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[ridered74]

Had my eye on ST's for the last year, been driving a taurus sho the last several years. Wanted to find an atlas blue one but ended up settling on a 2020 black one. It's a big slow pig stock, but I'm hoping to change that really soon.

 

[bluesnake01]

Interesting you say that considering it is really neck to neck vs a stock SHO......

Enjoy your new SUV though!

 

[GearHead_1]

He's probably used to driving SHO with a few more grains of powder in the case. I've ridden in one of those Yammer Hammer's that had over 500 ponies at the wheels. It would remove the stripes from the blacktop.

 

[TMac]

I've heard of "yammer hammer" in conjunction with Yamahas. Did a search, but didn't come up with anything related to a Taurus SHO. What am I missing? Is that a tuner? Does it have something to do with the older Taurus SHO with the Yamaha induction system? I drove one of those new back in '91, ended up buying a Celica All-Trac.

 

[GearHead_1]

I'm old enough that when someone says SHO I go back to the 80's. I wouldn't think you'd have to look too far on the InterWeb to find something about Ford's Yamaha power plant. It used Yamaha's intake system and beyond. They were built using the Vulcan engines dimensions but were built by Yamaha in Japan.

As I remember not many parts would interchange on these engines but these engines bolted up to Ford's bell housings/transmission. To really wake these up they'd cam and turbo them. They would rev into the Twilight Zone. I didn't read the Wiki so I don't really know what's in that.

https://www.rideapart.com/news/264846/that-time-yamaha-built-ford-an-engine-and-changed-the-world/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_SHO_V6_engine

 

[LoneShark]

I'm old enough that when someone says SHO I go back to the 80's. I wouldn't think you'd have to look too far on the InterWeb to find something about Ford's Yamaha power plant. It used Yamaha's intake system and beyond. They were built using the Vulcan engines dimensions but were built by Yamaha in Japan.

As I remember not many parts would interchange on these engines but these engines bolted up to Ford's bell housings/transmission. To really wake these up they'd cam and turbo them. They would rev into the Twilight Zone. I didn't read the Wiki so I don't really know what's in that.

https://www.rideapart.com/news/264846/that-time-yamaha-built-ford-an-engine-and-changed-the-world/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_SHO_V6_engine

Yes. I owned a 91 sho. The car was very cool for its time, but the engine was certainly the star. Overall an absolute blast to drive and a total sleeper.

In some ways, I think the explorer st is almost the modern day sho.

 

[ridered74]

Interesting you say that considering it is really neck to neck vs a stock SHO......

Enjoy your new SUV though!

Thanks!

Ya I put a few mods into the sho, it was a consistent 12.0 car for the last three years. Hoping to get the ST either close to that or a little bit quicker.