Vehicle Owner

Member ID: Saab9-5Aero-S

Location: Carlsbad, CA

Vehicle Info

2001 Saab 9-5

Bought: Jan, 2008

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile16 sec @ 124 mph
  • 0-606.9sec
  • Top Speed150mph
  • HP185
  • Weight3450lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

Modifications

Performance Parts

Interior

Exterior Styling

Car Audio & Video

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    • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.

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Last updated: Nov 29, 2009

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Gabriel’s Saab 9-5
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2001 Saab 9-5 AeroS Conversion

 

UPDATE.....just got a new mac mini to mount in the trunk. waiting on mount for the mac mini, and 7" VGA touch screen.

 

enjoy. :)

 

Update 11-29-09

Custom painted rims black with matching lug nuts.

Blacked out tail lights and cornering lights in the front.

 

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External Mods.

Black Rims.

Blacked out lights.

Red Brake Calipers.

Carbon Fiber Air Diverts.

Custom mesh grille. in black. with matching grill on lower half of the bumper also black.

 

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Internal Mods.

Rebuilt Engine (my cousin helped me with that)

New bigger turbo. Mitsubishi

K&N High Flow Cold Air Intake

NGK BCR8ES Spark Plug (for highly tuned turbo applications)

Silicon Hoses for vacuum system.

New Radiator increases cooling.

New Inter cooler (coming soon)

New turbo wastgate.

New 3.5” Bore Turbo Air intake to help with boast.

Recurcilating Dump Valve.  (coming soon)

Stage 4 Ecu Upgrade for X-Mas.

3" Full exhaust Custom with magna flow mufflers and dual oval tips. custom 3" down pipe (need another $100)

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Interior Mods.

New stereo pioneer with steering wheel control box (so i can use stock volume ect. on steering wheel)

Punch P1 10" 300w Sub in between back seats.

new Kicker 6x9's on back shelf.

300w Rockford amp and wiring kit for sub.

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Interior Lighting.

All the interior lights have been replaced with 2LED's Blue per area. Also mounted custom blue-purple led's under steering wheel and glove box.

Custom made Green LCD for SID as well as AC Control.

Added a blue LED strip to instrument panel.

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Exterior Lighting 

Custom Audi S5 LED DLR Strips.

Blue Led's in headlight, 2nd set of fog lights 2500k JMD yellow.

Main beams and fog lights are 6000k Cool Blue.

Tinted fog lights and cornering lights black. New clear cornering lights no more nasty orange. Slear black side markers with LED bulbs.

Installed custom 28LED brake lights and running lights. (blacking out tail lights next weekend)

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Mods on to do list.

Engine.......

Put in a titinum Crank shaft, custom forged pistons, 60* racing cam shafts, redo the valves with heavy duty ones. bigger turbo and a supercharger air intake.

Body work......

Lambo Doors on all 4 (back will be reverse lambo's)

Re paint the car a deeper black.

Custom front and reem bumper off an 05 aero.

 

Lighting......

currently working on making custom dual beam purple (HID's 25000K hi and low beams.) projector headlights with crystal glass lenses and blacking out the inside of the housing.

also adding projector headlights, with HID 2500K Yellow.

 

Stereo.......

Replace all the interior (11 of them) with Kicker speakers and subs.

Dual 12" shallow kenwoods in the trunk on either side to save space.

 

Mac mini setup.....

 

Eventually I want to mod a mac mini into the glove box with a custom 7" flip out VGA monitor so i can run all my music and equipment off the mac. also going to fit a 22" LCD in the trunk and set up a POD for mobile sound system for my band.  once i get about 4 thousand dollars of course ;)

 


 

 

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Member ID: Saab9-5Aero-S

Location: Carlsbad, CA