1990 Eclipse GSX

[slo4cyl]

I'm doing a lot of work on my eclipse this winter. I started with switching from auto seat belts to manual belts. I then removed all the wiring for the auto belts from the body electrical harness. While my interior is all out im installing a hydraulic staging break. I pulled the motor out last night, my #2 cylinder was 15 psi low compression, I'm replacing the pistons, rods and crank with new rings and bearings. While all this is happening I will also be doing a major wire tuck in the engine bay and repainting it along with 2 front fenders. Once the motor is back in and running comes suspension and all poly rear subframe bushings and front control arm bushings. Here are some pics of my progress so far. Its a bit messy but is being cleaned up little by little.

Engine bay before I started
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/DSCI0023.jpg

Hour and a half later, now time to clean
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/DSCI0091.jpg

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http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/DSCI0096.jpg

wire removed so far, about 5lbs!
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/DSCI0081.jpg

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/DSCI0082.jpg

[FiFdYnUtZ]

lol you never fail to find a reason to pull your motor EVERY winter!

[slo4cyl]

lol you never fail to find a reason to pull your motor EVERY winter!

Well yeah i gotta stay busy

[JustinS]

lol you never fail to find a reason to pull your motor EVERY winter!

Well yeah i gotta stay busy
hahaha

Lookin good man!

[Xboosted23X]

need to start on the other 1g project. what weight are you shooting for.

[Ricky]

lol you never fail to find a reason to pull your motor EVERY winter!

Well yeah i gotta stay busy


i was just thinking that! I think since i have known you, every winter you pull your motor.... but it always comes back bigger and better the next year.

[slo4cyl]

i was just thinking that! I think since i have known you, every winter you pull your motor.... but it always comes back bigger and better the next year.

Yeah last winter was the only winter i haven't pulled the motor since i got it running in 05. But i like to check everything over and do some preventative maintence so i don't have to do it mid season.


need to start on the other 1g project. what weight are you shooting for.

Should be around 2500 lbs

[Drifte]

Mount the brake and clutch master cylinder inside the car. Would be the best dsm wire tuck in history. Run all brake lines so they arent in the bay. Looks like you'll have a good bit of weight loss. I assume your pulling out the carpet and other random things. You can drilled out the spot welded in brackets in the hatch real easy too. They dont weigh much but might as well.

[slo4cyl]

Mount the brake and clutch master cylinder inside the car. Would be the best dsm wire tuck in history. Run all brake lines so they arent in the bay. Looks like you'll have a good bit of weight loss. I assume your pulling out the carpet and other random things. You can drilled out the spot welded in brackets in the hatch real easy too. They dont weigh much but might as well.

I've found pedal clusters that get rid of the booster and the clutch and brake master cylinders are mounted inside the car but i think i'll wait on that. The carpet is actually stayin in, i need a 91-94 shifter so i can put my center consule back in. Yeah the brackets in the hatch i thought about, i want to get everything else done and ill work on all of that if i have some free time. The motor is getting tore down tonight

[slo4cyl]

Well i pulled the pistons and rods out sunday night. It's a good thing I stopped driving it, the top ring on #2 cyl was burnt, stuck and chipped up. All 4 of them had evidence of detonation. We didn't have it tuned to conservative for pump gas but i think the next motor will be, and mainly run on leaded 110 or higher fuels. I had the pistons in there for over 4 years so they've had a fair share of abuse and I got my money's worth out of them. I'll post up pictures tonight.

[FiFdYnUtZ]

damn! how do your plugs look? was there any evidence of this before you pulled the motor?

[slo4cyl]

damn! how do your plugs look? was there any evidence of this before you pulled the motor?

Plugs looked fine, #2 always had more soot on it, that was from the low compression from the burnt rings but no evidence that the pistons were going to look the way they did

[oVa-Boost]

sounds crazy but looking good

[slo4cyl]

thanks, I'm tryin to get pics of the pistons uploaded but they weren't taken on a camera of mine so i got to get ahold of that and they will be up

[Ricky]

You wont be able to work on the car saturday..... cuz your fucking snowboarding with me! its $15 lift tickets! cant say no to that!

you can snowboard all day or you can go to a movie for 2 hours and buy a popcorn and pop.....

[RWSBIRD]

Damn lots of progress. I still wanna see that car run sometime.

[Scott]

Looks good man, its amazing how much that wiring actually weighs. I think I pulled about 10 pounds of wire out of the mustang when I went through that. Think the detonation is from too much timing?

[slo4cyl]

Looks good man, its amazing how much that wiring actually weighs. I think I pulled about 10 pounds of wire out of the mustang when I went through that. Think the detonation is from too much timing?

It had a really agressive tune on it for 91 octane pump gas, i think i got a bad tank of gas and it just did not agree with the tune at all.

[Clinical]

I noticed the talon bogs and runs like shit overall on a couple station's 91.
Also got random knock here and there with it.

Seems to run the best on the Shell / Conoco's / BP premium.

[Drifte]

^ fyi I only ran 93 Octane , anything else will knock. (never tried 92)

[Clinical]

Ahh I gotcha - I've only been running the 91 shell premium lately and it runs perfect on it. It's considered one of the best available here aside from the Conoco 93 which is over 3.00 a gallon but if you're going to the track it's supposedly worth it for 93 octane tunes.

[slo4cyl]

I noticed the talon bogs and runs like shit overall on a couple station's 91.
Also got random knock here and there with it.

Seems to run the best on the Shell / Conoco's / BP premium.

If i would have had a station with 93 close to me i would have ran that. all i have is 91 or 92 ethanol. next year 110 leaded will be the lowest it sees i think.

[FiFdYnUtZ]

Ahh I gotcha - I've only been running the 91 shell premium lately and it runs perfect on it. It's considered one of the best available here aside from the Conoco 93 which is over 3.00 a gallon but if you're going to the track it's supposedly worth it for 93 octane tunes.

if the car is tuned on 93 octane is it really worth saving under $5 a fill up to run crappier gas that could cause detonation?

[Ricky]

I noticed the talon bogs and runs like shit overall on a couple station's 91.
Also got random knock here and there with it.

Seems to run the best on the Shell / Conoco's / BP premium.

If i would have had a station with 93 close to me i would have ran that. all i have is 91 or 92 ethanol. next year 110 leaded will be the lowest it sees i think.


get it from the airport.... thats what the planes use. see if you can buy the run off...

110 leaded ran great through a Suzuki samurai :)

[Clinical]

Ahh I gotcha - I've only been running the 91 shell premium lately and it runs perfect on it. It's considered one of the best available here aside from the Conoco 93 which is over 3.00 a gallon but if you're going to the track it's supposedly worth it for 93 octane tunes.

if the car is tuned on 93 octane is it really worth saving under $5 a fill up to run crappier gas that could cause detonation?

It's tuned for 91


Although when I get DSMLink it'll probably be a 93 only tune or E85 if I find a deal on bigger injectors... Just a matter of seeing if I'll have the money, I've been spending so much money lately on maintenance so I'm budgeting a bit.

[FiFdYnUtZ]

I noticed the talon bogs and runs like shit overall on a couple station's 91.
Also got random knock here and there with it.

Seems to run the best on the Shell / Conoco's / BP premium.

If i would have had a station with 93 close to me i would have ran that. all i have is 91 or 92 ethanol. next year 110 leaded will be the lowest it sees i think.


get it from the airport.... thats what the planes use. see if you can buy the run off...

110 leaded ran great through a Suzuki samurai :)

iirc i read somewhere that the airplane fuel is designed to be burnt at a higher altitude and doesnt do near as well in a regular vehicle..

[Jappbox]

honestly not sure if brents car was due to 91 octane, the pistions were 3 years old and it had missfires and ignition problems on and off in that time. Any one of those things over time will where down pistions. If it ran smooth at the timeing that I had in it for those 3 years I think the pistions would look brand new.

[Ricky]

I noticed the talon bogs and runs like shit overall on a couple station's 91.
Also got random knock here and there with it.

Seems to run the best on the Shell / Conoco's / BP premium.

If i would have had a station with 93 close to me i would have ran that. all i have is 91 or 92 ethanol. next year 110 leaded will be the lowest it sees i think.


get it from the airport.... thats what the planes use. see if you can buy the run off...

110 leaded ran great through a Suzuki samurai :)

iirc i read somewhere that the airplane fuel is designed to be burnt at a higher altitude and doesnt do near as well in a regular vehicle..

well yeah we planed it would blow up lol... got it for 200 i think and he didnt want to put any money into it.... his dad got the gas for free from the airport lol....it was a time bomb

[TbTalon94]

If you have the ability to get higher octane gas then it's stupid not to. I barley boost in the winter but I don't go putting 89 octane in my car. It's just not worth it. I'd rather spend an extra $1-2 at the pump then 1000-2000 on a new motor.

[Clinical]

If you have the ability to get higher octane gas then it's stupid not to. I barley boost in the winter but I don't go putting 89 octane in my car. It's just not worth it. I'd rather spend an extra $1-2 at the pump then 1000-2000 on a new motor.

Well the talon would never see anything under 91 without a doubt.

The shell vpower 91 is great and runs perfect. The conoco's 93 is also extremely good and is really the only way to go if your car is tuned for 93 around here. BP 93 is also good.

It's stuff like the wal-mart/hy-vee/casey's/star/gasland around here whose 91 / 93 you definitely want to stay away from. Watered down shit.

I ran the Wal-Mart 93 once in the talon and I kept registering a bit of knock whenever starting from 700rpms to about 1.5k

Now I stick with Shell or Conoco and haven't seen knock at all.

[Ricky]

I don't go putting 89 octane in my car.


I remember when you used to run 89...... LIER!

[Drifte]

I don't go putting 89 octane in my car.


I remember when you used to run 89...... LIER!

I recall that too...

[slo4cyl]

honestly not sure if brents car was due to 91 octane, the pistions were 3 years old and it had missfires and ignition problems on and off in that time. Any one of those things over time will where down pistions. If it ran smooth at the timeing that I had in it for those 3 years I think the pistions would look brand new.

I think they were a little older than that even. But yeah i did have the Power TR unit go bad that was causin it to randomly drop cylinders i forgot about that. We'll never really know what did it, all we can do is speculate. The machine shop said the wear on the piston skirt is most likely from contamination in the oil, probably gas.

[TbTalon94]

I don't go putting 89 octane in my car.


I remember when you used to run 89...... LIER!

That was my talon, not my evo. I had my talon running 10.0 a/f's and around 5* of timing. I think I could of put diesel in that thing and nothing would have happened.

[AutoMods]

I noticed the talon bogs and runs like shit overall on a couple station's 91.
Also got random knock here and there with it.

Seems to run the best on the Shell / Conoco's / BP premium.

If i would have had a station with 93 close to me i would have ran that. all i have is 91 or 92 ethanol. next year 110 leaded will be the lowest it sees i think.

I'm more of a fan of meth injection or e85 because its so cheap. A street car that requires $8+ for gallon of gas just doesn't make sense to me. You'd probably only inject about a 1/2 gallon of meth per full tank of gas and that is if you get on it a decent amount.

By the way, a new gas station in North Liberty offers e85, its right by the i380 on/off ramp.

[Clinical]

I noticed the talon bogs and runs like shit overall on a couple station's 91.
Also got random knock here and there with it.

Seems to run the best on the Shell / Conoco's / BP premium.

If i would have had a station with 93 close to me i would have ran that. all i have is 91 or 92 ethanol. next year 110 leaded will be the lowest it sees i think.

I'm more of a fan of meth injection or e85 because its so cheap. A street car that requires $8+ for gallon of gas just doesn't make sense to me. You'd probably only inject about a 1/2 gallon of meth per full tank of gas and that is if you get on it a decent amount.

By the way, a new gas station in North Liberty offers e85, its right by the i380 on/off ramp.

Heh this is why I like the idea of E85.

We have a station right here in town that sells it :)

I just hate it that Cordova doesn't have E85 and there are no stations along the way except in galesburg but really if you leave burlington and need gas by galesburg... wtf

I'm surprised Cordova hasn't started selling E85 yet, that or a station next to it.

[slo4cyl]

I'm more of a fan of meth injection or e85 because its so cheap. A street car that requires $8+ for gallon of gas just doesn't make sense to me. You'd probably only inject about a 1/2 gallon of meth per full tank of gas and that is if you get on it a decent amount.

By the way, a new gas station in North Liberty offers e85, its right by the i380 on/off ramp.

Well i would consider it more if i had e85 anywhere near me, and i've pondered the idea of methanol but i think i'm gonna stay away from it for now. i can get leaded 110 in tama for $6 a gallon. Its not gonna be driven to much on the street, just handle business and thats it, won't be a cruiser or anything.

[AutoMods]

$6 a gallon for race gas isn't bad.

[Xboosted23X]

I think that's what 110 is here about $6. I will be running the cheap stuff 2.04 for e85. Can't wait to see how the car runs.

[AutoMods]

I think that's what 110 is here about $6. I will be running the cheap stuff 2.04 for e85. Can't wait to see how the car runs.

What size injectors are you running?

[Xboosted23X]

1200cc. I'm on the stock turbo so that should be plenty.

[slo4cyl]

Got a little progress made, Got my block and crank back from the machine shop last week, filed my rings and dropped my pistons and rods in last weekend. Got my balance shaft bearings today so the front case, oil pan and cylinder head will go on sunday along with some paint. Here are some progress pics.

Heres the only decent picture of a piston out of my motor.

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/DSCI0102.jpg

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Can't really read that last one and someone wrote go around 1 but its supposed to read go big or blow

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/DSCI0247.jpg

Most of my new fuel system

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/FuelsystemTbeltcover.jpg

Thanks to Ryan and Colton at Import Evolution for all the parts and good prices

[Ricky]

whos the chick brent ;)

[Xboosted23X]

looks good. it does need some paint though. the mahles are coated right?
looks like it should be ready for ohio soon.

[slo4cyl]

You might meet her Saturday eric if your around. And yeah I think i'm gonna paint it charcoal and the motor should be done sunday or early next week then I just gotta get the car ready

[Jappbox]

mahles are only coated on the skirts. looks good

[Ricky]

You might meet her Saturday eric if your around. And yeah I think i'm gonna paint it charcoal and the motor should be done sunday or early next week then I just gotta get the car ready


I have two birthday parties to hit up and im snowboarding all day :(

Spend the night at coltons and see you sunday? Ok deal.

[slo4cyl]

I have two birthday parties to hit up and im snowboarding all day :(

Spend the night at coltons and see you sunday? Ok deal.

That might be a possibility

[AutoMods]

looks fun. should be satisfying to know you put it together yourself! Especially if it hauls beans.

downfall is if it blows up , its your fault :)

[slo4cyl]

looks fun. should be satisfying to know you put it together yourself! Especially if it hauls beans.

downfall is if it blows up , its your fault :)

Well i'm hoping it hauls beans, and it will make me feel really good. were not gonna talkin about it blowing up though lol tryin to stay positive

[Drifte]

looks good. it does need some paint though. the mahles are coated right?
looks like it should be ready for ohio soon.
Power Pak feature includes:

Forged piston for performance applications
Fully-machined crown
Grafal anti-Friction coating on skirts*
Phosphate-coated to reduce micro-welding and pin galling**
Pin bores binished on CNC boring equipment
Deburred
High strength, light weight steel pins
Race proven round wire locks
Low drag ring pak
Light weight slipper kirt forgings


Good pistons, come most recommended over all other piston options.

[Xboosted23X]

Yeah I ran them in the talon when I built the motor.

[slo4cyl]

Got the block painted, the head put on, primed it and timed it. Now I'm just waiting on a clutch disc and flywheel surface which should be here next week, thanks to Import Evolution, and then the motor will be ready to drop in. Here are some updates as of last night.

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/DSCI0249.jpg

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[FiFdYnUtZ]

oooo purdy!

[TbTalon94]

Hopefully I'll have your manifold done next week. Then get that bish running!

[Drifte]

lookin good.

[slo4cyl]

Hopefully I'll have your manifold done next week. Then get that bish running!

Awesome, yeah I'm hopin to have the motor in next weekend or the weekend after I'm still working on the interior but i want to get the motor in and running ASAP

[DustinsDuster]

hell yeah Brent- looks awesome.

[slo4cyl]

Thanks Dustin, the wiring and interior is coming back together slowly but surely :/

[Drifte]

clutch and stuff is here. its all you from here!

[slo4cyl]

clutch and stuff is here. its all you from here!

We will be up saturday afternoon around 5:30 or 6:00, and we'll have to figure out something to do.

[Ricky]

clutch and stuff is here. its all you from here!

We will be up saturday afternoon around 5:30 or 6:00, and we'll have to figure out something to do.


BEER!

[slo4cyl]

BEER!

So beer and guitar hero like the old days?

[DustinsDuster]

are you able to go to bars yet?

[slo4cyl]

are you able to go to bars yet?

Yea its been a while though. i think the last time i was out in cr i was with colton and we met up with you and played some pool.

[Ricky]

BEER!

So beer and guitar hero like the old days?


I still have pics of that night somewhere!

[Drifte]

I have a big back yard and my roomates ruckus is still in my garage....

[Ricky]

I have a big back yard and my roomates ruckus is still in my garage....

I got it running after you told me it wouldn't. Just needed a good kick ;)

[slo4cyl]

I have a big back yard and my roomates ruckus is still in my garage....

I'm in, any sweet jumps?

[Ricky]

Looks like i might just have to go out to eat. She doesnt know where she is having a party and i dont like most of her "friends" after dinner I will come out to coltons

[Drifte]

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k27/drifte/slo4cylsig.jpg

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k27/drifte/DSC00022.jpg

[TbTalon94]

i really like those wheels on there...oh and the NOT stock suspension!

[slo4cyl]

i really like those wheels on there...oh and the NOT stock suspension!

Yea black looks much better on there. and hopefully in a couple months I'll have a set of coil-overs

[Domestic Disturbance]

are those 2g 10 spoke wheels? look good

[AutoMods]

looks good!

[slo4cyl]

are those 2g 10 spoke wheels? look good

Thanks, yeah they are the 17" GSX wheels

[Clinical]

The 2g GSX wheels are some of my favorites.

I'd almost take a set over my Evo 8's haha

[Ricky]

sorry i didnt make it out Saturday. I was too drunk to function by 7:30 :( my bad

[slo4cyl]

A little update, got my new TAB Fab tubular exhaust manifold saturday, still need to send it out to be coated but I'm gonna check the fitment with the down pipe first because it was custom made and they didn't have the car. Also got my new Hydraulic staging break installed. I bought it with the lines, brackets and fittings, so the install was pretty easy. Motor should be going in this weekend. Here are some pics.

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/HPIM1042.jpg

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/HPIM1044.jpg

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Don't mind the mess, wish i would have gotten it cleaned up before I snapped the Pics
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/HPIM1055.jpg

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/HPIM1056.jpg

Lines to the Distribution Block
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[Jappbox]

Now thats a bad ass manifold. Love the staging brake

[Drifte]

ditto, love that staging brake.

[Clinical]

Damn, that thing has really turned into a machine

[slo4cyl]

Damn, that thing has really turned into a machine

Thanks, hopefully its more of a machine after this weekend.

[slo4cyl]

So the motor still isn't in, had problems with stripped out pressure plate holes in the flywheel so im gettin a new one this week it will be in this weekend. I've been keepin busy with gettin other stuff done though here's some pics.

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/HPIM1077.jpg

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[Drifte]

haha yesh. Sandblasting did wonders. get a little paint on their quick. dude, your girlfriends soo holding onto your waste gate.

[sLoWnStEaDy]

Couldn't help but notice that girl seems to be clean and sitting in every picture she is in... Get that girl a wrench and put her to work!

[slo4cyl]

Couldn't help but notice that girl seems to be clean and sitting in every picture she is in... Get that girl a wrench and put her to work!

Ha ha yeah I'm workin on it, I had her shinnin up the surface of my pressure plate the other night, just didn't take any pics

[sLoWnStEaDy]

Couldn't help but notice that girl seems to be clean and sitting in every picture she is in... Get that girl a wrench and put her to work!

Ha ha yeah I'm workin on it, I had her shinnin up the surface of my pressure plate the other night, just didn't take any pics


LOL... I am going to assume that is literal and not some sort of "wink-wink" :biggrin:

[slo4cyl]

Ha ha yeah no wink intended. I probably should have re read that

[Drifte]

I'll be really excited when it runs, drives, dyno tuned, and a working tach. Cuz it'll finally haul nuts on the track.

[slo4cyl]

So the tread needs changed to 93 Talon Tsi now. Its about to start up, I have the stock transmission in it for now until I get the built one back from Jacks, hopefully its before the 24th of July so I can make it to CFR. I got the interior all finished, I need to clock my compressor just a little bit towards the motor, found out last night that it hits my slim line fan, and I need to mount my FPR and make a short return line. Here are some pics.

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l142/slo4cyl/HPIM1198.jpg

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[FiFdYnUtZ]

i'll try to get a chance to squirt your corners tonite!

[TbTalon94]

I know what you need next Brent. A tubular front x-mount :)

[Drifte]

need some silicone radiator hose...

Red or Black.

[Drifte]

engine bays nice and clean btw.

[slo4cyl]

I know what you need next Brent. A tubular front x-mount :)

I think that will be a little while yet, the aluminum exhaust will be next for sure though... soon.

[slo4cyl]

Update: TAB Fab got the aluminum exhaust done last week. The car started up last night, I got the idle dialed in. The car runs great and sounds pretty nasty. I'm takin it up to my friends shop today to re make the front section of the down pipe. My transmission should be back from jacks this week then it'll be ready to get tuned and hit the streets/track. I'll post up some pics later.

[Deimos]

Off topic ran into your ex Katrina she said to tell you hi.

[FiFdYnUtZ]

you need to come get your lights!

[Ricky]

Off topic ran into your ex Katrina she said to tell you hi.


yeah i ran into her and my x one day at the beach.... that was a whole lot of fun :roll:

[slo4cyl]

you need to come get your lights!

I know! I'm tryin to figure something out, this week I'm slammed with shit to do tryin to get everything ready for this weekend. I'll get ahold of you and we'll figure a time out.



Off topic ran into your ex Katrina she said to tell you hi.


yeah i ran into her and my x one day at the beach.... that was a whole lot of fun :roll:

Lets leave the ex's out of this, its draggin down the thread :Hangman: lol

[DustinsDuster]

Off topic ran into your ex Katrina she said to tell you hi.


yeah i ran into her and my x one day at the beach.... that was a whole lot of fun :roll:

Lets leave the ex's out of this, its draggin down the thread :Hangman: lol[/quote]

im pretty sure i see her a few times during the week when i deliver to her store; although ive never really talked to her. only reason i know who she is is because Colton/Bri told me. although today she did ask about the tattoo around my wrist, and then asked if it hurt- hahahahaha. she had no way of knowing about the rest of mine, and i didnt say anything about it, just kinda laughed and said "no".

[Deimos]

Yeah funny thing I am friends with Katrina's sister Christina she started talking to me cuz of that and then she told me she dated you and to say hi.

[sparkles]

im pretty sure i see her a few times during the week when i deliver to her store; although ive never really talked to her. only reason i know who she is is because Colton/Bri told me. although today she did ask about the tattoo around my wrist, and then asked if it hurt- hahahahaha. she had no way of knowing about the rest of mine, and i didnt say anything about it, just kinda laughed and said "no".


So...did it hurt? :biggrin:

[Ricky]

so.... i hear the GSX is alive. when are you getting it tuned and when can i see it break 10's?

[TbTalon94]

so.... i hear the GSX is alive. when are you getting it tuned and when can i see it break 10's?


It's gotta break 11's first....hehe


Better get it running/tuned/broke in by friday!!

[Ricky]

going from 12's to 10's would be cocky! skip 11's completely!

[TbTalon94]

Why don't you come up with us friday eric?

[Ricky]

I would but i will be in Ames for the the Iowa games! I have a soccer game friday, saturday, and sunday.

[slo4cyl]

so.... i hear the GSX is alive. when are you getting it tuned and when can i see it break 10's?


It's gotta break 11's first....hehe


Better get it running/tuned/broke in by friday!!

The GSX is almost a bare shell on jack stands but the TSi is alive yes :biggrin: . If I have a damn tranny by tomorrow I will be tuning it friday at the track. I'm not to worried about breaking anything in the more I've read and talked to my machinist the more I've figured out I'm just gonna be driving it like I will be driving it. I have the first oil change done, if I get the tranny in tomorrow night I'll put some miles on it thursday night and change the oil again for friday.

[slo4cyl]

Ok Jack just called me, and said they had some miss communication. I had them tell me the advantages and dissadvantages between a welded center differential and a 4 spider, and I decided to go with a welded for $50 compared to $400 for the 4 spider. Well the salesman must not have relayed that to the tech because they only fixed the 3rd gear synchro that was burnt up, and when they told me that it was done they didn't list a that a welded diff was installed so I asked and made sure they did. Well he told me he fixed the reciept and now it said they did but that was it and apparently had to tear it back down and put one in, now its getting sent out tomorrow. I'm pretty upset about it but I know shit like that happens, (sounds like some shit right out of sears :butthead: ) and he was really nice and everything on the phone, said he was gonna try and get it here sooner, and even talked to me about some clutch issues. All in all I'm glad he called and we got everything resolved over the phone instead of damn email, but my car probably won't be driveable for another weekend :(

[DustinsDuster]

on a side note; given any more thought to parting with one of your shitty AWD cars? i'd be willing to help with assembly depending on price and what not.

[Drifte]

Im a little bit glad you wont be running friday since I cant make it...selfish, maybe.

[slo4cyl]

on a side note; given any more thought to parting with one of your shitty AWD cars? i'd be willing to help with assembly depending on price and what not.

PM sent


Im a little bit glad you wont be running friday since I cant make it...selfish, maybe.

Just a little

[slo4cyl]

Well this has been a crazy week. I got my transmission back from Jack on monday, got it in that night but broke a bolt off in the trans. Luckily I had help to keep workin on gettin everything together as I tried to get this bolt out. I got lucky and got it with a ez out. Then it was time to solve the issue that has been haunting me for 3 years. I installed my ACT 2900 Pressure Plate, that I could never get to release. I tried adjusting my clutch and couldn't get enough throw. The master cylinder rod was too short, so with a tip from Jack I welded a nut on the back side of the adjuster, installed and adjusted last night and Boom clutch released. I almost did not believe it, so tonight is time for a little drive and a wash with some pics of it actually out somewhere besides my shop, and hopefully saturday dyno time!

[TbTalon94]

Sweet ass, lookin forward to seeing it run and dyno!!

[Drifte]

brent. trevor is looking forward to watching your "sweet ass" "run."

haha butt dyno comes to mind.