Have any of you '99.5 owners received your SVT certificate yet? Last time I asked I was told that they would be mailed out in late December or early January.

Mike

 

Just learned the birth date of my toy. Build date: June 8th
Build #: 2091

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Sandy (Spider) Scott
99 White Lightning
Coming soon: Airaid air box & Superchip to be installed directly at the factory.

 

Build # 1313: Date : May 17-99

 

Post Birth and Build #: #503, birth 4/17/99.Pick up date was 5/22/99.
Color: Red
Bed Cover: SnugLid with clamp system
Bed Liner: Bed Rug
T Hitch: Factory with E plug moved up and under the bumper. This gives access, but removes it from sight.
Sound: Factory CD
MacNeil wind deflectors
Ford smoke color bug/stone guard
Soon: Borla exhaust sys., PSP or (when available) K&N Filter Charger
Dark Titanium rear window tint
Will switch to 5/30 Red Line Oil when 10,000 is reached.
No piston slap except for a little on cold start. Otherwise no problems except for that weird clicking and no starter contact that was resolved after the key was removed and reinserted. Thanks to all for this great forum.

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Hey, Sal, FYI. My '00 silver- build #9292, build date 02/02/00. Doesn't make any sense to me, originally I was supposed to receive build #9403, and that one is still clean and unscheduled. My second order # was 8255, and that one is built and on a r.r. car somewhere. So how come 9292 is already built and delivered?

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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

'92 Civic Si, Centerforce Dualfriction clutch, no front license plate.
"00 SVT Lightning, silver, G-tech Pro, no mods yet (JBA headers and Sal's filter kit on order)

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Build # 718
Assembled on 4-28-99

 

Sal, please add me to "the list".
Build date: 4-19-99
#370

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I have an explanation for the inconsistencies of build dates and production numbers. In FordSpeak, build date refers to the day a part (or vehichle) goes onto the assembly line, not neccasarily when it comes off the line. Now, in a perfect world, they would come off in the same order they went on, but the world ain't perfect.
I don't know about assembly plants, but where I work, everything goes more or les in order until the transmission get to the test stands. One assembly line feeds 6 test stands, and when models change over, there's a bit of "turbulence" caused by them not coming out and back into one button up line in the same order they went into the test stands. Then, inevitably, some fail the test stand and go to repair, and from repair back through the test stands again...ad infinitum, also, one out of every 300 is pulled from the line before (just before) it gets "born" or scanned as sold to the assembly plant, anywhoo, this one out of 300 goes to validation, where they play with it, tear it down, measure it and pschyoanalyze it for maybe a few hours, maybe a few days. Even more, a certain number are pulled and road tested, after which they go to validation for the whole nine yards again.
And finally, each transmission is created in the system when the ID tag is printed, which is when the serial number is generated. Now, through the whole build, test, repair, validate, retest cycle, some of these tags get stuck to cases that are defective or get assembled into transmissions that are torn down for parts in the repair bay. That serial number doesn't disappear, it gets eventually built inot a saleable transmission or scrapped. If it gets built again, this can sometimes be weeks or more from when it first appeared, thus making a build date on the tag of say January, and the box is finnaly "sold" out of Sharonville in March. (I sold a Lightning Transmission today with a build date of 0A27 which is FordCode for Jan 27, 2000.
Now, as to the Lightnings out of sequence with the build numbers/dates, one started ahead of the other, so the build number is lower, but it didn't come out until after the other one, in fact not even on the same day, so it has a later born on date. SVT may be kinda confused on this too, it's definely a manufacturing thing, Build dates, serial numbers, build numbers and build sequence are different things, so it's a matter of which one you're talking about.

Jeesh, that was long, but I thought the guys whose numbers/days mihgt be interested.

Gregg

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'00 Silver Lightning
should be here April 3rd
Manufacturing Tech at Sharonville Transmission Plant

 

Very interesting and informative, Gregg. Thanks!

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Mike Philpott
Orlando, FL
'99.5 Black Lightning
SVT #2190 - Build Date 6/9/99
NLOC #361
6 CD Changer, Class 3 Hitch, A.R.E. LSII Lid, BedRug Liner, Invinca-Shield/3M Scotchcal protective film, Wyldman's Clear Lexan Fog Light Covers, 16% Window Tint, LoJack, Val-1, Sal's PSP Chip & Air Filter Kit

 

asfda

 

August 4th #3205

99 Black L

Alex Lansky

 

In an assembly plant, the build date associated with the vehicle is generated on the day its 'bucked' in the body shop (i.e. shell welded up). Because of the amount of vehicles in the system at any one time, the build date referred to by the factory would be the day before the truck hit final assembly where everything else is bolted up.

If my memory serves me correctly (it's been about 18 months since I was last there) they (Ontario Truck Plant) have one shift working 10 hrs a day, and they shut down for breaks, lunch, and teatime, so take that off of the 10 hour schedule. Most trucks take approx 15-18 working hours to completely assemble without any snafu's. I'm not certain of the amount (if any) of off-line assembly required on the lightning which would add to the time they are in process.

Ontario Truck plant is the home of the 2nd generation Lightning, but the first (2nd gen) Lightning came off the line at Kansas City (before you ask it was red).

 

#585
Born 4/26
picked up 5/12
money put down march of 98

 

#901 Red 1999
DOB 05/04/99

 

5-11-99 #1132