SVO....

So my neighbor just drug home a 1985 SVO. It doesn't run, he knows nussing...nussing! 5speed car, dizzy missing, intercooler laying in car, all else looks intact, engine physically rolls over. Car is pretty straight, interior is crap. He'd like $800. Apparently lady loaned to nephew running. Kids dad returned car broken saying he was tired of fixing it...family...so there it sat. I have a couple pics if anyone is interested.

I was going to ask V8 or 2.3 turbo then I saw the intercooler comment.

$800 for a DEAD Frod!!!!

Holy shit I chose a bad week to quit smoking!

I picked a BAD WEEK TO QUIT DRINKING!

I'm thinking of all the thousands I've lost giving away and selling Xratties for like $200!!!!!!
Fawk I'd be RICH! I tell ya RICH!

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/10/2011 11:12AM by MikeColangelo.

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$800 for a DEAD Frod!!!!

Holy shit I chose a bad week to quit smoking!

I picked a BAD WEEK TO QUIT DRINKING!

I'm thinking of all the thousands I've lost giving away and selling Xratties for like $200!!!!!!
Fawk I'd be RICH! I tell ya RICH!

I looked at him funny when he said $800....he said they are rare, only made so many XXX of them. I commented that was because nobody wanted one.

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$800 for a DEAD Frod!!!!

Holy shit I chose a bad week to quit smoking!

I picked a BAD WEEK TO QUIT DRINKING!

I'm thinking of all the thousands I've lost giving away and selling Xratties for like $200!!!!!!
Fawk I'd be RICH! I tell ya RICH!

I looked at him funny when he said $800....he said they are rare, only made so many XXX of them. I commented that was because nobody wanted one.

Exactly.

And nobody wants a dead one for 800.
Except SVO pervs...

Maybe i'm just too cheap and think everybody else is but $800 for a dead car....

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Well scrap value is $250 a ton nowadays, right? So anything is worth THAT much.

SVOs are somewhat rare, and the pervs have a superiority complex about their cars over XR4's. So, you might be able to get that out of it.

Probably an easy fix, 2.3's aren't exactly complicated.

I used to own a Mustang SVO. Most unreliable car I've ever owned. Well, maybe the Vega station wagon was worse in that regard.

Anyway, as these cars are kind of rare, it might be a good candidate to part out. Especially if the SVO-specific bits are still present (e.g., hood, decklid, wheels, etc.). I wouldn't pay $800 for a parts car, though.

I think the headlight surrounds or something go for $200 a piece. There really is lots of valuable stuff there. They were a neat car, slated to get a 16v head for 1990, but rumor has it that being faster than the V8 was a no-no. The 16v 2.3 made an easy 300hp. Imaging what could have happened in the 90's if the HP wars started with turbo 4's.....

Mmmmm, the idea of a 7/8 scale current Mustang with a turbo Duratec....mmmmm.

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I think the headlight surrounds or something go for $200 a piece. There really is lots of valuable stuff there. They were a neat car, slated to get a 16v head for 1990, but rumor has it that being faster than the V8 was a no-no. The 16v 2.3 made an easy 300hp. Imaging what could have happened in the 90's if the HP wars started with turbo 4's.....

Oh I think the 16v head was a lot earlier---this one was..


Pssst recognize the room? See the white thing in the window, know what car that is?

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What I meant was US ford of dearborn was developing their own 16v head.

That car does look familiar..... I wonder what happened to it

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What I meant was US ford of dearborn was developing their own 16v head.

That car does look familiar..... I wonder what happened to it

THAT is the Ford Dearborn 16v head on a 2300 block, that hain't no Cossie.
And there were no idications in the design there was any influence of Cossie-tude in it (Like the towers are between the cylinders, and the thing is set up for little hydraulic slipper followers for example.)

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So where is this head now, and how did it end up in your care? Very interesting.

How did the head look? Did it have potential?

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So where is this head now, and how did it end up in your care? Very interesting.

How did the head look? Did it have potential?

Long story, and well I'd have to....

I'll tell ya one day. Not worth typing.
Let's just say from the same place that made that T5 AWD unit I had here with all the sand casr stuff and FFD allover it. (Ferguson Fluid Developments, Coventry)

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