Blue smoke is oil. It sounds like a seal in your turbo is in the process of failing. When my 14b started to go, it would smoke sometimes and not others. It was OK at cruise but definitely smoked when you were on the throttle very much. When the seal finally let loose it started dumping oil right...

Yep. I highly recommend not running a maft myself. I went against what a few people said about it and I regretted it really quickly. Could never get my idle dialed in. One minute it'd be 13.9-14.7 at idle, then it would go full rich 10:1. Every adjustment I would make would throw something else...

Here's some more carnage for you guys. Finally got the engine and trans out. The clutch friction material is in astoundingly good condition for a DSM with 162K on the clock, and I wasn't nice to that poor clutch either. As you'll see in the pictures, the failure occurred at cylinder #3. An oil...

What about inside the CHRA itself?

After almost a year and a half of her sitting on jackstands, and person after person flaking out on selling me an engine, a big leap forward was made on Saturday morning. I now have a freshly bored .020 over block, nice cross hatching on the walls. The shortblock came with Manley H Beam Rods and...

That is fantastic news, imo. The whole thing to me is stupid. His turbos aren't featured on the site, they aren't 'as seen on' either. I can't even find a thread about anyone ever using/testing or even buying one of these turbos. The other ebay turbo threads haven't exactly been flattering.

I reported 4 and they were all taken down. FTG claims that 'As seen on.." Is not the same as an endorsement which we all know is a load of shit. He said that if he finds out we have posted about this on our forum that he will seek legal action. I don't think he has a leg to stand on though...

The problem persists. I just ran across another ad worded exactly the same. I know eBay has a privacy policy, but its kinda bullshit that they don't tell you what action they took.

I have not had the time yet to read all 14 pages but I have a question/idea. What if using your second alternator idea, you create a small secondary electric system and have a custom regulator made for the alternator to output 24v or higher? That would significantly reduce the amperage draw for...

I'm glad action is being taken because of my discovery. I think that being associated with knockoff parts would give the board and community a bad reputation. I mean anyone that has ever done a search on the board here about ebay turbos should have seen JusMXs thread about ebay turbo testing...

I was on ebay looking at LEGIT DSM parts when I came across a turbo. At first I thought it was legit and the price was way cheap so I clicked it to see what the deal was. As soon as I saw the adjustable wastegate actuator I knew what it was. For some reason something caught my eye and I read the...

Do the 2G's have a ignition transistor / igniter? I don't know if that's the correct term as it's been a long time since it happened but that's what was going bad on my 1G when it did the random dying stuff. It turned out that it was getting hot and would shut the car off, but it never died...

My ideas. Fuel pump is on its way out. Injectors are gunked up from the e85. You could also disconnect the catback and take it for a spin to see if it remedies your issue. That would at least give an idea of how to proceed.

I have a turbo labs 20G as well that managed to survive full engine oil starvation/ oil pump failure. This 20G has a generic 3 inch intake. Was a badass turbo for the 300 miles I got to put on it before the oil pump seized up. Spool up sounded like a semi truck on that thing.

As some may know, my previous engine exploded and caught on fire. So since I have gotten a new and better paying job I am looking into short block and long block options. I've gone thru several of the supporting vendors on here looking through their offerings, but I keep finding myself...

Well lets test my automotive logic skills here. I found that my balance shaft belt was snapped. From what I can see the balance shafts or the balance shaft bearings seized and caused the sprocket to be unable to be turned, that in turn snapped the belt. Then the car slowly lost oil pressure. A...

The answers you are looking for are in the FAQ and the newbie thread graveyard. Here is the FAQ link which is a large compilation of such threads. http://www.dsmtuners.com/threads/venting-your-bov-to-the-atmosphere.113858/ Hope that helps.

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My car whined too! I always wondered why it whined. I just looked closer as I was pulling the fuel rail off and yep, the balance shaft belt is snapped. I bet you the damn bearing went out and the motor chewed itself up and shat out some rods and pistons. Thanks for the motivation and the info.

So after a hiatus from DSM I am back. Took apart some of the engine and I think I may have lucked out big time. Its a bittersweet kinda of feeling but I'm gonna roll with it. I think my cylinder head is ok, the timing is shredded but in tact! The engine is still in time, minus two pistons and...

So I got back to my friends from the convention and looked the car over. I don't see any leaks from where I would have lost oil besides from the hole in the frickin block. My car made a whining sound that I always thought was the timing belt. I am now wondering if maybe my oil pump failed...

Thanks man, I tend to reach out to people when I go through stuff like this. Sometimes its good to have a reassurance that people care. when you have debilitating anxiety you begin to feel as if the walls are closing on you. Your mind is a prison at that point. I'm 24 and have dealt with it...

Oh probably. I meant the mental health comment. I'm really open about stuff and sometimes it gets the wrong kind of attention from people. I'm a different breed compared to most.

This is the hang out so it doesn't really matter what we talk about. I'm glad that there are others who know what it feels like. Not that I'd wish this on anyone of course. But my family does not understand why I like this car. I've been told I'm pouring too much money into the car and when I...

Mechanical. It took a second to sink in.. Then I realized passing that one exit that it was rod knocking. A second later BOOM! Going to look at a short block on Wednesday.. Not going to give up on DSMing just yet. There's people on this forum that have blown more engines than I can probably count.

The car is rebuildable. I mean the engine is a total loss but atleast the entire thing didn't burn to the ground. I've never had any major problems with cars before... I have a feeling that the sound of the motor letting loose like that will haunt me for some time to come. The brand new 20g was...

I was just cruising down the highway on I71 north bound to Cleveland, and my car started buzzing. I turned the radio down and knew something was wrong. I go to take the next exit and can't get over in time. Not very long afterwards my engine destroyed itself. Piston 4 went through the block and...

Don't feel too bad, I was 190 miles from home last night and out of nowhere I heard a buzzing sound. I couldn't figure out what the sound was so I decided to get off at the exit but a car was next to me and I missed the exit. About 500 feet later my engine completely detonated. My number 4 rod...

I guess I can't edit my own post now? That's interesting. I'm beginning to wonder if maybe something is wrong with my 450's. They are nearly 25 years old and who knows if they've ever been cleaned or rebuilt. (doubt it) Maybe an injector is sticking sometimes and the maft is interpreting this...

:notgood: Actually, regardless of injector size you need to tune a car when switching to a new air metering system. This is especially true of the MAF-T when configured in blow through mode. Setting the injector base to 2 for 450's makes my car run insanely lean, even with an ECU reset. I'm...

I'm from the Dayton area in OH. Haven't seen anything around here except civics with fart cans. Well I did see one 2G, it was a metallic red color, and I'm pretty sure it had a giant ebay fmic zip tied on the front, with no pipes running to it. Lol.

I'm simply trying to get my car stable for the trip to pittsburgh tomorrow and I was wondering if anyone at all could help. I had to go MAFT unexpectedly after my 14b blew, and I didn't have the proper intake pipe (my 20G inlet is 3 inch.) Since I already was planning to go MAFT and had it...

This is extremely impressive. I'm completely...dumbfounded.. that the stock 1G rods are holding this kind of power. Your tune must be immaculate.

EEWWW WTF dude! I wouldn't take that even for my dog to sleep on, just the principle of it is frickin creepy.

Clean engine bay, but what's up with your recirc tube? I ran the same one as you, I feel like you could have gotten away with a bit less tubing there.

Did you dyno the car to see if it made less torque? Because the 14B was basically insta-spool when I ran my car without exhaust on it, and I'm pretty damned sure that added up to more torque production and not less. Maybe your car lost torque because you were dumping from the o2 housing, and the...

No, as far as I know there is basically no difference between an NT head and a turbo head. I don't see why you would need to 'mill the head' to swap pistons. I'm just commenting on the fact that you were talking about swapping to 1G Turbo pistons. If you're going to go through the trouble to...

Look into 2G pistons on 1G rods. That will allow you to keep a little more power under the curve than the lower compression 1G pistons.

The lowest you can technically go is about 8 or 9psi on the stock actuator. They seem to vary a couple PSI occasionally. I'm also having a margin of difficulty trying to understand what it is that you're saying on this post. So it's an NT block that you have the turbo parts for, but you're...

So after reading the tuning guide about 50 times, I'm guessing that the maft is completely impossible to tune. If I unplug the battery and let the ECU reset and then set the base to 2 and richen the idle, the car barely runs. It runs pretty good on base = 0, and dipswitch 2 set 'on'. I can get...

Anyone have any idea? I am getting desperate. I need to have this tuned because I have to drive 400 miles in this car coming up on july 2nd!I'm posting a video of exactly what I mean on youtube right now. I will embed it here, but processing might take a few minutes.

If you tune your car to be lean at a steady state cruise, I have absolutely no doubt that you could achieve 30mpg or more on the highway. I put 30 dollars worth of gas into my car the other night. At $3.69 a gallon that netted me 8.13 gallons. I was trying to tune the maft for the first time...

I'm pretty sure that the A1 isn't of any significance. A google search didn't turn up anything about those serial numbers as anything at all. It's most likely just a part number that HKS used to identify the cam for a specific application. Like A1 for an eclipse, and AM01 for the Evo 8.. etc.

A street car to me is a car that isn't so overly built that it's a hassle to drive. Like others said, AC isn't a necessity but it's certainly nice. A street car has a full or mostly full interior and hasn't had features meant for your safety disabled or removed. A street car is a car that even...

That turbo is a 16G. It's a Genuine MHI at that. I can't see the numbers very well on it. If you get a good shot of the numbers that are on the 'left' side of the picture we can tell you exactly which 16G you have.

My vote is 14b in 7cm hotside @ 20PSI, plenty of low / mid range grunt to get you moving with very minimal lag. Or heck, maybe look up one of those ball bearing disco potatoes. Haha.

I 100% agree with this. That's essentially what I was alluding to in my post earlier on. Unfortunately I think this thread has degraded into an argument over what *can* be done versus what is optimal. If the dude wants 2.5" exhaust on his car then let him put it on there.

So after a bunch of nightmares involving my car, it's finally on the road once again. I'm just trying for the life of me to get this MAFT tuned in. I've tried to use the maf tuning guide from fullthrottletech.com but it doesn't seem to be helping. I'm trying to tune solely from the wideband. The...

This thread really turned into a cluster f*k of sorts. I respect the amount of information that has been posted here. I learned a lot about drive pressures and things that I've never taken into consideration before. I know for a fact that less back pressure is better and it was from a butt dyno...

I'm in agreeance with above. It looks to me that your bumper is funneling the air right into the FMIC which is great for performance, but if your FMIC is blocking too much air from passing through you're going to have overheating issues. Your best bet looks like some high CFM fans.