Shaun123
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- Location
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- City, State
- San Antonio, Texas
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 97 XLT SOHC V6 4.0 RWD
ok now first of all im in puerto rico so stuff aint that cheap around here and english aint my first langue so bare with me.
my ford explorer is a 1997 V6 4.0 SHOC i had to have the timing belt changed cause the engine was making a clicking sound and pinging that costed me $1,300 thats the cheapest i could get most people said they wouldent do it cause it takes to much time then like 3 months later i was minding my own buiness buying some food at mcdonalds i put the gears into reverse and a acelerate a lil too hard and before the gear got a chance to shift over and my transmision blew could only make it move starting in 2 gear then go back down to first then change it into drive once going 30 big mess anyway point is i spent say another $1,600 on the new transmision wich is now hmm 6 months old i allso put a k/n style airfilter $500 in suspensions $1,200 in music $370 in the muffler and had my 2 cats cut off right now my muffler started to sound weird i took it to a muffler shop where i had my work done they said i have a oxigen sencor stuck in it and i need to replace it cause once it goes in it wont come out sounds like alot of bullshit to me then i took it to another muffler place and they tol me the muffler went bad and they just dont want to cover it under garantie cause i only had it like 2 months ... dont know what i should do cause i was thinking about puthing 2 muflers on each side with 3 inch tubes but that comes out to $470 total installed and um im tired of spending so much money im only 20 years old ... money aint eassy to get i work hard for it i would like any recomendations i can get from this forum and i would like to improve my aceleration with a low buget when i race hmm lets see i won every corolla, m3, tiburon, stock evos won a evo 8 once cause he missed 3rd, and stayed behind a porsche about a car and a half once i hit 115mph but we ran out of road.. :fire: alot of people make fun of me for racing in a explorer till they see me win them or stay by them i havent won anyone with nitro yet tho so i may be looking to to adding nitro my self but evryone please leave me all the sugestions you can cause im really confused on what to do.. oh allmost forgot someone tryed to steal my expo today they drove it away then they stayed stuck without gass on the corner and left the 2 doors open and ran lucky i was broke and let the gass go below the E
my ford explorer is a 1997 V6 4.0 SHOC i had to have the timing belt changed cause the engine was making a clicking sound and pinging that costed me $1,300 thats the cheapest i could get most people said they wouldent do it cause it takes to much time then like 3 months later i was minding my own buiness buying some food at mcdonalds i put the gears into reverse and a acelerate a lil too hard and before the gear got a chance to shift over and my transmision blew could only make it move starting in 2 gear then go back down to first then change it into drive once going 30 big mess anyway point is i spent say another $1,600 on the new transmision wich is now hmm 6 months old i allso put a k/n style airfilter $500 in suspensions $1,200 in music $370 in the muffler and had my 2 cats cut off right now my muffler started to sound weird i took it to a muffler shop where i had my work done they said i have a oxigen sencor stuck in it and i need to replace it cause once it goes in it wont come out sounds like alot of bullshit to me then i took it to another muffler place and they tol me the muffler went bad and they just dont want to cover it under garantie cause i only had it like 2 months ... dont know what i should do cause i was thinking about puthing 2 muflers on each side with 3 inch tubes but that comes out to $470 total installed and um im tired of spending so much money im only 20 years old ... money aint eassy to get i work hard for it i would like any recomendations i can get from this forum and i would like to improve my aceleration with a low buget when i race hmm lets see i won every corolla, m3, tiburon, stock evos won a evo 8 once cause he missed 3rd, and stayed behind a porsche about a car and a half once i hit 115mph but we ran out of road.. :fire: alot of people make fun of me for racing in a explorer till they see me win them or stay by them i havent won anyone with nitro yet tho so i may be looking to to adding nitro my self but evryone please leave me all the sugestions you can cause im really confused on what to do.. oh allmost forgot someone tryed to steal my expo today they drove it away then they stayed stuck without gass on the corner and left the 2 doors open and ran lucky i was broke and let the gass go below the E
