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I have an opportunity to purchase a rebuilt V6 SHO Taurus engine complete with computer. This is from a long time friend who's life is speed. He tells me that the engine would "bolt in" to my Contour.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this or whether is ability to "bolt in" would not just apply to the motor mounts but also the drive train.
Patrick
'98 V6 ATX GL Pacific Green Contour
'96 4C ATX GL Performance White Contour
'93 V8 351 F150.5
'68 Fiat 850 Sport Spider (In Peices)
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Almost positive it won't work. I thought the only Taurus engines that "bolted in" to our cars were ones that were like 98 and up.
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Nothing is compatible with our cars.
Tranny, mounts, axles, harnesses, PCM, etc...
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the major problem is that the SHO motor is too wide for the contour frame rails, making it a MAJOR structural deal to get it to even fit in there, even before you hook everything up.
It's all about balance.
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You should buy it and put it in a Festiva though! Build yourself a Shogun! I don't have any pics or the link, but I am sure somebody does. 
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Shoguns where the SHO V8- not the V6
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Shoguns that I've seen have had a supercharged V6 in them, Very fast. I think Jay Leno,sp? has one with the V6. Would be fun to stuff one in a Tour though
Mark
00 svt tour- K/N filter, SHO SHOP Y pipe, 2 1/2" back to rear Y, improved tunes.
91 sho- Hi flow Y pipe, 2 1/2" exhaust, edlebrock rpm series 2 1/2" muffs, modified intake, K/N filter, modified manifold, 190 lph fuel pump, magnacor wires, ford double platinum plugs, underdrive pullies, custom LPM, 8 pound aluminum flywheel, hi revs race duel diaphragm kevlar clutch, solid torque limiters, poly bushings evrywhere, heavy duty subframe bushings, heavy duty engine and trans mounts, subframe connectors, front and rear strut tower braces, eibach springs, tokico struts, camber ajustment plates, light weight swaybar end links, cross drilled rotors, carbon fiber pads, 225/55/16 SP 5000's, redline water weter, redline trans fluid, mobil 1 synthetic oil, police grill and the need for speed!!!
It's a chronic disease.
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HAHAHHAH imagine the face of some rich ******* when you smoke his/her exotic in a sprayed shogun festiva! on a side note, why do u guys talk about putting "slightly" more powerful engines in this car? why do all that work for an extra 20hp at the crank? talk about a 351W project, then u will raise eyebrows 
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220hp /200 ftlbs, that's about 35 ftlbs or the 3.2 @ 220/215. Tho the mighty Yamaha will NOT fit into the contour. As stated the SHOgun is the V6 Yamaha, not the 3.4L V8. IIRC no SHOguns were s/ced. Tho Jay Leno's has the bottle on it.... Originally posted by bret:
why do all that work for an extra 20hp at the crank?
Ryan
98.5 Silver Frost Tour SVT 5979/6535
Born: May 15, 1998
Some Mods, still not fast enough..
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