Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General General Message to all SVT owners

"The best resolution to that is a baffled oil pan or a dry sump. These are both very costly and are not needed in a daily driver or for that matter your typical weekend passionate drives. There is certainly no reason to worry about driving you vehicle day to day, this simply will not be an issue."

I want to add that THERE REALLY IS A CONCERN in daily driving about oil staravtion. Since this issue came up about 9 mo ago, we have had about 9 failures, related to oil starvation/spun bearings on SVTs, that 1) were low mileage (<50K), 2)5 of the 9 were in long hard R sweeping turns on the street, 3)All reported wbeing well maintained typically with full levels of Synthetic oil. When I searched farther back about 11/2 yrs ago about 6 more similar failures came up. Not counting cars with 100K + miles or race related failures. Ive talked to Roush racing people involved with Bondurants SVT, and 2 professional SVT racers & discovered that in addition to baffels, and dispite the windage tray oil aereation was occuring and required customs screens to break it up. The Blue Oval News was/is doing a survey on Duratec failures. Please check it out. Talk to people involved in authorizing replacement engines & see if the numbers look high. If SVT can varify a problem exists it would be a big help. I would even pay for a replacement pan if it WOULDNT void my warranty. I realize that this (like the tranny problems) is really more of a general Ford Contour (as opposed to SVT) issue, but Im asking you/SVT to help as I hold out little hope for a Ford intervention.

Troy, appreciate you comming by, I was a little angry about the "priciple of" discontinuing the SVT magazine & offering the newer SVT products a better warranty deal (very important with the somewhat marginal service that some dealers offer). But, I am an avid fan of what SVE did to the Contour- its a truly excellent car & I enjoy it a great deal. I actually would buy another SVT product if it fit the bill as well as the Contour did/does.

Sincerly,
Dan

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Dan
99SVT - Tropic Green
#554/2760
Stock - except minor intake, exhaust, & motor mount enhancements