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    Looking at a dubious 99. Buy or pass?

    Moot point anyway, guy won't go lower than $1400 for it. Car needs new tires, coolant and transmission fluid. Oil is well past where I would change it, seats all have holes. Car stalled getting out of the lot, most likely battery related, a jump and it was fine. Took it up to seventy, a whine...
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    How to weld cams?

    Looking at a '99, no indication that the cams have been welded. I know a number of fabricators in town, but they've almost certainly never done this before. What is the correct method of welding the sprocket to the shaft? Only information I have so far is from a YouTube video in which the guy...
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    Looking at a dubious 99. Buy or pass?

    My current car happens to be a 99 Mercury Sable with the same dreadful transmission, hooked to a column shifter. Am I correct in thinking that moving the 60k Mercury slushbox onto the SHO would be a viable, if intensive, job?
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    Looking at a dubious 99. Buy or pass?

    Found a '99 SHO with 166,572 on the odometer. Some dings on the body, one patch of rust, well worn driver seat. History of the car is unknown, it was repossessed by a title lender.* When I checked the car on Wednesday the rear tires were completely flat, and the low coolant light came on while...
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