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Hey,
I was wondering if you had noticed the stuttering problem that seems to be commmon [but not universal] on 2000 SVTs. The car will stutter and surge between 2000 & 3000 RPMs when you get on the gas more than about halfway.
If not, then I'd really like to get together and take a look at your car because I've got about 10 people that are really interested in finding out what's broken (including me -- it really ruins the driving experience). I think it may be a specific production run [ie. a bad component or something], as I've had at least 3 people say that they have *not* had this problem.
Please email me off-list. Apologies if I've asked this before, as my memory is getting worse each year ;-).
Thanks!
-Lance
Lance.Cheney@m.cc.utah.edu
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Originally posted by lcheney:
Hey,
I was wondering if you had noticed the stuttering problem that seems to be commmon [but not universal] on 2000 SVTs. The car will stutter and surge between 2000 & 3000 RPMs when you get on the gas more than about halfway.
If not, then I'd really like to get together and take a look at your car because I've got about 10 people that are really interested in finding out what's broken (including me -- it really ruins the driving experience). I think it may be a specific production run [ie. a bad component or something], as I've had at least 3 people say that they have *not* had this problem.
Please email me off-list. Apologies if I've asked this before, as my memory is getting worse each year ;-).
Thanks!
-Lance
Lance.Cheney@m.cc.utah.edu Lance - Have a 2000 SVT also, but no stutter probbllem....just no much powerbelow 3000, real power after 4000 .. jj
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jj,
Do you have the exact build date of your car?
Thx-
-Lance
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yah and get those build #'s to me!  ------------------ Toadster - Todd Christ toadster_ca@hotmail.com 1998 Silver Frost Contour SVT#1037 of 6535 built, Built May 16, 1997 Moderator: CEG Northern CA Forum Toadster's SVT Roundup - home of the Contour SVT Owner's List MODS: KKM Intake , TH-Fix , Synthetic Oil , 18% Llumar tint , 9006CB Headlamps , TBD....
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im not sure what youre talking about my 98svt seems to buck and stutter immediately after quickly hitting the gas and letting off completely or when i brake and then resume on the accelerator. i think this is just the car tho...
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not sure!?! if its what i think it is i may have the problem.. the only thing is that it seems like it takes a while to wind up at 2 - 3 k rpm and doesnt launch till after that. is that what you mean? when i put the kkm on there the problem worsened. took it off...
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Originally posted by lcheney:
jj,
Do you have the exact build date of your car?
Thx-
-Lance
Yeah just got my SVT cert. a few days back: assy date: 1/13/00, # 1565 of 2150 ...sorry I'm late, mom's in hospital, not doing well ... jj oh yeah, that means I was wrong about the date at the bottom of the window sticker: mine was 1/07/2000...thought that was build date....have no idea now ...jj [This message has been edited by jjost (edited February 19, 2001).] [This message has been edited by jjost (edited February 19, 2001).]
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jj, Sorry to hear about your mom. Hope she gets better soon. When you say 'not much power', what exactly do you mean? Dyno charts I've seen from properly running cars show significantly more torque [acceleration] available at 2500 RPM than anywhere else on the curve, so the car accelerates faster in 2nd gear at 2500 than at 5000 RPM. [still not as fast as 1st gear at 5000 RPM, but do you understand what I mean?]. If there's significantly better high-RPM acceleration than low RPM in the same gear then you probably have this problem. There's probably a better description here: http://contour.org/forums/Forum3/HTML/001875.html ------------------ 92 SHO, 213k, 14.78@96.3 00 Contour SVT, 9.5k, stock
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by lcheney: [B]jj, Sorry to hear about your mom. Hope she gets better soon. When you say 'not much power', what exactly do you mean? Dyno charts I've seen from properly running cars show significantly more torque [acceleration] available at 2500 RPM than anywhere else on the curve, so the car accelerates faster in 2nd gear at 2500 than at 5000 RPM. [still not as fast as 1st gear at 5000 RPM, but do you understand what I mean?]. If there's significantly better high-RPM acceleration than low RPM in the same gear then you probably have this problem. There's probably a better description here: http://contour.org/forums/Forum3/HTML/001875.html Thanks .. It is smooth ( no stutter or balking)all the way to the redline ... When I raced my brother in his Focus( headers, intake, chip ...) he pulls me until I hit about 4000 -4500 rpms and then I start running him down and literally go right by ..my top end will run down his low end torque ... I can't get the start he gets... weight, torque, driver ability, any or all of the above ?? ... jj
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