Blog Title: 95 GST rebuild/upgrade
So here's my project stofy so far...
I lost my last DSM just over a year ago and was mad at the world for the longest time (now I'm just still mad at the cops for it). I lost the passion for tuning and cars in general and ended up buying a damn honda just to have a car, hated driving it every day. Then I found a '95 GST on craig's list for only $1500 and the only issue I was told it had was it wouldn't start. So I bought it, couldn't pass it up, after all, I've always loved DSMs. I finally got it running after 3 weeks of trial and error with electrical parts, ripped out 50ft or so of useless wires from under the steering wheel alone.
I got to drive the car car for only 2 1/2 days (only 88 miles) and then the engine lost power and could barely struggle to 40mph. So another 2 months went by, replacing more parts, putting the car on craig's list to avoid the nightmare, and still getting nowhere. Then I finally found out someone did a 6-bolt swap and never told me. The whole time I've been doing the electrical stuff the wrong way. Now I've redone the wiring, and of course, still nothing. Did a compression test just to find out that every cylinder had very low compression. So I've given up on trying to make the car start just so I can enjoy driving a DSM again and put the car into full project mod. I'm in the process of removing the engine and transmission so I can fix the compression and upgrade the internals at the same time. Gonna keep upgrading and hopefully be ready to put it on the road (and track) by late spring/ early summer.
More to come...
I lost my last DSM just over a year ago and was mad at the world for the longest time (now I'm just still mad at the cops for it). I lost the passion for tuning and cars in general and ended up buying a damn honda just to have a car, hated driving it every day. Then I found a '95 GST on craig's list for only $1500 and the only issue I was told it had was it wouldn't start. So I bought it, couldn't pass it up, after all, I've always loved DSMs. I finally got it running after 3 weeks of trial and error with electrical parts, ripped out 50ft or so of useless wires from under the steering wheel alone.
I got to drive the car car for only 2 1/2 days (only 88 miles) and then the engine lost power and could barely struggle to 40mph. So another 2 months went by, replacing more parts, putting the car on craig's list to avoid the nightmare, and still getting nowhere. Then I finally found out someone did a 6-bolt swap and never told me. The whole time I've been doing the electrical stuff the wrong way. Now I've redone the wiring, and of course, still nothing. Did a compression test just to find out that every cylinder had very low compression. So I've given up on trying to make the car start just so I can enjoy driving a DSM again and put the car into full project mod. I'm in the process of removing the engine and transmission so I can fix the compression and upgrade the internals at the same time. Gonna keep upgrading and hopefully be ready to put it on the road (and track) by late spring/ early summer.
More to come...
Wtf!!!!
Posted 04-08-2011 at 12:45 PM by spyderdrifter
So I have been patiently waiting since the beginning of March for my new engine parts to arrive and went through a long battle to get the damn pistons I ordered. I finally got everything and got to take my engine to the machine shop yesterday to get worked on, al was good, til I found out today I'm only getting half my damn paycheck on the 15th because the government wants to be stupid. So now I can't pay for my engine work and won't have the engine for even longer................ I want to rip my hair out..... 
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Hey bro we didn't get screwed over lol they came up with a solution at the last minute!!....Engine work is a GO!!!!Posted 04-10-2011 at 05:21 AM by 400hp93talon
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Im not rebuilding my engine but Im in the same boat! I didnt hear that they have fixed it hmm Ill have to look on the news? Sorry man It does suck, I Might be deployed in a week thats really going to suck to be over seas and not get paid.Posted 04-10-2011 at 11:01 AM by mandrigues
