise if it let go and you were grinding your bottom off on the road... lol