Originally posted by rainshdw:
1. Cost of a 3.0L and how/where do I get one?
2. Does the 3.0 have oil starvation/pickup issues?
3. Has anyone put a competely different engine/tranny is our car? (Like not a Ford, but a 6)

(I open my car/boat stereo business in Nov)



I got my engine from Foster Auto Parts in Portland. It has 3000 miles on it. It cost 700 dollars. With a little more miles you can usually get them for 500 or so. They would have charged me 600 but I did not have a core exchange. Since you are in B'ham, I would try Gundies. They are usually on the high side, but they have better quality cars then most of the other places around. I would have called them next if Foster had not had the one I got.

The problem with the 2.5l engine oil is the oil return passages in the heads. This happend when they changed the head around from the 3.0. The 3.0 does not have this oil return/starvation problem due to the larger returns. I could be wrong on this but that is what I have gathered from reading the posts, and trying to piece it together.

I have not heard of anybody putting anything else in. What would you want to use? Maybe a Grand Prix Supercharged engine.

What kind of Car/Boat/sterio business are you starting?

1998 Contour SVT Black w/ Blue interior Torsen LSD updated shiftforks Lightened Flywheel, HD Drivelines Optimized Thottle Body 2003 3.0L engine upgrade (Soon to be)