{"id":794,"date":"2013-02-13T03:42:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T03:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/?p=794"},"modified":"2013-02-16T05:44:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T05:44:58","slug":"the-inaugural-test-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"the inaugural test flight &#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drove the car around North Seattle for about 1 hour or so today.  Great handling and feel with the new shocks, springs and tires &#8211; A real improvement over the stock setup.  The engine sounded great, shifting was good, brakes were better than ever.  I did have a bit white smoke early on in the drive, but that cleared up in about 15 minutes.  I was also burning 2 year old gas.  I filled the tank with high test and that seemed to improve things quite a bit. It was a blast driving the car again after a 1.5 year rest.  I took it easy, but it sure felt like she had not missed a beat since the valve job Troll Motors performed April before last.<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping to be at the Swedish Car Show at the Triple X drive in in Issaquah on Sunday, February 17th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013007.jpg\" class=\"fancyboxgroup\" rel=\"gallery-794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013007-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"12022013(007)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013007-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013007-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013007.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013006.jpg\" class=\"fancyboxgroup\" rel=\"gallery-794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"12022013(006)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013006-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013006-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013006.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013005.jpg\" class=\"fancyboxgroup\" rel=\"gallery-794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013005-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"12022013(005)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013005-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013005-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013005.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013004.jpg\" class=\"fancyboxgroup\" rel=\"gallery-794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013004-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"12022013(004)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013004-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013004.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013003.jpg\" class=\"fancyboxgroup\" rel=\"gallery-794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013003-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"12022013(003)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013003-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013003-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013003.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013.jpg\" class=\"fancyboxgroup\" rel=\"gallery-794\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"12022013\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/12022013.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drove the car around North Seattle for about 1 hour or so today. Great handling and feel with the new shocks, springs and tires &#8211; A real improvement over the stock setup. The engine sounded great, shifting was good, brakes were better than ever. I did have a bit white smoke early on in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,6,107,108,3,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}