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So i bought a one owner automatic red gst 2 months ago. one owner, completley stock it hit 121k and the belt snapped. previous owner took it to a shop and they put a new belt on but didnt realize the valves where gone. i bought it towed it back to my uncles shop and used our snap on video camera to take a look inside the engine. pistons 2 and 3 are shot. they have been hit pretty bad. so i bought...

o short story short, drunk guy hit my dads guy which catapulted my saab into a toyota 4 runner, here are the photos

i only had this saab for 2 weeks with 222k on the clock

the guy hit a light post up the street 2.5 miles away and hit a bunch of other stuff on the way down to my house, they seemed to clean up most of it good

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Anyway i had to yank the tranny out a couple weeks ago. So i shoulda pulled it with the engine at the same time but that didnt happen. So instead i tried just getting the tranny out. Well the passneger side axle wouldnt come out which was great. Its still stuck in the tranny wont come out. I ripped it out at the boot but still it was hitting on the frame. So had to yank the engine out. Anyway what...

Anyway last week i had the car stuck on the lift. So i got stuck driving a jeep cherokee laredo which proved pretty good in the snow. Anyway the drivers axle was rebuilt and rebooted from the past owner. And we figured why. It wouldnt come out from the spindle. We tried everything and just called the dealer up for a new spindle and then got a new axle and hub. Dealer included the 2 lower control arms...

It's almost done. My other blowers are at work but these are the ones at home, i just need another weld on the wastegate flange. I also am waiting for my silicone elbows and i will have to make a T so the wastegate pipe connects with the outlet back to the throttle body as i wasnt aware that the wastegate on superchargers doesnt work like turbos. You will have to use your stock intake hose. This one...

So the hood has to be chopped up to fit the new GM style blower. Yea bummer for all you guys? Not really i solved that problem too

Hood Scoop will solve it. And i found a junkyard with a ton of 1g to get hoods for all of ya. Anyway the new setup works insane, direct off the crank, no more a/c though. If your a/c still worked your lucky. R-12 is illegal and you can make...

This is it! Almost launch time but with a new blower. Picked it up saturday night locally. She is a GM Eaton M90 3rd Gen. All my other test runs were with early models of the m90 and off fords. And this will not be mounted on the intake manifold. A few stuff have to be blocked and i still need to weld the outlet box but this is it. She will be dropped in friday night or saturday morning. Just need...

Okay so i got the gsx back on the road, stupid wires going to the ignition control module were loose in the clip so it would always stall out or not fire a couple cylinders. Figures! Anyway the 1.8 is doing good, im trying to locate a used fmic for a 1g turbo so i can throw on my 1.8 and im waiting for pulleys i ordered from mitsubishi! No there not specifically for superchargers but i picked a couple...

Yea, so it did work. The Eaton m90 is a bit too much though, and the supercharger welded on to the intake isnt such a good idea! It works but the air temp is extreme, the first couple runs it was climbing to about 500f, then 800f, it did chirp through all the gears, it wouldnt stop burning out till about 50. OOO and the belt snapped when we tried a dyno run. So im gonna order a new eaton m90 supercharger...

So like the title states! The 1.8 is getting supercharged

Today at work, it was pretty dead, we had no inspections or any oil changes so everyone mostly left. Our tow truck driver was junking some cars so i took an Eaton m90 supercharger off a ford thunderbird. Ive been thinking about this for a long time, and my uncle said it is quite possible but i should use a smaller charger...

so its getting more driveable day by day, we drove it to the a detailer today with the plate from my other eclipse on it, did very good, thermostat housing on top is cracked and autozone doesnt have the right one, so time to start looking at the junk cars, heres another photo of it from the rear, it is dropped of course, and it does have a big 4 inch exhaust on the back which came with the car, though...

heres my new car, i posted tons of questions all over the forums so, it basically needs,

thermosistor sensor or switch
Idle air control
thermostat
oil line to turbo (current one is leaking from bolt)
coolant lines to put on turbo and intake

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well its been a dead day here at the shop so i used the day to work on the 90 gst, i instaleld the new thermostat, waited, and then the fans turned on, which is a huge relief, because when it was overheating when we were driving her back without a thermostat, those fans would not turn on, i also switched the fuses by the battery, the rad fan one with the tail lights, i didnt check if the tail lights...

well heres my 1.8 eclipse, and my cousins m3 at our work, the gst is actually 10 feet away, being prayed on by puerto ricans

update on the gst:
bov ordered will be in next week
thermostat ordered also
new rims and tires will be picked up saturday at sears

after that we'll register her monday morning, drive her for the week and she how she runs, and...

So i got my 90 gst, i already own a 91 1.8 but i def wanted a turbo car, so we picked her up but she was overheating so we took out the thermostat and ran water threw her, anyway long story short, here is what she needs!

Fans (Current ones dont turn on)
Thermostat
Front rotors and pads
BOV
Tires And Rims
Alternator
Air Filter

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