DSM Project Car/Build Updates

DECONSTRUCTION!!! Ahhh I have been waiting 18 long months for this. However, The interior developed some kind of FUNKY smell.
So, I start taking apart the interior, starting in the trunk. In the spare well I find a pool of water, almost enough to cover my windshield reservoir. Cleaned that out, and removed the reservoir, as NONE of my squirters work. Diagnosed it to be that the motors/pumps...

Alright, here it is.

I've had most of the parts for my motor swap, pulled my motor roughly 10 or so days ago, of which I rented a car for my parts needs and to go to work, it's stacking up so it's time for my motor to find it's new home.

for the past few days I've been waiting for a new flywheel, my old one's bolts are super uber doublemint hercules'd on....or probably...

Spdfreaks first start video - YouTube The car is running rich right now i still need to pull some fuel out , i just wanted to post a quick video

Finally got the car home. This thing looks even better in person. The fab work on this car looks great. I took some better pics today. Pardon the surface rust. I have to get everything painted soon.

The Ladder bars are attached to the roll cage through the floor. The area where the Ladder bar support comes through the floor is reinforced with heavy steel plates.
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Hey guys! Ok so my reasoning behind joining dsmtuners was because over the past few years i've helped my buddy fix his car and stuff and whenever we had questions i could find the answer here plain and simple. Well it turns out his car is now mine for the fixing and "rebuilding"

Now the rebuild Im planing is not your run of the mill dsm rebuild. My plans include building a...

Starting to tear down my dsm for the build.
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Motor was blown had a crack in the block and rod knock
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So it gave me ideas to start a build and clean up the engine bay alot.

I have a new stage 2 shortblock with a stage 2 head going in...

Over the years of slowly building this car up, it's finally getting close to were I want it. My goal was to make as much power as I can on pump gas and a 16g turbo. I have not yet got it on a dyno to know for sure what its making for power, last time I went to the 1/4 mile track I had a bad day.... starter went out and my punishment intercooler was getting heat soaked, and I ended with a disapointing...

The build lives on. Let me get you guys up to speed. Ok, the cage was completed some time ago. The seat had to be modified to give me more head room. This required the floor to be modified and the E-brake moved to the other side of the Shifter. Nate tells me that I should have all the room I need. Then the issue of the rear end came up. Like most guys the only option I had was to buy those...

Hey everyone. After giving up the never ending front wheel drive battle with Honda's, i've wised up and bought a dsm. I good friend of mine was parting out his car, so I bought everything he had left.

Will start posting pics soon =]

Jealous much? This is the setup slated for the car. DNP manifold/o2 housing, 38mm Tial WG, Td06 20g

But as you can see, there's a nice gap between the wg and o2 housing. It could theoretically run, just stupid loud. I'm waiting on a spacer.


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I will have to say, the body has seen better days. I will have to learn how to work dents and what not!





This is right when I picked it up. A little dirty, she'll get better
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So I patched up the leaky gas tank and now it doesn't leak anymore


Patched but still wet around the leak


Then I worked on fixing the routing of the boost gauge hose and wires. Before, it ran through the gap between...

Well I touched up the valve cover and intake manifold and put it back together.




The JB Weld didn't hold up at all, like you guys predicted, so I cleaned up the cut around where the...

It has been a while since I updated this as it has been very busy here and the Talon has been relentless in playing a game of chicken with a partout. ha!

The 2nd head gasket failed in the exact same way as the first. There is another thread discussing this here:
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/cyli...way-ideas.html...

I figured this would be some good information to post since I haven't made a blog in a while. I pieced together a set of DG coilovers a while ago (Nov. 2010) and am just now getting around to installing them. It's been hard knowing they're sitting in my house and not on my car for that long, but I wanted to do everything right when I put them on. This included installing SPC upper control arms...

After a few days of work, I've got a couple things done that I'm happy with. I wanted to take some things out of the engine bay to clean them up and paint them. First up was the throttle body, which I showed off in my last post. Here's a lousy shot of it painted.



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I took off the head today it was a pain to get the head bolts off. Looks like it will need to be rebuilt. I have a bunch of work to do if I want this car on the road in a month.





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and link to the photo album

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I've been working on the car for a couple days but haven't really made much noticeable progress, which is fine with me because I'm not really in a hurry. I'm more concerned with doing things right with this car, something which must have never crossed the previous owner's mind. There's not a whole lot wrong with the car, so it's just gonna be minor details that will probably take some time. I've...

For those of you who didn't catch my last blog entry, I've been building, my 1993 1g n/a 4g63, on a budget of $0. Well, here we are again another mod for the cost of practically nothing. My friend needed some help pulling a head for his corolla at a junk yard and for helping i got what was left over from a CX Racing Inter-cooler piping kit. So i decided to make a cold air intake.
The plan...

I'm new to DSMs, I come from the LS1 part of the car world but have been more interested in cars in general lately. I was going away to school, but recently decided that I didn't want to be a high school teacher anymore because my interest in cars has progressed beyond obsession. I'm now going to community college to get an associate's degree in automotive technology. My parents were really cool...

She LIVES!!!!

Out of the garage for the first time in over a year. It feels great!! There's still some bugs to work out and things to do... but the fact that she runs and drives down the road... omg.. SO EXCITED!

Pics!

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The other day decided that 3 spoilers would look awesome on the Talon. Here's a mock up:





Just kidding.

However, did get the new/used decklid installed after respraying...

So, it's been a while since I updated. Last time, I had just rebuilt the engine, and was waiting to get the last few parts.

Well, 127 miles later, the oil pump failed. I thought my engine was seized, but after checking, the crank spins nicely, so I may be good.

I finally got a decent paying job, working 4-9 everyday, and 10 hours on saturdays, but unfortunately, school...

This is my custom v-band o2/downpipe for the Holset's non-wastegated 12cm^2 turbine housing. I performed all the cutting and fitting, taped it together, then took it to my local welder to finish the job. Boy does he do good work Not the funnest part of the build, but, I am very proud of this piece. It definitely took many hours to get the fitment perfect, and worth every effort.
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To quench this 2.3's thirst for E85, I picked up a set of FIC high-Z 1680cc injectors. The idle on these should be near stock!



My hx35 oil drain setup is shown here. I fitted a pipe to a drain flange, had an EMT conduit sweep welded to the oil pan, and connected them both with Vibrant high-temp...

After 3-4 years of driving around with an aging stock 2.0L with less than stellar compression numbers, I finally gathered up the time, funds, and materials to tackle a rebuild. I wanted torque, lots of it, and this is how it came together:

Here is the shortblock assembled.


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For those who are curious about the 2gb Talon spoiler and what's involved to use this on; say.. a 2ga car.. here's a little "primer."


A few years ago, woke up one day and thought that a 2gb Talon conversion would be a super duper fantabulous idea. All went according to plan except for one piece: The spoiler.

Scene 1: The tale of a Thousand Decklids....

Next it was time to build the motor.
I started with a block that had been decked and bored .020 over to accept the Weisco 1400 HD pistons.



It was then cleaned and painted. I used Painters Tape to tape the block off. Please do not use duct tape as it will be a pain to...

I started with a head that was milled and had the oil port mod done. The head got new engnbldr valves and guides with some BC springs and retainers. All of this was assembled from the machine shop. All install heights and spring pressures where checked.



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Tooooooo many photos is what it said when I tried to upload soooooo..... here is part 3


Now get the top cover of the case and make sure that it is clean. Install the new reverse cone and the reverse wave spring with NEW machine screws. Torque the machine screws to spec.

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Wow, it has been some time since I made a post. I was sent to a school for a month and now that I am back I have just been working to get this thing together. This post will be the finishing of the Transmission assembly. Here it goes. The last thing I posted the 1st case section was just installed.

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Car runs again after the oil pan re-seal. Also got the Thermal exhaust modded to fit that 3" DP. So naturally, there's a leak at the DP to 02 housing now. ha..

Going to buy another gasket for that tomorrow. Also noticed that the WB gauge appears to be on the fritz. When datalogging with the laptop, the WB A/F reads a steady 14.7 to 15.0. However the gauge...

As the title implies I just finished removing my 2nd Cometic gasket after it started to pressurize the coolant system.

The first failure happened at relatively low boost (24-25psi) and conservative timing for E100 (14* total, 7-8* @ 5000).

Both the head/deck were prepped for MLS to a mirror finish. The block deck was checked for flatness. I am using A1 H11 studs torqued...

In this update I have started to install the interior wiring harness. I started from the back and worked my way forward. This will be one of the least exciting updates. I am personally pumped when I can get the dash back in, install my Sparco seats and install my Schroth harness! Stay tuned!

In the next update I will be messing with the Stack wiring, the front interior harness, rewiring...

Quick summary:

• Fifth gear broke in Par dog box.
• Installed fifth gear delete
• Drove car around the block, roll pin broke in dog box
• Bent the rods, cracked 2nd gear in the dog box and twisted the input shaft
• New motor installed - went to Eagle rods, built the head, added Kelford 280 cams
• Been waiting five weeks for Par to make me new internals
• Sick of waiting so I sent Shepherd

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Ok, So not a whole lot going on with the car this week. Dropped the oil pan, since it was leaking. Also took the test pipe to get it expanded to fit over the Thermal exhaust. That exhaust had the wrong flange on it; so had to cut it off. It was made for a stock downpipe, not a 3" one.

Also worked some more on the interior and made sure the radio still works. It does! Yay!...

This is a local customer's car we have been pondering on, and he's looking for a street-driven, reliable, 600 HP DSM... not really asking for much.

So, the idea here is to get as much out of that 600 whp as possible: Shed the weight.

Here's a picture of when she was all normal and clean:
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Well, nothing much has happened since the interior was sprayed. I wanted to allow for enough time for the paint to dry.
I started to install the pedals. And I also picked up some OEM body plugs from the dealer!

I'm working on building my 420a motor but just don't have the money to do a big build yet. So I've been doing small things to the inside, like painting the air vents blue a long with the center console.

Hey Guys, Jon Walker from DSM Graveyard

We have something that has just been a huge breakthrough in the Short Block world, that will not only help fix the Evo 4g63 Broken Block issues, but FINNALLY let you run Hypereutectic's on H BEAMS!

As you know, we have been pioneering this "Frankenstein" industry since 2007, and have come up with some...

Did a few things to the illustrious car today. One included fitting the Recaros.

Here's some pics:


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So when I rebuilt my motor I had to put a crank in it. I bought the crank from the machine shop and it came with acl tri metal bearings, I got 1200 miles on it and it started knocking turned around went home droped the pan and number three was loose pulled the motor. Took her all apart and dropped the crank off at the machine shop along with all four rods to be checked. Time to build thought came...

Well, after many hours of prep work I finally finished painting the interior. From the outset I didn't have any experience doing body work, there was a learning curve to this whole project and I came away with a much better understanding of what goes into body work. I wish I could stress the amount of hours I spent prepping, scrapping, grinding on the inside, also removing every plug, screw, nut,...

TrboBLu decided that she really, really likes life up on jackstands. Either that or she has a thing against the Brad Penn green oil. Regardless, a leak developed from behind the timing cover. Fearing the worst, the cover was removed... but come to find out it's just the oil pan.

Still.. she decided to give the preverbal



Did some test-fit on...

April-July 2011 (Personal best ET, Autox, Road Course, Show, ELHS, Tial)

In my last blog entry I added a FMIC, 850 injectors, V3 lite, and switched to speed density. I had a best ET of 14.3 @ 101 in San Antonio (before all those mods) and a best ET at my local track in El Paso of 14.7 @ 102 (after all those mods).

My last blog ended with this sentence: For the next blog expect...

Today I finally had some time to work on the car and started testing components. Most components are fine such as CAS, spark plug wire, coilpack, power transistor, etc.

I have spark, fuel I think which is due to smelling like fuel after a few clicks, and air maybe?My MAF is fine maybe the connector?

Codes came up after like 10 cranks which are P0105,p0115,p0120.
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I now have moved on to test fitting the new Sparco Circuit seat that I have. I also decided to upgrade to a much better harness too, I decided on the Schroth Profi II Hans 6pt. Schroth supplies harnesses to all the Nascar teams, probably 50% of the F1 teams, and Porsche Motorsports uses only Schroth. I once had a Team Tech 4pt harness, and the difference in quality is very evident. What I like is...

She's alive and kicking! Yesterday rolled it over on the stock ECU (just incase something was haywire with the wiring...) Today swapped it to the DSMLink-chipped ECU. Loaded the last tune into the computer, which had the correction for the GM MAF; then let her run for a good half hour or so. Here's a short video of the car running.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORyfqVUGO2Q...

Got the bumper on the car today; with the headlights. Also put on the coolant hoses for the turbo, spark plugs and wires. Now just got to modify the exhaust, continue to figure out what bolts go where, and just keep on truckin'.

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