PurpleMystique
Hard-core CEG'er
...I drove 5 hours to Illinois to pick up my '99 Contour SVT. I found it on eBay while on a camping trip in the Minnesota boundary waters.
The auction ended while I was going to be on a canoe trip, so I gave my sister my eBay password and amount to bid, and told her to put it in 15 minutes before the auction's end. 80,095 miles, impeccable interior. Silver Frost wasn't my first choice, but everything seemed to come together. It was stock besides the CD player, resonator removed, and exhaust tips.
On the drive home, I got my first check engine light. I was really excited about that. I had just gotten rid of a Mystique that gave me extremely frequent CELs, so I was hoping I'd be done with that for a while. Not so.
Turns out it was a just a misfire, so a new set of spark plugs fixed that.
Fast forward to September 20th, 2007. My car had started ticking a little while ago. I was slightly nervous but trying to ignore it. While driving through Story City, IA at about 6:30 PM, I heard a CLUNK CLUNK TINKLE TINKLE DIE sound. The car wouldn't start back up. Oops.
I called a local tow company and when the guy arrived, he recommended a mechanic friend of his. I had the car towed there, and proceeded to spend the next 4 and a half months without my car, putting up with his bull
and dancing around. He'd start on my car and then pull it out of the bay to work on something else. He'd promise me he was starting on it first thing in the morning and I'd stop by two weeks later and it'd still be outside covered in snow. It ended up costing me $800 MORE than he'd quoted, but I was glad to finally get my car back. I had installed:
-'01 Taurus 3.0
-SVT valve covers and injectors
-MSDS headers and y-pipe
-eBay intake
-Quaife
-SPEC Stage 1 clutch
Turns out the Quaife was a good idea. Here's my old dif. There's no way it would have lasted a week.
Needless to say, the car was a completely different animal. Besides it being ridiculously loud, it was ridiculously fast compared to the 2.5. I dyno'd at 193/194. (The blue graph is an SVT with Bassani catback and KKM intake)
The auction ended while I was going to be on a canoe trip, so I gave my sister my eBay password and amount to bid, and told her to put it in 15 minutes before the auction's end. 80,095 miles, impeccable interior. Silver Frost wasn't my first choice, but everything seemed to come together. It was stock besides the CD player, resonator removed, and exhaust tips.
On the drive home, I got my first check engine light. I was really excited about that. I had just gotten rid of a Mystique that gave me extremely frequent CELs, so I was hoping I'd be done with that for a while. Not so.
Turns out it was a just a misfire, so a new set of spark plugs fixed that.
Fast forward to September 20th, 2007. My car had started ticking a little while ago. I was slightly nervous but trying to ignore it. While driving through Story City, IA at about 6:30 PM, I heard a CLUNK CLUNK TINKLE TINKLE DIE sound. The car wouldn't start back up. Oops.
I called a local tow company and when the guy arrived, he recommended a mechanic friend of his. I had the car towed there, and proceeded to spend the next 4 and a half months without my car, putting up with his bull
and dancing around. He'd start on my car and then pull it out of the bay to work on something else. He'd promise me he was starting on it first thing in the morning and I'd stop by two weeks later and it'd still be outside covered in snow. It ended up costing me $800 MORE than he'd quoted, but I was glad to finally get my car back. I had installed:-'01 Taurus 3.0
-SVT valve covers and injectors
-MSDS headers and y-pipe
-eBay intake
-Quaife
-SPEC Stage 1 clutch
Turns out the Quaife was a good idea. Here's my old dif. There's no way it would have lasted a week.
Needless to say, the car was a completely different animal. Besides it being ridiculously loud, it was ridiculously fast compared to the 2.5. I dyno'd at 193/194. (The blue graph is an SVT with Bassani catback and KKM intake)
