I'm more to believe it's a builder issue with these engines just with a few hundred miles on them.

Was the engine tore down and inspected first?
It's salt in the wounds if it's an oiling failure of a rear rod bearing. (FO contamination)

His post says very little except he had maybe 400 miles on it.


We know the engine itself can take high rpm. Be it 2.5L or 3L
So blaming that is just passing the buck.


Terry may know something is not copasetic with something but then why is there not a high failure rate of 3L engines. There has to be more then a million on the road in the US alone. That's more then the total Contour/Mystique production combined.


I have about 6000 highly abusive miles on my engine. (~10k total engine miles) It's pulling stronger then ever. (knocks on wood just to be safe)

2000 SVT #674 13.47 @ 102 - All Motor! It was not broke; Yet I fixed it anyway.