SAAB Tuning

Pete Vella’s Big Turbo Trionic 5 SAAB 900 8V

Tuned Saab 900 8v

Here’s another interesting Saab video from 949 Productions. Here is Swedish Street Performance”s big turbo 1980 trionic 5 SAAB 900 8V.

This car hosts a huge list of mods including Ported head, 630cc injectors, Holset 35 Turbo, custom fuel rail, custom tubular manifold by (FTW Welding), full stainless exhaust, Ryan Higbee downpipe, Dale Mahaffy catback exhaust, Bosch 044 fuel pump, and tuned by Mike D.

Pete Vella owns the car and did all the mechanical work himself. Author of the viddeo had an absolute blast hanging out with Pete and Zach talking SAAB and reliving old memories. Now, some will like this style, and some will not like it.

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JUst Listen to that unreal sound, That wastegate sound, wow…  It sounds awesome! The 8v sounds waaaay different then the 16v.

The car looks sharp, and it’s really like that. It’s fully capable over 300hp for the trans, and Pete won’t go much more than where it’s at now. A safe guess would be around 280whp and 300wtq his clutch is suppose to be good for 300wtq and it slips hard. 

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Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

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