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Re: So What Is Next For The Contour? #1230360 04/01/05 12:55 PM
Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 10,015 The land of Vegemite and Foste... S Stazi Hard-core CEG'er
Stazi Hard-core CEG'er S Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 10,015 The land of Vegemite and Foste...	Originally posted by elraido: for me it is 97-98 Eagle Talon....just makes me want to cry. Yeah and the crankwalk issue makes most owners of them want to cry too - hence why I sold my 97 DSM for the SVT! 2000 SVT Turbo 295hp/269ftlb@12psi #1 for Bendix Brakes Kits! Knuckles rebuilt w/new bearings $55 AUSSIE ENDLINKS $70 Gutted pre-cats $80/set A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine!

Re: So What Is Next For The Contour? #1230361 04/01/05 02:43 PM
Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 3,867 Wichita, KS R RogerB_dup1 Hard-core CEG'er
RogerB_dup1 Hard-core CEG'er R Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 3,867 Wichita, KS	Originally posted by elraido: Originally posted by TourDeForce: Originally posted by elraido: why wouldn't someone just buy a mustang if they wanted a 5.0 rwd? Insurance is less on a Contour SE. if that is the only thing you can come up with.....geeeeez. lol I am thinking the cost of converting the car to that would be a little more that what it would cost to insure a mustang I think you're missing the point. Function before fashion. '96 Contour SE "Toss the Contour into a corner, and it's as easy to catch as a softball thrown by a preschooler." -Edmunds, 1998

Re: So What Is Next For The Contour? #1230362 04/01/05 02:49 PM
Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 3,867 Wichita, KS R RogerB_dup1 Hard-core CEG'er
RogerB_dup1 Hard-core CEG'er R Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 3,867 Wichita, KS	Originally posted by Pudmunkie: Originally posted by TourDeForce: Originally posted by elraido: why wouldn't someone just buy a mustang if they wanted a 5.0 rwd? Insurance is less on a Contour SE. Because its different and would be fun Focus with 03 cobra engine is i think like 50 grand. why buy that when you can get an actual mustang for... less than 30. Focus would be a sleeper, and a shitload of fun to drive That $50k is a joke. A grassroots guy could do the whole thing for under 10k, I'd guess. The "demo" was 50k because they went out and bought a brand new Focus and ordered a brand new crate SVT Cobra motor from Ford, etc. You could buy a used Focus and drop in a more mundane 5.0, and if you are handy with a welder you could do much of the fab work yourself. Better yet if you buy a whole Mustang parts car and sell off parts to recoup some cost. There'll be a lot of Focus parts that won't go back on the car, either. And so on... Function before fashion. '96 Contour SE "Toss the Contour into a corner, and it's as easy to catch as a softball thrown by a preschooler." -Edmunds, 1998

Re: So What Is Next For The Contour? #1230363 04/01/05 07:51 PM
Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 175 Lyons, IL K kev.fitz CEG\'er
kev.fitz CEG\'er K Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 175 Lyons, IL	The whole 5L swap thing came up with The Tempo-Topaz website when I stilled owned that thing. Granted that the Tempo and Tour are not the same platform. But they decided that it was just impossible (mainly engine bay size) 98 Contour GL 4 cyl 131,000 miles - 57,000 w/o a CEL! Get Firefox

Re: So What Is Next For The Contour? #1230364 04/01/05 08:40 PM
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 4,270 Hartland, MI T The Five-Oh! Hard-core CEG\'er
The Five-Oh! Hard-core CEG\'er T Joined: May 2004 Posts: 4,270 Hartland, MI	Well for the Focus V8 thing, there's a kit that requires no welder or real fabrication at all, it's all "bolt in" Then of it, buy a $10,000 focus, build or buy and V8 for $10,000, and that'd be alot for a V8, then put em together and you got a V8 Focus with an unbeatable power to weight ratio for $20,000 ~Alex ~Alex Ex- SVT Driver627 MUST SELL!!!LOCAL: Pre-98 MOLDED trunk Polk db speakers Corolla parts LED Underbody Kit PM 2000 Green CSVT gone on 2/17/06 2001 Toyota Corolla (SHE RUNS!!!) 1989 Mustang LX 5.0

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