Page 1 - Original Vehicle
Page 2 - Salvation!!! and mods
Page 3 - Audio stuff
Page 4 - My ex-99 Civic Si
I bought this Ford Contour SVT back in November of 2002. I "saved" it in a way because the previous owners (despite owning a 02' lightning and a SVT Focus) treated it like crap. I purchased the car for $7000 flat with 76,599 miles on the OD. This is the list of what was wrong when I purchased the car
- Blown internal fuse box (only lights and radio worked - all other electronics were dead)
- 2 bent rear rims (E0 variant)
- Cracked trim peices in the engine bay (SVT cover, Mesh grill totally seperated from car, both headlights held on by 1 screw)
- Cracked Rack and Pinion steering rod causing CV boot to fill with steering liquid and finally rupturing open.
- Cold air intake filter had 4 pencil size holes in it causing O2 sensors to go haywire with "Too lean" error.
- Dragging passenger side exhaust (snapped hangar)
- Collapsed rear spring suspension
- MTX linkage was held together with BAILING WIRE - snapped on I-35 5 months later causing only 3rd and 4th gears to be useable.
- A/C Condensor had minor leak causing A/C system to never work. Later replaced.
- "Purple" tint all around was bubbling up and smelling really bad
- Car smelled of horrendous odor because previous owner left it in the driveway for 1 year without being run (something died inside)
- Drivers side seat had pretty bad wear.
These were the good things from purchasing the car:
- Ford installed SVT engine with only 45,000 miles on it (original spun a bearing)
- New clutch, struts, springs, water pump when engine was replaced.
- Passenger seat and rear seats had never been sat in (not even a crease)
- 2 spare donuts (hey its a bonus)
- Ford Racing Cold Air Intake came with it (now replaced with K/N)
- Upgraded 75mm Pro MAF
So as you can see the Cons outweighed the pros but I, like other CSVT owners, could not pass up this car. I had never heard such exhausts and it was extremely fast. Not to mention that it had a new engine and was only $7,000. Had I known half the problems when I negotiated the price down from $8500, I probably could have gotten the car for $6500
Picture of the car the day I brought it home :
Notice the huge dent and bubbly tint....nice...
On to its recovery....
