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Old 01-14-2005, 01:44 PM   #7
serendipity
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You forgot: Saab tuners are mysterious, and the B235R is an invincible engine that beats anything else.

I dropped my Saab because the Saab performance scene was exactly like this. "I put a viggen intercooler on my 9000 Aero and outran an '03 cobra on the highway". Suuuure you did.

The fact is there's very little hard evidence in the Saab scene of gains. Engstrom will claim his PPC tuning and an exhaust nets you a 20% increase in power, but there are so few people using his tuning, and using it as part of a comprehensive performance program (including measuring performance before and after) that it's all speculation.

Having said all that, a friend of mine has a Viggen with some relatively basic mods - stock turbo, but front mounted spearco intercooler, Engstrom-tuned chip, and exhaust, WAS running increased boost, and was putting down in the neighborhood of 280whp and 330lb-ft. His engine eventually blew a piston though. So there's certainly room with the right tuning to get big power out of the B235, but I doubt you'll get there without increased boost.
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