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Actual Mileage on 3L engine is 10,406 miles.  Im just happy that (knock on wood) the car is still running great. This was a basic Hybrid Swap done by Sho Shop, despite many peoples views towards them. I was lucky enough to be happy in the end. Definetly a high price tag, but for someone that is learning all they can with little experience. This was the best route for me. Orignally I was gonna do the work (learning) with my brother in law (the mechanic), but it was becoming alot of work having no lift, etc. Also he is a Viper tech for Dodge and now is Service Writer with Mercedes, having little knowledge with Ford. Although he says there just parts and bolts.
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Originally posted by Speed Demons:
Actual Mileage on 3L engine is 10,406 miles.
Im just happy that (knock on wood) the car is still running great. This was a basic Hybrid Swap done by Sho Shop, despite many peoples views towards them. I was lucky enough to be happy in the end. Definetly a high price tag, but for someone that is learning all they can with little experience. This was the best route for me.
Orignally I was gonna do the work (learning) with my brother in law (the mechanic), but it was becoming alot of work having no lift, etc. Also he is a Viper tech for Dodge and now is Service Writer with Mercedes, having little knowledge with Ford. Although he says there just parts and bolts.
That's a good sign that it was done right since it has lasted this long. Right on, SHO Shop seems to have always either have people that love them or hate them.....the rest just haven't dealt with them 
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Originally posted by Swazo:
Originally posted by Speed Demons:
Actual Mileage on 3L engine is 10,406 miles.
Im just happy that (knock on wood) the car is still running great. This was a basic Hybrid Swap done by Sho Shop, despite many peoples views towards them. I was lucky enough to be happy in the end. Definetly a high price tag, but for someone that is learning all they can with little experience. This was the best route for me.
Orignally I was gonna do the work (learning) with my brother in law (the mechanic), but it was becoming alot of work having no lift, etc. Also he is a Viper tech for Dodge and now is Service Writer with Mercedes, having little knowledge with Ford. Although he says there just parts and bolts.
That's a good sign that it was done right since it has lasted this long. Right on, SHO Shop seems to have always either have people that love them or hate them.....the rest just haven't dealt with them
Give it time....they probably installed a transformer motor in the car. In about 20K miles the car will just stop, the engine will pop out and turn into a giant robot with an equally giant 'strap-on'.
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Originally posted by warmonger:
Give it time....they probably installed a transformer motor in the car. In about 20K miles the car will just stop, the engine will pop out and turn into a giant robot with an equally giant 'strap-on'.
I wouldn't be surprised... 
 Seriously, that's good news - I hope it stays in one piece and you don't have the problems that some of us are having with our 3 liters...
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Congratulations! My SHOshop built motor has almost 15K miles on it, still runs great!
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my 3L broke 1500 last night, miles are racking up slow, as i dont deliver pizza anymore! the last 500 of that ive beat the living hell out of it and it runs GREAT. nothing like the sound of a 3L with MSDS headers under WOT 
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Give it time....they probably installed a transformer motor in the car. In about 20K miles the car will just stop, the engine will pop out and turn into a giant robot with an equally giant 'strap-on'.
I would have expected this in other places...
I must have caught you on an Off-Day.
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Originally posted by Russell-3L:
my 3L broke 1500 last night, miles are racking up slow
That's it???
You slacker...
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It was not broke; Yet I fixed it anyway.
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Why's that? I've posted my Shoshop story twice and most people know that I have quite a bit of factual info for my opinion, I don't think I could really convey my feelings in straight words as well as the example above. As for the idiomatic usage...well, lets just say that I am sometimes crude and sometimes cultured. BTW, here is a good definition of idiom and basically supports my need for such a conveyance of thought : Definition:
1. [n] the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom"
2. [n] a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
3. [n] an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
4. [n] the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"
Synonyms: accent, artistic style, dialect, idiomatic expression, parlance, phrasal idiom, phrase, set phrase
See Also: baroque, baroqueness, classical style, classicism, expression, fashion, formulation, High Renaissance, locution, manner, mode, non-standard speech, order, patois, rococo, romanticism, saying, style, treatment, way
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Definition:
\Id"i*om\, n. [F. idiome, L. idioma, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to
make a person's own, to make proper or peculiar; prob. akin
to the reflexive pronoun ?, ?, ?, and to ?, ?, one's own, L.
suus, and to E. so.]
1. The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any
language; the genius or cast of a language.
Idiom may be employed loosely and figuratively as a
synonym of language or dialect, but in its proper
sense it signifies the totality of the general rules
of construction which characterize the syntax of a
particular language and distinguish it from other
tongues. --G. P. Marsh.
By idiom is meant the use of words which is peculiar
to a particular language. --J. H.
Newman.
He followed their language [the Latin], but did not
comply with the idiom of ours. --Dryden.
2. An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar
structural form of a language; in extend use, an
expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to
itself and not agreeing with the logical sense of its
structural form; also, the phrase forms peculiar to a
particular author.
Some that with care true eloquence shall teach, And
to just idioms fix our doubtful speech. --Prior.
Sometimes we identify the words with the object --
though be courtesy of idiom rather than in strict
propriety of language. --Coleridge.
Every good writer has much idiom. --Landor.
It is not by means of rules that such idioms as the
following are made current: ``I can make nothing of
it.'' ``He treats his subject home.'' Dryden. ``It
is that within us that makes for righteousness.''
M.Arnold. --Gostwick
(Eng. Gram. )
3. Dialect; a variant form of a language.
Syn: Dialect.
Usage: {Idiom}, {Dialect}. The idioms of a language belong to
its very structure; its dialects are varieties of
expression ingrafted upon it in different localities
or by different professions. Each county of England
has some peculiarities of dialect, and so have most of
the professions, while the great idioms of the
language are everywhere the same. See {Language}.
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Originally posted by Russell-3L:
my 3L broke 1500 last night, miles are racking up slow, as i dont deliver pizza anymore!
the last 500 of that ive beat the living hell out of it and it runs GREAT. nothing like the sound of a 3L with MSDS headers under WOT
How about getting a dyno?
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