Thursday 19th May 2011

The Saab With The Viper V10

Swedish lunatic (we mean that in a good way) shows how to make a 9-3 truly exciting

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The Swedes, for all their good work in the realm of saunas, blonde pop groups and the ability to make planes that can use humble roads as runways, have occasionally been accused of creating rather dull cars.

That's not an accusation you could level at this creation, however. Although it may appear on the surface to be a Saab 9-3 SportWagon, but its creator has thrown away the cars ancient GM underpinnings in favour of something from Detroit rivals Chrysler - albeit of a somewhat more muscular persuasion.

You see, beneath this humble estate body lies the V10 engine and drivetrain (and -mercifully - the brakes) from a Dodge Viper.

You can see the full build thread for this meisterwerk, which is the creation of a chap known as mrspringer on Swedish car forum Zatzy.com, but for now all we'll say is that it obviously involved a mighty effort, including the fashioning of an entirely new bespoke transmission tunnel.

And if you're wondering from whence the Viper bits came, it seems that mrspringer somehow sourced a bodyless Viper from somewhere - you can see him 'assessing' it in the video below. Sir, we salute you...

 

 

[Evo]

Saw this in the modified car thread, didn't realise it had a viper engine in it.

Now I like it even more, totally mental.

Imagine carrying your dog in the back of that, you'd be needed a load liner for sure.

Edited by Evo on Thursday 19th May 12:34

[CABBYBROWN]

Ooohh! So that's what Saab's been doing wrong...

[dirtbiker]

Class little video of the body-less Viper - good man!

[George H]

If they just painted it a nicer colour, and took the decals off, would be great.

The matt paint just looks chavvy to me.

[Andysywv]

Hell, my life is so boring, I totally salute that man too !

[Evo]

Better than a Viper with a Saab engine though I think the colour combo suits it perfectly, agree on the stickers though.

He sure has some skill to turn it on a sixpence.

[martynrich67]

Popular "conversion"

Jensen Interceptor anyone?

http://www.streetsafari.com/content/view/291/27/

[Evo]

Sounds like a few Viper drives have been getting up close and personal with the scenery. Didn't the bonnet on the original Viper cost something daft like £10,000 to replace?

[forzaminardi]

Good work that man.

Saab should have brought out a mad turbo nutter version of this years ago to capture sales from dentists and architects who don't like Audis.

Too late for them now

[Ex Boy Racer]

Mama Mia

[Cotty]

Bonkers but in a good way

[andymartin88]

Awesome! At least that one wont suffer from torque steer

That man has some serious steel fabrication skills - hats off to him!

[AshleyPatience]

George H said:

If they just painted it a nicer colour, and took the decals off, would be great.

The matt paint just looks chavvy to me.

+1

[Ash333]

stick it on 16" steelies - remove all decals, paint it in a boring colour and badge it as a 1.9 diesel. Perfect q car.

[EDLT]

Repost.

[y2blade]

Ash333 said:

stick it on 16" steelies - remove all decals, paint it in a boring colour and badge it as a 1.9 diesel. Perfect q car.

my first thought too

[900T-R]

Very cool - however, in which way are the original Saab underpinnings more 'ancient' than that of the dinosaur of sports cars?

[Eddh]

forzaminardi said:

Good work that man.

Saab should have brought out a mad turbo nutter version of this years ago to capture sales from dentists and architects who don't like Audis.

Too late for them now

They made an Aero, not exactly M or RS speed but pretty quick.

[Chicane-UK]

Awesome. No other word for it.

[Funk]

Utterly bonkers and brilliant. Standard paint, raise the ride height a little and stick some 'replica' Saab wheels (albeit wider) and that'd be fantastic.