I feel kind of stupid asking this, and if you want to bash me feel free! But what is the difference between a long block and a short block?

I see where you are coming from. Just around here if you get a good time on slicks, some people will laugh and say "yeah...you had to have slicks to run that time, why can't you just drive your car off the street and do it?" But I will have to agree with you when you said that traction and...

Honestly I am not sure about the wheel hop with drag radials. I have never seen them hop, but im sure they will have a better chance at hopping than slicks. If you are worried about hopping, either choice would be good, but slicks might be a better bet.When I look at it though, slicks...

slicks by far! Like somebody said earlier, its night and day between the two. Drag radials have some give to them which takes quite a bit off your driveline, depending on how long and toasty your burn out it, slicks might not have any give!Here's a good way to look at it.(and all of my...

Thanks, that is exactly what i wanted to know!

I was driving along today, and i happened to hit a raccoon with my eclipse that is lowered and has a body kit on it. Well on the front bumper part, i have/had two "teeth" that came up off of the bottom of the front body kit right in front of the grill, and when i hit the raccoon one of them...

:( ...Do you think they go good with the rest of the car???EDIT: Sorry mods, i didn't mean to bump it. It wont happen again!!!

You were right that they have been discontinued, but wrong on the heavy part. They are chromed aluminum and actually pretty light.

Does anybody know the style of this wheel? The only thing that i know is that it is a 17" chrome OZ wheel.

Yes, unrestricted side exhaust is loud and very deep! I actuallly had it on my car, but the fumes filled up the car every time i stopped, and it was extremely loud at times when i didn't want it to be.The other good thing with pretty much unrestricted exhaust, is that the spool up time is...

Ahh..duh! I dont know what i was thinking. I just changed my oil about 200 miles ago though, so don't i have to wait quite a wile before i put the stuff in?

Alright, thanks for answering the questions about the hp on stock internals, the flow of the heads, and our internals being cast. And yes i realize that on different turbos, the same amounts of air can mean different psi levels. I was just looking for some approximent psi level, but you...

Well first off, i just wanted to make sure that our internals were casted, and not forged right? Secondly, what is the approx. maximum boost that our cars can handle internaly. By that, i mean if all of the fuel upgrades/tuning hardware are on the car, and a bigger turbo, how much air could...

Alright, well the first thing that i did was checked my plugs. Every plug looked almost identicle, and had no signs of oil on them, and hardly any carbon build up. I then went ahead and did a compression test, and they were all inbetween 120 and 125. But, the tester that i was using is kind...

When i first got my car, it never smoked or anything like that. Now, when i get on it from about 1st to 3rd, then let off it rolls out smoke. The color is kind of a blue/light color. Since i have bought the car, the only things that i can think of that are causing the smoke is that i did a...

A VTEC???? A VTEC engine bumps the hp on a honda from the normal 75 hp, all the way up to a whopping 80!!!! woo hoo :notgood:

Ya, it has 0 cylinders. If you need a number though, call it "1 turbine" instead of "1 piston". The turbine itself is a triange, that spins around in an oval type "cylinder"(for lack of a better word). One side grabs intake, then spins 1/3 of a turn and the plugs fire, then it spins 1/3 of a...

Haha, those guys will only say good stuff! What do our fellow DSMers think?ohhh no!!....Maybe i should keep my eclipse:thumb:

I just wanted to see if anybody knew anything good or bad about the RX8's??? 1/4 miles, weaknesses, top speed, maintenance, etc. Any information would be great!!

If you decided to bondo over it, the rust wouldn't come back any time soon, if it did at all. If it is all the way through though, instead of welding a new peice on, you could always grind or cut the rusty metal off, then go ahead and use long-strand fiberglass(resin and mats). By doing that...

I was looking on the back of a bottle of paint thinner, and it said that it contained toluene, acetone, methyl alcohal, and xylene in that order. Would i be safe to put that into my car? Or would i have to use straight xylene or toluene with my gas?

I didn't mean a filter right aftet the pcv valve, but the port that comes of of the head/valve cover and goes to the intake.

I was wondering if I could get rid of the line that runs from the pcv valve to the intake, and just put a air filter on the end of it.

Sorry! Thats my bad, i was kind of reading it quickly.:thumb:

Yes...i know that the compressor makes heat and gets warm.On a turbo, you can not tell me that the compressor gets as hot as it does from spinning fast and building pressure. Its main source of heat is from the motor/exhaust. On an electronic supercharger, it will make heat. It will make...

Don't forget that you need a ton of pressure to add temp. The pressurized air coming out of your turbo is mostly warm from the turbo or supercharger temp. Not because its pressurized.

I dont understand what you mean by that. How does an electric supercharger perform just as good as a FMIC? They are two completely different things. A supercharger produces more air/pressure, a FMIC just cool the air that is being sent through it. WTF

They do have a nice ass dont they;)Just stay away from the ones that have been ridin hard, and are all beat up.

So i was at my girlfriends house, and as i was getting ready to leave, i seen that her sister's car was parked about half way in the driveway. Being somewhat of a smartass i look at my girlfriend, and i say "haha watch me hit her car on the way out, because it is half way in the driveway". So...

I wouldn't pay 600-700. You can get a brand new one from turbo XS for about 375 or the starter for only 230 OR i could get the pro for about $550. With all of the upgrades, you will be looking at about 600-700 including the wideband. The reason i don't just buy the DSMLink for $500 is because...

By "it" i mean the D-Tec, because i already ordered the Gameboy off of ebay! For those of you that might have thought different.

Well i just bought a gameboy advance off of ebay, and probably sometime next week or the week after i will get it ordered and hooked up. Ill try to keep this thread updated with my feedback (negative and postive) about the D-Tec. Also, i didn't think of it when i bought my gameboy, but...i just...

Haha yes, i hang out with a group(6 or 7) SRT-4 owners, and that is how they explain their mods. If you get a certain amount of engine work, and a suspension upgrade you have stage 3. If you get a larger turbo or something you have stage 2. I am always kind of lost when they are talking about...

My pictures didn't work because they are too big, but i will make them smaller then post them up in a few hours!

Well...i don't want to admit this, but my old NT eclipse used to be somewhat of a ricer. Of course i went ahead and painted my dash, and my WHOLE door panel, and around the cd player and stuff. It looked sweet having my whole interior white, and red...but after about 2 weeks it started peeling...

I realize that the Dtec might not be as good as the DSMLink, but i just want to be able to tune good enough for nitrous and high boost with different size injectors. I also know that the prices and about the same, but i just want to get something "new" or different and see how it worked. The...

Yeah i know its not out yet, but i am not in a huge rush and could wait for it. Also, i wouldn't want to get the current version and then have to upgrade it once v3 came out. I will probably go with the D-Tec though, just because not a ton of people use it and i might as well do something...

I am curious about the goods and the bads for the D-Tec. I like the D-tec because it has gauges for knock, rpms, fuel map, etc. I am aware though, that it does not have as many options as the DSMLink. If I went with the D-tec, would i have to get a 95' eprom ecu like i would have to if i got...

"not all hondas are slow.............just none of them are fast" - MEAfter reading all 5 pages of this thread last night, i was laying in bed and kept thinking of all of the funny quotes, and somehow i just thought of this one for the honda guys!! But dont get mad about it, "we can just get...

Well to be honest with you, i thought that too. I ran half of a bottle through my car and it smoked a ton. Then i put it through a friends mustang, and not very much came out. I guess that it might be because he has a V8 and somehow that would make less come outWTF :confused: .....But i don't...

What do i have that isn't in my profile?:confused: It says Blitz bov for the fourth thing!Im not 100% sure yet. I am considering the Evo III 16G from SBR, or possibly something from AGP because i have a buddy that works there.I can't go out and buy all of the stuff at once either...

Its ok, none taken! I like getting the opinions of others!

Well even if that was what he meant to say, it would still be safe to have fuel upgrades. Also, i wasnt planning on getting a 14b. I am going to get a turbo that i can make quite a bit of power with, and fuel upgrades will be a must. That is why i wanted to take care of the fuel first. The...

Well in order to support a larger turbo, you will have to have those mods anyways. So i figured that since i need them, i might as well buy the supporting mods before buying the bigger turbo. I also looked at it as extra safety on my engine. If i boost my T-25 up almost to its max i would...

Alright, i understand now. Thanks for clearing everything up! The post were great!!!

Alright, thanks for helping me understand. Im only going to ask one more thing of you though, lets say that i have a very good intercooler and when all of my air reaches the intake manifold which is where my boost gauge is coming from, and the temp. is the same(for both turbos) and it says 12...

Haha, well the guy i bought the car from said it was set at 21 psi...ROFL ROFL ROFL Now i know that that isnt true....or even close to being true(because i hooked up a my boost gauge and it registered about 11), but there have been people that have gotten slightly over 16 psi on the T-25. I...

Haha, well actually the oil seal already slightly blew thanks to a dumb@$$ attack i had when doing a leak down test.:toobad: I wasnt necessarily asking about the T-25's maximum boost that it can reach, but more towards my fuel systems maximum psi that it can support.

Yes i know, I have already read that, but I am still confused.:sosad:I understand that a bigger turbo will flow more air than a smaller one if you have them at the same settings. The part where i get confused is that 12 psi can be more air than 12 psi in some cases. I could understand...