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I have everything layed out in my head and on paper, but I need to get the metal in front of me and start mocking up ... ordering the piping later this week. Does everyone remember in some of my pictures the pre 99 Contour subframe on the wall? Well, that's coming off the wall and going onto support stands and the longblock is going to be dropped onto it and fabbing will start. It will be build around the engine & subframe, just without the chassis in the way. When time comes to fab up the "cool" side of the piping, I will drop the thing into the car and fab around the chassis 
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Tosen showed up last night: $525 + $23 shipping. I highly recommend these guys. Took them a little while (10 days from date of purchase to on my doorstep), but they got the right part and an excellent price: http://www.wakeperformance.com
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I've been busy as of late with work, taxes, home life ... you know the drill, thus no updates. I have however finished port matching one of the heads and will finish the second head tonight ... pictures to follow. Anyway, the reason for this post wasn't an update on progress, although progress is being made albeit slowly.
I have the Torsen and bearings and transmission going out to Terry Haines in a few days. The "race" tranny for the Cougar is being returned from Terry next week. Considering his currently backlog and workload, I'm not expecting a quick turnaround on the Contour's transmission. However, I want to get this thing running NA before I start development on the turbo kit so I can break in both the engine and SPEC Stage III clutch. So, here is what I am thinking of doing ... your feedback is always welcome!
I have some custom headers on the way that are being used as the basis for the turbo kit. They are 304SS and have provisions for fitting up to the stock Y-Pipe. I will then remove the stock Y-Pipe and fab up my turbo kit on the "hot" side. Once everything is tacked up and fitted properly, the entire mess is going back to the header fabricator for seam welding my tacked pipes and so he can work up an estimate for me on duplicating the piping kit.
The Plan
1) Build up the shortblock this weekend.
2) Pack up the tranny and ship it to Terry next week.
3) While waiting on the transmission return from Terry, begin fabricating the turbo kit.
4) By the time I finish the turbo kit's "Hot" side, the transmission should be back.
5) Fit the transmission with SVT Flywheel and SPEC Stage III clutch.
6) Ship off the "hot" side piping to the fabricator for seam welding/estimate on duplication.
7) Break the car in NA.
8) When I get back the prototype, begin install of turbo kit and swap out MAF/Injectors.
9) TUNE IT! (I have the PRP w/ XCal2)
10) DYNO IT! (I'm looking for 280+whp/tq)
11) SELL IT!
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what did you use to fill in the unused notch? jb weld?
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CEG at its best! By far my favorite thread. "How to build a Hot Rod Contour SVT" by FastCougar!
Keep the pictures and story going! I think you'll have a lot of interest in this car when its done.
What did you use to fill the injector port?
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Originally posted by fastcougar:
I will let the porting pictures speak for themselves:
Wow, that method looks VERY familiar.
Also, you did an outstanding job on even cutting there and your fill job is good too.
Only thing I'd recommend is not hitting the central injector port with the bit, but leave it rougher with the casting flash so that it has more projections for the epoxy/weld to stay locked into.
Other than that....it looks VERRRY Familiar....
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The main issue I have is you used the gasket as the template for the port size. The gasket is much larger then the outlet ports of the largest LIM. The primary is ~2.5mm larger and the secondary ~1.5mm larger. If you widen the LIM to match the gasket you are losing the taper (natural supercharging effect) of the port sizing. This is bad for a boosted car and especially bad on a NA car. Gasket matching can be a very bad idea because it normally hurts the overall port shape and diameter. What you should do is mount the LIM and see what you have to do to the port & LIM to get them to line up. The LIM is not "perfectly" machined so it will not automatically just line up. The same goes for the UIM as well.
The other issue Tom mentioned. I would not smooth out the center port. You get a much better surface to mate to if you leave it rough.
On an improvement note I would have better blended the side injector port to help promote better fuel atomization. Even having a flat angle is not really bad but having two concave angles (pockets) will make it worse.
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I matched my LIM to my heads, which were gasket matched. My LIM has also been heavily ported/reshaped up to the holes the secondary shaft used to run through.
The top half of the LIM is split port (though it has been gasket matched...), but the center divider is knife edged/ported into an elliptical shape all the way up to the old hole for the secondary shaft, so that the final LIM port shape is just like the tumble port head.
I've got dyno proof that it hasn't hurt me at all, infact I've got a lot more torque than simular setups at the same psi.
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