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They weigh nothing and are cool. Putting a modern electric drivetrain in there would be sweet. My dad had one and it was a neat (albeit bare bones) commuter.
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LHT K-Sight conversion coming right up. https://youtu.be/vOBL62GTR_I
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Coredump posted:LHT K-Sight conversion coming right up. That place is right around the corner from me, I recognized the road he was flogging it on  [e] holy poo poo they will make you a CRZ the way it should have been made http://www.lhtperformance.net/documents/kr-z.html Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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Has to be the ugliest cart I've ever seen.
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Coredump posted:LHT K-Sight conversion coming right up. This is super cool, but I'd find it hard to justify a full EV conversation when the Leaf exists.
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StormDrain posted:Has to be the ugliest cart I've ever seen. looks like a Z31
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Suburban Dad posted:They weigh nothing and are cool. Putting a modern electric drivetrain in there would be sweet. My dad had one and it was a neat (albeit bare bones and ugly as gently caress) commuter. FTFY
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Dec 17, 2019 14:30
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 https://annarbor.craigslist.org/cto/d/saline-1990-ford-taurus-gl-station-wagon/7039782263.html I heard that you guys like old station wagons.
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I haven't seen one in that good condition for at least fifteen years. Probably more. Edit:  Lag while accelerating...yeah you mentioned the 3.0 already
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Godholio posted:
Beat me to it! I helped fix one of these up for a girlfriend who's car just exploded and the 3.0 was the most sluggish V6 car I ever encountered in my life.
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Dec 18, 2019 16:48
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Ford Vulcan V6, for when you don't want horsepower, torque, revs, or reliability, but really want to waste gasoline
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Dec 18, 2019 19:39
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All the power of a 4-cylinder, but with V8 economy!
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I had 96 wagon. Biggest hunk of poo poo I ever owned. Dropped it's tranny all over the Subaru dealer parking lot as I traded it in and had to be pushed away by 4 salesmen.
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but but but but Robocop
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Dubious posted:
Everett huh? Check the seats for meth and crack!
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The Door Frame posted:Ford Vulcan V6, for when you don't want horsepower, torque, revs, or reliability, but really want to waste gasoline Reliability was kind of the one thing it had going for it. With a fluid change you could probably get half the Tauruses in a junkyard to start. Every transmission would be dead, of course.
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Ford should have said gently caress it and just went nuts. Place the Yamaha 3.0 in everything.
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Why do loving boomers always take the doors off poo poo as if it's the first step in restoring a car.
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The Vulcan V6's hilarious acceleration was described as being "Mad Vulcan Powah" on the Taurus Car Club forums. Yes - there is even a Ford Taurus forum - https://www.taurusclub.com/ They helped me figure out why the power steering would cut out, the radio would lose sound but the display would stay on, and some other malady I'm forgetting, all at once when I put the car in reverse. This turned out to be corrosion on the "Transmission range sensor" or what most makes call a neutral safety switch. Seems it was annoyingly common. The first time mine did it was definitely an "ok now what the gently caress car" moment. "taurus loses power steering in reverse" https://www.google.com/search?q=tau...chrome&ie=UTF-8 My memory of the Vulcan engine is that it would just make more noise when you gave it more pedal, you wouldn't get any more acceleration at all. It had one rate of acceleration and that was it.
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Powershift posted:Why do loving boomers always take the doors off poo poo as if it's the first step in restoring a car. 
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When doing major work under the hood I usually remove hood as step one
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Fifty Three posted:Easier to get in and out of in a cramped garage? if your garage is so cramped that you have to take the doors off to get in a car, then you're not going to be able to do any work on the car elsewhere
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Vanagoon posted:The Vulcan V6's hilarious acceleration was described as being "Mad Vulcan Powah" on the Taurus Car Club forums. 20+ years ago that was a fun group. It was nothing but near penniless Taurus owners in their teens and 20s trying to wring every ounce of anything out of their clapped out handme-downs or the only car on the lot they could get approved for.
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Godholio posted:20+ years ago that was a fun group. It was nothing but near penniless Taurus owners in their teens and 20s trying to wring every ounce of anything out of their clapped out handme-downs or the only car on the lot they could get approved for. This is described in such a way that I am certain is correct and I'm a little wistful.
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Godholio posted:20+ years ago that was a fun group. It was nothing but near penniless Taurus owners in their teens and 20s trying to wring every ounce of anything out of their clapped out handme-downs or the only car on the lot they could get approved for. Later on he was part of a Contour group.
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Slugworth posted:My friend was part of an online club for Topaz/Tempos and this description fits perfectly. Heh, didn't the Topaz have some "hot" HO option? My friend in high school was around the first of our group to get his license and had a tempo. God dang good times. Contour wasn't too bad. Didn't that have like a SVT option or something?
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Colostomy Bag posted:Heh, didn't the Topaz have some "hot" HO option? My friend in high school was around the first of our group to get his license and had a tempo. God dang good times. A 94 Tempo was my first car in high school, too. Perfectly fine transportation back then. And yeah, you could get a Contour SVT. One of the guys at my dorm in freshman year had one.
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Vanagoon posted:The Vulcan V6's hilarious acceleration was described as being "Mad Vulcan Powah" on the Taurus Car Club forums. I prefer to call it "logical acceleration".
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King of False Promises posted:A 94 Tempo was my first car in high school, too. Perfectly fine transportation back then. I made my mom buy the SVT Contour, It owned in the 90s. It was literally 500 more then the lovely one. Nevermind it wasn't that one it was just one with the yamaha v6. Don't know if it had an extra name.
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King of False Promises posted:A 94 Tempo was my first car in high school, too. Perfectly fine transportation back then. Yeah, now it is coming back to me. SHO fanatics (the original, with the manual) thought the SVT as maybe the answer since it had a manual. I sort of find of funny and I can't recall the exact years but Ford actually asked questions/held focus group meetings on what a new Taurus SHO should be. Obviously you could see how that turned out.
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SVT Contour was this heavily suggested YOU SHOULD BUY THIS CAR thing here in AI like 10 years ago and I never figured out it the guys suggesting it were serious or loving around.
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Elephanthead posted:I made my mom buy the SVT Contour, It owned in the 90s. It was literally 500 more then the lovely one. No Contour came with a Yamaha V6. Rhyno posted:SVT Contour was this heavily suggested YOU SHOULD BUY THIS CAR thing here in AI like 10 years ago and I never figured out it the guys suggesting it were serious or loving around. The Contour had a pretty good chassis under it and the SVT version was basically the true successor to the OG Taurus SHO. If Ford had slipped a 3.0 block under that top-end (like they should have) it'd probably be remembered more fondly instead of being kind of half-assed. Q_res fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Dec 21, 2019 |
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Q_res posted:No Contour came with a Yamaha V6. Wasn't the Contour basically the birth of the Duratec?
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In the US market, yeah. It debuted with the 2.5 and the 3.0 Duratec debuted a year later in the new Taurus.
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I like this car a lot, you don't see many of them. https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/d/saint-petersburg-1979-oldsmobile/7042960308.html
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I like this car a lot, you don't see many of them. That last picture really took a turn into left field..
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Yeah, a wtf moment.
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Yeah, that's the fad around here. Looks like he returned it to stock to sell it and hoping for maybe a donk lover to be interested too
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