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Be Gentle I'm New Here
Hey guys, I'm currently looking at buying a 3.0L with the ported swap (2.5L intake).
While I'm pretty good with cars and do a lot of my own work on them as a hobby, I don't have specific experience with an SVT or anything similar.
So my question is, is the 3.0L swap something that could be some-what daily driven, and what is the maintenance, reparability of the car? If something goes wrong with it, is the swap understandable enough that any decent mechanic would be able to fix common issues with the car, or am I basically on my own as far as repairing the car if anything goes wrong?
I really like the SVT's (been a FORD SHO enthusiast for years, mainly 89-91's, owned/own them currently) and I'd like to take the plunge on this as my DD recently gave up the ghost and I'm looking to use the car for probably 8k miles a year, primarily on back road country daily commutes to work.
The car currently is in great shape and needs nothing, so I don't think I'm buying a project, but I want to make sure that if things go wrong as they tend to do with older cars, that it'll be repairable by a mechanic as I typically don't do my own work on DD's.
Thanks for the advice and input!
While I'm pretty good with cars and do a lot of my own work on them as a hobby, I don't have specific experience with an SVT or anything similar.
So my question is, is the 3.0L swap something that could be some-what daily driven, and what is the maintenance, reparability of the car? If something goes wrong with it, is the swap understandable enough that any decent mechanic would be able to fix common issues with the car, or am I basically on my own as far as repairing the car if anything goes wrong?
I really like the SVT's (been a FORD SHO enthusiast for years, mainly 89-91's, owned/own them currently) and I'd like to take the plunge on this as my DD recently gave up the ghost and I'm looking to use the car for probably 8k miles a year, primarily on back road country daily commutes to work.
The car currently is in great shape and needs nothing, so I don't think I'm buying a project, but I want to make sure that if things go wrong as they tend to do with older cars, that it'll be repairable by a mechanic as I typically don't do my own work on DD's.
Thanks for the advice and input!