"Big Bubba Ray" (eganward01)
05/20/2016 at 17:49 • Filed to: None
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"Big Bubba Ray" (eganward01)
05/20/2016 at 17:49 • Filed to: None | 0
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It’s a 2000 Saturn. Fixing it for a friend and I know nothing about Saturn’s. Currently not running and in need of an oil change and a few other things. Gotta make sure I get the right parts. Thanks for the help!
jkm7680
> Big Bubba Ray
05/20/2016 at 17:51 |
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sc2 ew
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Big Bubba Ray
05/20/2016 at 17:55 |
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2000 date of manufacture? 2001 model year SC2, seemingly.
Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
> Big Bubba Ray
05/20/2016 at 17:58 |
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GET IN MAH BELLEY!
not for canada - australian in disguise
> Big Bubba Ray
05/20/2016 at 17:59 |
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SC1/SC2
The 1 and 2 just denote the trim level. I actually quite like the look of Saturns from that era, especially the whole quad coupe design, quite a practical solution. They weren’t exactly, well, good though.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Big Bubba Ray
05/20/2016 at 18:07 |
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Don’t forget the eternally wise saying, “no matter how hard you try, you can’t pollish a turd” unless it is a fossile turd, you could probably polish a fossile turd.
vdub_nut: scooter snob
> not for canada - australian in disguise
05/20/2016 at 18:21 |
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the sc1 and sc2 actually had different engines, not just trim levels.
DrJohannVegas
> Big Bubba Ray
05/20/2016 at 18:52 |
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It’s a twin cam. SC2.
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Big Bubba Ray
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/20/2016 at 19:19 |
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Door sticker said manufactured in 2000.
GRS1
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
05/20/2016 at 20:16 |
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The word you’re looking for is coprolite, which definitely could be polished. So all you gotta do is wait...
Rock Bottom
> Big Bubba Ray
05/20/2016 at 20:48 |
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I’m an unashamed former Saturn fanboi, though I sold my last one about ten years ago. This is an SC2. Like an SC1, but with a rear sway bar, different seats, closer ratios (if it’s a stick), and a twin-cam head. Most other parts are interchangeable. Hell, in a pinch I’ve used a single cam computer in a twin cam car for a day or two while doing a head-swap. The automatic transmissioned cars had spin-on trans filters, which is neat.
Fun Factoid: My last Saturn was a 2001 three door coupe that I turbocharged and methanol injected. I called it Turbo Tupperware. I drove that turbocharged fuel-leak-on-wheels coast to coast twice. It was awesome, no problems. I learned that if I mixed 1 gallon toluene, 1 pint ATF, and 10 gallons of premium I could shoot flames out of the tailpipe and advance the timing a bunch. It worked better than race gas for track days!
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Big Bubba Ray
> Rock Bottom
05/20/2016 at 21:05 |
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That is fucking awesome! Got any pictures of the Turbo Tupperware? I’d love to see it!
And thanks for the input on the model. It does happen to be a stick! My buddy is going to be driving this from St. Louis to California in a couple weeks when he moves out there. His parents don’t think the car can make it. I need to prove them otherwise. His dad said that when it breaks down, he’ll drive out there with his Duramax and tow the Saturn home. I need to make sure that doesn’t happen! haha
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Rock Bottom
> Big Bubba Ray
05/21/2016 at 01:52 |
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Saturns are funny machines. I had several that I beat to death and they never gave me any trouble. Other people have had nothing but problems with theirs. Tell your friend to keep checking the oil! Like, every time he gets gas. No joke, some of them use a ton of oil.
Here’s a few pics I have from the fantastic plastic. They’re low-rez because this was like 10 years ago and I was poor! I built my own exhaust manifold out of cast water pipe, the turbo was an IHI RHB5 from an 87 or 88 Thunderbird, Snow methanol injection system, and a controller for two extra fuel injectors in the charge pipe. It was a Franken-Saturn but it ran shockingly well. Drove like it came that way from the factory (most of the time) and never stranded me in the 2 or 3 years I drove it. 10/10 would build another one.
