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Not as far as I know. The SAAB 2.3-litre unit may have Triumph roots but it doesn't even share any components. Even the 99 Turbo engine (B / H series) would not be easy.
That hasn't prevented people fitting such units as the Lotus slant four into Dolomites. Where there's a will, etc.
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Also, the Swedish cars are front-wheel-drive and the engines, on the pre-GM cars, are mounted back-to-front, compared to the Triumph.
I wish that the owner of what was my sister-in-law's 1500/Saab hybrid project would come along to give us a progress report, but that car, after she borrowed it and broke its 1500 engine, which left her no choice but to buy it
from the bloke who'd only bought it as a means of saving her hire charges when she's in the UK 
, was in the process of being reborn as a FWD 1850. The slight fly in that ointment being that the Saab 99 that donated its drivetrain was actually a
1700 
and not the later 1850 version. When that fella went to collect it, he reported that the engine and 'box were mounted with only a slight bulge required to clear the front (back?
) of the 1700 slant and the tunnel aperture being modified to allow access to the chaincase.
And that was the last we heard about it. Saab-Triumph Mongrel man, or whatever you joined up as, please give us updated info.
By comparison, surely a later Saab engine, originally installed East-West in 9000s etc. would be a breeze? OK, so a lot of "Blue sky" thinking would be needed, but in a World where people have fitted GM big-block V8s to Reliant kittens and built cars around Merlin engines, surely Saab into Triumph shouldn't be too taxing?
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