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Let's see your Daily Driver!

95GreenGSX — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:18:36 GMT

So, basically, what does a DSMer drive as his/her daily?
I know alot of you drive the DSM as your daily, as did I but, I want to see what you guys drive currently as your daily driver; is it your DSM? Honda? ect. If you want to post pics of your previous daily's feel free.

Rebuild or Start Fresh?

stuntboy43 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:32:52 GMT

So heres the deal. I Have a 90 talon awd bone stock that recently threw a timing belt. Needs new valves and pistons. Also needs new exhaust manifold, turbo, tranny, and clutch. Motor has 160k on it. Body is rust free and only has one dent. Was considering rebuilding but was debating on selling my Civic and the talon (as is) and buying another DSM with lower miles and already lightly modded. Was gonna sell the talon and boost the Honda but I don't think it will give me the same satisfaction as a DSM. Just wondering ### you guys think?

Wow, this is good

Black91TSiAWD — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:00:09 GMT

Ive watched it like 3 times already. :rocks:

Team Blackjack has some pretty sick drivers apparently. I hadnt heard of them before this.

91 TSI Awd for sale, its a steal

Itsok — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:59:12 GMT

I was searching craigs list and found this steal. 1,500 for this awd tsi and its almost completely stock with a good exterior.

Thought I would post it on here so I know its going into some good hands.

91 eagle talon tsi

should i trade my 2g gst for a 1g awd tsi

95whitegst — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:15:12 GMT

so im thinking about trading my 2ga gst for a 1ga tsi awd talon heres the things that both have and what would you guys do

my 2g: 2ga gst mostly stock 90k miles, 1g bov, punishment racing fmic, 14b turbo, evo enkie rims, lowered, grey leather interior, boost gauge, hks turbo timer, hks carbon fiber ti exhaust turbo back

the talon: 14b turbo, greedy type s bov (real),255 fuel pump,safc2, awd:thumb:, greedy turbo timer, 3in exhaust turbo back, hallman mbc, fmic kit all hard piping ebay kit, 130,000 miles rebuilt engine about 20,000 on engine

only problems that i need to know about on the talon are it has some rust on the passenger side door sill which i was gonna cut out and weld new sheet metal in good idea bad idea? the other thing is he said he replaced the shifter linkage with a 91 and the car is a 90 and when you get on it in 5th it pops out im not sure what that could be..and the last thing is over about 75mph the steering wheel shakes a little alignment? tires and wheels need to be balanced what are your thoughts??? thanks everyone

oh and if you want pics of the talon let me know i can put the two up i have

To install or not to install SIDESKIRTS. That is the question.

dtaylor127 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:18:20 GMT

Ok so when I bought my very first DSM the guy has the side skirts painted and ready to be installed onto the car. Since I have them I am thinking about getting them installed. Also I do think the car still looks good without them. :thumb:

Tell me what you think.
Sideskirts:
Yes?
No?

PS - Sorry for not knowing how to post the bigger images of the car.

97 GSX 97 Get in here, you have some explaining...

stevestevesteve — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:05:56 GMT

1998 MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE GSX ALL WHEEL DRIVE

i dont think this is you, because you have a 97, and it says 98. but what the heck?

:confused: :nono: :cry: :ohdamn: :idontknow:

can't stay away from these damn dsms'

joe sobo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:57:50 GMT

well, i have owned about 50 of them. both 1g and 2g, front wheel drive and all wheel drive. turbo and non turbo.
so i finally sold my 95 gsx that i converted to 2gb with full black leather, and all the other good stuff. i swore up and down that i would not buy another, and get myself and family out of debt. so i sold the car for 4,200, and paid off all debts. well just a few days ago, i was reading craigslist and stumbled across a 1995 gsx that was ridiciously cheap. so i call the guy and i asked him why he hasn't sold the car yet. so he tells me that he cannot sell it to just anyone, cause of all the problems that it has.
well he tells me the list of problems.,......
horrible clear coat peeling on the roof
front seats are ripped up
a problem with the new clutch
. so i figured that this car was a turd. but hey, for the price i was told, he would even drive it to meet me ( 400 mile trip). so how bad could this car really be??????????
so i decide to buy it site - unseen for the sum of 1,293.00 yes, that was about all i could come up with after cashing in all my change, and borrowing 1,200 from the devil (lol). so he drove the car 3/4 of the way, and i drove it home.........................
what a amazing running, driving and handling 14 year old car! i drove it home with not a single problem. boost great, stops on a dime, and runs great. what else could i ask for?
well, now i have had the car for almost a week, and swore that i would not touch it . lmao i could not resist.....
so here are some pics of shaving off the old low rise wing. i have not drilled the holes for the high rise wing yet, cause i want to get the car painted first and see what it looks like with out the wing at all.
i know the first thing to do to a dsm is maintanece, but i got no receipts for all the work that he said was done to it, but i pulled the trans out and replaced the shift fork,which was not letting the clutch disengage all the way. i seen that it had a brand new oem clutch, but i opted to put in a act 2100 while it was apart.
so as for all the other work that he said was done, i can confirm 90%, and he gave me tons of pics of the car with the engine out at his house, and it all being stripped apart.
oh, did i mention that this car has 188,xxx miles on it , with 150-158 across the board?

here are a few more

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What were you into before DSMs?

TSiTuner23 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:42:21 GMT

I was thinking, what was everything into before the wanderful world of DSMs? As in what were you driving/modding/tuning/racing/whatever. :)

shippng

debbie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:34:16 GMT

Well as some of you may or may not be aware but I can get evo parts cheap from time to time, but when it comes to selling them on to you guys with little to no profit the shipping costs put a lot of people off.
So the question is, do you guys know of a cheap shipping company?
Up until now I’ve used parcel force as that’s who my local post office goes threw.
Just to give you an idea an inlet manifold costs $125 just to shipOMG
any help would be appreciated :thumb:

Damn these are sexy

projecteclipse2 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:39:25 GMT

I love showing videos of sick cars the vids i watch are usually my inspiration haha.

I am a big vw fan I own a mk4 and I love it to death.

Here are a couple sexy mk4s that just make your drool.

$420,000 for a Tsi, is this guy out of his mind!!!

pj91gsx — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:45:27 GMT

Mitsubishi : Eclipse:eBay Motors (item 120495298379 end time Nov-22-09 08:38:36 PST)

Looking for Pics of GVR4's and #'s

fivestardsm — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:24:04 GMT

I have been putting together a file of all the Galant VR4's that I can find from forum to forum. The reason I started this, was to narrow down what # of 2000 my 91Summit white VR4 is. Granted, when I started this, I would have never thought that so many have gone to the scraper and will never be accounted for.

Although this is a set back to my original goal, I still have been very diligent at locating new VR4's to add. I have a Sticky thread on galantvr4.org that will be post linked below. You can either join the boards and post up a pic there, or post them in here. Either way, I would be very greatful!

If you have any pictures of them, or know some one that does please send them my way!

Thank you, Steve.

GalantVR-4.org: VR4 Pictures Post Here !!

Is this a VR4?

NeMiZiS — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:54:43 GMT

I'm not sure if this Galant is a VR4 or not.
Is there any way I can tell from just looking at the pictures?
I really like these cars but don't know much about them.
I don't want to ask the seller too many questions, because I don't think they know what they've got.
Thanks.92 galant for parts only

Pioneer Stereo Power Drain Issue Fix's?

InfiniteGSX — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:42:24 GMT

Hey guys. Any of you guys notice how if you run a pioneer stereo on the stock amp, it drains the power of your car.... your lights dim alot and all of that? Every pioneer I've owned does that. The only way I can get it to stop is to amp the speakers instead of using the pioneers onboard amp. But right now I don't have an amp and I wanna fix this issue so it stops draining my f'n power. When I jam out it dims my lights to treb sounds and it irritates me....