This certainly is an effective way to go through a thread... I like it.
Anyway...
P1) I should have said 'complications' or confusion, having to do with the wiring last I heard. Now that I've done a more recent search, I see that it's been installed in a couple of Contours already.
P2) The 'dream cycle' hasn't begun yet, and starting the 'payment cycle' again isn't exactly what'd happen. My loan is down to $9500. I can buy a CSVT for 13k. If I can sell my Mystique for local market/dealer value, there's a good chance I can pay off the loan and put up a good size down payment on the CSVT to drop it back to 9K or so. Not to mention the ideal situation of being able to revert it to stock and sell the majority of my CSVT parts that I have lying around, since the duplicates I'll have (rear bumper, skirts, runners, TB, etc., etc.) won't be needed. Thing is, I just see the CSVT as a much better platform for this kind of monster project, since it's both easier and cheaper to build a strong MTX (I could probably do it myself) than a strong ATX and since it's such a bear to convert from MTX to ATX, well...
Q1) Back to the search engines, then...
Q2) Cost? Remember, I can make money by buying a CSVT (seriously) and working on one of the three MTX-75s I'd then have rather than keeping my Mystique and building up the CD4E.
Q3) That's what I thought. The PhantomGrip is available for MTX or ATX, but I suppose the price differential between it and the Quaife indicates a quality differential. (Sorry, it was too easy. :))
Q4) By whom?
Q5) I didn't know (slaps self on forehead again) that you could increase displacement by upping the stroke of the crank. Inter'sting..
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