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go for it, vent! i personally have a lemon and it pisses me off how the engine races on its own even after 7 attempts to fix it. ah i hate this peice. too bad its so much fun to drive.
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i looooooooove my contour! :p
99 SVT...modified
96 GL....the beater
"I live my life a quarter mile at a time. For those 14 to 15 seconds, 16 if I get tire spin, or get a bad jump, or possibly if I have a friend in the car, I'm free."
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Originally posted by skid123:
i looooooooove my contour! :p Ditto, no complaints here.
99 CSVT Green/Tan 13,700Km
# 84 of 2760
For Sale
96 Contour GL 2.5 ATX 120,000Km
K&N Air Filter
Mobile 1
E1 SVT Wheels & BFG G-Force Rubber
Aluminum Painted Front Grill
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I love my contour even though it's sitting 2 feet in the air on jack stands with it's guts spread all over my garage floor!! Hehehe...not long now though until she's all back together again (and beating up on the local rice on saturday nights!).
Simon W. Las Vegas.
96 SE V6 MTX Tereador Red (1st Blown Engine, better be the last!)
1999 SVT Engine
SVT Exhaust w/custom DTM Tips and optimized Y-pipe and no Res (thanks to Po-Jay!). LSD Quaife(thanks to Terry!), SCA CAI w/KKM, Grizzly clutch, FMS 9mm wires, Airknights custom short shifter.
"You can only get more rice at one time by ordering Chinese" - Davo7SVT
"it's only nuts and bolts" - Terry Haines
"Drive it like you stole it" - Me!
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Yeah, anyone want mine?
My engine doesn't race -- it just stutters and has since new. Unfortunately it's the only car I own with working A/C, and I'm in upside down enough that I'm effectively shafted.
Last Ford for me.
-Lance
92 SHO, 224k, cams, etc, 11.6" brakes, lots of suspension work
00 Contour SVT, 18k, stock
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Originally posted by lcheney:
Yeah, anyone want mine?
My engine doesn't race -- it just stutters and has since new. Unfortunately it's the only car I own with working A/C, and I'm in upside down enough that I'm effectively shafted.
Last Ford for me.
-Lance Hmmm... Ignition problem. Sounds like a bad coil pack, wire or plug. -The other Lance
Lance Kinley
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95SE, "Official CEG Beater"
Quaife, SVT parts, ST200 wheels, SS Y-pipe
I perceive you to be a stand-up, rational individual...
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Yeah, I wish it were that simple  It's actually poor programming on SVT's part. The spark advance goes *negative*  during throttle transitions at anything under 3500 RPM. THe dealership and Ford (regional rep) refuse to acknowledge it as abnormal. To an extent it isn't, since the other two 2000 CSVTs I've driven do the exact same thing. Extreme retardation of the spark. Very easy to see with a OBD2 scanner. I did manage to work around it by forcing the TPS to never go above ~40% (2V or so); full-throttle above 4000 wasn't as good but at least it didn't stutter like a mofo. One of these days I'll get off my lazy butt and make a shunt that can be triggered off of MAF voltage or something, so it ends up clamping the TPS below ~4k and letting it show full voltage at higher. Just pisses me off that they claim it's normal (and had the gall to tell me I must not know how to drive a stick... uh yeah  ). -Lance
92 SHO, 224k, cams, etc, 11.6" brakes, lots of suspension work
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Contour=good, need to fix the a/c though. Still good car.
"Wow, that sank fast." "Yeah, like a rock." 96 Contour GL ATX 9mm Ford Racing Wires; 2 Resonators down, 1 to go;"Special airbox"; many mods planned Sony CD player: 50wattsx4;remote; Speakers=50 watt Pioneer 6x8s Ross Evans 
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you=kidding self
contour=breaks alot
parts=expensive
engine bay=cramped B**** to work in
fun to drive+reasonably priced=kinda makes up for it, but it's not a "good" car.
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I did manage to work around it by forcing the TPS to never go above ~40% (2V or so); full-throttle above 4000 wasn't as good but at least it didn't stutter like a mofo. One of these days I'll get off my lazy butt and make a shunt that can be triggered off of MAF voltage or something, so it ends up clamping the TPS below ~4k and letting it show full voltage at higher. Why don't you just sell it then, if you really don't like the car? Those hi-tech bandades for the TPS circuit only hamper power output, and I don't know about you but wide open throttle is the main time when I like driving my car the best!
'95 CONTOUR SE -Enkei 16s -Porsche944 Exhaust tip - Audi xenon projector headlights -Peterbilt 30" air horns -mp3 Aiwa headunit (150 songs on one disc) -dual 10s -soon to have LED tailights (real kind, not just gay bulbs) -That's it for now
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