blu_fuz
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finally an awd contour build
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Well little update tore the transfer case down to clean and replace all the seals and check for excess wear… everything checks out… one more final clean… also a photo of the planetary seals that I replaced, had to press the shaft out from the inside of the gears
99contourSE
CEG'er
I never knew you were on these forums with me lol. All of these years, and we finally see each other on the forum rather than just the facebook groups.
Another small update, electric power steering output shaft is shortened so I can fit it under the dash, going to use some universal joints to connect to the rack. I haven’t decided if I want to extend the column out further. I was also contemplating a pedal box and scooting the shifter back but I probably won’t address these things until the future with fine tuning…
Another update, reworked some sort of aftermarket contour header to fit the jag transfer case setup, a guy in the jag forum had NPG make a set but he had told me it would cost somewhere around $2000 for a set, I’m not gonna speculate how much this cost me but let’s just say 10x cheaper
Beans
Addicted CEG'er
Best posts in a decade.
GnarCar
New CEG'er
I'm in the process of redoing all my brake lines and I'd love to go this route if you've got any info to share. Also, I love how you're quietly dropping the biggest bombshell the contour community has seen in well over a decade. Can't wait to see it finished!
That’s the link I have here to to proportioning valve from willwood at Amazon, for the lines I’m using a style of brake line that’s nickel copper, I bought a kit off eBay in 3/16 size with a boatload of fittings. I had to buy metric 3/16 fitting specifically for the master cylinder. I reused the fittings for the soft lines because the flare is different between the wilwood unit and the contours
boumacj
Hard-core CEG'er
Someone’s going to finally get this done. Awesome.
Wonder if Pole has seen this post.
Wonder if Pole has seen this post.
The steering column is at my guys shop we’re gonna make the thing a thing ha.. this picture is a tough idea of what’s going on here… I shaved the contour column as much as possible… chopped it so to say and I’m going to be integrating the electric motor into the column with a piece of pipe stretched, 1.5 Id on electric motor side and 2 inch on the column side. I’ll post pics after 
New wheel bearings… new driveshaft carrier bearing, the whole car has been refilled and happy to say there are no leaks had cardboard down for about a week now everything’s dry… the Jaguar transfer case seal woes are resolved, went to the jY for some manual window regulators, and found a beautiful low mile crashed X type… almost took a transfer case for spare, but I told Satya I’m pulling the contour dash and I’m gonna set notifications on my row52 for X types because I’m going to be putting an X type dash in… has to be black because the late models had a special edition that had carbon fiber dash inlays…. Carbon inlays available on Amazon new HAH
Phone is twacked out lol tried to post both at same time anyways, I deleted the ac core in the box… and mounted the heater in its place so I could shave off all the extra weight on heater box… some could say over kill but I’ve deleted everything possible so every lb counts… I won’t do any interior photos until it’s finnished but this whole heater box thing almost convinced me to make this car center drive… as in pedal box in front of heater with master cylinders mounted to pedals… mount column in the middle.. mount seat on trans tunnel, I even put the seat there to test it out.. Shifters are cable so ya lol
