This is just a placeholder for my build journal. I have pictures chronologically sorted on my Facebook profile, and will be writing a document offline as I go through them. I feel venting my "struggle" on here will benefit my health somehow. Also, there will be two builds, or stories, on my page. I own both this '97 and a 1990 Eagle Talon TSI AWD. I daily that car, and have a major emotional connection to it, being it's the DSM I've owned the longest, and is the DSM that has ran the longest. () It's bent valves twice, been through four turbochargers, and I've even sold it and bought it back!

The '97 (no, I don't name my cars!) is the 5th Diamond Star Motor vehicle I've made the almost mistake of buying. Purchased in the late spring of 2013, I acquired it with a blown out center differential in the manual transmission. The car is Northstar White, odometer claimed 82k for mileage, and had a set of glorious Volk TE37's! The car also came with ECMLink V3, Greddy Evo2 exhaust and 3" down-pipe, Big 16g, atmospheric O2 housing, 1200cc FIC injectors, and totally mis-matching (setup matching wise) Brian Crower stage 3 camshafts (280's), mild head and port work, Walbro 255, Greddy Profec B(this mod has something to do with a mistake later) and a generic FMIC kit. It was tuned on E85 @ 11 (only wastegate pressure, again more about my mistake later) pounds of boost pressure.