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and reliability wise the 4-banger in the cougar is fantastic. we have a number of people that have well over 250k miles on that engine with nothing other than routine maintenance (I think one guy still has the factory clutch in his). Keep looking, the contours are all around that 1k mark and the cougars are getting close.
and sharp eye. the cougar still has the automatic in the car... its been heavily under construction the past 2 years and I wanted to work out all the electrical gremlins (front to back, the wiring is all my own construction) before I threw any new unknowns at the project. I have 2 trannys for that car and they will both have their own engines: the tranny from the contour will be more track oriented with an NA motor that should be close to 300hp (although there are some big unknowns with the cams I am trying to use), the other tranny will also have a LSD in it and a more street friendly clutch and a 200hp motor.
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