Hi, I'm Thor and my username is Thor4SL2 (catch isn't it). I bought my first Saturn from my step-sun before the turn of the century. He was in the Air Force and had been transferred to Germany. It was a silver SL2 1995 and was just sitting at Wright-Paterson air base in Dayton, Oh. I fell in love w/ its sporty performance and economy. A few years later I snagged a 1995 SC2 w/ a sunroof that I still have. I still think it is one of the best-looking cars for the price. Cars today all look the same to me unless you spend huge bucks. I purchased it off E-bay for $900 from a lady in Ky. It smoked like a coal burner and used about 1 qt of oil evert 100 miles. It was a miracle made it back home to Cincinnati. I still had the SL as my daily driver so off came the head only to find 2 burnt valves in #3

Burnt valve
cylinder. This started me on a journey to performance modify the SC which I still work on today.

Finished head

Head w/ cams & intake

 

Looking good.
What performance mods have you incorporated?

Ported and polished head
More aggressive cams?
Do you plan to turbo it?
What did you use to paint the intake? I'm about to get mine Media blasted. I haven't considered painting it but I may in order to keep it from getting ugly again.

Thx

 

The paint is Dupli-Color Metalcast Anodized Surface Color System. I used it on the alum valve cover and front timing chain cover. as well. It is like a poor man's powder coating.
NO to turbo, NA all the way.
Other mods include the dual intake cam swap, early Saturn Tri-Y header (heat wrapped) and larger Geo throttle body.

 

Header and geo throttle body are most definitely old school.
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Your username sounds familiar.
Are you over at sixthsphere?

 

Yes, I'm on sixthsphere w/ the same username. It's sad that so much great info about Saterns has been lost.

 

I'm over there once in awhile. At least I was until everything went to Facebook. I don't do social media. Most here would agree I'm not terribly social anyway.

Have most of you folks passed along your Saturns?
Now that mine is registered as an antique, I don't have to worry about emissions. As much fun as I think it would be to buy someone's turbo setup and put it on, anything that breaks along the way will not be terribly fixable as I doubt there are very many spare parts for that vintage of turbos, etc. Plus my car's stock as it can be. Blah blah blah

I have a sneaky feeling the information in the other Saturn site is not completely gone. It is just for now unsearchable.