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0-60... slow?

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lor3nzo

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i know i have an egr issue but almost 10 seconds 0-60? Its a 2000 svt i don't think my old saturn with 250k miles should be faster lol, whats average for these cars?
 
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mine does the same thing i also have a 2000 svt contour returnless style fuel system replaced all kinds of stuff trying to fix it and idk what els to do
 
just quickly glancing at the video...your wheels hooked at 13 seconds and you hit 60 at about 22 seconds. so, you're at about 9 seconds in my book. stock specs were what, 6.9?

work on your launch a little bit...wheel spin = lost power.

the lack of ablilty to hit 60 in seconds gear really does hurt these cars though.
 
TGO said:
just quickly glancing at the video...your wheels hooked at 13 seconds and you hit 60 at about 22 seconds. so, you're at about 9 seconds in my book. stock specs were what, 6.9?
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The SVT Contour accelerates from a standstill to 60 mph in 7.9 seconds. The quarter-mile is covered in 15.7 seconds with a speed of 88 mph. In closed-course testing, the SVT Contour achieves a top speed of 143 mph.

Source: Mechanical Database

I still don't think 9 seconds is bad at all.
 
well i know my car has something wrong with it cuz my friend has a csvt and mine does not pull when you think the secondarys would open even though my imrc is working. and my friends car pulls way harder then mine at that point and his is comp stock
 
Redeemer said:
The SVT Contour accelerates from a standstill to 60 mph in 7.9 seconds. The quarter-mile is covered in 15.7 seconds with a speed of 88 mph. In closed-course testing, the SVT Contour achieves a top speed of 143 mph.

Source: Mechanical Database

I still don't think 9 seconds is bad at all.
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i knew it was something like that. i don't think the video posted is all that abnormal.

fogarty said:
well i know my car has something wrong with it cuz my friend has a csvt and mine does not pull when you think the secondarys would open even though my imrc is working. and my friends car pulls way harder then mine at that point and his is comp stock
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intake manifolds get gunked up after a while. the smooth surface the extrude honing left behind isn't worth all that much as has been proved many times over. that's where i'd start...clean out the uim and the throttle body.
 
TGO said:
i knew it was something like that. i don't think the video posted is all that abnormal.



intake manifolds get gunked up after a while. the smooth surface the extrude honing left behind isn't worth all that much as has been proved many times over. that's where i'd start...clean out the uim and the throttle body.
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already cleaned all of that. the car used to run normal and it only has 120k on it it should not be that worn out. i got new maff fuel filter tune up plugs and wires and cam sensors diff lower intake and injectors fuel pressure regulator and i put the stock intake and filter back in with new filter i have no plugged cats new tps and replaced the imrc so im outta ideas its getting more full 3L soon anyways
 
i don't know man, I'm stock and I feel like my second gear runs like your first gear did. These cars aren't that fast but that seemed sluggish.
 
fogarty said:
already cleaned all of that. the car used to run normal and it only has 120k on it it should not be that worn out. i got new maff fuel filter tune up plugs and wires and cam sensors diff lower intake and injectors fuel pressure regulator and i put the stock intake and filter back in with new filter i have no plugged cats new tps and replaced the imrc so im outta ideas its getting more full 3L soon anyways
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do you know if the engine has ever been replaced? many times a shop will replace a blown SVT engine with a standard 2.5 and swap over the SVT intakes. That said though, even a standard Duratec MTX should do 0-60 in less than 8 seconds.

http://www.contour.org/ceg-vb/showthread.php?656-Stock-times
 
no, i use to drive a 124hp saturn lol. Look at it towards then end, you'd think top end would be faster after about 80mph but it took a bit to get to 90 haha.
 
lor3nzo said:
no, i used to drive a 124hp saturn lol. Look at it towards then end, you'd think top end would be faster after about 80mph but it took a bit to get to 90 haha.
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I wasn't talking about your past car. My wife used to have a 100hp '02 SL2 we would take on trips because of the mpg and reliability vs the 'Tour. And after driving it, my Contour seemed fast. The opposite would happen if I drove something faster. For example, every now and then I would drive my Grandpa's Intrigue, and then my Contour would seem slow. 8sec 0-60 isn't very impressive these days.
 
yes it is the svt engine i already checked that out.

note im not trying to high jack this thread it just seems like he may be having the same issue as me and maybe we could both get the answer we are looking for so sorry if anyone thinks or feels that way :)
 
CarpePoon said:
I wasn't talking about your past car. My wife used to have a 100hp '02 SL2 we would take on trips because of the mpg and reliability vs the 'Tour. And after driving it, my Contour seemed fast. The opposite would happen if I drove something faster. For example, every now and then I would drive my Grandpa's Intrigue, and then my Contour would seem slow. 8sec 0-60 isn't very impressive these days.
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yeah, pretty much any car I drive these days feels retarded slow, but that is what happens when you drive a 300+HP car daily. :laugh:
 
Sometimes the plastic clips that connect to the secondary runner cable get brittle and break. So the IMRC is working, but the secondarys don't open. This is very common and they are in a spot where you might not notice them. I've already had to replace my IMRC, and both of the plastic clips. I hope this helps, because the Duratec is a completely different beast when everything works properly.

-Aaron
 
Woogieman said:
Sometimes the plastic clips that connect to the secondary runner cable get brittle and break. So the IMRC is working, but the secondarys don't open. This is very common and they are in a spot where you might not notice them. I've already had to replace my IMRC, and both of the plastic clips. I hope this helps, because the Duratec is a completely different beast when everything works properly.

-Aaron
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im pretty sure mine are working not sure about his but im going to try that pre 98 secondary swap then they open on vacume and see what that does
 
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