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Could it happen? Cause as of right now my bro is giving me his 91' Escort GT. would i be better off buying a Tour? 
R.I.P: 95 Tour LX
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Yes! A Contour would be nicer!
Why would you want a scort when you can have a contour?
Former owner of a 1995 Ford Contour GL w/ 2.0L ATX
Proud owner of a 2005 Ford Taurus SE 3.0L V6 Vulcan 
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um....mabey because its pretty much free! 
R.I.P: 95 Tour LX
working on getting
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SELLING 3L LIM AND UIM W/ TB!!!
PM ME....
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my mom has a scort, it sucks! Well engine is reliable but comparing my Contour vs. her 94 scort, my contour is way nicer! Get a contour with a bad engine, take that duratec, and put it in that contour!
Former owner of a 1995 Ford Contour GL w/ 2.0L ATX
Proud owner of a 2005 Ford Taurus SE 3.0L V6 Vulcan
--Looking for Commodore stuff (Drives, Units, Amiga, games, etc)If anyone has any of this laying around and wants it gone, lemme know --
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I used to have a little 94 LX, it was about as bread and butter as you could get.. but I liked it, it was a good solid reliable car.
The Spickle
New Car: Infra Red '04 FSVT
Former Car: Black '98 CSVT, #3137/6535 "The Unluckiest car.. ever"
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I had a customer working on just that setup. Unfortunately the duratec is a little too long to fit between the fenders. I know of another one doing a tube frame front end so that one should fit.
Rick
Owner of 00 #1611 Silver (Totalled) 98.5 T-Red SVT #6180
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Originally posted by ContourKev:
Yes! A Contour would be nicer!
Why would you want a scort when you can have a contour?
Because putting late-model, more powerful engines in earlier, smaller, lighter chassis is the classic hot-rodder mantra.
Why put a 3.0 in a Contour? A Jag X-type is a much nicer car.
Function before fashion.
'96 Contour SE
"Toss the Contour into a corner, and it's as easy to catch as a softball thrown by a preschooler." -Edmunds, 1998
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I bought a '93 Escort GT while my CSVT was down for a year. Oddly enough I regret selling it to fix the CSVT. I should have kept it and sold the CSVT after all repairs were done. Reliable as anything I've ever owned. Winter or summer it started like a champ. The A/C didn't work, and anything over 75mph was unsafe, but I never had a problem with it. $119/mo. for insurance is way better than the $266/mo. I pay now. (I'm 20 with a ticket and stuck with [censored] AAA)
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I had a 91 scort gt and at first it was sweet , I had performance headers kn intake charger and magnaflo catback exhaust . but my trannie went out twice. I paid 1500 to get it rebuilt. the second time I sold the car for 300.00 bucks . Now rollin the forest green svt ,Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! much better.
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intrax springs
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I used to have a 91 Merc Tracer with the 1.9 SPI engine. Engine was very solid, always started up, always strong. The tranny had issues at around 120K mi. But all in all, if it is well taken care of it should be solid even with higher miles.
Babysho, have you even driven it that you're talking about engine swaps and such? If its an mtx with teh GT engine it should be fairly peppy, should make a very nice first car.
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