SAAB build with a proper engine...daved

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

That heap's not a real ****!

This is the last real **** ever built!



This is a real 8v motor!



I'd even have a 16v if it was this one!

 

I thought S**B was a banned word?

 

maybe if it had another bank and 32 valves

 

+1
Prof has been warned

Leave it to an American or at least an American engine to make a S**B better





















































Runs and hides

 

some pretty amazing metalwork on that build, even if you don't like the lorry engine in the front

 

Was just going to have a rant about pushrods

 

Do you have a link prof?

 

click the pics

nothing wrong with pushrods makes for a super light & compact engine. the LS series weigh about the same as a vr6 and go to 7.2L

 

it is a shame as the rover V8 is just rubbish, no wonder buick wanted rid of it

 

Crikey - surely the LS engines must have alloy blocks?

I'm sure pushrods do offer some advantages, but I'd personally forsake them all for the 4 valves per cylinder and reduced valvetrain mass that a DOHC format allows

 

different ways to acheive what you want, the LS is all alloy, and tiny due to no dohc. 500bhp and 28mpg is possible at a reletively simple tune, and you can buy a new one for 3k

the aftermarket support is huge and parts are quite cheap, a lightweight valvetrain is available and many of them run 7500 revs without issue

or go wild and fit the ls9 blower and 427 crank and pistons and have a no nonsense 800bhp.

poor output/litre but it's not a big problem when you have 7L to play with

that viper engine is an 8.2L

 

best thing that could happen to an MX5

 

Don't be daft.

A crusher would have been better!

 

Tis fair, I'd rather have a smaller capacity turbo'd quad cam V8 with better VE though, personally. Tickling along at part throttle in something of 8 litres displacement must cane the fuel

That said the yanks have built their empire on big, cheap low tech engines..

 

they get better mpg on corvettes than most folk on here seem to get out of mk2s

 

Isn't that a Triumph engine with the alternator in a funny place?

 

If you actually believe that, you know absolutely feck all of the history of that motor!