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  • mad_machine

    Sept. 21, 2011 4:50 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    You know what they say about assumptions...

    Anyway, I am almost done disassembling my 94 NG and I am down to removing the head and wiring so I can T5 my Classic. Getting down to the head I noticed something odd. I was under the assumption that all the GM era saabs had the head with the notch in the chain gallery?

    I will post pics on monday when I get it off of the car.. but the head and engine in my early NG are differnt. It is a flat deck across the top of the block and the head does NOT have the notch. It does however, have some crossed ribbing across the chain galley, which the classic heads do not have.

    I am stumped by this. The head and engine both look nasty enough to be original to the car..and the car only has just over 100,000 miles on it... any clues?

  • procainestart

    Sept. 21, 2011 9:55 p.m. procainestart Dork

    Part number? 1994 head was one-year-only, so maybe they didn't have the gap between the holes? You'd think people on the web would know about this, though, instead of going to the trouble of welding/epoxying up that space.

    Pictures would be good.

  • mad_machine

    Sept. 21, 2011 11:24 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    I will try to get it tomarrow.. if not.. not till monday when I have off from work again. Head is still on the car, just sorting out how to get the engine harness off of it.

    And I doubt most people realise it is one year only thing.. and even if they did... how many engines/heads still exist from the 1994 NG?

  • procainestart

    Sept. 21, 2011 11:38 p.m. procainestart Dork

    I don't know what's different in the '94 head, only that the EPC lists it as one-year-only, superseded by a newer p/n.

  • mad_machine

    Sept. 21, 2011 11:50 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    This is going to be interesting then.

    I can say that this engine did not see the best of maintance. Everything is coated in a nasty dark oil varnish. Going to have to send the head out for a major rebuild. At least I now know why things kept breaking on this car, if never got the love it needed

  • mad_machine

    Sept. 23, 2011 6:54 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    Just keeping this topical:

    I will not get to the car now till tuesday.. I MIGHT find some time sunday to at least look for a p/n

    what I find interesting.. I posted this twice in saabcentral, in both the Classic 900 and the Ng 900/ OG 9-3 area.. and not one nibble. I guess nobody cares or knows?

  • HappyAndy

    Sept. 23, 2011 7:44 a.m. HappyAndy HalfDork

    In reply to mad_machine: The folks at SAABRALLY would be the source of correct information on this topic, intact I think its been discussed there before. They are by far the geekiest SAAB geeks on the net, and I love them for it.

  • mad_machine

    Sept. 24, 2011 11:21 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    I once tried the saabrally site.. I found it rather difficult to navigate and never went back

  • mad_machine

    Oct. 17, 2011 2:33 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    well.. battery died on my phone, so I did not get pictures now that I have the head off. But I noticed that the part number on the head as the same as the 2.3 head I got off of a 9000 #714927. Makes me think that the 94 NG used the 9000 engine and transmission

 
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