SHO supersport

[Willskyline]

Back about 3 or 4 years ago, I was at the runs (local illegal street races in Milpitas) and I saw what I can only describe as a hi9lareous freak of nature. This guy has torn apart the front end of his early 90's ford taurus SHO and put in a 5.7L v8. It was as funny as it was cool. He had pushed back the firewall and had the radiator at this strange angle. It did some runs and beat everyone hands down. It had low profile rims hiding giant brakes. It looked as if it had been lowered only about 2 or 3 inches. Aside from that, it appeared completly stock from the outside. It had dual exhaust and might have had forced induction of some kind, but it wasen't visable at a glance from the top of the engine bay. Neeways, I was wondering if anyone had any real info on the vehicle. It's bound to have won some awards. No one who wasn't there beleives me. There were around 20 or 30 people there that night, and we still talk about it, but no one knows the guy or knows where he came from.
Thanks for any info.

[deadlight]

I just don't get why he'd do that to an SHO and not a regular Taurus, the SHO's 3.0 Yamaha is already plenty quick, and he probably could've added a healthy shot of nitrous or forced induction for the same/less amount of money. I have a hard time believing it, but I'm not going to fight with you over it either. I just don't believe the reinforcements and modifications to convert it to RWD is worth it period, this was somebody with too much money, and too little common sense.

[DisneyVK]

Originally Posted by deadlight

I just don't get why he'd do that to an SHO and not a regular Taurus, the SHO's 3.0 Yamaha is already plenty quick, and he probably could've added a healthy shot of nitrous or forced induction for the same/less amount of money. I have a hard time believing it, but I'm not going to fight with you over it either. I just don't believe the reinforcements and modifications to convert it to RWD is worth it period, this was somebody with too much money, and too little common sense.

I'm in Oklahoma City, and i've seen a early model dodge intrepid ( 94-95) with rear wheel drive... fully modified I knew it looked wierd when i saw it had fat drag tires in the back like a muscle car from the 70's would have. only thing that shocked me and took me a full day to figure it out is when he smoked the rear wheels when he left the parking lot.

and as far as to much money or brains, he dude was leaving a rehab center my wife was trying to get a job at.=D

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