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Alright, donor car is a 99 Contour SE with fogs. Motor is excellent, tranny is ATX and is shot. Car has some rear 1/4 panel damage. Perfect situation, I could barely even pick up a set of used headlights from the junkyards around here for the price I picked this up for. Had this not been the case I wouldn't have bothered. Truth is it's the challange that makes this appealing to me, same reason I port matched my heads and swapped cams over on my 3L instead of just a straight 3L. Overall this isn't a huge project, just gotta mock everything up on the pre98 with sheet metal screws before welding the upper rad support back in.

A couple pics: I bent the last bit of metal on the inner fender supports out of the way, I could have avoided this but taking my time fiddling with the rad support once it was loose. On my car I will be avoid bending it out of the way, either way a few quick taps of the hammer and it would go back perfectly straight, just being picky. So if you take your time you can take it out smoothly and cleanly.





I am gathering an SVT kit, I already have a set of Mach Audio HID headlights from a Focus. Going to black the inside of the headlights a bit and do a projector retro fit into the them. Convert the SE grille to black mesh style.

Lastly pick up a set of these rims:



BTW my car is black now with tan interior. I like the interior in my car so no need to touch it.

Heh and I bought this car as a fun beater to last a few months.

I would much rather do this than selling my car swapping over the 3L etc to a post 98.


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wow man! that is quite the undertaking. good luck with everyhting and make sure to post "after" pics.


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I like those wheels . I'd sport those in a sec.


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Originally posted by mikey boy:
wow man! that is quite the undertaking. good luck with everyhting and make sure to post "after" pics.




Love it when people take risks. WHat the heck do you have to loose..........nothing. You're going to have a lot of fun!



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Restoring headlights.

Before:



After:



Took me a couple hours





96 Mystique Black On Tan V6 MTX Port Matched 01 3L, 2.5L Cams, 2.5" Exhaust Optimized y-pipe, SVT clutch, Superchips, 3L split port LIM, SVT UIM, Intake, Mustang 65mm TB, MSDS Headers. Eibach Pro Kit, Torsen Diff., Ford Racing 17" Wheels.
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The after pics looks brand new, very nice!


Originally posted by Davo:
Good work, Dave. You're definitely the #1 interior guy around these parts; always innovating.


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i got another fully loaded SE for you if you want it.. rear brakes are gone.. 3rd ger tranny grind.. engine has like 70k on it... real cheap!


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