Panhard rod mount revision and other updates

[Luke]

Car as it sits:


Back at home under a SAAB:

New panhard mount with fubar old mount in foreground


Beam plated a drilled to accept new mount:






Bolted in place and easy to replace quickly in service



Intercooler bypass pipe (intercooler was also wrecked in roll)


Rear suspension back together and ready to roll

[matt]

FANTASTIC!!!

Glad to see you're still alive luke.

[The Josh]

What, no pictures of my comedic attempt at body work?

Mount looks great! Im glad we went that route instead of putting in another weld-in unit.

Now go make a spare before you forget!

[Geoff]

Looking good! Too bad about the intercooler. I assume you'll be running less boost without it?

What's with the white board? "Question" "Don't ask"....

Smile Luke!

[Luke]

What, no pictures of my comedic attempt at body work?

Mount looks great! Im glad we went that route instead of putting in another weld-in unit.

Now go make a spare before you forget!

Ok heres josh's bondo handy work.
Needs a little priming/sanding still but should be good enough for our purposes.

[Luke]

Looking good! Too bad about the intercooler. I assume you'll be running less boost without it?

What's with the white board? "Question" "Don't ask"....

Smile Luke!

Thats our process map for the cycle of stupidity. I was destined to be a janitor.

The intercooler might be able to be repaired, the core is basically ok, but for now bypassing it seemed like the easiest solution to get the car back on the road.

[Jordan]

Looking good! Too bad about the intercooler. I assume you'll be running less boost without it?

What's with the white board? "Question" "Don't ask"....

Smile Luke!

Looks like a flow chart on what to say for all saabrally.com posts.... Question -> Stupid? -> don't answer -> Repeat

edit: hah.. I didn't see his post...I was pretty close.

SAABRally.com: A Cycle of Stupidity

[paulh]

cool! body work looks good enough to me. so whens the next event?

Paul

[matt]

Rally New York is coming up quick, end of the month.

Luke I second the building of a spare pan hard mount.
Also is the mega skidplate getting adapted or are we running the same one as stpr?

[matt]

double post ftmfw

[Jordan]

Rally New York is coming up quick, end of the month.

Luke I second the building of a spare pan hard mount.
Also is the mega skidplate getting adapted or are we running the same one as stpr?

Not that he shouldn't build another, but that new mount looks much beefier than the old one. not only does it look like thicker stock, it's as boxed as it could be and it doesn't have that EZ-fold kink like the stock one. It will be interesting to see where the point of failure is next... hopefully there won't be any!

[Crazyswede]

Rally New York is coming up quick, end of the month.

Luke I second the building of a spare pan hard mount.
Also is the mega skidplate getting adapted or are we running the same one as stpr?

Not that he shouldn't build another, but that new mount looks much beefier than the old one. not only does it look like thicker stock, it's as boxed as it could be and it doesn't have that EZ-fold kink like the stock one. It will be interesting to see where the point of failure is next... hopefully there won't be any!

Run enough rallies and soon your car will look like this:

[DeLorean]

I was wondering when the next updates were coming, looks like the body work is going along pretty well.

[paulh]

Rally New York is coming up quick, end of the month.

yup, I'm planning to be there either way, it'd be great if there was a Saab running. I'm planning to commandeer my dads new vanagon for the event

Paul

[matt]

I think Bruce might be "zero'ing" the course in the 96 but I'm not 100% sure.