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Originally posted by Zetec_B:
As for myself,I build the seats for thy Chrysler LX cars (300,Charger,Magnum),and we run the seats for all 3 cars down the same lines
You guys ever purposely mess up and put the wrong stuff in a car?
My high school vocational auto instructor told us stories when he worked for a Lincoln-Mercury dealer how they'd get a new Town Car with a Lincoln badge on one side, and a Ford badge on the other.
He always told us the story of his 69 Cougar Eliminator that he special ordered... was always telling us how "I ordered it yellow but it came orange, right from the factory."
You know, stuff like that...
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Oh, and I bet at least 1 of the early SVTs was a crash tester.
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Originally posted by Zetec_B:
It makes no sense to me why they would build SVT's in a different section of the factory or give them special treatment. It's just another Contour that they had to put some minor different parts on. The differences between the SVTs and the plainjane Contours were so miniscule during production,they probably hardly even noticed it was an SVT rolling down the line.
As for myself,I build the seats for thy Chrysler LX cars (300,Charger,Magnum),and we run the seats for all 3 cars down the same lines,whether they be 60/40 split rears,fullback rears,Charger,Magnum,300,power buckets,manual buckets,whatever. The only differences in our day is the occasional run of SRT-8 seats we get,which require a small amount of extra work,like making sure the proper larger bolstered foam is used,they take a few extra hog rings,you have to take more care rolling the covers,ad then when the seats are done being build,they are taken offline and ironed and finessed until they look as perfect as we can get them,whereas all other seats just roll down the line. At the Chrysler assembly plant,they run all 3 cars down the same lines as well,300s,Chargers,Magnums,and an SRT8 will follow a base model SE down the line. It's just another car to us/them,it makes no difference. I beleive all DCX assembly has to do is a little bit of paperwork for the SRT8s,like Ford did with the SVTs. Up until recently,we had tracking sheets for the SRT8 seats when we built them,but they are no longer used. As far as I know all the SRT8 cars have a limited production sequence badge in the engine bay or something,somewhere in the vehicle.
Cause SRT-8 is just another trim model whereas SVT used to be a Seperate identity.
and there are actually a bunch of things different on the cars. Its not just "throw intake manifold B on car 2"
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Originally posted by RawBurt:
I'll be keeping it to myself, until the time comes. It'll be hard to find. 
much like your weiner.
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In 1970, I bought a new 340 Duster off the showroom floor. Couldn't figure out why it was so much faster than other 340 Dusters until two years later when I put a 440 in it. My Duster had the 340 sixpack (from the AAR Cuda) motor with a 4 barrel intake and carb on it. When I talked to the guy at Ford SVT, he told me the first days production were monitored, tweaked and inspected by the SVT Engineers. He also said mine was used for journalistic evaluations. 
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Originally posted by spdsk8r:
When I talked to the guy at Ford SVT, he told me the first days production were monitored, tweaked and inspected by the SVT Engineers. He also said mine was used for journalistic evaluations.
in other words, it was beat to hell!
NY State Trooper: So what makes your car so special to have SVT all over it?
Me: Er...It was made by Fords SPECIAL Vehicle Team?
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Originally posted by ElKy:
Originally posted by spdsk8r:
When I talked to the guy at Ford SVT, he told me the first days production were monitored, tweaked and inspected by the SVT Engineers. He also said mine was used for journalistic evaluations.
in other words, it was beat to hell!
yeah, remember the SVT guy that was at SZ 04 that talked about a black one that was crashed at a track/press event in PA and that they had to drive it back to Michigan afterwards
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Originally posted by BrApple:
Originally posted by ElKy:
Originally posted by spdsk8r:
When I talked to the guy at Ford SVT, he told me the first days production were monitored, tweaked and inspected by the SVT Engineers. He also said mine was used for journalistic evaluations.
in other words, it was beat to hell!
yeah, remember the SVT guy that was at SZ 04 that talked about a black one that was crashed at a track/press event in PA and that they had to drive it back to Michigan afterwards
are you talking about when he was telling us he rolled a brand new lightning?
NY State Trooper: So what makes your car so special to have SVT all over it?
Me: Er...It was made by Fords SPECIAL Vehicle Team?
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Originally posted by ElKy:
Originally posted by BrApple:
Originally posted by ElKy:
Originally posted by spdsk8r:
When I talked to the guy at Ford SVT, he told me the first days production were monitored, tweaked and inspected by the SVT Engineers. He also said mine was used for journalistic evaluations.
in other words, it was beat to hell!
yeah, remember the SVT guy that was at SZ 04 that talked about a black one that was crashed at a track/press event in PA and that they had to drive it back to Michigan afterwards
are you talking about when he was telling us he rolled a brand new lightning?
yeah either before or after that
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Originally posted by spdsk8r:
When I talked to the guy at Ford SVT, he told me the first days production were monitored, tweaked and inspected by the SVT Engineers. He also said mine was used for journalistic evaluations.
yupp I was told that too, mine was more for shows is what he was telling me but I agree with elky, it was beat to sh!t before auctioned off to someone else  
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