Actually I'm in a similar situation. I have a 96 Contour Sport with 78,000 miles on it and I've been thinking about either getting a new car soon or upgrading the Contour. When a car has this many miles on it, I was wondering if it is really worth the effort modifying the car or am I going to start running into a lot of problems as the car gets older? I would really like to start small and get a new exhaust and air filter for the car and then invest more money into the car after that. Any thoughts?