I have not checked in for a while. I gave my son the Lincoln this summer. Since then, we have replaced front and rear brakes with EBC rotors and red stuff pads. That is something I should've done when I owned it a long time ago. It was just something I lived ....with even though the brakes were in good condition, they sucked from day one, as everybody knows. After driving my new vehicle, which has front Brembos, to my sons joy, it pushed me to want to make the brakes in the Lincoln better for him than stock.
So that was something fun to do. What was not fun, was getting the transmission replaced in August. The tuned car had 100,000 miles on it and had the transmission fluid changed every 20,000 miles. However, while I drove it for 8 years, it was beat to hell every single day. I don't drive fast, but I love getting to the speed limit quickly! So literally every day I would have WOT from the start at least two times. I don't feel like the transmission owed me anything. We replaced it with a Jasper transmission with a three-year warranty. Also, I was able to get B&G to cover $1000 of the $4000 replacement. They were really really easy to deal with and earned a customer for life.