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Also the remote fuel door release was decontented between '96 & '97.
I think there are mixed feelings on wheather this was good or not.
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Originally posted by BrApple:
the word from teh SVT quest speaker at SZ04 was that they would have gone to a 3L engine in the SVT if Ford hadn't discontinued the car
i read that ford was even originally gonna go with a 3L but it wasnt offered on the regular contours so they would have had to crash test the svt models and it was going to be cost effective, especially like brapple said...the car was not going to be around much longer
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Originally posted by RespectTheContour:
i read that ford was even originally gonna go with a 3L but it wasnt offered on the regular contours so they would have had to crash test the svt models and it was going to be cost effective, especially like brapple said...the car was not going to be around much longer
Completely wrong, the Contour would not have required re-running crash certification to use the 3L. You are probably thinking of the statements made about putting the 2.5L into the Focus.
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I also remember reading an interview (linked from this forum) with OJ Coletti after he left SVT, and he was asked what he regretted not getting around to. One of the things he mentioned was putting FI into the Contour, though I remember the word "turbo". I'm not sure if that was actually the plan at SVT or just Coletti's wishful thinking.
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I recall that post, too. And yes, the thread talked about a turbo IIRC.
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I have the article in which he states. That he was hoping to work our platform a bit more in the future. But ford just pulled the plug all of a sudden. He then went on saying he wanted to make the CSVT to be more like the M3 type. With hopes of a turbo'd version!!
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Originally posted by Rara:
Originally posted by RespectTheContour:
i read that ford was even originally gonna go with a 3L but it wasnt offered on the regular contours so they would have had to crash test the svt models and it was going to be cost effective, especially like brapple said...the car was not going to be around much longer
Completely wrong, the Contour would not have required re-running crash certification to use the 3L. You are probably thinking of the statements made about putting the 2.5L into the Focus.
why dont you pick up "Powered by SVT" and read it, that was my reference, or do you work for ford? 
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Originally posted by RespectTheContour:
why dont you pick up "Powered by SVT" and read it, that was my reference, or do you work for ford?
LOL! Work there? I've been told he lives there. What else do you think engineers from Westland, MI do?
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Originally posted by hetfield:
What else do you think engineers from Westland, MI do?
Uhh... not work for Ford?
I dunno, that's all I've got on that!
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Originally posted by hetfield:
Originally posted by RespectTheContour:
why dont you pick up "Powered by SVT" and read it, that was my reference, or do you work for ford?
LOL! Work there? I've been told he lives there. What else do you think engineers from Westland, MI do?
they call me a liar! haha, thats what they do there 
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