Posted this in my local group forum for St louis, but cross posting here. Hope that's not too much of a violation of forum rules.
Long time no see, sho fam. I was a member on this board in the early 2000s, user name was Toul.
I remember going to group meetups at inkertinkers place a few times. If anyone from back then is still around and has a good memory for specific shos ... I had a black on black 91 MTX 3.0, with a yellow powder coated extrude honed intake. Back then it was my second SHO, and I had bought it from a guy who lived somewhere around Ballwin MO who had already done all of the things. Full length subframe connectors, extremed intake, 80 mm maf, chip, tokico struts, lowering springs, lightweight flywheel, better clutch, and a half dozen other things that I can't remember including a pretty good stereo.
I moved on shortly after killing a deer with my 91. Drove an 03 Subaru RT for a while, and I've got an 05 Volvo S40 T5 AWD now (and a 78 stepside 4x4 f150).
My volvos got 158k on it and I've been starting to look for a first Gen SHO to trade someone for.
I've got a line on a 1993 with less than 100,000 on it that's in fairly good shape, it at least has absolutely no rust. Fairly certain it's still got 1993 original Ford exhaust on it. Story from the guy that's only had it for a little bit that he bought it from a little old lady in Fenton MO. I looked at it today, power steering pump is 100% shot, and kind of feel like the front subframe mounts might be shot too? I think I remember that being a thing with these cars? This car's been completely non-modified. Looks bone stock radio included. Little bit of Bondo in the driver side door with cracking paint, and about a 5-in crease in the front passenger door.
I've been out of the SHO game for a long time. How are we doing for parts availability, OEM and aftermarket? Has it gotten any better or worse? Is anybody in the St Louis area still real active with their cars? Do we have anybody that does good work? I guess STLsho is out of the game? I do all of my own work now, with no issues and a good garage. But if I pull the trigger on this project sho, and replace my daily driver with it, it'd be nice to know we still have some sho friends active in the city to lean on for advice, opinions, and unused aftermarket parts clogging up their garages.
One way or the other, I think my mind's set on getting rid of the Volvo and getting a good condition sho. The thing that's irking me about this one that I found, is that it's an automatic. Test drove it tonight, if it had been a manual, we would have swapped titles then and there.
Long time no see, sho fam. I was a member on this board in the early 2000s, user name was Toul.
I remember going to group meetups at inkertinkers place a few times. If anyone from back then is still around and has a good memory for specific shos ... I had a black on black 91 MTX 3.0, with a yellow powder coated extrude honed intake. Back then it was my second SHO, and I had bought it from a guy who lived somewhere around Ballwin MO who had already done all of the things. Full length subframe connectors, extremed intake, 80 mm maf, chip, tokico struts, lowering springs, lightweight flywheel, better clutch, and a half dozen other things that I can't remember including a pretty good stereo.
I moved on shortly after killing a deer with my 91. Drove an 03 Subaru RT for a while, and I've got an 05 Volvo S40 T5 AWD now (and a 78 stepside 4x4 f150).
My volvos got 158k on it and I've been starting to look for a first Gen SHO to trade someone for.
I've got a line on a 1993 with less than 100,000 on it that's in fairly good shape, it at least has absolutely no rust. Fairly certain it's still got 1993 original Ford exhaust on it. Story from the guy that's only had it for a little bit that he bought it from a little old lady in Fenton MO. I looked at it today, power steering pump is 100% shot, and kind of feel like the front subframe mounts might be shot too? I think I remember that being a thing with these cars? This car's been completely non-modified. Looks bone stock radio included. Little bit of Bondo in the driver side door with cracking paint, and about a 5-in crease in the front passenger door.
I've been out of the SHO game for a long time. How are we doing for parts availability, OEM and aftermarket? Has it gotten any better or worse? Is anybody in the St Louis area still real active with their cars? Do we have anybody that does good work? I guess STLsho is out of the game? I do all of my own work now, with no issues and a good garage. But if I pull the trigger on this project sho, and replace my daily driver with it, it'd be nice to know we still have some sho friends active in the city to lean on for advice, opinions, and unused aftermarket parts clogging up their garages.
One way or the other, I think my mind's set on getting rid of the Volvo and getting a good condition sho. The thing that's irking me about this one that I found, is that it's an automatic. Test drove it tonight, if it had been a manual, we would have swapped titles then and there.
