RE: 164 vs Ford SHO

[Glenn Wasserman <glennwa@domain.elided>]

The new SHO Taurus has a V8. I'm not sure what the origins are, but it's no
longer a 6-cyl car.

And of course, you can no longer get it with a 5-speed :-(

- -----Original Message-----
From: bearbvd@domain.elided [mailto:bearbvd@domain.elided]
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 9:22 PM
To: Cuadra; alfa-digest@domain.elided
Subject: Re: 164 vs Ford SHO


At 3:30 PM 11/28/99, Cuadra wrote:
>Several months ago I had a gentleman's race with a Taurus SHO on Skyline
>Blvd just south of San Francisco. Conditions were safe -- good visibility
>and very little traffic. We were going uphill towards the Highway 1 exit. I
>could be wrong but I think the Ford engine was a detuned version of the
>Mustang V8 coupled with an automatic tranny.

To the best of my knowlege, and rather contrary to what you have
suggested--the SHO engine is a Yamaha designed & built quad cam/24 valve 3
liter V-6. I believe that the earlier, and particularly the manual tranny
equipped SHO's were delivered by Ford in a rather higher/peakier state of
tune.

Greg

 In any case, the Ford
>definitely had the advantage off the line but started to fall back as soon
>as the Alfa hit 3rd gear. After that it was no contest. The 164 also
handled
>better through the turns. As we went out separate ways we both waved.
>
>Yesterday I saw a typical American family (four of 'em) in a Contour SVT
>cruising briskly on the freeway. This was quite a refeshing sight. Your
>average Bay Area family package is usually stuffed into amorphous
econoboxes
>or minivans.
>
>Paul cuadra@domain.elided
>
>164 LS 5-speed
>Moto Guzzi 1100i

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