is this the same saab slant 4 that robson refers to in his
spitfire/gt6 book?
-- michael
'78 spitfire
On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Jack I. Brooks wrote:
> The Saab 99 was unveiled on November 22, 1967 and went on sale starting with
> the 1969 model year (in the late fall of 1968). The car was at that time
> powered by a 1,709 cc, 80 hp Triumph (single carburetor) engine and was
> available with manual transmission only. The first automatic trans- mission
> version of the 99 was made available half way through the 1970 model year
> (in early 1970). This version had basically the same engine, but had
> electronically controlled fuel injection (made by Bosch), which yielded 87
> hp. The following model year (1971) offered four different versions: 1.7
> liter/80 hp, with carburetor and manual transmission, 1.85 liter/87 hp, with
> carburetor and either manual or automatic transmission, and 1.85 liter/95
> hp, with electronic fuel injection and automatic trans- mission. The 1.7
> liter engine was discontinued by the end of the '71 model year, and the 1972
> model year versions were originally only available with the 1.85 liter
> engine, yielding 88 hp in the carburetor version and 97 hp in the fuel
> injected version. A new version of the car, the 99 EMS (which originally
> stood for Electronic-Manual-Special), was introduced in February, 1972, with
> a new, larger engine. As opposed to the 1.7 and 1.85 liter Triumph engines,
> even though this new (1,985 cc) engine was in design similar to the Triumph
> engines, it was a nearly entirely new construction, developed and built in
> Sweden. This engine is commonly referred to as the 2-liter engine and it
> developed 110 hp in the 1972 EMS (with electronically controlled fuel
> injection).
>
> The conclusion I am drawing from this, is that you probably need either the
> 1.7 or the 1.85 liter engine for your Triumph.
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