Just Wondering About your cars

[Mikeallenmikeallen]

I was just wondering what some of you have

1) Done to your car, ex. Mods, paint

2) Ghetto rigged stuff or made something yourself like a grille

3) What you Love or hate about your car


well I have not done much to my car, I just recently bought it for $300.00 but I have high hopes. I replaced the MAF sensor, rotors and pads, air filter, tune up and the factory head unit with a Kenwood and took out the old head unit with a coat hanger lol. I love the car to death and I like this forum a lot it's a good place to get info on anything contour related. Right now the only thing I hate about my contour is that the starter is a godless son of a whore to get out. lol

**~~And please don't beat me if someone asked this. lol Take it easy on me, I'm new.~~**

[getsum111]

I'll be nice.
1. I've put on a set of MSDS headers, glasspack instead of the resonator, K&N warm air intake, tinted windows, hightower headlights (painting the silver parts black), Knauberized (removed door ding guards), new shift knob, pedals, CF IMRC cover, BAT lowering kit, and upgraded audio (Touch screen HU, 2 amps, new door speakers, and 12" sub). Think that's about it, but I am working on the "cannon mod" to take care of people who drive slow in the passing lane.

2. No ghetto rigged stuff here, learned my lesson about that a long time ago.

3. I love that it still runs very strong at 187K miles, and it is still good looking enough to turn heads at car cruises. I hate that I've owned it long enough to need a 3rd suspension by next summer.

[gferr56]

1. So far, only taken care of the maintenance items... Ball joint, wheel bearing, pads & rotors. Intermediate shaft and CV axel this weekend.. hopefully... Bought the car on 3/1/09 w/167,998 and it now has 191,687 (avg 131 / day)

2. Another who has learned not to ghetto rig anything, it only bites you later

3. The only thing I hate about the car is that I don't have enough time to work on it.

[BrApple]

1. to much to list right now, read: just about everything that can be done ...

2. ghetto rig: no. I have done everything myself and put somethings together but I like to think I did everything right and didn't around with it.

3. car 1: 3L+12 psi =
car 2: clean+good looking+fun to drive =
car 3 = strong dd

[R-code]

1) Subframe connectors

2) Anti-moose/throttle hang mod (installed by SVTRacer)

3) I love everything about this car except the crap stereo that was installed by a previous owner and the garbage tires it came with.

~Mike~

[BoneStock99]

Mike

My car is bone stock.

I hate my SVT.

http://www.contour.org/ceg-vb/showthread.php?t=40870


-Tim-

[SVTRacer]

Mike

My car is bone stock.

I hate my SVT.

http://www.contour.org/ceg-vb/showthread.php?t=40870


-Tim-

i'll take it off your hands.. PM me a price

As for my SVT:

Will be getting:
-'03 3L with 42K on it
-T2 Torsen diff
-Fidanza flywheel from the GB.

..thats it for now, once it's back up and running, i'll add more.

[icysvt]

LMAO! I forgot about that post sooooooo awesome!

Mods on mine lets see here. 3l swap (blackcoog did it previous to my ownership) 67mm ported mustang tb, BAT pipe, NPG CAI, Ford racing wires, all 6 forward facing bulbs are now hid's 6k high and low 3k fogs, interior red led swap, indiglow cluster and hvac, lighted door handle/pocket. Radio, speakers, amp, sub, sachs struts, ground control coilovers, baer 13" big brake kit, ss brake lines, striker2 endlinks, 17's

Nothing ghetto on the car at all very few 3l's i know of out there with no cel and this is one of them

The fact that it screams! Suprises almost everyone and can still turn heads.

[Nezerconezer]

#1
Car 564. Mostly entertainment and cosmetic mods. Full stereo, 1 sub, component speakers, 5 channel amp. 98 MNB dash, pre 98 center console with custom blue stiched boots. Cougar steering wheel and silver frost gear pattern on shift knob. Mystique rear reflector, FSVT 5 spoke wheels. Silver star high beams in low beams, silver star fogs. Revised cougar fuel pump.

576. Mostly performance mods. Full 3l, MSDS headers, spec 3+ clutch, optimised throttle body, nautilus CAI, Tune, Fuel rail addapter. Tubular LCA, RSTB, torsen LSD updated shift forks. Removal of a lot of unneccesary/broken things, sun roof motor, winsheiled wipers (motor, stalk and arms), window washer fuild tank, every sound component, and everything in the trunk. Silver star high beams in low beams. Silver painted SVT mesh and tred ring. Pre 98 center console with tan stiching on new leather boots.

#2
564 has nothing thats ghetto rigged
576 the coil pack is just kinda sitting there, I need to put it somewhere.

#3
564 love the comfort and conveniance upgrades and how well it handles.
Hate the paint 1/2 repainted and 1/2 faded

576 love the power the sound of the 3l, and that it actually works with no CELS
hate the spec clutch and the old worn out suspention. Handles like crap. A/c doesn't work very well.

[TRicker]

i've owned my car for 5 years. it has over 200k on the body now. i just recently went back through my 3L swap and fixed all the "ghetto rigged" stuff.

i have a grille that i'm working on which is pretty ghetto, and my rusty hood mod could be considered sucky.

but its a fairly solid car and i love it. nothing like a nicely tuned 3L at full clip.... makes ya smile