So I wrecked my car today, hydroplaned leaving the base. It was my own fault for not having good tires even though I needed them. I don't know whether to part out the car or try to sell it as a shell without the motor or ecu, because I would like to go to an awd and currently don't have the time or money to fix it that was my reason for parting it out or selling the shell.

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So awhile back I ordered some axles from raxels, really top quality products, when I placed the order Marty warned me that my car may have either the 92 or 93 eclipse/talon/plymouth spline count in the transmission. I went out checked my car saw that it was made in September of 1992 so I just went ahead and said send me the 92s. So I go to the base to put in my new axles I'm so excited things start...

Welp got my ecu back from being socketed today and installed my ostrich, loaded up ds-map and uploaded to it. Car started, died shortyl there after adjusted my hard ve got a nice steady idle, of course I had to test the rev studder box so sexy. But now onto the long road of tuning ve. Tomorrow will be a busy day with work and soldering my wb signal into my o2 signal and figuring out why my pc won't...

So I decided to go with the JAW wideband unit which doesn't come with its own enclosure so being the dsm'r I am I got creative. Went to the dollar store and picked up a tuperware set then went to town with a steak knife and a lighter. I will be mounting it under the driver side seat with the fan facing the rear here's the finished product.
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Ever wonder just how big a 4inch intake is? heres a picture of my 1yr old next to mine lol

Welp I have started to get my parts for my switch to DS-Map on my 1gb. Can't wait t get this bitch going just thought I would post a picture of my parts that i got. Detailed review later on when everything is up and running.
In the picture you will see my new FP 4" intake with my...

So today started out like any normal day. Woke up at 430 got ready walked out to my car crossed my fingers and started her up. Let her warm up for a little than I take off to work. Nothing unusual happening until I pull through the main gate on base. I come up to a stop light and see a cloud of white, I imediately think oh shit, when this happened on my wifes passat it was a new radiator, new...

Well I have gotten into the habit of blogging every time I do something to my car or my car does something to me, and the latest thing completed was installing some new plugs and semi new wires. Everything was simple enough pulled out the old plugs and it looks like cylinder 3 and 4 are running a wee bit on the lean side not sure why, but I am kind of thinking less fuel gets to those 2 cylinders....

So I have basically put my dsm on one day a week drive duty recently just because she has 217k miles on her and my wife doesn't work :-). So the other day I got home and I noticed some spots underneath, I thought to myself its just oil, but it looked like more than i saw originally when I parked it last Friday. So i got down to check it out just to make sure, and yup it was oil, but then i saw something...

So last Saturday I was all pumped to change the valve cover gasket and change out my fuel filter thinking that neither one should take that long or be that much work, But as we all know its a dsm anything is possible. So Anyway I got up bright and early and headed to the hobby shop on base, got my stall pulled in and got to work. Jacked up the rear of the car disconnected the fuel pump and started...

So the last few days I have been dealing with a coolant leak that just wont go. First I thought it was a bolt that wouldn't tighten down, so I tapped it out to one size bigger gasketed it up and put it on. Still leaked but was leaking from the bottom of the thermostat housing. So I tried to do it the lazy way and just slather gasket stuff all around the outside of the thermostat housing. This time...

So today nothing broke or anything like that. Just Ordered some gaskets 2 for the thermostat and some crush washers for the turbo. After I left mitsubishi I felt like i was finally going to get rid of all the little leaks I had only to find out that the leak that I thought was coolant was actually oil coming from the valve cover and the half moon woot more stuff to order. As I was leaving I saw...

Well, got to do my first little bit of work on the car woot. The other day as I was pulling through the main gates to get on to base, I was rolling up my window and noticed it was going up really slow and the radio cut out, I was liek what the hell? So then i noticed my headlights were going out and my dash lights were pretty much no existent. Oh gawd what now, the car managed to run just long...

Well it has been a long time coming for me to get back into dsms. I got my first dsm back in June of 2006, it was a White 97 GST five speed man I loved that car. I was slowly working my way through the mods (small 16g, hard upper intercooler pipe, manual boost controller, full APexi N1 exhaust and 1g BOV) when one day on my way out of town with a friend I was involved in a 3 car pile up with me...