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Word of warning. I know that car came from Utah, and the owner was listing it as having an ADC chip AND being dyno tuned by a local shop called Modern Garage. Double if not triple check every mod on that car just to be on the safe side!

If you need to talk to Modern Garage, I can get contact info if needed. Feel free to PM me, and I'd be happy to help you out if there are any issues.

Honestly...I doubt the thing was actually ever tuned all the way. I would pull the chip and send it to ADC to check it and maybe give you a base tune.

I would also do a compression test...what is the oil pressure? Does it have a gauge? Then check all the sensors that may have to do with the CEL.

Maybe the boost control on their was to help the BOV not open under light load...that's what mine would do. Then the car would buck like crazy b/c it would just let a bunch of unmetered air in and out. I just put washers in their.

PM if you need any info...I had lots of bugs in my custom set-up, but I fixed them all. I would be willing to help.

FYI I am in UT too...I guess us UT guys build our own set-ups.

Oh yes...I would double check the injectors as well tomake sure they aren't stock.

Putting washer in the BOV to stop it opening under light l;oad is the right thing to do. Jim,my-rigging a boost controller onto a BOV to do the same thing is The should try reading the instructions for setting the BOV

Well, on a cool note, my BOV is making a lot more noise today. I'm running the boost at about .55 bar according to my gauge maybe 8psi?
Anyway the car is so insanely fast again. Dang I feel like I'm gong to kill myself when I do a zero to 60 run. I have to feather it in 1st but it will mostly hold in 2nd gear.
I bet I could get some serious times with this thing if there was a track locally.

glad to see you ended up buying that contour fastcougar. Would love the see you put that into a 3L cougar

Just thought that I would resurrect this thread to reply on the turbo setup in the Contour that I bought. Let me start by saying that I'm totally floored with how "ghetto" this entire thing was made.

1) The external wastegate is placed off the downpipe, NOT the up-pipe. I can't explain that other than to say the installer/designer had their head 100% up their ass!
2) The welds are HORRIBLE!
3) Did you read #1?

No surprise that the car runs like crap and has a constant misfire. Luckily for the car, she isn't pinping or knocking ... thank god! Completely removing the system from the Contour and fixing A LOT of issues on the car (headlights, grill, sunroof, radio antenna, etc.). The only mechanical shortcoming that I have found is the passenger's side CV boot is split and there is CV grease everywhere in the suspension on the passenger's side. She hunts for idle badly and stalls when slow shifting (IACV no doubt). I think that uninstalling the turbo system and chip and reverting to stock components, the car tuning issues will be completely resolved ... <crosses fingers>

Looks like I paid top $$$ for a POS turbo system. I completely hold myself responsible for buying a car sight unseen on the internet ... I will NEVER make that mistake again.

I plan on spending the next few weeks uninstalling the turbo system and reverting the car back to stock. On a good note, the exterior of the car is beautiful!

I will be using the turbo components on a fresh built system in the Cougar. The Cougar's system will be done pretty much from scratch now since I will need to account for the wastegate and don't like some of the tubing routes. Oh well, serves me right!

man, that sucks badly! hope you get everything straightened out.

Yikes! Thats terrible. While reading it I was thinking "well, even though the welds are crappy he can at least use the piping as a jig and fix a few things like the wastegate, no biggie." Then, I got to where you said its routed terribly, so it sounds like its headed for the scrap heap. Too bad.

You can probably remake the plumbing from the TC->IC->TB cant you? Seems to me like the poor routing would be on the hot side.

I'm sure it's fixable.

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