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What did you do to your Contour today?
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RTGT
CEG'er
Took it to cars and coffee in Charlotte 
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Inspired by others more professional efforts, I decided to design and build my own rear strut tower brace, but here is the deal: my work space and tool set is extremely limited, I built this with only a hacksaw and a power drill and parts from the hardware store. So it is not pretty nor polished, but it is very stiff and quite functional. As I have only driven on city streets, it is difficult to sense an improvement in handling/cornering. However, the squeaking in the rear has diminished greatly to the point of being almost non-existent - which tells me it is performing its function as designed.
Yes, it is crooked and imperfect, but it is tight. So there!
I have yet to trim a few of the crosses, tighten the gap on the right side mount and replace the carpet.
Inspired by others more professional efforts, I decided to design and build my own rear strut tower brace, but here is the deal: my work space and tool set is extremely limited, I built this with only a hacksaw and a power drill and parts from the hardware store. So it is not pretty nor polished, but it is very stiff and quite functional. As I have only driven on city streets, it is difficult to sense an improvement in handling/cornering. However, the squeaking in the rear has diminished greatly to the point of being almost non-existent - which tells me it is performing its function as designed.
Yes, it is crooked and imperfect, but it is tight. So there!
I have yet to trim a few of the crosses, tighten the gap on the right side mount and replace the carpet.
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silverskoundrel
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cclngthr
CEG'er
I used a epoxy adhesive to keep the black piece on the roof secured.
silverskoundrel
CEG'er
May try that! Wouldn't hurt
cclngthr
CEG'er
It works good. I used an all purpose 5 minute cure time epoxy that is for plastic and metal.
FrancisPennysac
Veteran CEG'er
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Yesterday I literally ripped 90% of the interior out of my parts SVT getting it ready to go bye bye for good.. anyone wanna buy an SVT shell?? anywhos, getting parts around to put into the newer SVT
Heres what my living room looks like, you can imagine how happy my girlfriend was to learn this piece of information..
Oh yeah, I also ripped out the dash from one car, Ill fix the little bit of lift and install the fresh nice dash in the "newer" car
Yesterday I literally ripped 90% of the interior out of my parts SVT getting it ready to go bye bye for good.. anyone wanna buy an SVT shell?? anywhos, getting parts around to put into the newer SVT
Heres what my living room looks like, you can imagine how happy my girlfriend was to learn this piece of information..
Oh yeah, I also ripped out the dash from one car, Ill fix the little bit of lift and install the fresh nice dash in the "newer" car
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FrancisPennysac
Veteran CEG'er
I found a perfect solution to this "common problem" Basically there are little metal tabs underneath these weather striping-strip, they grab onto the rail of the door, you want to pop off the weatherstripping and Identify where this little metal "tab" is attached to the stripping itself... You with me? sorry i don't have pics.. YOU CANNOT MODIFY THE WEATHERSTRIPING ITSELF TO FIT THE DOOR, YOU MUST DO IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND,
Then identify exactly on the metal part of the door-skin itself that the little metal "tab" recesses into, simply GENTLY make this gap a little bit smaller than it appears to be.. in turn what happens is your setting a "U" shape down into another "U" shape. The bottom "U" shape(the metal door-skin edge), you want to begin to close up the top of the "U" so once the metal tab on the weather stripping gets past the edge of the door-skin were you have now made it smaller, it will attach and not let go unless you pry it out...
This may take a little bit of fudging with to get the perfect opening size of the "U" to grab the weather striping, but I assure it its a painless operation
I only listed this as I just got done doing it as my passenger rear was driving me insane popping up every chance it could You welcome
crackerican69
Veteran CEG'er
Sand blasted the rear valve cover and exhaust tips
White headliner
White headliner
Immortan
New CEG'er
Got a 1998 Silver Frost E0 from my brother. It had an SE front clip, so, got a Black SVT bumper from the wreckers $30 and put it on. Found out the wires for my fogs tucked away, and low and behold, both work perfectly. Just need to find some skirts now, and it will be 100% SVT again.
Summer wheels went back on both cars yesterday and then I took them for a drive.
stillerm
New CEG'er
Getting ready to clean out all my stuff from my 99 CSVT so that the charity outfit can come pick it up for a tax donation. Posted it on the For Sale forum for $1500 a few days ago and got zero interest. Car is mechanically fine, and Virginia registration is good thru March 2017. So no one cares. I don't have room for it anymore. Was my favorite car ever and hate to think it will get parted out by some nameless dealer somewhere. I guess there's a reason I haven't seen another SVT in the DC area in years. It's a dinosaur. Sigh!
stillerm
New CEG'er
Getting ready to clean out all my stuff from my 99 CSVT so that the charity outfit can come pick it up for a tax donation. Posted it on the For Sale forum for $1500 a few days ago and got zero interest. Car is mechanically fine, and Virginia registration is good thru March 2017. So no one cares. I don't have room for it anymore. Was my favorite car ever and hate to think it will get parted out by some nameless dealer somewhere. I guess there's a reason I haven't seen another SVT in the DC area in years. It's a dinosaur. Sigh!
stillerm
New CEG'er
Getting ready to clean out all my stuff from my 99 CSVT so that the charity outfit can come pick it up for a tax donation. Posted it on the For Sale forum for $1500 a few days ago and got zero interest. Car is mechanically fine, and Virginia registration is good thru March 2017. So no one cares. I don't have room for it anymore. Was my favorite car ever and hate to think it will get parted out by some nameless dealer somewhere. I guess there's a reason I haven't seen another SVT in the DC area in years. It's a dinosaur. Sigh!
stillerm
New CEG'er
Getting ready to clean out all my stuff from my 99 CSVT so that the charity outfit can come pick it up for a tax donation. Posted it on the For Sale forum for $1500 a few days ago :fighting4::wtf:and got zero interest. Car is mechanically fine, and Virginia registration is good thru March 2017. So no one cares. I don't have room for it anymore. Was my favorite car ever and hate to think it will get parted out by some nameless dealer somewhere. I guess there's a reason I haven't seen another SVT in the DC area in years. It's a dinosaur. Sigh!
stillerm
New CEG'er
Getting ready to clean out all my stuff from my 99 CSVT so that the charity outfit can come pick it up for a tax donation. Posted it on the For Sale forum for $1500 a few days ago :fighting4::wtf:and got zero interest. Car is mechanically fine, and Virginia registration is good thru March 2017. So no one cares. I don't have room for it anymore. Was my favorite car ever and hate to think it will get parted out by some nameless dealer somewhere. I guess there's a reason I haven't seen another SVT in the DC area in years. It's a dinosaur. Sigh!
stillerm
New CEG'er
Getting ready to clean out all my stuff from my 99 CSVT so that the charity outfit can come pick it up for a tax donation. Posted it on the For Sale forum for $1500 a few days ago :fighting4::wtf:and got zero interest. Car is mechanically fine, and Virginia registration is good thru March 2017. So no one cares. I don't have room for it anymore. Was my favorite car ever and hate to think it will get parted out by some nameless dealer somewhere. I guess there's a reason I haven't seen another SVT in the DC area in years. It's a dinosaur. Sigh!
skunk
Veteran CEG'er
No pics but took her for new shoes had Continental Extreme Contact DW put on and alignment