Well I am currently deployed but will be home on leave soon. So if anyone is real interested i may show it during that time. It is actually killing me inside to sell this car, but i have had it for 6 years and it is time to moveI need the money to fund other projects and right now it is just sitting in my garage un tagged.
Here is the deal it has 231k on it but i live 45 miles from my work so its highway. I put a 3L in it about 4 years ago and it is still strong. In fact this car is wearing the prototype Bugzuki conversion plates. I also has optimized Y-pipe, and throttle body. Custom 2.5" exhaust 3rd cat removed, origional mufflers, with a resonater installed. Sounds great. Custom built shifter. Ford Racing oil pressure and volt gauges mounted in front of the cup holders. New Ford front lower control arms, and sway bar endlinks, less than a year old. New brakes and rotors all around less than a year old. Fidanza aluminum flywheel. New F1 clutch in the box, will explain that in a minute.
Well minutes up here goes. So my clutch was getting weak so i buy a F1 clutch online install it and it slips like crazy for the first 1000 or so miles,, got better somehow,, dunno. Anyways i express my concern to the people that sold me said clutch they say that the machine shop that cut the stock flywheel did a crap job and blamed the problem on them, so i say well i guess i always wanted a fidanza so i buy it, and install the new flywheel and pretty much the same problem. Concern is expressed again to the fine people at F1 and so they finally give in sending me a new clutch. In the mean time somehow this clutch goes from barely usable to not really a problem unless you rod the crap out of it, and since it is just my daily driver it really isn't bothering me. So that is why i have a new clutch for it. Cause honestly if i pull the tranny again the stock fly wheel is going back and im selling that fidanza to kind of pay for my labor for doing it.
All in all the car is in fair shape. Has some bugs, none of which are fresh in my mind since i havent driven it since May. The check engine light is on but that is because i want it on. It runs better that way actually. I never have tuned it for the 3L and when the light is off it is getting the normal amount of fuel a 2.5 liter gets, with the light on it is in safe mode where it gets a little more fuel to protect the engine and the 3L seems to like that more.
Here is the deal it has 231k on it but i live 45 miles from my work so its highway. I put a 3L in it about 4 years ago and it is still strong. In fact this car is wearing the prototype Bugzuki conversion plates. I also has optimized Y-pipe, and throttle body. Custom 2.5" exhaust 3rd cat removed, origional mufflers, with a resonater installed. Sounds great. Custom built shifter. Ford Racing oil pressure and volt gauges mounted in front of the cup holders. New Ford front lower control arms, and sway bar endlinks, less than a year old. New brakes and rotors all around less than a year old. Fidanza aluminum flywheel. New F1 clutch in the box, will explain that in a minute.
Well minutes up here goes. So my clutch was getting weak so i buy a F1 clutch online install it and it slips like crazy for the first 1000 or so miles,, got better somehow,, dunno. Anyways i express my concern to the people that sold me said clutch they say that the machine shop that cut the stock flywheel did a crap job and blamed the problem on them, so i say well i guess i always wanted a fidanza so i buy it, and install the new flywheel and pretty much the same problem. Concern is expressed again to the fine people at F1 and so they finally give in sending me a new clutch. In the mean time somehow this clutch goes from barely usable to not really a problem unless you rod the crap out of it, and since it is just my daily driver it really isn't bothering me. So that is why i have a new clutch for it. Cause honestly if i pull the tranny again the stock fly wheel is going back and im selling that fidanza to kind of pay for my labor for doing it.
All in all the car is in fair shape. Has some bugs, none of which are fresh in my mind since i havent driven it since May. The check engine light is on but that is because i want it on. It runs better that way actually. I never have tuned it for the 3L and when the light is off it is getting the normal amount of fuel a 2.5 liter gets, with the light on it is in safe mode where it gets a little more fuel to protect the engine and the 3L seems to like that more.
