| Posted by Samurai |
8/18/2004 11:44 AM | remove |
the seats are out of a Ford, looks like a Mustang LX. The engine looks like a Ford as well, but I can't make out too much detail.
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| Posted by CopySix |
8/21/2004 2:16 PM | remove |
Good calls, I wouldn't know unless it was all back in the vehilce it came from ;-)
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| Posted by Samurai |
8/23/2004 3:38 PM | remove |
on second look, the seats could be Tempo/Topaz as well...
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| Posted by relic |
9/8/2005 2:06 AM | remove |
not a bad hybrid frame
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| Posted by Tempoboy1992 |
5/19/2006 9:02 PM | remove |
the engine is DEFINATLY from an older tempo/topaz
the seats arn't. that design was never used in the tempo or topaz. those are from a festiva
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| Posted by Tempoboy1992 |
5/19/2006 9:15 PM | remove |
BTW: Someone PLEASE go back and salvage that poor engine. it can be saved!
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| Posted by davek |
6/2/2006 11:34 AM | remove |
Those seats did not come from a Festiva. Remember, a Festiva is actually a Kia and wouldn't have those very Ford seats. I would concur with the Tempo/Topaz guess, perhaps Escort.
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| Posted by Samurai |
6/3/2006 1:04 PM | remove |
no, the seats are Tempo 100%, the Festiva and Escorts had thin back buckets and the pattern looked nothing like that. As for the engine, the 2.3L HSC engine was nothing, it was a bread and butter, lackluster performing OHV engine that was slightly less gutless than a 10-speed Schwinn.
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| Posted by Tempoboy1992 |
7/16/2006 1:46 AM | remove |
i have 4 cars with the 2.3 HSC. i love the engine. great porformance, good economy. and cheap to maintain.
on the other hand i had a 93 tempo with the 3.0 V6. and that engine was shit. knocked, stalled, then threw a rod through the block.
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| Posted by Tempoboy1992 |
7/16/2006 1:47 AM | remove |
and it wasn't OHV. the OHV 2.3 was in the mustangs. this was a pushrod engine
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| Posted by Samurai |
7/16/2006 5:54 AM | remove |
OHV= pushrod engine- the 2.3L OHV engine that the Tempo/Topaz featured was a 3.3L block (200cid for those who aren't up on the metric system) that had the last two cylinders chopped off and had a high swirl/fast burn aluminum head added to it. From a performance standpoint, the engine was nothing to write home about. It was a bread and butter engine in a car that was destined to be a fleet beater/rental whore. The 3.0L V6 in the Tempos were definitely little hotrods, especially if you happened to get the Tempo Sport. This was a 5speed bolted to a 3.0L lifted from the Taurus (although early iterations of this car were a Mazda V6). The Taurus 3.0L was pretty much bulletproof and would take a tremendous beating. This engine was on par with GM's 60-degree V6 (2.8L/3.1L/3/4L)
the 2.3L in the Mustang was the old Overhead Cam engine that can be traced back to the old 2.0L that came in the early Pintos, Rangers and 70's Capris.
Up here, Tempos are crusher bait. They aren't worth the trouble to repair. My brother had a 90 Topaz and when it started to break alot, they sold it to a kid for the demolition derby. The car only had 125,000 miles on the clock.
I have no love for these cars.
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| Posted by Tempoboy1992 |
7/16/2006 11:18 PM | remove |
oops. you are correct. i got the OHV and OHC mixed up.
to most people they are "crusher bait" as you put it. but we at the tempo topaz car club love them.
and if the 3.0 is so great why did mine throw a rod. but the 2.3 is VERY reliable
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| Posted by Samurai |
7/17/2006 3:49 AM | remove |
the 3.0 may have thrown a rod because it had been abused horribly before you got it. Most of the time when those engines go bad, it's through sheer abuse and neglect.The 3.8L on the other hand was a head gasket eating, crank-lunching piece of grabastic ford monkey shit.
i'll never say a 2.3L OHV is reliable... i love it when it gets below freezing and they won't start unless you change the plugs... PM for some horror stories on Tempos. :oP
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| Posted by buckybear |
7/27/2006 8:09 AM | remove |
My sister had a ford tempo around a 1992 model. She got it in 2003 and drove it for two years. Two years is almost a record for her owning a car. Most of them dont last one.
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| Posted by Samurai |
7/27/2006 9:41 PM | remove |
my brother had a 1990 Topaz back in 1996... the car was a piece of shit. Eventually, after he had it for a year, we took it down a back road and smashed it off of roadsigns, guardrails, trees... he hated that fucking car.
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| Posted by strike300 |
7/30/2006 9:52 PM | remove |
I had a '98 Mustang with the 3.8L and it was awesome. Never had trouble with it and it outperformed most V8's. Unfortunately, the car got wrecked pretty bad and after I got it fixed, I decided to trade it in for a '01 Mustang with the 3.8. Big mistake. The engine performed like an underpowered 4 cylinder. It always felt like the timing was way off and couldn't get out of it's own way. I drove my '75 Cordoba most of the time and ended up trading it in in early '05 with less than 30,000 miles on it.
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| Posted by rainman8889 |
8/20/2006 8:26 PM | remove |
I had an 89 Tempo. What a piece of turd! Stupid me took the fire extinguisher to it when the engine blew and I saw flames coming out. Should have stepped back and let 'er burn!
Lesson learned.
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| Posted by LostintheWoods |
8/24/2006 8:58 PM | remove |
God. This pic could be a thread in and of itself.
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| Posted by CopySix |
8/25/2006 6:35 PM | remove |
No $hit - I was just thinking much of the same thing.
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| Posted by Samurai |
8/26/2006 4:38 PM | remove |
you'd get further with the bike frame in the pic than a Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz.
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| Posted by rainman8889 |
9/3/2006 1:20 PM | remove |
Geesh, you could get further with your own two feet than a Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz, Samurai!
I speak from experience.
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| Posted by Tempoboy1992 |
9/8/2006 10:41 PM | remove |
my 92 Tempo GL had 198,000 miles on it's 2.3 before i stopped driving it and tore it down to restore the car, now it's running again and is about to turn over 20,000 on the rebuilt engine
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| Posted by Samurai |
9/9/2006 3:33 AM | remove |
In all my years of being under a hood and around cars, you are the ONLY person I have ever seen a)enjoy a Tempo, b) RESTORE a Tempo and c)bother to rebuild their shitty engines when they explode... (what medication are you on and when are the aliens coming to pick you up?)
:oP
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| Posted by strike300 |
9/10/2006 11:45 PM | remove |
I'm thinking about restoring a '76 Chevette. That'll really turn heads as I putter down the street!
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| Posted by Samurai |
9/11/2006 3:15 AM | remove |
damnit, i bought an 84 Chevette earlier this summer and blew the engine up in it... a CHEVETTE COLLECTOR (yes, collector) from paradox ny bought the car... he's got 12 or 15 of these fragging things in various states of restoration (???!!!)
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| Posted by LostintheWoods |
9/11/2006 12:20 PM | remove |
A dude I work with has an '89 Topaz with 375,000km (235k Mi) on it. Never had any major work, and still runs like a top. It LOOKS like a sack of shit, but it runs great.
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| Posted by Samurai |
9/11/2006 2:36 PM | remove |
that's a rarity... they don't last long here and they always look like such junk with some miles on them.
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| Posted by rainman8889 |
11/12/2006 6:59 PM | remove |
No kidding Samurai. Put that one in the museum Lost!
The engine on my tempo blew at 98k, the front end was falling apart at 400 km. (That's right 400 kilometers) and within 4 months, I was ready to lay a beating on the service manager for all the times I had to fight tooth and nail with him to honour the warranty. I finally went to another Ford dealerofshit and didn't have to fight as much.
The pickup I traded the car in on had 114,000 and had taken a beating from the previous owners. I put on an additional 146,000 kms during the 6 years I had it. It was far more reliable than the tempo.
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| Posted by HaloBlack |
2/19/2007 9:47 PM | remove |
I'm more interested by the bike.
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| Posted by Samurai |
2/22/2007 1:39 AM | remove |
goody for you.
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| Posted by wick/market |
6/20/2007 8:41 PM | remove |
i once had a white bucket like the one in the pic, very unreliable, traded it in for a yellow one, still have it today! great bucket.
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| Posted by bored_being |
6/27/2007 7:22 AM | remove |
Roflmao ^
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| Posted by bored_being |
6/27/2007 7:22 AM | remove |
I think you ended the above conversation, which I was dumb enough to read =P
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| Posted by Samurai |
6/27/2007 1:06 PM | remove |
well fucking goody for you.
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| Posted by Robb420 |
9/20/2007 9:36 PM | remove |
i would never be seen in a tempo. No class at all. not that i have class..
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| Posted by Tempoboy1992 |
12/12/2008 5:46 PM | remove |
Tempos have alot of class. i just finished doing the second engine rebuild on mine.
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| Posted by Louie Frisco |
1/2/2010 6:01 PM | remove |
aww, is the Tempo/Topaz discussion over? :(
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| Posted by Samurai |
1/7/2010 3:15 PM | remove |
yeah, almost two years ago...
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| Posted by Frogster |
1/7/2012 11:21 PM | remove |
^ Lol touche :P
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| Posted by freakintehcat |
12/27/2012 3:32 AM | remove |
Me and a friend smashed a white 1990 Topaz to pieces with a baseball bat & a crowbar after the engine gave out. By the time we were done the trunk was bent into a 'V' shape amongst other things.
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| Posted by Samurai |
12/28/2012 8:27 PM | remove |
you want a round of applause?
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| Posted by freakintehcat |
1/9/2013 2:24 AM | remove |
yes please :)
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