contour and NSX

Well, i hate to admit this but i gotta. I was on the way home from the grocery store when i saw this "ford cunt" with dual exhaust in front of me, no badges. I pull up next to him in 5th just cruzing. We both look at eachother and i can see he wants to go. I immediatly throe the car into 3rd gear engaging VTEC. I'm like this guy is toast, but to my suprise the sob pulls a car and a half on me. so i switch to 4th and we stay even with him ahead. as i was looking at his bumber i noticed the liscence plate said SVT and some numbers. Made me not feel quite as bad. those things got 190HP V6's in em and only weight a few hundred more than me. but i admit to the death. :(

On to the better story. I work for acura at one of the local dealerships, and the guy that i was training under at the time gets to work on a red NSX. come to find out, this nsx is equipped with a comptech supercharger, and the comptech colse ratio 6 speed trani. the owner scca's it on the weekends. so my buddy gets done working on it and has to "test drive" it. He's like hop in if you wanna go for a ride. so we take it out and he gets on it a little in first and stomps as soon as we hit second. all i can say is vrooom VROOOM VROOOOOOOOM!!!!!! the boost held me in the seat, and when VTEC kicked in i couldn't hardly move. it was awesome to say the least. oh, the car was brought in because the owner heard a squeak in the suspension while taking corners driving it at the track....no shit!!!!!

Ouch. I probably would have kept that story to myself.

I want to ride in an NSX, and I would love to ride in a supercharged NSX, That thing must be throwing 12s.

it was definatley in the 12's, the best part about it was that it was quiet. To the untrained ear, you would've never known there was a supersharger on it. The guy that was driving said he didn't get on it in first, cuz all it did was spin and get sideways last time he drove it.

A friend of mine used to have a decently modded all black 98.5 SVT Contour. Hmmmm I always found it funny when people thought his car was slow. I guess having 4 cams in your engine sort of helps. Yeah they came with 4 cams. Stock hp for the SVT Contour is 200hp and 160tq. The 24valve 2.5 Duratech was orginally designed by Porsche (Then of course Ford had to mess it up and lower the hp and reliability).
Don't feel bad if the SVT had any mods on it then it would ahve been a really ugly race. My friend had a Cat Back exhaust Ypipes upgraded mass air flow sensor, bigger Tbody, pullies, and a Diablo Chip. It was pretty bad ass when it was working.

when it was working........hmmn....
o yeah ! it's a ford!

Yup good old FORD

good try man

those contour svt's are quick. no need to feel stupid to loosing to one of those. mid 15's stock

my boy got is ass handed to him by a contour like the second day he got his car...hahaha, dont sweat it all this means is "go to the lab"

those contour svt's are quick. no need to feel stupid to loosing to one of those. mid 15's stockI hit 15.2 in mine when I had it.

oh yeah, well i figured they were faster than what the stats were showing from seeing it in action. thats a bad ride, i wouldnt mind having one for a second car

Yeah I wish I didn't have to sell it :(

Wow thanks for not hating on the SVT Contour. I told my friend who used to own one the response from a Honda thread about his car and it made him respect import owners more. It's funny however b/c the fastest one only runs like 10's or 11's in the 1/4 mile. As a regular street car they are cool and have a great sound to them.

Yup good old FORD You know it :D












Oh and thats the reason why i hate leaving my car with dickheads that do inspection or work at a dealership... motherfuckers dont respect shit and I know damn well my car is going to get abused by those bastards :disappoin

hold up now, its not like we go out and tear the road up with every car we test drive. I rarely even get on a car if its a customer owned vehicle. Now if its a trade in or a car that is going to an auction, yeah i'll get on it a little. I know its hard to find a good shop where your car will get treated with the respect that you treat it with, but i take pride where i work and think that we are one of the few dealerships that actually put the customer first and not our business. It's actually aggrivating always having to put up the the customers. We get dozens of vehicles in every day with complaints like, "i hear a ticking noise in the mornings at about 5 minutes after startup and while driving over bumps". Most dealerships would laugh at someone coming in with that kinda complaint, but we have to go through the agony of trying to duplicate the problem then fixing the noise that only a dog could hear. Sorry for rambling, but i don't like the whole stereotype that dealerships screw you over. Where else are you gonna take your car when its got a weird problem no one can seem to fix?

bah...i lost to a contour once too (in the gsr.)

had 2 ppl in the car at the time, but still...it feels shameful.

ah well...my sob story is over, nice death i guess...:D

hold up now, its not like we go out and tear the road up with every car we test drive. I rarely even get on a car if its a customer owned vehicle. Now if its a trade in or a car that is going to an auction, yeah i'll get on it a little. I know its hard to find a good shop where your car will get treated with the respect that you treat it with, but i take pride where i work and think that we are one of the few dealerships that actually put the customer first and not our business. It's actually aggrivating always having to put up the the customers. We get dozens of vehicles in every day with complaints like, "i hear a ticking noise in the mornings at about 5 minutes after startup and while driving over bumps". Most dealerships would laugh at someone coming in with that kinda complaint, but we have to go through the agony of trying to duplicate the problem then fixing the noise that only a dog could hear. Sorry for rambling, but i don't like the whole stereotype that dealerships screw you over. Where else are you gonna take your car when its got a weird problem no one can seem to fix?
Its a stereotype because its mostly true. I had to take my car to the dealership last time because my brake light wouldnt go off. When I sat back inside the car... there was 30 extra miles on my car, my seating position was screwed up and my radio was changed,.. not to mention the fucktard tech that did my car didnt even bleed the damn brakes... Yeah that was fun :rolleyes:

he's just saying that cuz he works there - you think he would actually tell on his dealership?

Phunyguy, don't even run your mouth. Spend one day at the dealership, or any of the dealerships under the company i work for and you would take your car to the dealership anytime it had a problem. I'm coming from first hand experience; i also have been screwed over by other honda dealerships, i am not saying that all dealerships run a good business, but i will stand by mine. And no one in this forum can tell me that if they drove the previously mentioned NSX that you wouldn't ease on that accelerator a little. Besides, we had to duplicate the problem, and the noise was coming from high speed turns. This is called troubleshooting, and it is standard procedure for any shop. You have to verify the customer complaint before you start work on anything, otherwise, you may be trying to fix something that isn't even a problem. I would just like to see a little more respect for dealerships, well some at least.