You people make it sound like you bend it over a bench and bend it.
Well, it sorta looks that way in the pic... Time to give it a rest. You summed it up well when you said Cardoc did not design it for performance but for sound. I trust that it sounds good.
1999 Amazon Green SVT Contour (#554/2760) Stock SVT Duratec V6 with: Intake- K&N filter/75mm MAF meter Exhaust- MSDS Y-pipe/Bassani catback Durability-Ford "dual mode" damper, Mobil 1/K&N oil filter 179.2 FWHP at 6900 RPM
