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Adam, a younger chap from KCMO. He is new to Saabs.
99 9-3 SE manual gear box.
We did a speaker tube 3" airbox duct mod, ported the TBTC, removed turbo compressor discharge silencer, gapped DBCR7ES plugs, re-torqued the head bolts, installed Jeff's MBC+A. Took 5.5 hours. It cooled of today, it only got to 100F.
Most of the VC bolts very loose. But no oil leaks... strange.
I did the TBTC with an air powered die grinder and a carbide cutter, followed up 1" sanding drum, then 1.5" and 300# wet dry sand paper. That work went very quickly with those tools.
The 3" duct mod with the speaker tube was very easy. Pulled the old tube, cut off the old snout, scribed the end of the air box using the tube, roughed out with a saber saw, finished out with 1.5" drum sander that also took care of internal webbing in the way. De-greased and finished up with black silicone seal and K&N 33-2663.
The silencer removal was ok, but a bit of a struggle to get it out and refit of the tube was more difficult than removing from the rubber elbows.
For the head bolts, I used my electronic torque gauge for the 60 n.m, then a protractor for the 90 degrees. The bolts at the battery end were definitely needing more torque than the other, but were not grossly loose. When backing off the bolts then going back to 60 n.m, the end bolts ended up with the wrench turned past where they were originally (no ratchet in this setup). The other bolts got to 60 n.m at about their original positions. All of the bolts on this engine felt the same doing the 90 degrees. I did not remove a bolt to note what variant it was. So all of the bolts were turned 90 degrees or more past where I found them.
MBC+A was fussy to get setup, but this one was not pre-set by Jeff and this was my first install of this item... ironically.
I am thinking this getting all of this done at once is probably a record of some sort, or a monument to one of my personally faults ;)
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