I did some leg work today in hopes of helping out since I'm in Salt Lake City.

I called around to see who's tuned a grey turbo Contour, and after a few shops I found one. Modular Madness West tuned one with a "hack job turbo kit, with a mystery wastegate".

The lead tuner Heath, said the first time he tried to get the car tuned at his shop he declined to tune it because it was belching blue/black smoke and didn't want to screw up the wideband o2. For some reason (maybe they didn't use the wideband) he was talked into writing a base tune just to get it running well enough to get on a trailer so he could sell the POS. The owner claimed that the person buying the car was going to enter it into shows and would hardly drive the car anyway. But, Heath said without a doubt that the owner KNEW it was a dying POS!!! The owner knew there was a problem with the turbo and more! PM with contact info sent

The dyno info is still on hand at the shop, 230HP/203TQ on a mustang dyno BTW.


2005 Ford F150 SuperCab FX4 1964 Chevrolet Impala SS 1998 CSVT: 354HP/328TQ @ 10 psi, now gone