Some of you might have looked at my blog from about a Year ago On a 2004 Chevy Silverado Ext Cab that I had bought for UBER cheap at $1800 big ones total...
Just thought I might show you where it sits today...



I built a Full Custom back half replacing the Mess of a...

Last two weeks I been continuing work on the Interior.

I got rid of all the sound deadening material! I didn't have easy access to dry ice, so I went at all of it with a plastic scraper, a heat gun, and some goo gone. It took alot of time, I want to say.. two weeks since last update right? :P I would NOT reccomend this technique if you have access to the dry ice, but this did work,...

After a lot of searching around for a winter beater, I've come along a cheap ($400) ride that might need $200 in work. My budget for a winter car was around $1800 or so.

As I was in my search for a winter car, I've found something that I haven't been looking for: a mint condition 90 AWD. I had a friend look at it for me because he lives really close to the car. He said the car...

Here are the details:

6 Bolt Swap in ’98 Eclipse GSX

Head:
1G Head Ported, Deburred, Deflashed, & Chamber Work Done By Me
Head was Milled Flat
Valve Job
HKS 272/272 Cams
Fidanza Adjustable Cam Gears
Custom Conical Springs With Custom Titanium Retainers
Ferrea 6000 Series Valves (1mm Over) Coated by Calico
New...

We won with the eclipse at Super Lap Battle finals!

Detailed writeup next week, video, all coming soon! But the quick version is we blew up a gearbox, Sam and Robert at RRE came through with one for us to use, Karlo and Nick busted ass to get it swapped in over night. We limped at minimum power and an open diff and still won by 3 seconds!

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So driving home the other day, i had just
left coffee shop im opening, a deer decided to strike the side of my car. I didnt take any pictures but it was a huge dent, almost the whole rear quarter. Luckily if you look at my pics there was already a dent in the rear quarter when i bought the car...well thats where the deer hit. So my insurance is covering everything and she is in the shop...

Well this week with my days off I dug into the interior rewire. Not a guide to follow which made it a real pain, not to mention I think the interior wiring is a thicker main loom with I'd guess 20 total connectors, instead of just the few the fusebox and engine harness had. This meant that removing a wire or connector meant removing pins from not one connector, but more like 3-4 pins per "wire"...

Not too much of an update but we moved the car into its new home for now. Snapped a couple shots while it was out of the cave. Notice the dragging mark through the gravel on the picture with the truck pulling it. Brakes are no good now. haha

The crossbar across the door area is not the roll cage btw its a broomstick I had in there as a joke. The cage will be in soon though!
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I'll try to keep this short. But first of all to explain the car a little bit. This is my third attempt at building my 14b drag car. The first one I had lightened to a tin can (best guess was about 2400lbs or less) and had most of the mods I wanted minus proper wheels/tires. I had to sell it due to financial reasons (put myself through college). The second one never really got off the ground, made...

I got my fuel pump rewire kit installed yesterday and finished assembling my short block. Now I just need to get a long block gasket kit, oil pump/front case, headstuds, headgasket, and all new t-belt components and that should take care of my long block. Then I will still have things to get like the turbo, exhaust, clutch, etc. Although I think I may just put a lot of the old stock parts back on...

Well Santa came early wearing all brown!

I got my packages this last weekend and spent several hours sorting through all the parts, matching part numbers and ensuring everything turned out great. Props go out to Slowboy Racing, Kiggly, and VR Speed Factory for the great prices, and wonderful service.

These are the parts I have ordered thus far, and as I was checking off...

Ok well here is my first blog about my build. Sorry about the pictures not showing up im still trying how to figure this all out. Well enjoy

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The wiring harness is also done. I ended up adding 12 new connectors from Ladd Inc. The fuse box has 3 (1 pin DTHD, 4 pin DTP, and 31 pin HDP20), one is just for the injectors (12 pin DT), two each just inside the cabin at each fender (4 pin DTP and 31 pin HDP20), one inside the firewall for the ecu harness (47 pin HDP20), one just for the windshield wipers (6 pin DT), and two go between the ecu...

Sorry for the big gap between the previous part and this one. See my thread for all that stuff.


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Crank Install
Starting with the Main Bearings to the block, with plenty of assembly lube



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Piston / Connecting Rod

Once I’ve filed all my rings ill start installing the Pistons into the Connecting Rods…


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Big Thanks! To Bill & Patrick over at Mountain High Performance
Home Page
I sent Bill my Crank/Rods/Bearings/Valves to get Cryotreated and he was able to send me some pics to show just how cold these parts get
I highly recommend them, they’re no stranger to DSMs, Patrick is a fellow DSMer and even on the DSMLink forums
Not only are they EXCELLENT in turnaround...

Also Carlos @ TCC got the subframe finished up with the Suspension Paint…
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now.. The Beginning of the “AWD Swap”


What the undercarrage looks like now…
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Also got in the DVD/T Fab FMIC This thing is SICK!!



Picked up some of the :Bling: from the chrome shop..
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ARP Main Studs


Satin Black Chassis Paint for the Subframes


1/20/09
Haven’t had too much going on right now, took a few side jobs on some local DSMs that have been taking up...

I started this back in December of 08 decided to go ahead and try "blogging"....

After a year 1/2 of constant beating on my stock 7 bolt, she finally blew and now ready to move on to some real power

Here’s the damage from the 7 Bolt
Threw the #2 Rod out the block
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So knowing that we would have to do some serious street miles for this engine break-in and with how crappy the factory headlights are I commissioned a friend of mine install projectors into the factory casing. I had a huge gripe with most of the projector retrofits on 2g DSMs. I feel like the stock reflector is really good looking and that when people replaced the reflector altogether it never...

A quick update from KBR shop

NSFAB Nick rejoicing haha





The head is basically stock with a nice valve job but trust me we'll still make power

Rich @ TEM Machine worked late every night to get this thing together in time for this weekend...

TEM machine working into the night and trying to get as much of the long block assembled as possible. If we cant get a motor by friday we're scrapping the race. This is cutting it real close guys. Wish us luck. Nick (NSFab) flying in tomorrow morning. KBR is standing by, we just need the motor in our hands and we're rolling.

check it out!



full video link

http://www.douro-oni.com/media/meOnSpeedTV.mp4

wooohoo 1.8 seconds of fame! Just realy rare for an engineer to get TV time you know. Its usually drivers i guess adjusting...