Smokinjoe
Hard-core CEG'er
Your Crazy. Those jellybean Tauri look like ass.
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SVT vs SHO
- Thread starter Westwildcat
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Your Crazy. Those jellybean Tauri look like ass.
you're crazy because they actually look like roaches with no legs.
ilovesvt
Veteran CEG'er
LOL I like them but it would have to be a 96-99 SHO for all the little details they changed front & rear bumpers & seats and stuff.....the older shos remind me of a tempo to boxy for me
Smokinjoe
Hard-core CEG'er
You take that back!! lol.
Something that really bothers me about the Gen 3 SHO's is that stupid rear spoiler. Someone should have gotten fired for that one. Gen 3 wheels do look good on older SHOs though.
ilovesvt
Veteran CEG'er
Actually i just googled a few pics of 95 shos and they arent to bad if done right i guess they changed the style a little on the 94 95 for the better......and my 99 accord is just a boxy lol.....Yea that rear spoiler is odd i hate it. I kind of want to go test drive a 95 sho and the engine just looks clean with that manifold
ilovesvt
Veteran CEG'er
Ive changed my mind i didnt realize how nice these 95 shos are i like them better than the 96-99
CSVT#49
Addicted CEG'er
Well my 94 SHO would have smoked my 98 CSVT in it's stock form. That Yamaha engine screamed... I'd love to put that engine into a new Fiesta.
In the SHO community, we always referred to is as "The skateboard", as in:
<yelling> "Which one of you kids left this damn skateboard on the back of my Taurus!" <yelling>
Westwildcat
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Can this be explained?
95_Mystique
Hard-core CEG'er
SHO's tend to lose 3rd gear, especially with heavily modded cars. It can be built up though.
ilovesvt
Veteran CEG'er
^^^^ I think he means when you hit 3rd gear in the 1st gen sho its real fast
Smokinjoe
Hard-core CEG'er
3rd gear = Jesus gear.
ilovesvt
Veteran CEG'er
I think my next project car will be a 94-95ish taurus sho 5 speed that has the 3.2 liter. I wonder if they made them with black interior
Smokinjoe
Hard-core CEG'er
Black leather was an option depending on the exterior color. All manual transmission SHO's came with a 3.0. Automatics came with a 3.2. But many people have swapped 3.2 engines into manual transmission cars. I like the blue SHO's with Cobra R replica wheels. My dream SHO would be a Turbocharged white 91 SHO plus like the one in this link.
Sweet dyno pull.
430hp/412/tq. It would take a fully built SVT Contour to run with this SHO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8hk-dVoLYU
never heard of this happening. the biggest problem with the MTX-IV is the diff pin blowing because of burnouts.
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3rd gear in the MTX SHO is also known as jesus gear because jesus it goes on forever. when shifting into 3rd gear in an SHO you can run up to almost 110 mph before redline and the need to shift into 4th.
also black interiors only came in the 90-93 SHOs (maybe the 89 but i'm not sure).
if this is the car i'm thinking it is there's only one SVT that could even come close to keeping up with it and it still needs to be put together. IIRC that particular SHO belongs to tim tyner and is very close to running 11s in the quarter.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2400927
elraido
I kant speel
If you are talking 1/4 mile times, you are right. But from a roll, a lot of the 3.0L FI cars on this site will give a lot of those cars a run for their money....traction is our issue. It doesn't appear to be one with them. If a straight up 3.0L can run a low to mid 13 second 1/4 mile with a good driver, decent tires and axels that don't break....one would assume the FI should quicker.
how many FI 3.0 CSVTs with 400+ HP and 400+ ftlbs tq are there? because there are several SHO's with 400+ HP/FTLBS TQ. plus SHO axles don't break like dry twigs when the power is put to them like the ones in the CSVT do. so IMO FI SHO beats FI CSVT.
Smokinjoe
Hard-core CEG'er
^^^^^^^Gotta agree there. And like the SVT Contour, the SHO does murder from a roll.
i'm not trying to argue or put down the contour. i love mine and it's not even an V6 let alone an SVT. i'm just saying that the yamaha V6 in the SHO mated to the MTX-IV in the taurus is more capable than the duratec 3.0 mated to a MTX 75 and then put in the contour. the yamaha engine was performance built from the go and the 3.0 duratec isn't, at best it's a frankenstein, with a few performance parts, that some pretty bright people have put into a different car. and since they both weigh around 3100lbs, i think you can see what i'm getting at.