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FireFox - Basically, we've all been your age at one point or another, and have all had huge dreams. You seem like you've got your head on straight, and don't want you to get too ahead of yourself. You're in the right place with CEG, and you'll love the car once it's yours. Just take it slow, do one thing at a time, and keep it clean. Things will fall into place with time. Just don't get discouraged with constructive criticism.

Mark

yea, and thats if your saving everything! or close to it!

Pardon my slip. I listed those things last for a reason, and that being I likely will never do them. Somehow I forgot to mention that, truly sorry. I have been sick all week, sore throat and headaches and that's been clouding my mind up a bit.

The big money items will be much farther down the road.

Originally posted by Y2KSVT:

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FireFox - Basically, we've all been your age at one point or another, and have all had huge dreams. You seem like you've got your head on straight, and don't want you to get too ahead of yourself. You're in the right place with CEG, and you'll love the car once it's yours. Just take it slow, do one thing at a time, and keep it clean. Things will fall into place with time. Just don't get discouraged with constructive criticism.

Mark

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I get it every day from my dad, Mark. He thinks exactly like you said, and he'll probably die before letting me get ahead of myself. Thanks for your concern.

damn guys take it easy on the little fella! lol well your in the right place for good contour info and you CAN do ANYTHING to your car all it takes is MONEY... good luck on what ever you do and just remember you are the one that has do drive it, so dont let people decide on how YOU MOD YOUR CAR

im considering that he is getting a FD, quaife. Pretty much everything needed in the 3L to keep it running...

I still cant see it hitting 10k. peopl have done the swap w/ 1500...add new clutch, flywheel, lsd, and your at around...meih, say 2600. Last I checked turbo kits were 5500, ( i heard they went up though...:-\) so i guess you might say 10k if your sending alot off for work, but thats a high estimate.

i was under the impression that the Quaife was 1000-1300..

Interesting and unique ideas. I like the plans so far. The dual moonroof idea is cool,kinda like what the Malibu Maxx has. Maybe you could even get an SVT without a sunroof and have one of those crazy sideways 'slits' like the new Maxima has. That would be pretty slick.

I don't think you necessarily need an SVT though. You could do just as well with an SE Sport with the V6 MTX. In the long run,the SVT will cost more $$$ in maintenance,insurance and every other cost related field due to the SVT badge. It'll be a helluva lot cheaper if you did even find a nice SE Sport,or even an LX and made it into an SVT clone,by putting the SVT kit on it and the engine bits and stuff.

Because you're almost 17 and it's your first car,I wouldn't suggest the SVT. It'll get beat on,it'll get broken,it won't get taken care of. Trust me,I know,I was in that boat 4 years ago. My dad bought me this awesome '87 Celica GTS in absolutely mint condition. I did it up a bit,I beat the crap out of it,I blew the motor,I tore down the car and parted it out and then scrapped it. My dad said after that he'd never ever lend me a single dollar towards any car.

I learned a hard lesson. 4 years later,I am on my 9th car. After the first Celica,I got another one and built it up with the left over parts from the first one,then I blew the motor in that and scrapped it,and bought an '88 RX7,had it a few months and sold it to my buddy and bought an '87 RX7 TurboII,and blew the motor on the drive home after buying it. Sold it 2 weeks later to my buddy who used it as a parts car. Then I bought my Mystique from my aunt and uncle,and that's the car that got me into the Contour world. I then bought an '87 Isuzu Trooper II for a winter beater,and another one as a parts truck,and ended up selling both before I even made the one roadworthy,and then I traded in the Mystique for my V6 Contour GL (aunt,uncle and dad were EXTREMELY PISSED when I got rid of the Mystique after 10 months) and just 2 weeks ago,I bought a '95 Contour GL Zetec MTX which I am going to completely rebuild from the ground up,while keeping my V6 as my modded daily driver. It took all those failed projects (because I had big plans for each of those vehicles and always said 'this one's a keeper' to get rid of it 6 months later...) I finally landed on the Contour,and I'm going all out on it. I found my calling this time.

I wish the best of luck to you and your dad with the project. It sounds like it'll be a lot of fun,very time consuming,very expensive,but it'll be a great experience,and don't forget that CEG is always here and always resourceful. I have learned so much from this site,I don't know what I would have done without it.

Sorry I was so long winded,lol.

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