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Got a 2000 Ford Contour SVT for a whopping 500 bucks. God bless crackheads. I have loved these cars and actually feel sorta bad turning it into a lemon.
Team pimpalicous is back, although no caddy this time.
I had to drive my grandma's Contour around for a while some years ago, it wouldn't do 45mph if you dropped it off the empire state building. I assume the SVT version will do 55 on a good day?
The svt did 0-60 in 6.2 sec and was limited to 144. It was a speedy little rocket. It used the 2.6l duratec with a ton of svt tuning. Those guys knew how to build fast cars.
Don't feel bad, that car was born a LeMon.
Which company do you think I would have the most luck getting a pre-fab cage from?
I can just see the conversation now:
"Thank you for calling Auto-Power, how may I help you?"
"Yes, do you all make a pre-fab cage for a 2000 Ford Contour?"
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ... <long pause> ... ha ha ha ha ha ha ... <long pause> ... That was great. But seriously, how can I help you?"
Actually a lot of the svt contours are used as track day cars and were the preferred car at Bondurant back in the day. A lot of folks are putting 3l duratec's in them now.
Got a 2000 Ford Contour SVT for a whopping 500 bucks. God bless crackheads. I have loved these cars and actually feel sorta bad turning it into a lemon.
Team pimpalicous is back, although no caddy this time.
If the engine will last(not likely) that will be a good Lemons car. Heat will be the killer.
Actually a lot of the svt contours are used as track day cars and were the preferred car at Bondurant back in the day.
Not disagreeing with you, just sayin' most pre-fab cage builders won't have a cage designed for it.
A Contour SVT is a baby SHO. Better handling with about the same HP. The only fault I know is they starve for oil on high G turns. Can't remember if it's left or right turns. I'm sure there's a fix for it. Overfill the crankcase right?
Which company do you think I would have the most luck getting a pre-fab cage from?
3 hours to get here, a day to put a custom cage in, you can take it home that night or the next day.
Just sayin'
--Rob
Actually a lot of the svt contours are used as track day cars and were the preferred car at Bondurant back in the day.
That's not quite accurate. Bondurant tried to use them as instructor cars to replace the aging SHO fleet, but they couldn't keep transmissions in them for more than a few hours. As far as I know, the experiment lasted only a few weeks. They were also way too small in the backseat with the cage in place. Bondurant quickly asked for Crown Vics with manuals to replace them. Right after that, however, they signed a contract with GM and switched to Cadillac CTS instructor cars. Due to the contract timing, I don't believe the Crown Vis were used much, if at all.
SVT Contours were wonderful track cars, but couldn't hold up to instructor abuse in 120° heat. The SHOs would take a serious beating without breaking. Keep in mind that the instructors had to push their FWD sedans fast enough to stay in front of track-prepped Mustang GTs.
bigds01 wrote:Which company do you think I would have the most luck getting a pre-fab cage from?
3 hours to get here, a day to put a custom cage in, you can take it home that night or the next day.
Just sayin'
--Rob
We can vouch for the quality of one of his cages.
A Contour SVT is a baby SHO. Better handling with about the same HP. The only fault I know is they starve for oil on high G turns. Can't remember if it's left or right turns. I'm sure there's a fix for it. Overfill the crankcase right?
left turns. when i was working car sales we took one on trade and it was gorgeous inside, immaculately clean and ran well...til i drove it down to the end of the cul de sac and whipped it around the radius & the engine cut out...
Rob will be doing our next cage.
There are some ideas about how to solve the oiling problem and they are all lemon-rific
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