Originally posted by Captain Bart:
The right question would be: who has a problem-free [b]STOCK CSVT. Most complaints come from owners who did home-made modifications to their cars without any knowledge of the mechanical implications ... Furthermore, ANY car constantly brought to the RPM redline would experience mechanical failures.
CSVT are (were) designed for fun driving not for racing ![/b]
DITTO!!!!
I'm in full agreement with Capt. Bart. As a former Ford tech during the musclecar era, everytime someone brought in a problem, more often than not I had to undo some modification to bring it back to a stock configuration before it would run correctly. Factory hot rods are a "total package", where is there is a fine balance between performance and emissions. You change one or two parts and you change that balance. I realize most of these mods are quality and so forth but I don't think I'd be going out on a limb too far to say that probably 75% of most owner's gripes are caused by a distruption of the factory settings. By the way, my car has one mod - it's lowered. So, if my wheel bearings go south, well, I had it coming.
Karl
