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All 99+ Taurus 3L V6's are NOT Duratecs. Most of them are Vulcans, which will not work with our cars. Even the 2001 Taurus's have the Vulcan. The Duratec V6 is found on the "Taurus SEL", and "Sable LS Premium" only this year. One thing I have been able to find out how you can tell if the Taurus/Sable has a Duratec, it has TWO mufflers. The Vulcan engine'd cars ony have one. Just heads up when you are getting a 99+ 3L taurus/Sable engine. Have the yardman look to see how many mufflers the car has/had. ------------------ Chris Hightower CEG Mod-SquadCEG Keychainer Contour WebChat 98.5 Contour GL Sport Some mods... More to come. Silver, V6, ATX, Moonroof 2001 Lincoln LS8 Fully loaded. http://crush7.dyndns.org/
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Hate to bust your bubble Chris but not all 3.0 Duratecs have quasi dual exhaust. The early 3rd gen. Tauri had the quasi but they dropped it after a couple of years. If you want to go by appearance you just have to look for the DOHC badge on the fender.
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I am not that hip on Taurus/Sables. The badge thing would be the best way since the Vulcan only is a SOHC engine.
Thanks Mister Rasmussen.
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yes the only way you can tell if its the Duratec is buy the badge.. i have a 2000 SEL and i dont have the dual exhaust.. i wish it did have it though,,
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Originally posted by Chris Hightower:
All 99+ Taurus 3L V6's are NOT Duratecs. Most of them are Vulcans, which will not work with our cars. Even the 2001 Taurus's have the Vulcan. The Duratec V6 is found on the "Taurus SEL", and "Sable LS Premium" only this year. One thing I have been able to find out how you can tell if the Taurus/Sable has a Duratec, it has TWO mufflers. The Vulcan engine'd cars ony have one.
Just heads up when you are getting a 99+ 3L taurus/Sable engine. Have the yardman look to see how many mufflers the car has/had.
The way to ask for the motor is to make sure and say DOHC Duratec. The Vulcans are only 12 valve (SOHC). The walk through yards should still have that much information on file... call around, most yards know at least this much about the engines. ------------------ Brad Noon '99 SE MTX, really blown now!!!!  http://www.bnmotorsports.com
Brad Noon '99 SE MTX 3 point oh my God H.O. 179HP/178TQ BNMotorsports Floormats, powder coating, TB optimizing, Gutted cats, etc BNMotorsports is now the preferred distributor of Contour/SVT/Mystique Indiglo style gauges!!!bnmotorsports@msn.com
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Originally posted by Chris Hightower:
Thanks Mister Rasmussen.  I do what I can to help ma' bruthas.
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Come on guys, the Vulcan is pushrod!
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my dad's car - '98 Ford Taurus SE - 200 HP with the quasi-dual exhaust. all i can say is: HELL YEAH! 
No car anymore ;\ (taking a break from driving due to several misfortunate occurances) Newest mod for my Dad's Cobra 'vert: My beautiful girlfriend and I for passengers when we want to go somewhere 
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The vulcan is an OHV not an OHC engine. Huge difference...
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Originally posted by TedS:
The vulcan is an OHV not an OHC engine. Huge difference... How right you are. I don't know what I was thinking typing SOHC... Brain fart, back to normal thinking now... ------------------ Brad Noon '99 SE MTX, really blown now!!!! http://www.bnmotorsports.com
Brad Noon '99 SE MTX 3 point oh my God H.O. 179HP/178TQ BNMotorsports Floormats, powder coating, TB optimizing, Gutted cats, etc BNMotorsports is now the preferred distributor of Contour/SVT/Mystique Indiglo style gauges!!!bnmotorsports@msn.com
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