Originally posted by Swazo:
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.



Awesome detective work! Imagine, all that for only 203 ft-lbs of torque. It would have been so much smarter just to use the Vortech supercharger kit and had a system that actually worked well.

Actually, now if he has anything in print that the car runs ok, or runs well, or anything like that from the ebay add, he would have a leg to stand on in court. He could get a deposition from this guy Heath for use in court.

On the other hand, a person has to have some property before you can properly sue them. The worst thing would be to spend more cash out of your own pocket just to attach his wages and get that cash back over 5 years or something.

Better hope he just gives you the $2000 on the 1st.

Former owner of '99 CSVT - Silver #222/2760 356/334 wHP/TQ at 10psi on pump gas! See My Mods '05 Volvo S40 Turbo 5 AWD with 6spd, Passion Red '06 Mazda5 Touring, 5spd,MTX, Black