I know this might be a long shot but where is the pin located? My saab 99 has a 5 speed manual transmission and the shifter seems to have disconnected inside the case. I suspect it's a knock pin that holds the shifter rod in place with the gear selector. But I am a bit stumped on how to begin to fix it
@@dashiznit89 The joint is exactly where it is on other cars: about three inches from the transmission and can be seen under the car. But instead of a captive clamp on the shifter end, there's a tapered hole drilled through. The 99 shifter is weird and can break in the way you describe. IIRC mine did. IDunno. t's been nearly 30 years since I owned a 99 and 40 years since the car in question.
@@dashiznit89 Cool. If that joint is intact, it's very likely the shifter has failed internally. Best of luck finding a "low miles" one. I think you can easily take up the cover in front of the shifter console to see if motion is getting out. I'd look at that first before crawling under the car.
@@richsackett3423 yeah I lifted the carpet and moved the air tube on the driver side for the rear hvac. I can see the rod moving and if you look in the engine bay by the firewall you can see the rod. I'ma try to take off the side cover on the passenger side but Idk. I hope it's not too messed up. I was driving it like normal on the way home and it just let go. Like the shifter instantly felt loose and would move freely but not into any gear.
It easily could be an 8 valve. The valve covers for the 16 and 8 valves are interchangeable. The head on that car could be an 8V just with a 16V valve cover put on. I may be wrong but something in my memory tells me that some people actually prefer the 8V for certain high HP builds. Something to do with the valves being larger and capable of breathing better than the 16V in high hp. applications. It may not be able to hit the high RPM's at redline but makes for more low rpm trque/grunt until that massive aftermarket turbo spools up and takes over in the power generation department. Although the only first hand experience I have is bac when I owned an 88' 900T 16V SPG with a tuned APC chip that had the car pushing somewhere north of 275 hp. That car was the fastest car All it toook to increase that cars power by 100 hp. was a tuned chip to control the turbo, an adjustment of the wastegate rod and an air intake, This was back in the mid 90's and that car without question was the fastest car within a 100 mile radius. Mustangs, tuned VW's, Camaro's, ANY Honda and whatever else that wasn't a supercar couldn't touch that Saab. It was known all throughout southern Vermont not only because it was throw you in the back seat fast but with it's fully color coded crimson metallic paint job ( ground effects and all ) and it's 16" 9000 Super Aero deep dish 3 star rims on 225 40 16 ZR Nitto low pro tires, it would break the necks of people staring at it a it went by. I was a senior in highschool when I got it painted and when I pickd it up from the paint shop, I parked it front and center in front of my highschool. That day was the first and only time that the hot as balls French teacher ever gave me a compliment ( let alone talked to me) when she said that my car was "the most beautiful car she had ever seen in her life". With all the girls that car got me in highschool, I soon came to realize that she was being 100% honest. haha
For some 8V you are correct as i owned a 84' 8V 900T where the valve cover was different but when I later purchased a 85' NA 900 8V, it was totally different than the 84' Turbo's and was the same as the valve cover on my 88' 16V SPG's. That 85' NA 900 Automatic 8V was the slowest saab that I have ever driven. Top speed down a slight decline was 97 mph... Top speed up any incine was 45 mph
@@supafrancis Your memory is probably fooling you right here. I have had many Saab 99's and 900's, B and H engine, and I can assure you that there's no possible combination for 16 valve covers on a 8 valve. The 8 valve head is completely different, much more narrow and way taller (do to the valve angle on the 16 valve). There is absolutely no possibility for them to fit. This is an 16 valve car
@Robert Jansen Your description of the 8V head is exactly what my 84' 900T looked like but my 85' 900 8V ( It wasn't even a 900S.. Just a plain as could be 900 ) had an engine that looked exactly like the many 16V 2.0L's that I've owned. Wasn't 85' when they came out with the 16V? Perhaps with the redesign, they used the same design for the 85'+ 8V. I don't know how much longer they even made the 8v after that. My 85' 8V was the last 8V that I had ever seen and I have owned 29 Saabs in the 22 years that I have been driving. Most of them being pre 1998
@@supafrancis are you sure they didn't just change your '85 one with an 16 valve engine or head at some point? Like i said, they can't possibly fit an 16 valve cover on any 8 valve head. Even the spark plugs are in a completely different position.
8 valves and 300 horsepower, OK. What I heard first what eight thousand three hundred horsepower!
Yep
It says 16 valve on the cover when they open up the hood...
I love these Saab’s! Very cool cars!
I remember seeing them at a fest and was amazed by them. They just had a cool look.
beautifully balanced.
It IS 16 valve.
Saab has the best turbo engine in the world
That's funny. I lost that pin on my 900 and fixed it on the side of the road with hardware bought from WalMart.
I know this might be a long shot but where is the pin located? My saab 99 has a 5 speed manual transmission and the shifter seems to have disconnected inside the case. I suspect it's a knock pin that holds the shifter rod in place with the gear selector. But I am a bit stumped on how to begin to fix it
@@dashiznit89 The joint is exactly where it is on other cars: about three inches from the transmission and can be seen under the car. But instead of a captive clamp on the shifter end, there's a tapered hole drilled through. The 99 shifter is weird and can break in the way you describe. IIRC mine did. IDunno. t's been nearly 30 years since I owned a 99 and 40 years since the car in question.
@@richsackett3423 thank you. I'm going to get under it today and see if I can find it. Thank you for sharing what you learned from yours.
@@dashiznit89 Cool. If that joint is intact, it's very likely the shifter has failed internally. Best of luck finding a "low miles" one. I think you can easily take up the cover in front of the shifter console to see if motion is getting out. I'd look at that first before crawling under the car.
@@richsackett3423 yeah I lifted the carpet and moved the air tube on the driver side for the rear hvac. I can see the rod moving and if you look in the engine bay by the firewall you can see the rod. I'ma try to take off the side cover on the passenger side but Idk. I hope it's not too messed up. I was driving it like normal on the way home and it just let go. Like the shifter instantly felt loose and would move freely but not into any gear.
Are those headlights available anywhere? They would look nice on my 900.
It easily could be an 8 valve. The valve covers for the 16 and 8 valves are interchangeable. The head on that car could be an 8V just with a 16V valve cover put on. I may be wrong but something in my memory tells me that some people actually prefer the 8V for certain high HP builds. Something to do with the valves being larger and capable of breathing better than the 16V in high hp. applications. It may not be able to hit the high RPM's at redline but makes for more low rpm trque/grunt until that massive aftermarket turbo spools up and takes over in the power generation department. Although the only first hand experience I have is bac when I owned an 88' 900T 16V SPG with a tuned APC chip that had the car pushing somewhere north of 275 hp. That car was the fastest car All it toook to increase that cars power by 100 hp. was a tuned chip to control the turbo, an adjustment of the wastegate rod and an air intake, This was back in the mid 90's and that car without question was the fastest car within a 100 mile radius. Mustangs, tuned VW's, Camaro's, ANY Honda and whatever else that wasn't a supercar couldn't touch that Saab. It was known all throughout southern Vermont not only because it was throw you in the back seat fast but with it's fully color coded crimson metallic paint job ( ground effects and all ) and it's 16" 9000 Super Aero deep dish 3 star rims on 225 40 16 ZR Nitto low pro tires, it would break the necks of people staring at it a it went by. I was a senior in highschool when I got it painted and when I pickd it up from the paint shop, I parked it front and center in front of my highschool. That day was the first and only time that the hot as balls French teacher ever gave me a compliment ( let alone talked to me) when she said that my car was "the most beautiful car she had ever seen in her life". With all the girls that car got me in highschool, I soon came to realize that she was being 100% honest. haha
The 8 valve and 16 valve covers are not interchangeable.
For some 8V you are correct as i owned a 84' 8V 900T where the valve cover was different but when I later purchased a 85' NA 900 8V, it was totally different than the 84' Turbo's and was the same as the valve cover on my 88' 16V SPG's. That 85' NA 900 Automatic 8V was the slowest saab that I have ever driven. Top speed down a slight decline was 97 mph... Top speed up any incine was 45 mph
@@supafrancis Your memory is probably fooling you right here. I have had many Saab 99's and 900's, B and H engine, and I can assure you that there's no possible combination for 16 valve covers on a 8 valve. The 8 valve head is completely different, much more narrow and way taller (do to the valve angle on the 16 valve). There is absolutely no possibility for them to fit. This is an 16 valve car
@Robert Jansen Your description of the 8V head is exactly what my 84' 900T looked like but my 85' 900 8V ( It wasn't even a 900S.. Just a plain as could be 900 ) had an engine that looked exactly like the many 16V 2.0L's that I've owned. Wasn't 85' when they came out with the 16V? Perhaps with the redesign, they used the same design for the 85'+ 8V. I don't know how much longer they even made the 8v after that. My 85' 8V was the last 8V that I had ever seen and I have owned 29 Saabs in the 22 years that I have been driving. Most of them being pre 1998
@@supafrancis are you sure they didn't just change your '85 one with an 16 valve engine or head at some point? Like i said, they can't possibly fit an 16 valve cover on any 8 valve head. Even the spark plugs are in a completely different position.
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😂😂😂 How did I not see that shit coming lmao
I guess I'm kinda randomly asking but does anyone know a good site to watch newly released series online?
@Ruben Azariah i would suggest flixzone. You can find it by googling =)
bruh im building my 900 quite exactly like this..
Exhaust is straight pipe?
11sek, the komentator said 8 valves!? Not from where I sit! I looks dam more like a 16 valve, then 300 is not that hard to achieve.
It´s a 16 valve, the power can be hard to get to the ground, the five speed gearbox is crap, the four speed is better.
Does anyone happen to know what front facia/spoiler/air dam that is?
That is the original frontspoiler for this model.
Original from before 87'. Just remove the bumper
NICE
SAAB.....♥
8,300hp??!!!
Last year he sell it
I WISHD ID HAD 2 900 TURBOS