What about the earlier year SVT LIMs? Were the 98 Contour SVT LIMs also 34/35, or were they like our pre 5/99 cougar LIMs? Or were they somewhere in between, like some of the posts I'm reading on other boards (here, e.g) are now leading me to believe. I just picked up a 98 SVT LIM on eBay, and I'm just realizing I probably shouldn't have. *sighs* Can someone PLEASE confirm my suspicions ASAP?
Whatever difference there is between stock Cougar/early Contour SVT/late Contour SVT LIM sizes, it should be added to the stickied SVT Upgrade post so others don't make my same mistake. Nothing in there that I read detailed any difference between SVT LIM years.
as far as i know std lim port sizes 31/32
early svt lim ports sizes 32/33
later svt lim port sizes 34/35
Looking on ford-parts-online, they don't list a 98SVT LIM (that i've found) but they do have a 99-00 SVT LIM, so there has to be SOME difference, right?
So, does anyone know definitively if those numbers I posted up there for the various years of LIM are correct? The guy I bought the 98 SVT LIM from is letting me back out of the eBay auction (provided I pay his fees of $4.75, more than fair) rather than accept delivery of this part. If it's 32/33 as I think it is, then that's what I'll be doing. If it is in fact the same as the 99-00, then I'll keep it, obviously. My searches on google point me to LONG ago dead fordcontour.org pages discussing the topic.
Please respond here or PMs if you know for sure...the sooner I can let the seller know which way I'm going, the better. He's been infinitely cool about this, and I don't want to drag it out further. Item number 7995300168 if anyone wants to see it.
EDIT: Update, called my local ford parts dealer. He assured me there was a difference between the years, and that it was a "port size difference" with the 99/00 SVT LIM having slightly larger ports. So, there we have it.
The lesson: Get a 99/00 SVT LIM, and a 2000 SVT UIM if you believe there's a difference other than the outside cosmetics.
Though this brings up one question for me...I can still take my return-style injectors/etc and put them into the 2000 SVT LIM, right?
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