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One word - MSS er, three I guess
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Posted by chris l (more from chris l) on Fri, 2 Aug 2002 17:47:07 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: performance mods for v4, tim hollowell, Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:39:02
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Motor Sport Service in Jamestown, New York is run by Jack Lawrence who races a Sonett and has an excellent V4 speed shop.

Jack Ashcraft sells a good selection of go-fast upgrades. He's out of Washington state, I believe. He's also got some very helpful books and tech articles. For a price. http://pages.prodigy.net/jackashcraft/

I used to get most of my info from Nines - The Saab Club of North America newsletter - good classified for older saabs but that might not be the case these days. http://www.saabclub.com/

The New England Sonett Club would probably be a great resource. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbprods/#Initial

In my V4 days, I had a Webber 2Bbl intake and carb, F66 cam (from Jack Ashcraft), hollow lifters and hi-po valve springs and inner valve springs, stronger rod bolts, and a higher pressure oil relief spring. Had the heads shaved .010. This gave a good power increase and greatly raised the red-line. Lots of fun.

Check with the New England Sonett Club for the turbo car. It was a pretty crude set-up compared to todays turbo cars. I ran into the guy in Fairport, NY about 10 years ago while driving my sonett. He had the pipes plumbed to a sheetmetal box over the tranny. That fed the turbo which sucked through the carb and went straight to the intake. I don't think having fuel/air mixture running through a red-hot turbo is the best idea. But it provided good, smooth power.

A full-blown N/A MSS engine (overbore with really high compression), good 2Bbl set-up, cam, etc... is probably the best way to go. That would probably get you 125-150 HP. I have no idea about what that work would cost these days, but that's how I'd probably do it. And I'd start a new hobby of rebuilding 97 transmissions.

Good luck and keep us posted.

-Ludwig

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