Originally posted by 1Sick_Puppy:
Ford put it on the Mondeo and every other 2.5L powered vehicle in Europe. It costs them about double per damper to go to the new design (testing/retooling/other stuff). I highly doubt the with Fords current economic status they would simply waist their cash on something to lower cabin noise a few db and lower seat of the pants vibration transfer a few g's.
It's tough to argue with the guy who is holding all the data....
.....but I wont let that stop me
When you consider that the 2.5 is a Jag engine now too, it is easy to say yeah they'd throw money at it for refinement purposes only. And hey, we all know price goes down as volume goes up - they may actually have saved money by using them on the Mondeo as well. I know Dan Nixon did research into the Cougars - and IIRC none of them suffer the same oiling problems that seem to plague the SVT's.
Anyway - I'm just arguing academicly for the fun of it. If you guys can supply a stock replacement part at a reasonable price that will improve NVH and will most likely imrove reliabilty too then you are doing a great service to CEG'dom.......
