My 99 Saturn Build

[Dremetos]

Let's see that floor pan look like a piece of bacon.

These cars have been awkwardly growing on me over the past year or two lol.

[TWM Performance]

Cool! Those wheels will give it a jdm style for sure.

- Renato

[xavierb]

I likeeee them. When they going on?

[bsweitzer99]

Definitely sold on the wheel color.
IMG_4559 by Ben Sweitzer, on Flickr
IMG_4558 by Ben Sweitzer, on Flickr

[paradigmqc]

Wow this Saturn rock !!

I had a SW1 for my first car. Loved it. The Sound in that car was awsome.

[bsweitzer99]

Been a while, but since then I've gotten my wheels back from paint, started work on the rear subframe strengthening project, as well as the brakes.

Paint is Platinum Grey metallic from a 2015 Gti



All for some beefy swaybar mounts


Also need to start work on the turbo manifold. Flange is confirmed to fit!

Also made up a bezel at school that I 3d printed to hold the gauges


Made a batch of coilover top plates to adapt the Subaru coilovers to Saturn strut towers. Stainless goodness



Also finished up the newly dyed carpet, what a difference.

Fixed some rusty crap and put down some sound deadening mat





Plaid headliner because I love being in pajamas


Stainless clutch line is finally bled and installed as well.

[bsweitzer99]

Picked up and pulled the old tires off the new wheels. Not thrilled with them as I'd like a brighter wheel.



Got the wheel in finally with matching bolts too


And the wideband


Been working on the Subaru top played, redrilled the rear to hopefully work as a Saturn front




Also found this in my floor pan

Whoops

[bsweitzer99]

Just a cheap ebay bar that does nothing haha i have a couple.

[xavierb]

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I just noticed the strut bar. whered you get it or did you make it?

[bsweitzer99]

Clean and simple, I like it! Keep up the good work.

👍
Next weekend that I go home I'll be picking up the new wheels hopefully.

[Sprinqer]

Clean and simple, I like it! Keep up the good work.

[bsweitzer99]

Looks fantastic. The more and more of these I see .. "stanced" the more I welcome the idea of owning one at some point. The only things I can't get past is the steering wheel and that muffler. Haha. Looks great dude, keep it up.

As far as forced induction, what do you guys use for engine management? I wouldn't think there'd be any sort of stand alone ECU like Kpro for example in the Saturn community.

Thanks man- as for the steering wheel and muffler, I have a Momo wheel and adapter waiting to go on, and a mk6 gti dual outlet muffler that I may cut out the trunk floor for.
Those are literally my two least favorite things as well haha.

As for management- Megasquirt. That's pretty much it. There are no PNP ecu's, since the factory computer has never been cracked.

[Dremetos]

Looks fantastic. The more and more of these I see .. "stanced" the more I welcome the idea of owning one at some point. The only things I can't get past is the steering wheel and that muffler. Haha. Looks great dude, keep it up.

As far as forced induction, what do you guys use for engine management? I wouldn't think there'd be any sort of stand alone ECU like Kpro for example in the Saturn community.

[bsweitzer99]

I'm looking for a solid dailyable tire setup, so no crazy stretch, and still a decent sidewall. The 185-35 just seems way too small and I'm worried a 205-40 would be too big, but then again there are better options for tires in that size. I had good luck with my set of Nankang NS-20's so maybe I'll pick up another set of those. Anybody have experience with those in a 205-40?

[xavierb]

From my research those aren't as good as the federal 595 that I got. They're about the same price too. I'm really happy with them. Even in the wet they're not bad for the fact that they have an aggressive tread pattern.