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simracer · 04-29-08, 08:05

I'll second the vote for the '90s Taurus SHO. I had three of them. No one expects the four door grocery getter to keep door to door with a similar year Mustang GT. All the Yamaha parts are EXTREMELY reliable, the Ford parts less so. Sort of expensive to modify and not much you can do to it short of adding a turbo, supercharger or nitrous shots. Fastest ones I've heard of with full interor were about 13.7, but some may have gone faster since then.

I think the engine would swap into anything else the 3.0 V6 went in around that time. I know there were some Ford Rangers with SHO engines, a Windstar that Ford did and the SHOgun (Ford Festiva with the SHO engine mounted in the rear). Also, Ford did a few Mercury Sables with aluminum bodies as test mules. One was rescued from the crusher by the owner of the aluminum company and he put an SHO engine in that. Talk about your sleeper!

Most can be had for less than $3k. At least the old V6 SHOs (which are really the only real SHOs as far as I'm concerned).

04-29-08, 08:05	#9 (permalink)
simracer OCDD simracer is offline Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 224	Re: Low-Budget Sleeper Cars I'll second the vote for the '90s Taurus SHO. I had three of them. No one expects the four door grocery getter to keep door to door with a similar year Mustang GT. All the Yamaha parts are EXTREMELY reliable, the Ford parts less so. Sort of expensive to modify and not much you can do to it short of adding a turbo, supercharger or nitrous shots. Fastest ones I've heard of with full interor were about 13.7, but some may have gone faster since then. I think the engine would swap into anything else the 3.0 V6 went in around that time. I know there were some Ford Rangers with SHO engines, a Windstar that Ford did and the SHOgun (Ford Festiva with the SHO engine mounted in the rear). Also, Ford did a few Mercury Sables with aluminum bodies as test mules. One was rescued from the crusher by the owner of the aluminum company and he put an SHO engine in that. Talk about your sleeper! Most can be had for less than $3k. At least the old V6 SHOs (which are really the only real SHOs as far as I'm concerned). __________________ If you can't drive it, at least make it look good.