Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Zetec Maintenance Your mods and the cars you have raced

If you have thousands of dollars go for it, otherwise forget it. You could easily get thousands and thousands of miles with a 200+ Zetec, but in the end it is going to wear a lot faster since it is doing more work. And you also have an ATX, the POS was not designed to even handle 200HP. But if you are still interested, forget about your engine for now and get that tranny bulletproofed. You'd probably want it to be able to handle 225HP just fine...even if you are only going to put on a 200HP kit. Then when you can afford it after playing with the tranny, you could go ahead and get a 200HP Turbo Kit. Don't know why you would want more, it would be more expensive and further wear the Zetec. They should totally rework the intake, and give you new headers, but you'll have to upgrade your exhaust system to 2.5" pipe to make up for the HP increase. Cheers.

Well the ATX should be able to handle a little over 200HP but your axles and might not handle that much power. The trans itself should be able to handle it but I wouldn't go with much more power than that before strengthning the trans.

Dunnel's 212hp kit has a standalone fuel injection system. If you put that in to your car it would mess all sorts of things up! Your car's computer wouldn't know that the engine was running, that would lead to problems elsewhere. You would need them to find a way to make your car's computer work with the specs that their FI kit does.

Just a thought.

Dunnels stand alone is just that a STAND ALONE you don't need the factory computer.

On the track of course,
1~ Some dumb A$$ in a PT Cruiser
2~ 2000 Honda Civic
3~ Dodge Neon... ( POS')
4~ An Old Dirty Beat up Monte Carlo Actually My wife was driving that time...

And that is about the just of it..

Mods ~~ High Flow Catalytic....8mm Ford Spark Plug Wires... Thats about it...

My mods;
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CTA intake
2.25" cat-back
(no res, high flow muffler)
Oil cooler
(keeps the oil at about 170 degress)
Cooler thermostat & water wetter
(keeps the engine cool)
SuperChip Flip-Chip
(dyno tuned)
Zex Nitrous kit
(75 HP shot)
Front and Rear STB's

Car's I've raced;
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Late 90's Dodge Dakota R/T - Tie
(he decided to start racing me when I was doing about 70mph on the highway)
2003 Ford Focus SVT - Doesn't count
(at the track, he missed a shift, and I pulled away)
2001 Honda Accord V6 - WIN!
(smoked him, he had no excuses!)
1996 Mustang - WIN!
(my friends car, stock, he doesn't know how to race)

Of course there are a few cars I've blown away when mountain driving too;
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1980's Riced out civic
1995 Accord
Early 90's Legacy

To SLEEPER:

Can you give me more info on the water wetter and cooler thermostat? like what brand and where you got them or a place I can get them.

Im having cooling problems here in KC 110 degrees!

Get an SVT then....because spending all that cash on 212 hp seems pointless to me

screw the SVT get a turbo from terry and walk away from SVTs and pay ALOT LESS total.

Buying an SVT would be less practical cost wise than a turbo if he just wants power. Now if he wants all the fancy stuff that the SVT comes with...that's another story.

All he has to do is follow the steps above that I wrote and the part that LoCo said too "axles and might not handle that much power"...