Originally posted by muskamike:
This seems to be the exact thing I have and is probably happens for all SVT's...takes awhile for the needle to start dropping and when it does it goes fast. I always get stoked when it takes 80-100miles to start dropping...heh



Between my parents' and my own cars, I've had experience with a wide variety of Fords:

'84 Tempo
'88 Thunderbird
'90 Sable
'93 Cougar
'93 Mark VIII
'99 Contour

And they ALL exhibited the same exact fuel gauge behavior. My guess is that it the tank's shape and the baffles inside cause the fuel level to drop in a weird way, and Ford doesn't set their gauges up to compensate for this.

'99 Contour Sport V6 MTX