Maintenance on my SHO

[bi0c0mp]

Bought my 94 ATX sho about 2 months ago realy have not done no Maintenance except the oil change so my question here is what should be my first thing to do on the sho Maintenance wise..want to keep her running like a dream any help or advice would be great thanks in advanced..

 

[Bryan C. King]

I would do a 60K

 

[bi0c0mp]

ok i am new to this sho thing what does a 60k intail and around how much it cost at a shop to have 1 done

 

[SHO#7]

Do some searches. There are hundreds of threads on it.

 

[autobahnsho]

Paying a shop to do it will probably result in more grief than doing it yourself.

Try www.shophoenixproject.com or www.shotimes.com
They both have good maintenance sections.

A 60k is generally checking the valve "lash", new plugs/wires, new sensors, gaskets, etc...
It's easiest to all do at once, but you could do it in sections.

How many miles does your car have??

 

[SHOguy 92]

The 60k maintence is a lot of things, theres a front 60k and so on. Mostly you want to adjust the valve lash. On ATX it isn't required every 60k it changes to 100k

 

[ShadetreeSHOguy]

if you have a shop do it, i know doug lewis af Ford Performance Specialists up here in douglasville ga charges about 1100 bucks for a 60k, but i know one of the guys that used to work there, its quality work..

 

[bi0c0mp]

my car has 110,000 on it now

 

[platoribs]

Definately listen to what these guys are telling you, a SHO with a fresh 60K done will yield very satisfying results performance-wise. While in there doing the 60K you might consider some suspension stuff that gets removed for the 60K.

First order of business is getting an accurate idea of how healthy your car is now, then plan the R&R's with conservation of labor in mind, shop the parts from very good sources like SHOnut performance in Canada (Joshua) and Midwest SHO (Mikey).

Also find out here what you can handle and dig in, this is the best time to learn how to do a few things for yourelf and build from there. I've done very little to my SHO but I've just built a garage and this spring I'll start learning and doing for myself. If your planning on owning a SHO for any length of time you really must become somewhat self-supporting... or have a surplus of $!

 

[1stSHO]

if you have a shop do it, i know doug lewis af Ford Performance Specialists up here in douglasville ga charges about 1100 bucks for a 60k, but i know one of the guys that used to work there, its quality work..

I called there a couple of months ago and they told me around i think 1500.
Does that sound right? O well, i could be wrong.