{"id":12558,"date":"2016-12-19T23:19:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T04:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=12558"},"modified":"2018-07-06T18:03:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T23:03:05","slug":"watch-a-taurus-shos-attempt-at-the-9s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=12558","title":{"rendered":"Watch a Taurus SHO Attempt the 9&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Blue-Turd-1995-Ford-Taurus-with-a-turbo-3.3-L-V6-12.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12120\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=12120\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Blue-Turd-1995-Ford-Taurus-with-a-turbo-3.3-L-V6-12.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1365\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"the-blue-turd-1995-ford-taurus-with-a-turbo-3-3-l-v6-12\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The Blue Turd 1995 Ford Taurus with a turbo 3.3 L V6&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Blue-Turd-1995-Ford-Taurus-with-a-turbo-3.3-L-V6-12.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Blue-Turd-1995-Ford-Taurus-with-a-turbo-3.3-L-V6-12.jpg?resize=620%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Blue Turd 1995 Ford Taurus with a turbo 3.3 L V6\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Blue-Turd-1995-Ford-Taurus-with-a-turbo-3.3-L-V6-12.jpg?resize=620%2C413&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Blue-Turd-1995-Ford-Taurus-with-a-turbo-3.3-L-V6-12.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Blue-Turd-1995-Ford-Taurus-with-a-turbo-3.3-L-V6-12.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Blue-Turd-1995-Ford-Taurus-with-a-turbo-3.3-L-V6-12.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Blue-Turd-1995-Ford-Taurus-with-a-turbo-3.3-L-V6-12.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since our <a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=11991\">previous article<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blueturdtaurus\/\">The Blue Turd<\/a> project, owner and builder Zach Wright created a few videos documenting his quest to put this unique project in to the 9-second club. The 1995 Taurus SHO is powered by a turbocharged 3.3 L V6 with a goal of 600-700 whp. Although Zach did not achieve his goal this race season he is already rebuilding the SHO for next season.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/THkI2Y8l_K8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n29A7M0UoAw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCjaCt_R30y_OnHhPKbRDgxg\">Zach Wright<\/a> via ESD reader Jason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since our previous article on The Blue Turd project, owner and builder Zach Wright created a few videos documenting his quest to put this unique project in to the 9-second club. The 1995 Taurus SHO is powered by a turbocharged 3.3 L V6 with a goal of 600-700 whp. Although Zach did not achieve his&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=12558\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch a Taurus SHO Attempt the 9&#8217;s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[504],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taurus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Blue-Turd-1995-Ford-Taurus-with-a-turbo-3.3-L-V6-12.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":107739,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=107739","url_meta":{"origin":12558,"position":0},"title":"1936 Ford Tudor with a Taurus SHO V6","author":"swaptastic","date":"November 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"This 1936 Ford Tudor won the Al Slonaker Memorial Award in 2011 at the Grand National Roadster Show after the owner spent 14 years building it. 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