Taurus SHO?
 

are these thing quick?? some kid at school seems to think that this SHO he has will totally rape my car.. i dont know anything about them but ive got a racing beat turbo back, FCD , HKS intake i donno kinda weirds me out he thinks hell kill me. give me some feed back please.

If it's what I think it is "SHO" 3.0L 24 valve 200hp. Don't know what year he has but my GF has a 2004 Taurus...... and the much slower 3.0L 180hp. It's a dawg!
Kick his @ss!

ya there kinda quick, they do 1/4 in 15-14 sec's stock, they have a v6 yamaha engine that has 220hp and i think 196 trq depending on the year, they also have a v8 235hp and 200 somthing trq in the newer models. there quick on the freeways, they'll go 150mph tops if there in good shap. older models have a 5spd trans, and the v8 models have autos and there heavy like supras. and oh ya, there fwd too

what year and model car do you have?

There are a handful of supercharged SHOs out there putting down mid HP in the mid 300s, but i doubt i kid u go to school with can afford to do that to his car..

SHO's aren't the fastest cars, but you'll have to respect it. But still, walk his ass :).

SHO`s
 

I have a 91` SHO - rare car, sort of.

The 89`95`s had a kick-butt 3.0 v6 made by Yamaha (thank you!!). With a stick - the only choice on 89-92`s, it pulled a low 15 qtr with a solid (for the time) trap of about 92mph. Lots of mods available too - cams, etc. Hi 14 qtrs should be common on 5 sp acrs. Around town and off the line the lack of torque is a pain. The v6 does wind to a stock fuel cutoff of 7300 rpm, and it make power into that range. 3rd gear is great from 60 to 95 ish mph.

Plenty of 93-95`s (most) were autos. Ouch. 4 sp auto. .5 slower in the 0-60 and , several tenths behind in the qtr.

96- on SHO`s suck IMO. Small v8 with very breakable parts. Lower redline. heavier car. Only 4 sp auto. Call it mid-hi 15`s stock.

The car is a hodge=podge with a hero motor (earlier cars) , and not a lot else.

Beats some cars though - gotta love it.


Jack

You must slay the SHO and uphold the honor of the 7.

car
 

I've got a 1987 T2

http://fordspecialists.com/images/dougs89sc.jpg 89 sho


borrows some ones Nissan Maxima, the performance is comparable

That's probably going to be a tight race. But if i had any money, i'd put it on you. Get back to us if you do race.

-lol!! try to find a road with some twisties :D

I owned a Taurus, with the right sway bars you can throw one of those cars around corners with the best of em, SHOs are a really great all around car. Ive never owned a T2, but speakign from experience, I know that one of those SHOs, with a 24mm/26mm sway bar set up will just carve corners, its a very neutral set up, not much over or understeer

SHO's definetly deserve some respect. They make for a great daily driver/cruiser. Very comfotable cars. And plus not that this matters but they have one of the coolest looking engine bays out there. The intake manifold is absolutly sick. If the SHO is stock you should get him. But if he's put any money into the performance be carful. With cams, a bigger throttle body and mass air flow sensor they can put down some serious power, in the 300's range. Just be carful and respect his car.
Dom

Haleillujah (sp?) a believer! Absolutely, SHOs are a car indeed deserving of a bit of respect, only beef i have with em is they drive the wrong wheels, and are EXPENSIVE to maintain

yea i'm not a big fan of the front drive my self, and they definetly are expensive to maintain but awesome cars none the less. On of my future projects will be to put a SHO engine into a ranger. . . oh man it will be fun. Anyhow did that kid race him yet?
Dom

man the fucking day after i found out what the kid was running, my EGR valve started messing up and stalling and crap and my car was running SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RICH that it was pumpingg wayyy to much fuel and some got into the spark plugs and messed those up so im waiting for my EGR to come should be here tommorow and i got to get a boost leak checked out my friends dads shop is doing all the work for me and i know they know there jazz so all should be well but the kid with the SHO is running an intake and a exhaust.. and this kid at my school swears this kid is going to rip me to shreds liek he think its going to be like ferrari enzo vs. toyota prius but it he either said its got exhaust and intake or just exhaust.. he thinks it will rape me top end but don't our cars and those top out at about the same remember im running racing beat turbo back, hks intake, and fuel cut defender.. i do need to get my 680cc injectors installed though in my secondary that should change things a lil bit.

and my can girlfirends be the pain sometimes when my car was working the day this happened this silver mustang GT wanted to run and she insisted he didn't want to race then he cut me off for like no apparent reason it was a two lane road going in the same direction for miles to go and there were no cars infront of us... obvioulsy he did i wanted a piece of him so bad..

I can't believe I'm hearing this... SHO's are *extremely* lame...

They deserve no respect. Seriously.

Any car can be fast. There is nothing cool or original about them. Regardless of the Yamaha motor, they are still ghetto pieces of crap. They sound TERRIBLE too.

Your car will SMOKE that SHO. No problem at all... Period.

(you can tell I don't like them)

haha

Well, everyone has their own opinion, and you are entitled to that. But the say that the SHO is "a ghetto piece of crap" is unfounded. The Taurus is a great car, mechanically and, I think, visually. A waxed dark green GenII SHO is a sight to behold. Yes they are high mantainance, but you drive an RX-7, which is prolly just as high maintainance, if not more than the SHO. Sure its not as fast as an FD, or in this case, a modded FC, but its still a far more useable sport sedan with room for more than just one woman ;-). Plus rowing thru the gears in a car that size is pretty god damned fun. And as I said, there are a handful of supercharged SHOs out there that will give a lightly modded FD a good race, even so on "the twisties" with the proper driver and sway bars. Not trying to knock anyone or anything, I just happen to like SHOs and stand up for them, and every Taurus in general, good cars, theres a reason why they have been the best selling sedan since 1986. Next time you are in traffic, ponder why every 20th car on the road is a Taurus.

they have bad motor quality though. the years for that im not sure but i have had 5 SHO's come through my shop with blown headgaskets....hmmm....coencidence,i think not.

You should be able to wax that Taurass no problem..

All SHO and no GO.

Go kick some Ford asss.

MAN do those SRT-4's sound sick man i know this is off subjects but how a FC w my mods do agains that car i'd just race it instead of ask but im stilling waiting for my EGR to come in the mail.. i know theyre quick tho... real quick.

SHO (EDIT) having shitty engines? First I've heard, my friend was apart of a SHO club in the surrounding area, half their cars were in that 200,000 mile range without any problems.

oh... my... The defense of the SHO's...

Pitiful.