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Maybe he had the same issue that ADC did with the internal WG - there's no room for the actuator as it would interfere with the body - hence why they went with an external.

good point...it's still funky

Yea that makes sense if the flapper was taken off. Was this car driven at all previous to you owning it? If so, aporoximately how many miles were on the car/turbo setup and how much boost did he run?

The reason I ask is with a t3/t4 and an ineffecient wastegate design, it must have been producing some pretty strong numbers. I can't help but think this car gives us some strong information on the durability of our 2.5's.

Edit: His post says 9 psi, wouldn't that be comfortably over 300 whp on a stock 2.5?

Not necessarily. With an intercooler probably in the 290's on a 2.5L

I don't have a scanner, but I do have a mustang dyno plot taken 1 day before the car was shipped to me showing a mind blowing 220 hp!!! </sarcasm> I personally think it's BS! As I said before, with the misfire and CEL, the car feels like it is running on 5 semi-boosted cylinders (only 4 psi). This thing is tuned like [censored]! I have no doubt in my mind that reverting the engine to stock will result in a performance boost.

Fact is that I was defrauded with this purchase. What I think happened was that the car never ran quite right and the seller wanted to pawn it off on someone else. I've been down on myself enough about this ... enough is enough. It's a VERY long story, which I will tell one day, but I just don't have it in me right now ... the post would be at least 3 pages long.

Yeah, but its time to start looking at the bright side. It has a turbo. It's a nice looking car. With all gearheads around here and your own effort you can make it a very nice car! So the rocky road can turn into the yellow brick road.

My best is a few fixes and it'll run great. Makes you laugh when you think about someone building a turbo setup without a effing clue. I was like :WTF when I saw a boost controller on the BOV - it all makes sense now.

Don't worry Trev, we can nut out this fustercluck. Post more detailed pics of th setup and we can say "OK, no reroute this to here and reconnect that to this..." etc.

ya...a lot of it looks pretty mice...a few little mods are there you go...ya maybe the welds arent beautiful...but as long as they don't leak your good.

Thanks guys ... I will definitely fill everyone in once I start to dismantle the car this weekend. I'm sticking with the original plan, which is to remove the kit from the Contour, revert the tour back to stock and sell it. The original plan was to save a few grand on the turbo kit because ADC had just raised their kit price another $500 to $6,000 total. I figured that I could spend slightly over half that if everything went smooth, which it hasn't. As it stands right now, the previous owner has agreed to give me back a portion of the purchase price that we agreed upon since he wouldn't agree to take the car back (long story again and I will tell it some day when I'm closer to my goal with this project). Even with this "refund", I will probably end up spending about the same amount of a brand new ADC system ... if not slightly more. However, I am trying to look on the bright side ... I'm learning a hell of a lot!

This thread has gotten a lot off topic and I never meant to hijack this thread. So, I will take all further issues with my setup to a new thread documenting the teardown of the system that will commence this weekend.

Word, I havent seen your cougar but that is a damn nice looking contour. I guess it's a matter of personal preference. Tuning really is something that you should be able to handle through a good tuner, unless you are leaking in various places that it not something that should be too difficult to fix, ADC most definitely should be able to get you 90% there.

As far as i can tell all it needs is 20min with some new vacum line routing. Once you look over everything and take some time to see how it all works, the routing is actually very straight forward.