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The "sleeper factor" says you do NOT do this to an SVT.
If sleeper factor and cost effectiveness are indeed your real goals, drop a 351 into an old Maverick or Fairmont. Start to finish you could build that sucker for less than just a turbo kit, and it would run faster than a turbo zetec.
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Frankly, plain jane 3.0L Duratecs are just as cheap and easy to get. An SVT owner can carry over his SVT cams, extrude Honed intake, and all mods. It will make 200-210 or more FWHP with a good tune which is equal to the only "cheap" zetec turbo Ive seen on thses boards (SEAWOLF). Further, the zetec means a new tranny (more $) and the 6 speed FSVT Getreg is not a good option in any even (weaker than MTX75 and the 6th gear is mearly a second overdrive). V6 is also smoother, sounds better, and is not much heavier.
You "might" be a little ahead cost wise with zetec after you price out forged rods/pistons/turbo for both engines then add to zetec..cost of new zetec spec tranny, other zetec mods to replace V6 mods but I doubt by much.
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Thing is with the Zetec everything is more readily available. You happen to mess something up and you can get a replacement part easily.  To each his own....I know the Zetec doesn't have the torque of the 3L but it can.
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Originally posted by LoCoZs/c:
Thing is with the Zetec everything is more readily available. You happen to mess something up and you can get a replacement part easily. To each his own....I know the Zetec doesn't have the torque of the 3L but it can.
Yeah, but how many 3.0 Taurus/Sables/Escapes junkers are sitting around junkyards? Plenty in my area at least.
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Originally posted by Dan Nixon:
You "might" be a little ahead cost wise with zetec after you price out forged rods/pistons/turbo for both engines then add to zetec..cost of new zetec spec tranny, other zetec mods to replace V6 mods but I doubt by much.
And if it's not about cost???
What do some of you think of those who put cammers into their FSVT? Does that make him an anti-purist? It's just an engine, that is above-par not spectacular (stock powerwise), has less aftermarket as Hector reminded and spins bearings, oh and can be sold for a decent price still.
I say, many people love the engine, me included, so sell the svt engine and pick up a cheap zetec, rip it apart and go svtcuervo crazy on it.
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Are we still talking about this ~ idea??? You are never going to get the power curve from less displacement. You talk like it's going to be cheap to buy a parts car, then build a forged Zetec, then add a turbo kit, then add et cetera. Like Dan said for 1/5 the cost or less you can do a 3L swap and equal the "peak" output of a typical boosted Zetec (heck beat the S/C outputs I've seen!) yet have a much stronger area under the curve. (50% more displacement then 2 liters does that) Heck without even going into the 2.5L you can make great power. We don't even have to bring up boosting the V6. If you had a Zetec 5-speed to begin with then by all means KEEP it a Zetec and turbo that bad boy. That makes a lot of sense and would be a great performer for the money. I'd recommend that over replacing it with a V6 because it's already there to begin with. 
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Word, Demon you beat me to it. essentially (not bashing  ) zetecs are the basemodel Contours, so they are the CHEAPEST. If I had a zetec, I think I'd turbo it too. 
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Originally posted by DemonSVT:
Why would you even want to for starters. 
Then secondly it would require a Zetec parts car to source everything from.
i was considering doing it b/c my current 2.5 needs about 1 quart of oil every 8 days, it sounds like there's a marble somewhere in my transmission and i can't afford a new engine/trans right now. plus, gas is $$$ and i have the '99 zetec my brother wrecked that runs like a champ at my parents house wasting away.
if anyone wants to start a "new engine fund" i would be greatly appreciative.
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I think you are doing it Backwards.....put SVT in Zetec.....all you'll end up with is suspension changes, oh and a few odd body part changes......sort of what we Zetecers have already done.....
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Originally posted by WestCoastAjax:
I think you are doing it Backwards.....put SVT in Zetec.....all you'll end up with is suspension changes, oh and a few odd body part changes......sort of what we Zetecers have already done.....
.the zetec i have has no front end. i think that you are talking to the original poster though yeah?
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