Triumph gt6 mk2. Saab powered witchcraft.

I’m hoping to do exactly this. It was mentioned somewhere else on this thread and in all honesty I’d over looked that the original engine is infact a brace. I’m possibly going to use a brace and mount the radiator off it too.

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to work on the gt6. A change in jobs but a bit of a stop to it while I was settling in. I’m still doing heavy haulage but with less nights away so maybe more garage time.
Anyway tonight a grabbed a few hours and cut back some of the offending chassis lips that were stopping the gearbox from sitting low enough. Even managed to weld them back up and almost got them ground down before it was to late to make noise.













I took drastic action with the bulkhead too. The were a lot of pin holes caused by rust and was really close the the engine in places so I’ve chopped it all back to good metal. Once the engine is in il be able to fabricate the bulkhead and gearbox cover to suit.





Engine mount bushes turned up to so maybe at the weekend I might get to sit it in and mock up the mounts.

So it’s Thursday night so that means a quick get away from work and a night to play in the garage. Had a bit of a tidy up as I was getting buried in tools/ rust/ discarded Saab parts.
Then tidied up the chassis after removing the lips.









Gave them a quick blast of primer to stop any surface rust and makes it a bit easier to see if there’s anymore clearance problems.










Relieved a little behind the suspension turret to so the fittings on the oil filter take off won’t catch if the engine shifts about as it’s tight. Which nicely leads on to the next job.
Engine mounts. I bought two block mounting plates as for £20 it wasn’t worth messing about. And they fit a treat. The block needed tapping out (holes are there but really corroded) so had to treat myself to a new tap and die set.









This has thrown up a slight issue. The turbo sits directly over the passenger side plate leaving no room for a mount. So the exhaust manifold is going to be made from scratch. It was going to get done much later when the car was on the road but will have to be done sooner. Just another custom part to make.
Euro car parts keep having weekend sales at the moment and a set of poly bush lancer evo 4 bottom arm bushes came up at £20. Looked like they might do for engine mount bushes so took a gamble. And they seem to be spot on. Grabbed some tube slightly over size and sliced it down the middle and removed 3mm and welded back up. Now they are a snug fit.







The plan is on Saturday lift the engine in and fingers crossed get the mounts made up and welded in. I’ve been and took measurements off a standard gt6 for the gearbox flange height and angle too so as long as I mount the diff in the same orientation as the standard diff it should be all good for the uj angles on the prop.

Nice work mate!
That's gonna be pretty mental once done.
Good job on the chassis rails too.

Nice work

TBH you can do away with all of that box section on the turret. It's only there for the stock engine mounts, and if you're making your own then no problem.

Nice snug fit there.

I think just a trim then when I run the cross brace things shouldn’t move to much. With reference with prop angles I’ve over looked one glaringly obvious part. The omega gearbox uses a donut arrangement similar to the rotoflex coupling. In your opinion is this worth keeping. Would it help or hinder in alignment? Or is it going to be better to convert to a uj?

That’s my thinking too and I’ve abused a fair few omegas and never had one fail massively.

That saab B204 lump you have there I think is just a stock 2.0i which is quite a bit different from the B204 that goes in the turbo models. I don't know how much bhp you want but there are quite a few differences between them. Piston cooling is one of the things I remember. I will try and find the info.

Are you using trionic ecu etc?