Turning my car into a race car was never a plan if mine. I bought the car right out of baisic training in October 2002. I went to my unit and was deployed two weeks later. I had the car for three years when the origional motor went. I found out that it had spun a rod bearing when I got home from my third deployment in June 2005. The reason I was home from the deployment was because I was badly wounded in combat. I needed a car though, so my massive head trauma aside, I started to replace the engine. With all the screws I had knocked loose in my head, I made a real mess of my car. I figured that I couldn't function without a car, so I went and bought a new one. Between the payments of both cars, I was tight on money for a while. So my contour just sat outside to be abused by the Florida weather while I was stationed in north Carolina. Then in 2007, with my contour paid off and with a few dollars in my pocket, I had to make a decision. Either sell my mess of a contour and use the pathetic amount of money I would get from it to buy and build a race car. Or use the little amount of money that I had to turn the contour into a race car. I figured that since I already invested in a good suspension on the contour that I would use it. I already had two sets of wheels for it, and countless spare parts. So now do you see why I didn't start with a se?