Muffhugger's Taurus SHO

MuffHugger

Formerly GTP Mike
Jun 16, 2008
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Lil Romeoville
Real Name
Mike
This weekend I finally got off my ass and started fixing my 1995 Ford Taurus SHO. 3 years ago, I did a 2-3-2 shift going about 60 mph and the result was breaking the fingers on the pressure plate. I had purchased a bunch of go fast parts with my deployment money so I didn't want to get rid of it.

Fast forward to last year. I am back home from the Army and decided to start fixing it up. Upon assembling the engine, I find one of the pistons cracked between the compression rings and the project sat longer.

Recently I had a friend buy a Taurus SHO for himself and got an engine for his. He later put it up for sale and I jumped on it. We spend this whole labor day weekend working on my rust free (seriously, every bolt came out with ease) swapping the old 3.0 V6 with a freshened up 3.2 V6 along with a new clutch. Here are some pictures of the process.



Here is the car just before being towed to Dan's house

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Under the hood

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Looks like spaghetti

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Cradle dropped

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Successfully out

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So much room for activities

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OLD vs NEW

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Ready to go back in

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IT'S IN

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There is still more to do and I will be getting on that shortly. Big changes for this build include:

- New Clutch
- Engine Swap
- Front Sway Bar
- Aluminum Subframe Bushings
- SHOrt Throw Shifter
- Ported Intake Manifold
- Big Bore Butterflies
- SHOshop Fenderwell Intake


Coupled along with new stock parts like spring insulators, control arms, upgraded bushings, power steering lines, coolant hoses, ignition wires and spark plugs; this car is going to be a cruiser.



ECTO COOLER AND SHO, WHAT YEAR IS IT!?

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big thanks to [MENTION=126]Dasfinc[/MENTION] [MENTION=22]syP[/MENTION] [MENTION=147]SHOmuff[/MENTION] [MENTION=517]10sec[/MENTION] [MENTION=11473]JBruno88[/MENTION] for all the help.
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Dasfinc

Ready for the EVlution
Sep 28, 2007
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Wheaton, IL
How many hours put in over the weekend?

Way too many man.

Day 1 - Friday, Mike worked on it for, 4, maybe 5 hours, and I was primarily cleaning my garage and just handing him tools.

Day 2 - Sat, Mike and Ryan worked on it from probably 11 until 6, and I was just helping on occasion since I had some house work.

Day 3 - Sunday, Mike, and I worked on it hard-core from about 11 until nearly 8:30 to get the subframe bolted back in place. Other Ryan (SHOMUFF) helped for the last 2 hours of it after he was free.

I'm still smug as fuck about flagging down the icecream truck in my neighborhood
 

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I haz dat teddy bear smile.
TCG Premium
Jul 26, 2008
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I thought it would be hella TQey vs my 2.5ltr CSVT, but it's not at all. Granted, the SVTC has hella good gearing for an American car, very honda-esque, but still. With 3.2ltrs, I expected hella tourqes vs my junk Honda.
 

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