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    What's This Engine Bay?
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    06/12/09

    In reply to What's This Engine Bay?
    The only reason I got it right was because I'd once spent several hours in study hall staring at this:



    [www.at-speed.com]
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    Image of Jim-Bob Jim-Bob
    06/11/09

    In reply to What's This Engine Bay?
    Dammit. The first thing to come to my mind was Trabant or Wartburg, but I knew it couldn't be either, so then I was naturally thinking of DKW, but again it couldn't be because those three were all air cooled. So, I guess I lost this time...
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    06/11/09

    @Jim-Bob: You were sooooo close though. This engine is heavily based on a DKW engine of a similar layout.
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    06/11/09

    @Jim-Bob: DKW had three cylinder water cooled engines with typical three separate ignictions
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    Image of Velocitré Velocitré
    06/11/09

    In reply to What's This Engine Bay?
    I always wanted to put big ol' expansion chambers stickin out the hood on one of these just so I could hear the ring-ding and smell the castor oil.
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    06/12/09

    @Velocitré: Heart-click for you!
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    Image of ptschett ptschett
    06/11/09

    In reply to What's This Engine Bay?
    I was thinking some kind of snow machine, or maybe something from the wrong side of the Iron Curtain.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    06/11/09

    @ptschett: I had it pegged as a two-stroke twin, but took the wrong shot in the dark and guessed Trabant. Guess I need to study up on my 2-strokes.
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    06/12/09

    @smalleyxb122: I thought that too, but then I saw the rack and pinion steering, which is far too bourgeoisie for a Trabant.
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    Image of zyodei zyodei
    06/11/09

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    Wow, my dad used to have one of these. he still tells the story sometime of strapping a matress to the roof and driving from DC to San Francisco back in the day, always with a little tear in the corner of his eye. This is, indeed, the car that got away, like the girl you always love in some corner of your heart, even when 20 years later you hear about her marrying some banker and/or getting strung out on oxycontin.
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    06/11/09

    @zyodei: That brought tears to my eyes. What is oxycontin?
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    06/11/09

    @skaycog: A drug. And a horrible song by a Southern rapper. (Lil Wyte)
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    Image of Jon Jon
    06/11/09

    @zyodei: Nice. My Dad has 3 96 2-strokers, but still tells the story of "Suzie Saab" that he had when he met my mom. It apparently was a blue 96 with a rare factory sunroof. He seriously regrets ever selling it.


    Hey, if anyone happens to know of an old Saab 96 with a sunroof in the East coast (heck, anywhere by now), let me know, eh? That'd make a hell of a father's day present...

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    06/12/09

    @Jon: I imagine it's been reduced to red powder by now.
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    Image of wkiernan wkiernan
    06/11/09

    In reply to What's This Engine Bay?
    Not only did I peg it as a SAAB, but I guessed it was a 92 by the water-pump-free thermosiphon radiator above and behind the engine. But I didn't know until now that the 92's engine was transversely mounted; the 96's engine was longitudinally mounted.


    One night I removed a SAAB 96 engine to replace the clutch disc by myself with no hoist, nothing more than a rope. I took off the hood and grille and radiator and unbolted the engine, tied the around onto some projecting bolts, then I stood atop the car with one foot on each wheel well and the rope around the back of my neck, and eased the engine forward off the clutch shaft. Taking it out was fairly easy, sliding the engine back on was quite a bit trickier, but I got 'er done.


    Then as I was getting ready to bolt the hood back on I looked down at the floor of the garage and saw the circlip which holds on the clutch throwout bearing, which I had forgotten to replace. So I did it all again.

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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    06/11/09

    @wkiernan: Awesome. And thus was born a certain respect.
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    Image of MadcowsDiseased MadcowsDiseased
    06/11/09

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    I was so confused looking in that engine bay. I figured it was a 2 cylinder, I just couldn't find the 2nd spark plug. I still don't understand what's going on with the intake system.
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    06/11/09

    @madcows makes for happy people:
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    06/11/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: Ohp, forgot, /cotomer sevis.
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    06/12/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: I explored some of those stories and got quite a few lulz (as the kids say these days) out of them.


    I would like to clarify that I am not the same person that was griefing Davey G. about Lieberman's poor journalistic cotomer sevis in 2006, just in case there was any confusion. I've never even been to Alberta, honest.

    [jalopnik.com]

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    Image of jdoubleh jdoubleh
    06/11/09

    In reply to What's This Engine Bay?
    One of Saab's ugliest engines?! That thing's a work of art! Oh, wait, that's not the engine, that's the transmission. Is the engine that little thing that's behind it with the rusty pipe sticking out of it? I don't think I've ever seen an engine that's smaller than its air cleaner.
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    06/11/09

    @jdoubleh, aberration roulante: reading comprehension FTL, I said "wackiest."
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    06/11/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: You rock, I suck. Well, scotch sounds good.
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    06/11/09

    @jdoubleh, aberration roulante: Just be glad I didn't go with the Saab Sonnet, now there's a freakshow.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/11/09

    In reply to What's This Engine Bay?
    I would have never guessed Saab.


    What was in the Isetta?

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    Image of jdoubleh jdoubleh
    06/11/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: Isetta was first guess too, but the isetta didn't have that much access to the engine- it was under the seat, I think.
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    06/11/09

    @jdoubleh, aberration roulante: When I saw front-mounted engine I knew it couldn't be the Isetta, but it was the first thing that came to my mind.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/11/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: Yeah, I saw that and went "Civic? No. Wrong engine. What the?"
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    Image of Electro Gyrocator Electro Gyrocator
    06/11/09

    In reply to What's This Engine Bay?
    I knew it! I was right! I am so awesome!


    Ok, fine, no I lied. I suck, I had no idea what it was.


    It is really cool though.

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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    06/11/09

    @Electro Gyrocator: Ain't it though?
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    06/11/09

    In reply to What's This Engine Bay?
    Born from 2 stroke jets.
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    06/12/09

    @slater: You mean like pulse jets?
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/11/09

    In reply to What's This Engine Bay?
    I didn't know what car it was, but I said "wtf, a 2-stroke?" Should've immediately thought Saab.
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    06/11/09

    @Fuzzy Plush Home Companion: Two stroke + car + Jalopnik = Saab. The hard part was what type.

    That said, their triples sound great!
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    06/12/09

    @joneez isn't drinking that damn Kool-Aid: That's a pretty cool sound. I especially like the white tape on the top of the steering wheel. And the column shift ain't bad neither. How many Jalop points does this thing have? Probably at least into the bitchin' Camaro range. Go Anders go!
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    Image of .357 .357
    06/11/09

    In reply to What's This Engine Bay?
    Holy shit, I actually guessed it right! I'm so proud of myself.
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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    06/11/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: Mazel Tov. You should live and be well.
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    06/11/09

    @Ray Wert: Thanks Ray.
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    06/11/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: I'm surprised I did too! Without having ever seen the engine bay of that Saab! But then, there were some clues and connection that helped...
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    06/11/09

    @sos10: True, True. I honestly didn't think I was right until I found out what it was.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/11/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: Saab never entered my mind.
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    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: At first I thought it was a Trabant, but then I saw it had rack and pinion steering and thought "what other cars have front wheel drive two-strokes?"
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