Little ol lady from pasadena

 

In this big pig of a beast.....It could happen

 

I've personally seen a few SHO's put down over 450hp to the wheels

 

The later models, 97-99 were 3.4 liter V8's and the 5 speed manual was no longer available so you had to have an automatic. But was still alot of fun. It would regularly break the tires loose shifting into second. Pretty good for a stock 4 door sedan if you ask me.

 

My ex-wife (AKA "The Bitch") bought a brand new 98 Taurus POS....I mean SHO, right before we got married in 1998. That damn thing was the biggest POS I have ever seen. It was slow for what it was supposed to be...no nice way to put it...it was S-L-O-W. (Of course at the time I still had my Lingenfelter "Stage II" 93 LT1 Vette...so maybe I was a little spoiled.) It stranded us in Nashville on the way home from Chicago because the fuel pump went out at 15K miles. We got it home and the water pump went out a month later. Then it blew an intake gasket...that took them a month to fix. So we descided to trade it in on a new Expedition. The thing had depriciated so much during the first year that she was going to loose way over $20K on it. So we wound up trading my Vette in on the Expedition and parked the SHO in garage (where my Vette use to be!) Finally I couldnt take it setting there anymore and traded it on a used 98 Camaro SS.

The only fond memory I have of that car is putting the 125HP dry shot off my Vette on it and out running my buddies 96 LT4 Collector's Edition Vette. Red line on the damn thing was like 8500 RPMs....and I used everyone off them. Come to think of it that about the time the intake gasket went out....

 

Alot of the SHO's in that year had 3.8L 5 speed...

 

In 98? I think all of them had Yamaha V8s and automatics.

This is what hers looked like (this isn't hers but it was just like this one...same color, interior, wheels and everything):

 

Just bought my wife an '07 Camry XLE ... 270 HP! I'm glad she won't race me, because I'm afraid she'd smoke me!

 

How funny man I have a ex wife also with the same AKA.

 

Had a '93 SHO with a 3.2 Yamaha engine. Ford couldn't make a transmission that could withstand the power of that thing. Good thing for extended warranties.

That thing was faster than both the grandprix GTPs that I have had.

 

I find that a little hard to believe, what kind of pass on a 1/4 mi will that bring you to, thats insane for a light car stock. I'd rather know it's 0-60. I lost to a new 3.5L Altima, might have been modded, thats about the only grocery getter whose kept up with me that I can recall. I raced the lowered chevy again and didn't do too bad today, he was surprised I was able to do as good as I did. I also rode in his pretty extensively today and he pulls hard in third, very smooth pulling where mine levels off. I pull just as hard if not harder in 2nd.

 

You are absolutely right, they were awsome cars with the engine being built by Yamaha. I had a 95 auto that produced 220 hp @6200 rpm's and 220 foot pounds @4900 rpm's. Ford never should have got rid of the SHO(super high output) name plate. It would have been nice to see it transitioned into the Fusion, just my opinion. The 95 auto was rated at a 15.8 1/4 mile. My best was a 15.7 @ 90mph. It ran a lot better on the street for some reason.

 

This one......





or this one........

 

The sho never had a 3.8l, the 89-95 used a 3.0 w/manual 3.2 w/auto...96-99 used a 3.4l. All were built by Yahama and Ford as a joint venture.

 

Just imagine what kind of power they would put out today, early 90's everything was 130 hp with the SHO's at 220, now move today, everything is around 260+, so that would be 350+ now