V6

Andrew Robert Breen wrote:

> Adrian <toomany2cvs.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >azb@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Robert Breen) gurgled happily, sounding much like
> >they were saying:
> >
> >>>> The V6 was clearly a GM job,
> >
> >>>The initial ones in the 9000s (and possibly some others) were IIRC the
> >>>Vauxhall design (ok part of GM but it wasn't a widely used engine).
> >
> >> OK, I'm pretty unfamilar with the GM-SAABs.
> >
> >To be fair, the 9k isn't a GM-Saab. It's a Fiat-Saab. With a GM engine,
> >in the case of the V6.
>
> I was thinking more of having been unaware that the later GM-SAABs used a
> different V6.

Totally off the top of my head, the initial Vauxhall one (designed in the UK) had
a 54 degree V and the later one of more stock GM origin was 60 degree.

But why bother The old B series I4's are lovely ! Tunable to over 300 bhp IIRC.

Graham

"Andrew Robert Breen" <azb RemoveThis @aber.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <48C730DB.E914BAEA RemoveThis @hotmail.com>,
> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>Oh come on. The B204 family was unique to Saab. Good engine too.
>
> That's the twin-cam slant-four with the balance shafts, nyet? It's still
> based on the Ricardo job, in a grandfather's axe sort of way.

indeed, later 2.3 engines are not 'slant' block and no parts have been
interchangeable from the 1973 B series - itself a far more reliable motor
than the dolly lumps.

And of course by the 1980 H series finally removed that stupid water
pump....