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Originally posted by SVTNupe:


I don't think anyone out here is racing their cars at extreme temperatures and pressures for a straight 4-5 hours like we see in the automotive races.

Maybe we aren't but some of us drive it hard enough to cause failures to occur.

When I bought my CSVT it was because of the thrill it gave me to listen to that V6 sing up until redline and the handling performance that it demonstrated. I don't think any of us expected to purchase this car and then drive it like it was an Escort or something.

My sentiments exactly.

Knock on wood, but I have over 80K miles on my engine with no problems and I guarantee that each and every day I'm running it up to 6000 or 6500k.

Lucky you I only made it to 63,000 under similar driving styles.

If I wanted a car that I could just cruise in than I could have purchased a Taurus or something.

Hey Hey now! I had a 1997 Taurus SHO (nice car) just to much money to spend for a car that doesn't even hold a stick to the CSVT


Perhaps after spending less than $22k for this sports sedan, I should have expect a car that was basically all show and the go that it was capable of would only lead to its own demise and failure since many of the components weren?t capable of handling the added performance.

I wish I didn't have to look at it this way but I think the entire drivetrain on the CSVT wasn't torture tested. I totally agree that FORD put this car into the "SVT" platform as a 'gamble' and didn't properly outfit it for the style of driving we 'enthusiast' tamper with on a daily basis.

Perhaps too, this is a lesson learned for all of us which is you get what you pay for.

I think we got our money's worth all things being equal. I just think the ball was dropped on the durability of the drivetrain.

I guess we should expect our engines and transmission to fail under hard acceleration and cornering that the car was obviously capable of doing and designed for.

I really don't know what FORD designed the car for. It never had much publicity nor was it something they took seriously or it wouldn't have been abandoned so easily.


They cut corners??? Probably or maybe they did what most companies do and take a chance that the likely hood of these kinds of problems happening wasn?t worth the investment to insure it wasn?t going to happen.

Like I said in my opinion the CSVT was a gamble (one I am glad they took) and seeing as we have the CEG now we can stick together and weather the storms of these engineering faults. pissing on FORD won't accomplish anything.


I guess that all of this is telling me that I shouldn?t purchase a product like this in the future and not expect these kinds of problems.

Hey the car is still one of the best handling and fun to drive cars around ( plus it has 4-doors :-) Besides I said it once I'll say it again: "Anything man made has the ability to fail"


I just wonder how many Acura Integra Type R?s engine are blowing up from what has been labeled here as abuse???

They probably have a website search for it and go peek in their and see what you can dig up :-)