Ford Contour SVT 1998 Custom Install PICS!

[apco25]

This vehicle belongs to SVT. Installation is not yet finished so please no bitching about cables ties or split loom. We'll get it done later!

This is rare car - one of six thousand made. You don't see many sports cars with spectras in them now do you?

Here is more custom work in stainless steal. Same shop who built my console add on parts and the nifty under seat tray.

Current setup includes 3 Spectras

110w VHF
110w UHF
35w 800

Antennas are Maxrad shielded MMF NMO mounts with Maxrad VHF / UHF whips, can style MLPV on 800 and Larsen glass mounts for UHF and 800. Trunked lid is bonded to the rest of the vehicle by grounding straps.

We need to add one more NMO for the MLPV antenna.

800 Spectra is mounted under the rear trunk lid next to the 28 pound stainless steel shelf we designed and had welded out of 13ga 1303 stainless steel. The shelf is suspended from the trunk lid and vibration isolated with rubber grommets and high grade hardware.

It may or may not be powder coated, but I doubt we'll ever want to take this out and put it back in.

There is roof for another radio, but it would need to be a flat tray style mount like the 110w spectra. Otherwise no room to use side mounted hardware.

The control head mounting system is also stainless steel that has been powder coated. Bracket is mounted directly under the stereo unit in a factory void or storage space. No it does not interfere with the manual shifter.

[Gerbil]

wow. not bad for a little car like that.

[JAYMZ]

Actually the Contours are kind of installer friendly. My wife has had 2 of them and they were a snap to put anything into. Short afternoon project to put in a CD player, 50 watt Spectra and remote starter.

[yaesu_man]

svt-
nice job the car looks sick! lets talk some time or w.e

peace-mike alpha tango tango

[itsjustmark]

i think just being limited on space forget how the cables and wires look at the moment....that comes last anyways i think that you did a terriffic job

[cfd1736]

Very nice!!!! Where it the bracket come from that you used for the heads. I am looking for something like it only to use with 2 a9 heads in a 97 blazer. Thanks.

dennis

[apco25]

The control head bracket is also a custom piece of stainless steel that has been powder coated.

[AltonFF]

Maybe it's because I'm kinda new, but why do you have those radios in a POV and why do you have 3 of them???
Joe

[apco25]

Maybe it's because I'm kinda new, but why do you have those radios in a POV and why do you have 3 of them???
Joe

excuse me?????????

Hey no problem being new on the board, all of us were at one point.

However if you're asking that question why are you here?

Are not these types of radios what we do here, be it personal professional use????

[007]

AltonFF...

This is a discussion forum for Motorola users all over the US, Canada and some other countries.

We all HAVE and USE these radios. Some have them for personal use, some for professional use and most have them for both.

This includes having radios in our POV's...GASP! Why does this strike you as odd?

Take some time and look around. Use the search function to see what we do on this board, then maybe you will understand.

[Pj]

As stated above...

In some parts of the county, off duty police officers can equip their POV's with radio's, light's and sirens to get somewhere where they are needed, stop cars off duty etc etc. Members of volunteer or career departmetns may not have issued take home vehicles and have personal or department issued radios in their car to get to the call or to be used as a command vehicle.

Others can afford the radio's and use them as scanners since the receive quaility is greatly better than your average scanner. The downfall is that 99.9% of all commerical radios can only be a single band unit. So, if you need to transmit or recieve on more than one radio band, you have to get another radio.

Other people also buy the commerical radios to be used as ham radio's. You can use commerical radio's in the ham band, but you cannot use ham radio's in the commerical/public safety bands. FCC rules.

For example, I am the communications guy for my police department. In addition to that, I am on a local fire department and use my radio's if needed there too. I also hold a ham license, and I like to know what's going on. In my vehicle I have a VHF radio for police/ham/scanning, UHF for fire/ham/scanning, 800 for listening to the statewide and other trunked systems in addition to using it on a private repeater, and a lowband radio for ham and local fire departments that are still on it. I have other toys too, but that's another topic.

Motorola does have certain radio lines and models in which you can hook two radios to one control head, but they are rare and expensive to do with some, so most people go with two or more complete systems in place.

I hope this helps.