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Likely feels that you might not want to spend money to fix them,it could be.
 
Likely feels that you might not want to spend money to fix them,it could be,he finds them aggravating to work on & wants easy money. Why not ask him?
 
helrazor said:
I agree with your mechanic, stay away from them 242 Turbos....I'd look into a Saab turbo as they are way way better.
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Righto! When you do a little boostie type stuff and the pinion bearing housing blows up and takes out reverse and reverse idler, and chips a tooth on first on the cluster gear and you find there is no human way to upgrade the trans, and the fantastic potential of the motor must forever remain way under-utilised then you'll see how much better they are.

And before you blow the tranny and you roasting the inside front tire constantly in turns and plowing straight ahead in classic terminal understeer and it flashes thru you brain in the seconds before smacking the curb, going thru the guard rail and plunging into the 100 foot ravine "Well I couldn't afford the $1500 for a decent clutch plate diff, I'm a lose so why don't i kill me" then you see why they are way way better....


A classic 900 is a much much better standard road car by miles than a 240, but it does have serious buzz-kills in the gearbox and lack of upgradability of box and diff.

(I know 99/900 real well including doing gearbox rebuilds and importing alternate gearsets, final drives and real good clutch plate type LSDs)
 
nomad12 said:
Why does my mechanic tell me to stay away from the turbo models for the 242?
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He's:
>lazy
>spoiled by easy to keep running new cars.
>knows you're cheap
>knows maybe you're an animal and will die
>is a specialist in all cars foreign and domestic and got stuck on some pain in the neck job on a .......240 once so concluded they're troublesome
>is jealous
> is angry cause he owns a 740 and knows it looks like a K-car
>is irrational
> on and on

asking us to explain an irrational statement from somebody we've never spoken to and who provide zero details on is just so much wanky-wank.

Let's ask you:
You wanna get a 240 turbo?
Good.
What's your budget?
What's YOUR skill level?

No problems then!
Get one

All round a 240 turbo is the best RWD Volvo chassis to own if you want to have fun.
 
I forgot to use a little smiley so everyone would know I'm kidding. I'm so misunderstood. :no applicable smiley for this:
 
John V said:
Righto! When you do a little boostie type stuff and the pinion bearing housing blows up and takes out reverse and reverse idler, and chips a tooth on first on the cluster gear and you find there is no human way to upgrade the trans, and the fantastic potential of the motor must forever remain way under-utilised then you'll see how much better they are.
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Right. But then you realise how great a Saab power plant can be and you take one out of said threshing machine and put into something more interesting. Like, say, into a Bowel Movement Wonder machine that drives the correct pair of wheels.

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John V said:
A classic 900 is a much much better standard road car by miles than a 240, but it does have serious buzz-kills in the gearbox and lack of upgradability of box and diff.
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I just bought a running and driving (and inspected :-D) '86 900 non-turbo for $200 to beat on for the summer. It's pretty fun to drive, but doesn't look all that fun to work on...
 
Is the mechanic 350 years old? Some people still believe "turbo" = "unreliable" 'cos the old oil-cooled ones from 25 years ago weren't very long-lived ... they're the same people who think new Nissans rust badly because Datsuns did 30 years ago ...
 
NoSloVo said:
John, what would you say price range is on a well built 900 tranny?
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Last one in did was about 1998 and at my cost there was over 800 bucks in parts alone.
What I've heard from the guys at the biggest independent Saab joint in West (a friend owns it and I worked there 19 years ago) is that many critical parts are simply no longer available new, and all the trannies all die in the same way so good clusters, good reverses, good reverse idlers are very rare.

Why you ask?

But as usual Janne "Wagner" had the smartest thing to say: fix a Bring More Wampums major drawback of horrible inline six lame junk and put a nice motor that has a bottom end as stout as a Cosworth in with a nice turbo, and whooooosh.
 
"A classic 900 is a much much better standard road car by miles than a 240"

I recently purchased an '84 Saab 900 $3500 spent and it still has yet to go a week with out breaking down in some horrible "stranded in the middle of nowhere" sort of way.

My much older 244 has broken down once in the three years I've owned it (alternator cable severed after driving into large chunk of road ice).

Which isn't to say that the Saab 900 isn't an incredibly sexy looking car, 99 is nicer in my view.
 
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