Aloha my Contour brethren!!! For those that aren't up to date on Fisher Dampers, I am currently working with Fisher to make a specific damper for the Duratec.
Measurements have already been taken and the guys at Fisher are starting on project Contour!!! Just an update on what the damper will do for our vehicles.
A stock dampers purpose is to help alleviate many of the harmonics that exist in the engine. The stock pulley is made up of an inner and an outer ring, both seperated by an elastic rubber which main purpose is to absorb harmonics, although effective the stock damper is limited in it's ability, particularly in the low and high end ( especially for those going beyond the factory rpm limit ). There are a number of aftermarket dampers, like FluidDamper which uses fluid to Dampen, a good product but said by many to be to heavy, which is definatley not good for our engines. Theres also another company out there that's design is nearly identical to a stock design except they use rubber o-rings between the innner and outer ring. So why Fisher Damper? This is the only Damper I have come across that can be underdriven, lightweight and still dampen better than a factory damper. There have been a few concerns about this Damper in our community, but I can assure you these will all be addressed. Basically this damper is made up of an Aluminum piece it, will be underdriven at 20% (update on possible further changes) and will have an inner inertia ring seperated from the pulley inself in a way. It will be torqued down in the pulley to a tightness allowing it to kind of be free from the rest of the unit. A special friction material between the pulley and the inertia ring itself will allow the pulley to act similar to a Clutch. When Harmonics are detected the ring will press onto the pulley, thanks to this friction material, and absorb the harmonics. So you see, contrary to a stock damper which was set at a specific range, which is all what a piece of elastic rubber can do, the Fisher Damper will detect no matter what range of RPM from idle to 8k rpm and beyond. The Friction material will not wear as some may suspect, so this is not any of my concerns.
Currently we have a few people in line to pick one up, but I need more. I know there are 100's, if not 1000's of CEG'ers who are modding there cars. Let me just say that a stock damper was only designed to dampen at stock levels, when you start to increase hp/tq, these decrease the dampers effectiveness. Those that are installing chips which are raising the REV limiter, you are going beyond the stock dampers range. I am not saying in anyway that the stock damper will not help but it's ability will greatly diminish. So for those that would like to invest in a quality damper, PLZ jump on board. We are looking for as many people as possible, this will help decrease the price. Price hasn't been set, but we are looking at somewhere in the range of $300-350, basically depending on order quantity.
I would like to mention that the damper is SFI approved, and is used by many roadrace teams and rally teams. On the dyno it has shown to help flatten out the power curve, which will make for a more smoother powerband. I have seen a bit of an increase in power with my URD pulley I currently have on. So less harmonics means more hp/tq and durability, underdriven means less parasitic drag, and aluminum means it's gonna be a few #'s lighter. What does all this add up to?
You figure it OUT!!! 
Mahalo Nui' Loa (Thank You Very Much)
Availibility should be in a month, I will update on further info......
