HRRT stands for Historic Rally Racing Team, a group of Saab rally maniacs from the west coast of Sweden who run a complete Saab rally workshop. They can help prepare your vintage rally car and of course, they’re Saab specialists. If you’re an aspiring competitor without wheels of your own then they even have three cars you can hire for regularity events!
The HRRT guys dropped in to the SUHRT garage recently for a chat and look over how things are going. Here’s a little video:
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What is the issue with the handbrake? Does the handbrake on the 99 activate the front brakes rather than the rear like on my ’85 900T? Are they trying to figure out how to get the handbrake to actuate the rear brakes instead? Can they just mount post-’87 900 calipers to the 99? Is this far too many questions?
On a rally car it is not very practical with the hand brake on the front wheels, since you will mostly want to use it to skid around sharp corners. Björn Waldegård learnt this lesson when he and his navigator Fergus Sager competed, long ago, in the Morocco Rally with a beautiful Maserati-powered Citroën SM. At one of the first corners there was a great crowd, and Björn, wanting to show off, pulled the hand brake – plowing straight into the crowd since it acted on the front wheels. Fortunately there was little harm done!
On the rally Turbos we will use rear brakes from Porsche, like it was done originally in ’78. This necessitated some rebuilding of the rear axles, skilfully done by Johan Josefsson.