The main task we wanted to achieve was to test fit the engine within the engine bay to establish how our rather large saab engine might actually fit! I spent quite a bit of time removing all the inlets, exhausts etc from the main block to allow us to see how it would fit in with the gearbox. As you can see from the picture below, the engine is looking fairly sparse without all the supporting parts!
After much effort, we go the engine actually into the engine bay and sitting fairly nicely close to the position we would expect to install the engine.
The saab engine mated with the omega gearbox seems to be fairly short, as there is a significant amount of space in front of the engine, which could be useful for positioning parts we have to move to fit it all in. The engine being positioned more centrally helps the weight distribution too! Our main concern was the height of the engine, but it seems to be not too bad compared to the height of the bonnet:
We have planned the two side engine mounts and it looks like we can convieniently reuse the gearbox mount from the omega box to fit nicely into the mounting point. So we will try and get them all made up soon to allow the engine to be fitted into the car, saving us valuable garage space and allowing work to begin on all the supporting parts for the engine. The alternator will need a new mount fashioning, the water pump will need to be modified a bit to fit. The exhaust and turbo piping will need to be almost from scratch. While the inlet side will be using the manifold from a saab 9000, which is a better shape, but will still need to be modified a bit.
Lots still to do, but feels like we are making some good progress.
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