Originally Posted by SpyVO
Well, I think Dave can see where I'm coming from when I say I'm losing my enthusiasm about the SVO. I'll be a 2.3 turbo guy for life, but the SVO is kind of a pain to have sometimes. I wanted to have something that could be a real PROJECT car, and not worry about wrecking a car that was produced in a relatively small number. I want to be able to chop a hole in the hood if I need to or rip out the interior and gut the crap out of it to make it light. You just don't DO that to an SVO. So I bought a Merkur.
There are two kinds of SVO enthusiasts: the collector and the driver. The collector keeps his/her SVO 100% factory bone stock. The car is hardly driven. The driver modifies the SVO to his/her liking. The car is driven hard. Nothing wrong with either enthusiast as both love the SVO for different reasons.
If the SVO isn't perfect, I really don't see the big deal about tearing into an SVO. As long as you don't swap the 2.3 for a V8 or sell the car for parts, I see no problem with modifying an SVO.