Right you are sir. I enjoyed my 91 Talon for 120,000 miles and the 98 TSI for 200,000 miles. As a side benefit, tuning the 98 Talon made sure there was no extra filthy lucre laying around the house to spread germs.But last Dec. I decided that Tuner Talons make more sense for young 50...
If you're looking for an extreme drive to showcase the DSM try the Moki Dugway in SE Utah. This picture looks like it was taken from an airplane but twelve minutes of driving down 1100 ft. in elevation on gravel covered switch backs puts you on the road in the picture.Don't overcook...
The car has been sold to a member here who came in person and displayed knowledge of, and appreciation of, the Talon.I'm a happy quitter. My Talon has found a good home.
Final Report
After paring the description down to Autotrader requirements and providing a link to the full mod list on my web site the Ad details were viewed just over 800 times with about 10 click throughs to the full mod list.I had two calls from scammers wanting more money to help sell...
Thank you for addressing the effect of air flow, all true for any RPM. That's my point. Flow through the valves in CFM is the limit regardless of the RPM.
Bigger valves, more flow is true. I put 1mm oversize valves in my Talon along with some port work for more clearance around the...
There are several good points on this thread about how to get higher RPMs. But not a post about how to get more air through the valves. The absolute limit of horsepower for any version of the 4GXX engine is sonic air flow through the valves. The valves will reach sonic flow at the same CFM...
Read my post again.
Balancing the rotating assembly will affect the first order vibrations.
The balance shafts affect the second order vibrations.
The second order vibrations are greater than the first order vibrations for any reasonable imbalance.
Being an olde motorhead I both balanced the...
The balance shafts have no effect on, or relation to, the balance of the rotating assembly.The balance shafts compensate for differences in velocities of pistons going up from pistons going down. The differences cause a vibration that is two times the period of the crankshaft rotation. If...
1. Convert to a 2.3L stroker for more torque.
2. Use cams optimized for low/mid range power (264/264).
3. Put a high stall torque converter in front of the automatic transmission.
4. Be happy with the maximum power from a 16G.I don't have 500 WHP but the Talon pulls under a fresh green...
I have found one possible clue to mapping Eagle brochure option codes to CAPS options. They don't match.The CARFAX for my Talon's Autotrader ad shows that the car has a power sun/moon roof. Or maybe I just missed it for 15 years.
CARFAX Vehicle History Report for this 1998 EAGLE TALON...
The codes in my post 63 from Edmunds match the codes from my 1997 Talon Brochure. I have no clue how to map them to the CAPS codes and Google just failed me.
Option codes from the Edmund's 1997 new car guide used to order my 1998 Talon on Sept. 2, 1997.
List price that day was $24,139 and the purchase price was $23,069. I have about that much again in mods but it has been 15 years of fun driving.AY9 16" alum wheels (ESI)
HAA Air conditioning...
ATF+4 is the recommended ATF for DSM's.A shop put generic ATF in my 98 Talon (before billet Torque Converter) and it developed TC shudder. A change to ATF+4 cured it.
Maybe, just maybe, somewhere out there is a retired old phart that had his AWD Talon professionally modified just to take his wife on multi-day road trips and never abused the car or even did a brake boosted launch. Hint, check the classifieds here on Dsmtuners.
The seller's description on Autotrader.com is limited to 2000 chars. I couldn't even list my Talon's mod list in 2000 chars so I pared down the listing to main items and linked to my site for more information. I thought it would be a good idea to list the car's positives and negatives...
It looks like the dsmtuners members all want to do their own mods so the Talon is now listed on Autotrader.com. Just search for Eagle Talons near St. Louis, MO.Maybe I should have mentioned that my Talon has never been abused or raced. I installed the conical air filter and the seats, all...
My first car in 1959 cost$25.00 from the junk yard. I stuffed a 331 CID Hemi in a front/mid mounting using an old rusty grain bin to make a new fire wall. The highest tech in the car was the carburetor.My last car, now in 2013 has a front/mid engine with technology everywhere. The cams...
Anyone in the St. Louis area interested in a 1998 Eagle Talon TSI AWD that's been professionally modified for instant gratification to throttle input? I'm selling the Talon that I've been driving since 1997 with the intent to keep it forever. But, now that my 71st birthday is behind me it's time...
This olde phart has been having too much fun. It's time for an old man's car.In two days I turn 71 and on Christmas day my wife made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Yesterday I drove home in a 2013 Infiniti G37X coupe. It has 330 HP, a seven speed automatic transmission, and intelligent...
202,000m on the 98's chassis and 19k Miles on the stroker rebuild.The rear wheel bearings are original, but very few other moving parts.Made another 1100 mile road trip last week.
In a momentary fit of lucidity I remembered the model of the Hewlett Packard programmable calculator that introduced me to Basic. It was a HP 9830.And who are you calling a fossil? Oh, right.
Yes, I felt spoiled with a real computer with a hard drive. The XT was not my first computer, it was my first 16 bit computer. Before that there was a Hewlett Packard programmable calculator that used an audio cassette for mass storage and before that, some sort of word processor with a...
You guys had store bought games? I just bought my son a Commodore 64 with built in Basic and told him to write his own game.He developed a dungeons and dragons game and never looked back. Best $5xx or so bucks I ever spent.
An IBM XT was the first 16 bit computer I ever worked on. It had a 10 Megabyte hard drive and a whole 1 meg of memory. Only the first 640K could be accessed as RAM by the OS and the rest was upper memory block and used as a solid state disc. It was revolutionary for its time and with...
Yeah, she's right you know.
I spent some of my social security check on a MagnaFlow muffler last year to replace the obnoxious straight through one.Of course your wife is always right. If you don't believe me just ask her.
My post number 231 has the EPA's position in bold. That had not been passed down to the testing stations in Missouri. Only after my communication with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources the testing station was informed of the waiver.The DSM community may have to go through the...
Are you checking the ATF with the car level, at normal operating temperature with the engine running and the transmission in neutral after shifting through each gear?If you do it wrong the level will read normal when it is actually low.If the slipping stops after driving for a while then...
Missouri tests without regard to readiness monitors
I have received the following from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in response to my reference to the EPA document mentioned in post 228:
Emphasis mine.At least for MO the problem is solved.
Now there's another update from June 2012.
http://www.epa.gov/oms/regs/im/obd/regtech/420b12044.pdfIt lists my Talon problem as All monitors reset to incomplete upon every ignition key-off
The action according to the EPA is These vehicles are not reflashable and should be tested...
The Talon turned over 200,000 miles yesterday.
The odometer passed 200K near the end of an 1100 mile road trip to the mountain roads of Northern
Arkansas and East Oklahoma. We drove the Talimena Scenic Drive and recommend it for DSM's that can turn.The rebuilt engine and tranny are...
The Toyota All-Trac was introduced in 1988 with full time AWD and a turbo 2L engine. When car shopping in 1991, I considered the All-Trac as a better car than the AWD turbo Talon.I bought the Talon because it was much less expensive.
The stock 205/55/16 tires on your car don't fill out the wheel wells the way you like and you want to upgrade to a 215/45/18.The stock tire has 839 revolutions per mile and the 215/45/18 has only 813 revolutions per mile.What percentage will your speedometer be off with the taller tires...
A two liter 4G63 is 1997 cc displacement and stroked to 100mm the displacement is 2323 cc. What is the percent increase?Stock boost for a DSM is 11 PSI. If boosted to 18 PSI what is the percentage difference?Stock red line for a 4G63 is 7500 RPM if that is raised to 8500 what is the...
Not necessarily. The research of and drafting of http://www.kidzuku.com/StrokeOrNot.pdf should put me at the head of the list of over-analyzers, and clearly mark movement over to the dork side. And my Talon pulls me under fresh green lights with a 2.3L stroker.I think the emotional appeal...
There were only 1368 Tiger 1 tanks produced in WWII while the US produced over 49,000 Shermans and the Russians produced over 150,000 T34s.The Tiger was better than any three Shermans, but the next seven Shermans in the fight would find a way to put a 75mm round in the rear of the Tiger...