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I bought this car from a preacher in January 2007. Story was, his son drove the car which mysteriously died on the way to church one afternoon. It was at a local repair shop and the preacher could not afford to have it fixed. I inspected the car and found many problems. I made a fair offer that was turned down. I thought it had potential, made a second offer of $700... $200 more than I wanted to. Lets consider the extra a tithe to the church. This crappy car needs all the blessings it can get.
 
The plan was to drop the stock 2.5L V6 that has a spun rod bearing, and install a 3L with P&P'd SVT heads and cams built from left over parts.
 
9-16-08
 
The Craptour is alive! It started easily. It's running rich, but running well. Still a bunch of little bugs to work out before it's road worthy, and then it will need lots of data logging and tuning before it's perfect.
 
3-1-09
 
The Craptour is now my daily driver since I sold the '98 SHO. It gets strange looks wherever it goes.
 
4-23-09
 
Tuning continues to be a major hurdle. It gets better with each try. The engine is finally able to spin all the way to it's 7500rpm redline without misfiring due to running extremely rich. Not done yet, but getting closer every time.
 
Late summer '09
 
The car was damaged by a tree limb blown down during a tornado. After much review, I've decided the car is not worth repairing. It's a big disappointment after spending so much time and money, but with the difficulties in tuning and new damage, I can't see any positive outcome. A friend offered a free 2002 Mercury Cougar with a blown engine to me, and I could not pass up the deal. Many of the parts invested in the Craptour will swap into the Cougar.
 
Click here to view my Craptour Blog at FordContour.Org

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Mods:
 
2001 Taurus 3L Duratec
1998 Contour SVT heads (mild smoothing of combustion chambers)
MSDS headers (painted and wrapped)
24# injectors
2.5L upper intake manifold (Extrude Honed)
Mondeo ST220 throttle body
SVT flywheel
SVT cams
SVT lower intake manifold
SVT oil cooler
SVT radiator (stock fan shroud modified to fit)
SVT air box with K&N filter
SVT fender snorkel
Dual mass crank pulley
94A polyurethane filled drivetrain mounts (all of them, solid)
Spectre intake tube
Motorcraft SP-432 plugs
Magnecor ignition wires
Screamin' Demon coil
Sachs clutch
Terry Haines MTX-75 transaxle
3.83:1 FDR
Quaife TBD
BAT "Euro handling" suspension (struts and springs)
AEM UEGO wideband O2 sensor and gauge
BAT high flow catalytic converter y-pipe
TruBendz 2.5" stainless mandrel bent resonator-less single exhaust
MagnaFlow muffler
Hello Kitty exhaust tip
braided stainless brake lines
EBC dimpled and slotted front calipers
SVT front brake calipers
SVT Midnight Blue leather seats (front and rear)
Pioneer stereo CD player
Pionner 6x8 speakers
MTX 421D amp
Polk Audio sub box (4 6x9 subs in ported box)
Texas Flag roof
louvered hood
shark teeth grille
more to come....
 
















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