New Arrival

[VNMUS]

Congrats to me as I'm now the proud owner of a 1999 3L SVT Contour.

Thanks to Blackcoog for the work and being so easy to deal with. Man, does this car go. :pant:

Pictures to follow...

[SVT-5LITER]

Silver, I take it?

[VNMUS]

Yep. I feel like a new daddy! Yay me!

[SVT-5LITER]

He turned that one over quick! :)
I think that's the best color for those, howz those pics comin' along? ;)

[SSHFTY1]

way to go Bruce, will she beat the Mighty "M"?????????????????

Oh and what made you grab this car?

[VNMUS]

Not sure about the quarter mile but stop light to stop light the CSVT is faster.

Silver sure looks the best color. I wanted Black as a baby brother to the MM but the Silver was just too nice a car to turn down.

Pics will be along tomorrow when I have time to wash it and take some. Watch this space...

[SVT-5LITER]

ahhh you're killin' me. I've been buggin' 'em to find a silver '99-'00 for a while now, and when it comes up finally, I'm grounded by my job... damn.

[blackstang5.4]

awsome man, i really wanted to get the silver one but chris wanted more for it since it was in better condition then the red one i got.

[VNMUS]

awsome man, i really wanted to get the silver one but chris wanted more for it since it was in better condition then the red one i got.

So far I haven't ran out of gas! :rolleyes: I got 280 miles to a tank of gas between yesterday and today. All Highway though.

[SVT-5LITER]

Pretty good! :thup:

[blackstang5.4]

So far I haven't ran out of gas! :rolleyes: I got 280 miles to a tank of gas between yesterday and today. All Highway though.
heh, well im sure yours didnt have the fuel gauge problem. Im still battleing the problem with mine. The new gauge chris put in my car doesnt seem to be working also. 90 miles and still on full.

[DNeinstadt]

I can tell ya that CSVT will probably spank that M in the quarter... . :(

Dan

[VNMUS]

I can tell ya that CSVT will probably spank that M in the quarter... . :(


For now... :rolleyes:

[SSHFTY1]

I can tell ya that CSVT will probably spank that M in the quarter... . :(

Dan

I'D still take the M, that thing is Big, Black, and Bad Ass!! Contours are for trips to the mall, Marauders are for trips that you wanna hall some ---!!

[VNMUS]

I'D still take the M, that thing is Big, Black, and Bad Ass!! Contours are for trips to the mall, Marauders are for trips that you wanna hall some ---!!


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[Blackcoog]

I have a black one on the way so maybe we will have another SVT owner in the group :).

[ClOckwOrk]

coog, where do you find all these cheap fixerupper svt-c's? i want one!!!

[SHOTIME2669]

It's not to hard really. I found mine for $600 down in North Carolina. People are scared of work and with a lot of these cars having blown motors... repair costs for someone to do it for you are in the upper $2k region. Everything said and done my CSVT cost me about $4200. However thats counting transaxle upgrades (Torsen, forks, focus shift tower) and paying $1375 for a CSVT motor out of Michigan w/42k on it. I should have just done a 3L swap from the get go. It would have been a helluva lot cheaper and more powerful.

[Blackcoog]

You'll almost never find one for cheaper than $1000-1500 unless the owner really needs to get rid of it or it has really high miles on the body.

[ClOckwOrk]

i think paying 1000 for a blown motor csvt would be a nice deal, i'd love to get another for my 3l swap and keep mine for daily....

and hey blackcoog do you know anything about MSD ignitions? i picked up a DIS-4 control module and want to wire it up, but dont know if i can do it myself.... i am going to run a 100 wet shot on it until i get the 3L built up.

[Blackcoog]

I would stay away from aftermarket ignitions for the Contour/Cougar. The stock ones are perfectly fine and I haven't heard any good reveiws from people that have installed aftermarket ones. I used to have a Jacobs ignition but sold it shortly after. I never had anything but trouble with it. It was plug and play though. It just pluged right into the coil pack. I think the MSD is different so I'm not sure how to install it. Not may people run more than a 75 shot on the Contour and Cougar boards. I'd be careful.

[ClOckwOrk]

well... i plan on getting that 3.0 in this year so why not experiment? the MSD also wires i guess you could call it "parallell" to the stock ignition so i can unplug it and put my bypass plug in any time so it shouldnt hurt to put it on, i am getting the MSD for timing retard so i can run the 100 shot, so i guess thats why i got it, for the being careful part..... i'll take pics and post em up when i do the wire-up

[Blackcoog]

Yup the Jacobs system I had was the same way. It basically boosted the stock system. I had starting problems with it after a while. I'm not sure why. Never noticed much of an increase in power.

[ClOckwOrk]

i hope i dont have problems with the igniton. if i do, i will just put the bypass plug in and sell the box. either way im going to try though, ive already got it hehe