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More updates, not a lot of racing. And it looks like I may relegate the car to AutoX for the rest of the season. I have included alignment pictures first and foremost. The subframe I installed, I don't believe was quite centered, so I have uneven camber in the rear, but I'm quite happy with...

Well, this has finally been sold to a local who will continue to autocross it!

Not much in the way of updates over the past few months. I finished the caliper rebuild on the driver's side and bedded in the new pads. I think I may be going down a path of two sets of pads and rotors as the track pads are aggressive and it's not suggested to street-drive them - I am assuming...

Brake pistons and seals (on driver's side for the moment) have been changed out. This was something suggested to me to do by TCE Performance, where I sourced a majority of these parts from, and since I didn't know how old the seals were on these older Wilwoods, I thought it sensible to do. The...

In typical fashion, I didn't take photos of the heater core replacement progress, but I had a fun learning moment when I realised the heater core I had ordered wasn't right on account of it being from a '96 model where apparently the line sizing was smaller. So another eBay order later and I had...

I'll anecdotally chime in and say I got to 209k I think, on my Pro5 before the teeth on the timing belt let go. I lost 9 teeth while sat idle in the college parking lot. And thankfully that's where I was. The belt held intact which was convenient. I checked the belt prior to this as I was also...

Annnnnd boredom struck in the form of pulling the dash ahead of the weather getting too cold. All in all it took maybe 2 hours, having never done this before. One dastardly hidden Philips head held the driver's upper HVAC vent to a wiring loom, and that to the dash, so I may opt to ignore...

Well, winter came and went, and so too did most of the summer. I ended up in TN for work from Jan-Jul this year, so work on the car was at a minimum. Racing was also, but I got the car out to two track days at Waterford Hills. 1:20ish my first trip out there as a fastest lap, but that was with a...

There's a gentleman on these forums who is potentially going to pick this bad lad up but we're finalizing planning at this point in time. I drove it the other day and definitely still love it. But I'm still enjoying the Contour and don't want to split my duties.

An update from this past weekend's autocross at Grattan, with a few updates from happenings prior to that. I was hoping to make a HPDE at Waterford Hills on the 15th, but unfortunately the brakes on the Contour weren't up to snuff, so I took my GTI instead. That was a mistake, as the brake pads...

After some more tinkering this morning, I had the bracket bent up. I should have had the strap piece shifter further back, but I managed to get this to work through some trickery. I ended up having to bend the bracket slightly to clear the opening into the engine bay. The 2"-1.5" adapter was...

A little update for this season so far, since ive not been on track in this since Gingerman. As a result of putting the passenger side brake duct in, I had to axe the windshield washer fluid bottle. I don't mind not having a bottle, but on occasion it's been a bit frustrating due to bugs or...

Bumping this as a summer toy for anyone looking for one. Autocross, maybe even track driving, could be enjoyed in this wonderfully weird vehicle :)

https://youtu.be/ijTBJk4vHBU I'll start with the bloopses, a term I'm sure someone somewhere else has used before. The car made it to the track day just fine. No hassle in any way getting donuts on the way there either. I spent the first session accidentally sliding the car around, realising...

THIS was not the face I'd expected to be making after taking the Contour out of winter storage: I visited my friend a few weeks back and pulled into their house, noticing the faint smell of burning coolant. "That can't be this car," I thought. And we all know how that goes... Drove the car...

So much for a slew of winter updates... Not much really happened this winter to the car that I thought was tremendously noteworthy. It got parked outside of where I store it through and into December, which at that point I really didn't have any pressing desire to address some of the things on...

If you're mechanically and electrically inclined you can probably get KL parts for similar enough prices to the FS engine. But the shortlist for the KL swap would put the swap at a higher cost than just swapping in another FS if you can get your hands on one.

I've dropped the price on this to $4700. I'll be purchasing a new battery for this in the spring, as the old one was kaput. It's been parked throughout the winter, likely wondering why I've left it alone.

I know I know. I'm not going to say I won't be sad to see it go. In a way it'll be strange being "out of the Mazda game" so to speak, but it's something that will allow me to explore other cars and that I think, is a sort of natural progression of things.