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BoostCreep posted:I shipped my Talon across the country with a reputable company. It showed up with a smashed front bumper, crushed intercooler, and seized engine. You're really better off flying down yourself and driving back. It will cost about the same I'd imagine. Doof.
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Hire Nutcup.
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| # ? Mar 24, 2012 00:54 |
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I've now shipped multiple cars from the east coast to NE Indiana, each time for roughly $500 with no trouble at all. Just do your homework on the transport company.
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| # ? Mar 24, 2012 05:56 |
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If your car is (or isn't) damaged in transit., you can always post personal information of the shipping company's employees. I recall it working out well for another goon.
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| # ? Mar 24, 2012 19:55 |
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Welp, got the title today, time to insure it and get it registered in MA. Eesh.
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| # ? Mar 27, 2012 15:01 |
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Nthing keeping the eagle front end and spoiler. Its interesting, original and maybe it will grow on you. Get rid of the stupid hood.
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| # ? Mar 27, 2012 16:21 |
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The hood is staying and getting vented, but probably going to be repainted when I respray the whole thing.
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| # ? Mar 27, 2012 17:37 |
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That works, the exposed carbon and hood pins look really has been done to death (if it was ever acceptable), especially on DSM cars. Looks great otherwise, sorry for your rusty red loss...
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| # ? Mar 27, 2012 18:01 |
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I'd never convert from a 2gb talon to eclipse, but to each his own.
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| # ? Mar 27, 2012 22:25 |
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So I got my old tooning laptop up and running, and I found that the last log I made on the car was in 4/21/2006, almost 6 years ago.  My tuning laptop is still running XP somehow though, and it works, and the batteries are still (slowly) charging, so there's that. I pulled up aforementioned log, a fourth gear pull and found the old girl was pushing around 21psi and maxed out at about 260.9 gm/second (which translates to about 34.5111625 pounds per minute airflow (lbs/min)) on the "BigT28". The wastegate spring falls on its rear end at high RPM and has long been a problem. Also I was running a flat 11:1 fuel ratio (and even a little richer)... No timing modifications and was running around 16° top timing. The FP3052 (aka Garret GT3037/GT30R with a custom exhaust housing) flows around 52lbs/min (hence 3052), which is a pretty big increase in power. It's also probably one of the best turbos for road racing due to its ball bearing nature and ability to stick up there in boost for a while. THANKFULLY it's not something retardedly big. Hopefully the batteries will hold enough of a charge so I can do a pull or two after some initial setup.
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| # ? Apr 4, 2012 23:58 |
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Octopus Magic posted:Hopefully the batteries will hold enough of a charge so I can do a pull or two after some initial setup. This is why God invented extension cords.
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| # ? Apr 5, 2012 00:03 |
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Might want to look into a new battery for the laptop, should be able to get one for under $50. Or an inverter.
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| # ? Apr 5, 2012 01:38 |
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some texas redneck posted:Might want to look into a new battery for the laptop, should be able to get one for under $50. There's a D600 battery at my local microcenter down the street for $3.34?! holy moly!
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| # ? Apr 5, 2012 01:50 |
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Good morning thread! I did it! I brought the car home solo with no radio other than an iPhone and my wits about me. My rear end still hurts, my wrist is locked, and my foot is sore and locked, but I am home, and have a big old list for my shop to go through (remember, I want this car done right). Notable occurrences: The moment I got in the car, I blew the clutch slave and the braided clutch line. The guy I bought it off of adjusted for the full length being right halfway down the travel. Me being used to a stompy floor ACT2600 promptly came to a stop sign and put my foot to the floor. Whoops. So after rigging up a system of a brake line and a hardline, and a new clutch slave, I was on my way to the great wide open. Things were very, very fast leaving Florida and through Georgia all the way through South Carolina. Like constant 90mph speeds (keeping up with traffic). At about 11:00 PM I hit heavy traffic on the border of South and North Carolina, ruining my average speed and making me pray the clutch line held (it did without problem), so after I got through the traffic, I pulled off at a Super 8 Motel for a good 6 hours and got back on the road nice and early at 6, where I resumed my 80-90 mph average, and blew off the last driver's side skirt. Apparently they were just attached with window sealant and hope, the 1998 Talon never came with side skirts originally. I drove and drove more, until terror occurred, I blew out one of the cheap federal tires and had to get a new tire. Being a Sunday, NOTHING IS OPEN. Fuuuuuck. I start calling around everywhere looking for a tire (which needs to match with an AWD car), never mind the fact that I have a set of 235 width Advan Neovas and Advan RGII's waiting for me at my parent's place. I needed a new tire, because the compact spare wasn't going to hold another 500 miles. Finally, I find out that a Sears Auto in Alexandria is actually open and argue with them to get just two tires replaced instead of all four (yeah yeah, the center diff blah blah, I'm not going to be driving it at all with the tires on anymore, and am probably going to have to give the wheels away) and the car runs smooth enough. I'm pretty sure my short jaunt didn't do anything and I had zero issues of bucking or drivetrain noise except a little bit of vibration at ~80mph, so I kept it around 70 and zero "bad feel". The rest of the trip was pretty uneventful as I had no radio (I forgot the wiring harness adapter for my stereo), and just used my iphone with headphones, which I HATE doing as it cuts out my peripheral hearing, but it's either I do that, or go insane. As a note, there was some significant oil consumption during the trip, about 3.5 quarts over the period of around 1500 miles. I'm going to have my shop do a leak-down test and see what's going on with that. Turbo has no shaft play and the compression is a perfect 180psi across the board, NO LEAKS AT ALL (I know, a 4G63 not leaking, what!?!) so it might have been the fact that I was burning it from having a big loving turbo, driving at around 4k for hours on end, and no oil cooler at all (other than the factory water/oil cooler that does nothing basically. I have yet to pull the plugs or recheck the turbo since I got home (too tired), but I did not see any blue smoke (or anything at idle at least) and the oil consumption went down significantly when I dropped my average speed from 90mph to around 70 (from about 4k for a few hours to 3ish). Here's some pictures:  Driving in florida is pretty much that.  Pee break in South Carolina.  I hope you are doing well, lil Talon side skirt.   Starbucks is the most appealing thing you can buy on the road when all you have around is Arby's, Burger King, and Popeye's fried chicken. This meal of a green tea frappachino, pumpkin bread, and an egg sandwich would be my only "real meal" of the day.  Come visit BEAUTIFUL RICHMOND VIRGINIA  Cat photo to prove that I did get back to my parents. We're out of the woods, but the path has just started.
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| # ? Apr 9, 2012 14:58 |
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I love/hate doing trips like that. Congratulations on your relative success.  It never even occurred to me that you could adjust a clutch in that way. That's hilariously dangerous. Did they disable the clutch safety switch for the starter or something?
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| # ? Apr 9, 2012 15:20 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I love/hate doing trips like that. What's up with the PO's lovely clutch adjustment? That's the kind of hackjob that I don't even expect from DSM communities. It's just one of those personal preference things for quicker shifts (less leg movement etc), I've seen it done before with race cars (my own Dad did it on his Spitfire). I will say that he was a really standup guy and that he told me everything about the car (except the tire thing, which SUCKED).
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| # ? Apr 9, 2012 15:22 |
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I guess I can understand that. If you're already doing that, wouldn't it make sense to add a stopper or something behind the clutch pedal so you couldn't go all the way to the floor and blow up the hydraulic system?
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| # ? Apr 9, 2012 15:24 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I guess I can understand that. We readjusted it back down so it engages off the floor now. It would've made much more sense for him for other people to put a stopper on it, but stupid is as stupid does, and we got it home, so no harm no foul. Octopus Magic fucked around with this message at Apr 9, 2012 around 15:42 |
| # ? Apr 9, 2012 15:25 |
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That's the life of driving used Japanese turbo cars. I'm sorta glad the car decided to remove its own side skirts, Talons look weird with 'em on and remind me of high school. Again, congrats. I'd be hard pressed to find something cleaner.
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Another update, my guys at the shop I'm bringing it to said not to worry about the oil consumption, which confirmed my thoughts that I was just basically baking the crap out of it with the kind of driving I was doing. Here's my list now that I'm a little more coherent and thinking better. Immediate tomorrow night plans: Pull SRS airbag light. Stick a silencer in the exhaust for inspection. Put my old Eclipse wheels with sumitomos all around on it temporarily. transfer over the current DSM Link settings for backup. Shop plans: Catch can for oil blow by, catch can for radiator overflow, Reattach the pull fan to the radiator because the mounts broke. Heat shield the turbo more. Heat shield the intake filter. Install the Brembos (the car already has nice braided stainless lines on it, woo hoo). Replace the braided stainless steel clutch line that I blew. Clean up the wiring harness and the crap alarm wiring harness. Latch down the battery better (maybe go to a mini setup) Mount the Advan wheels and tires. Dyno Tune it Check the front balljoints out. transfer over the oil cooler setup from my other car. Mid range: Clean up the interior (new center console, new driver side sun visor, vacuum it , etc )Swap gauges from the cheap stuart warner crap to the Greddy stuff from my Eclipse. (Maybe go Stack?) Swap seats from broken down DSM to my Zeta 3 Put the radio/HKS EVC 6 in. Put rebuilt JIC Suspension back in. (have to send this out) Align the car. Transfer over the rollbar. Upgrade to V3 DSMLink. Far off plans: Paint/Eclipse conversion with ricer front end. Duct hood. Clean up and sell the Eclipse off.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 14:37 |
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Shame about the side skirt. The 95-96 turbo talon skirts are extremely rare and sell for a lot to the right buyer. I've seen them go for as much as $450 for the pair. It's always fun driving DSMs long distance. You never know what you're getting yourself into. Fabbing a clutch line on the side of the road 1500 miles from home? Pretty standard for a DSMer. Glad you made it back in one piece. I drove in a caravan to the DSM Shootout in 2001 with a guy that had a '90 Laser with a pretty significant oil consumption problem. He burned through 4-5 quarts of oil from South Carolina to Ohio. The front of his car was white, the back from the doors to the bumper was completely black from oil spray. You couldn't even see out his rear window.
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BoostCreep posted:Shame about the side skirt. The 95-96 turbo talon skirts are extremely rare and sell for a lot to the right buyer. I've seen them go for as much as $450 for the pair. Yeah, the sideskirt thing kind of sucked, but there was only one of them on the car, and he gave me a set of '97-99's, which work out for me anyways because I'm turning it back into an Eclipse eventually. 4-5 quarts over 500-700 miles is a ton of oil. Were his rings shot/turbo shot? Gross.
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Octopus Magic posted:4-5 quarts over 500-700 miles is a ton of oil. Were his rings shot/turbo shot? Gross. I don't really remember. I think it was a mix of leaking oil and burning oil. I do remember that he bought it from a junkyard and got it running right before driving it to the Shootout, so who knows what condition the engine was in.
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Octopus Magic posted:4-5 quarts over 500-700 miles is a ton of oil. Were his rings shot/turbo shot? Gross. When I moved to Dallas (about 650 miles) my F-150 drank about 8 quarts of 60wt. Gotta love a shot rear main seal. The back of the truck was always covered in oil.
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Octopus Magic posted:
My proud city! Wish I could have grabbed a good high five on your way through, would have loved to chat about AWD superiority.
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streetlamp posted:My proud city! Wish I could have grabbed a good high five on your way through, would have loved to chat about AWD superiority. I probably could've used it at that point considering how hard up I was for something to think about other than sitting at 75mph and listening to my iPhone... That and getting a flat and going to the Alexandria Sears Auto.  Last night I went down to my parents and changed the wheels to my old 2G GSX wheels, grabbed a log for the injector values, and pulled the SRS light. The tires are getting mounted today and I'll probably put them on over the weekend (just what I want to do AGAIN, is huck tires around). The front passenger lower front control arm balljoint is shot, and so is the rear lower driver side ball joint. The other ones looked pretty good with a quick once over, but might need a more thorough check (it was dark). I've never seen a DSM with castlenuts that weren't welded on solid. It's amazing to see how not-rusty this car is!! Octopus Magic fucked around with this message at Apr 12, 2012 around 14:26 |
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The car failed inspection today spectacularly! The cat wasn't on (I thought they'd overlook this due to the lack of any CEL and DSMLink reading clear, they smelled gas. The car has aftermarket HIDs (which are now illegal here). Cue the HID brigade... now! The rear taillight tint is iffy. The rear window tint is iffy. Car is loud. Looks like I have an afternoon of work!
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Ah, yes. The joys of annual inspections. Ironically, I lived in Richmond, Virginia, and the inspection process is what forced me to get rid of my 1986 Lincoln Towncar that ALSO had no cats. I'm very happy living in Florida with my catless 91 Towncar now...
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| # ? Apr 12, 2012 18:20 |
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It sucks, but after being in Florida again, I'll spend a day adding/removing dumb parts versus living in Florida. I just love Cambridge.
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| # ? Apr 12, 2012 18:28 |
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Eh, one of the advantages of living in FL is no testing. I'll take it. Roads here suck though
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| # ? Apr 12, 2012 20:47 |
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  Advan Neova Tires mounted. 235 x 45 x 17 on a 17x9 wheel with +29 offset for clearing the big brownbos. Would've looked so good on my red car. 
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| # ? Apr 12, 2012 21:43 |
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Congratulations on finding another DSM. I am super jealous that you have the 2gb Talon stuff. I would kill for the bumpers and side mouldings locally. What becomes of the red car at this point?
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| # ? Apr 13, 2012 02:14 |
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Holy poo poo those RGIIs look so drat awesome. If they had slightly thicker spokes I'd be a poorer man right now.
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| # ? Apr 13, 2012 02:54 |
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thvwlshvscpd posted:Congratulations on finding another DSM. I am super jealous that you have the 2gb Talon stuff. I would kill for the bumpers and side mouldings locally. What becomes of the red car at this point? I'm going to pull the parts I want off it (the roll bar, JIC shocks, downpipe, gauges, wheels, seat, steering wheel/hub, boost controller, giant rear end oil cooler, radio at the minimum, maybe FPR, maybe some more stuff IDK), and then change the timing belt, clean up the surface rust with a brush, recoat the parts, and sell it for around 2k as a street car.
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| # ? Apr 13, 2012 14:54 |
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Octopus Magic posted:I'm going to pull the parts I want off it (the roll bar, JIC shocks, downpipe, gauges, wheels, seat, steering wheel/hub, boost controller, giant rear end oil cooler, radio at the minimum, maybe FPR, maybe some more stuff IDK), and then change the timing belt, clean up the surface rust with a brush, recoat the parts, and sell it for around 2k as a street car. If you feel like parting with the big t28, let me know. I might be interested in it for the right price.
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| # ? Apr 13, 2012 17:12 |
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Those wheels are so sweet looking
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| # ? Apr 13, 2012 17:32 |
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 Wheels mounted. And I promptly scraped the bottom of my car going down my garage ramp. Also lost the tune I had on it, but that can be taken care of later. Any suggestions on approach angle?
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| # ? Apr 14, 2012 22:49 |
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Did you drop a spark plug or wtf is that? (bottom left)
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| # ? Apr 14, 2012 23:25 |
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AlternateAccount posted:Did you drop a spark plug or wtf is that? (bottom left) It's a valve adapter for an air compressor?
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Nice canards  Also RG's are the best wheels, i've got a set of the older version as my winters.
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