Burntz
10+ Year Contributor
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- Oct 21, 2009
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Lincoln,
Nebraska
On my way in about 4 hours, to head to KC to pick up a 96 Talon Tsi AWD. Auto. Red. Super cheap.
Been around Dsm's for quite some time, worked on em quite a bit, and am ready to finally own one after dickin around with a Del Sol for a year.
As far as I know, the car is completely stock. I'm buying it from a girl in her mid 30's ish. Hopefully she hasn't beat it to shit.
From her description, the body is perfect. No rust, no dents. She says it runs until you put it in gear. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out
Immediate plans:
2 New tires
Probably a replacement torque converter / fluid flush
Oil change / plugs / wires / coolant flush / maintenance shit
Wideband
Boost gauge
Throwing my stereo in.
Full detail / buff job.
Possible routes after:
16g
injectors
dsm link
MBC
Stall
Trans cooler
Tint (dark baby dark)
Just thought I'd update this, I did buy the Talon. It needed 3 tires, but being as the one good one on the car was a 205/40-17, I decided to go back to a normal tire size, of 225/45-17, which made the car look 10x better. Got all the tires cheap, as take-offs from a used tire place here. All 90% + tread, mounted and balanced, for ~$260
At this point, I'm sure the transmission is fine, although the motor is not.
It runs for about 3 seconds, and sounds terrible. Timing looks spot on, threw some new plugs with no improvement. Draining the oil sunday to look for shavings, and have a friend coming over with a compression tester and a multimeter. I have a variety of engines I can pick up though:
A 6 - bolt with ~70k miles ($600)
A 94 7-bolt, complete. ($450)
A 96 7-bolt missing alternator and turbo ($500, direct drop in)
And a mystery 95 7-bolt ($50, kid doesn't know if its good or not)
For sure picking up the $50 motor, at worst can part it and make money. Going to try to get my motor going before picking up another motor, but will probably go with the 96 7 bolt as I need the car DD'able soon.
Only pics I have so far:
Been around Dsm's for quite some time, worked on em quite a bit, and am ready to finally own one after dickin around with a Del Sol for a year.
As far as I know, the car is completely stock. I'm buying it from a girl in her mid 30's ish. Hopefully she hasn't beat it to shit.
From her description, the body is perfect. No rust, no dents. She says it runs until you put it in gear. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out
Immediate plans:
2 New tires
Probably a replacement torque converter / fluid flush
Oil change / plugs / wires / coolant flush / maintenance shit
Wideband
Boost gauge
Throwing my stereo in.
Full detail / buff job.
Possible routes after:
16g
injectors
dsm link
MBC
Stall
Trans cooler
Tint (dark baby dark)
Just thought I'd update this, I did buy the Talon. It needed 3 tires, but being as the one good one on the car was a 205/40-17, I decided to go back to a normal tire size, of 225/45-17, which made the car look 10x better. Got all the tires cheap, as take-offs from a used tire place here. All 90% + tread, mounted and balanced, for ~$260
At this point, I'm sure the transmission is fine, although the motor is not.
It runs for about 3 seconds, and sounds terrible. Timing looks spot on, threw some new plugs with no improvement. Draining the oil sunday to look for shavings, and have a friend coming over with a compression tester and a multimeter. I have a variety of engines I can pick up though:
A 6 - bolt with ~70k miles ($600)
A 94 7-bolt, complete. ($450)
A 96 7-bolt missing alternator and turbo ($500, direct drop in)
And a mystery 95 7-bolt ($50, kid doesn't know if its good or not)
For sure picking up the $50 motor, at worst can part it and make money. Going to try to get my motor going before picking up another motor, but will probably go with the 96 7 bolt as I need the car DD'able soon.
Only pics I have so far:
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