first off, kevin00svt, your description is exactly identical to my cars symptoms, except it seemed to me that the effects were worse in warmer weather. but please call the hotline. i'm 99% sure its the fuel pump, is this most recent pump we are using the same as the one they put in the focus? if so, Ford should have done more testing using that pump in the contour before calling it the 'replacement' pump.

i'm not sure if there is a pulse damper, what would such a thing look like?

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2000 Stuttering SVT Contour - Black..like my bleak dreams of driving this car again without feeling like a first time stick driver.