HIGH PERFORMANCE BOOK

Spring is coming, when every Saab owner wants to get his/her wee Troll out of mothballs [or from under a snowbank], clean it up, and go zinging about the countryside. Some of us want to zing FASTER about the countryside, and my 96-page book tells you how to do it. I have always recommended a balanced approach to performance improvements, and this book tells you what you need to know about building a hotter V4 engine, and also how to improve engine cooling, brakes, suspension, wheels and much, much more.

There are chapters on Weber carburetors--from single barrel to the formidable dual two barrel DCOE side-draft types. I cover anti-roll bars, skid plates, chassis stiffeners, ignition systems, racing oil pans, light flywheels and exhaust systems. The whole book is based on over 40 years of my own experience using these little Saabs in autocross, hillclimb and high speed rally competition.


I even cover turbocharging the V4 engine, which is a quick way to a LOT of power--if you do it right--or a super quick way to LUNCH an engine if you do it wrong.

Below you see yours truly with a 160 horsepower V4 engine, built for installation in a Saab 96, which was run in a Peking to Paris off-road rally. That engine--one of two I built for that race--has the twin, cross-ram intake manifold set, with a 40DCOE twin-choke Weber carburetor on each side. These were awesome looking little engines that produced awesome performance in little Troll cars. The book shows how it was done. This is THE how-to book, if you want to zing FASTER in your V4 powered Saab.