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  1. TunaTalon

    Not an Aerial photo, Just a high drive

    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...
  2. TunaTalon

    Not an Aerial photo, Just a high drive

    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...
  3. TunaTalon

    1998 Eagle Talon TSI AWD for sale

    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.
  4. TunaTalon

    Listing tuner cars on Autotrader.com

    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...
  5. TunaTalon

    20,500 mile 2g original for sale

    The link is broken.
  6. TunaTalon

    Rare car ?

    Please see http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/hangout/398408-who-has-last-talon-ever-made.html for more about how many 1998 Talons were produced.
  7. TunaTalon

    Rare car ?

    Well I think that 1998 Talons are great cars.;)
  8. TunaTalon

    hybrid motor idea-criticism

    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...
  9. TunaTalon

    hybrid motor idea-criticism

    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...
  10. TunaTalon

    balance shaft

    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...
  11. TunaTalon

    balance shaft

    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...
  12. TunaTalon

    faster spooling turbo?

    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...
  13. TunaTalon

    Who has the last Talon ever made?

    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...
  14. TunaTalon

    Who has the last Talon ever made?

    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.
  15. TunaTalon

    Who has the last Talon ever made?

    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...
  16. TunaTalon

    2 trans fluid questions a/t and m/t

    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.
  17. TunaTalon

    How hard to find.......?

    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.
  18. TunaTalon

    Listing tuner cars on Autotrader.com

    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...
  19. TunaTalon

    1998 Eagle Talon TSI AWD for sale

    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...
  20. TunaTalon

    1998 Eagle Talon TSI AWD for sale

    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...
  21. TunaTalon

    1998 Eagle Talon TSI AWD for sale

    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...
  22. TunaTalon

    Quitters- soon ghosts to us (selling/sold my DSM)

    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...
  23. TunaTalon

    How many miles on your car?

    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.
  24. TunaTalon

    Whats your daily driver?

    This car.<--------- 98 Talon with 200264 miles on the clock and lots of TLC.
  25. TunaTalon

    Someone brought in a Fossil

    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.
  26. TunaTalon

    Someone brought in a Fossil

    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...
  27. TunaTalon

    Someone brought in a Fossil

    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.
  28. TunaTalon

    Someone brought in a Fossil

    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...
  29. TunaTalon

    My stanced eclipse!

    Looks good. You should drive the car across Akers Ferry sometime for a photo.Like this.
  30. TunaTalon

    What is the average age on tuners? (Re-Poll)

    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.
  31. TunaTalon

    What is the average age on tuners? (Re-Poll)

    I'll come back and click an age group when you add "70 and above".I have ties that are older than 35.But my Talon only has 16K on the stroker rebuild.
  32. TunaTalon

    2G Not passing smog because of monitors

    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...
  33. TunaTalon

    2G Not passing smog because of monitors

    If the monitors set to complete, have the car tested before key-off.
  34. TunaTalon

    2G Not passing smog because of monitors

    The EPA document is different for the Talon and Eclipse. The Mo waiver is for the Talon.
  35. TunaTalon

    Auto Trans Slip?

    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...
  36. TunaTalon

    2G Not passing smog because of monitors

    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.
  37. TunaTalon

    Last minute smog with readiness monitor question.

    Please see the reference thread for this problem at http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/maintenance-repairs/167675-not-passing-smog-because-monitors.html
  38. TunaTalon

    2G Not passing smog because of monitors

    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...
  39. TunaTalon

    The best turbo blanket ever made

    Ohhhh shiny object.
  40. TunaTalon

    How reliable has your DSM been?

    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...
  41. TunaTalon

    Was talon/eclipse the first sport compact style car with AWD?

    In 1991 I noticed that the All-Trac was a rare car and decided that it was because there were too few fools to pay the asking price.
  42. TunaTalon

    Was talon/eclipse the first sport compact style car with AWD?

    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.
  43. TunaTalon

    Transfer Case Leak

    The full name and Mitsubishi part number is Transfer Case Recall Kit P/N MR470072.
  44. TunaTalon

    Help a shop teacher- Percentages and Automotives

    My wife is Asian and has been driving for 48 years without an accident that was her fault. How does that compare to your record?In fewer words ESAD.
  45. TunaTalon

    Help a shop teacher- Percentages and Automotives

    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...
  46. TunaTalon

    Help a shop teacher- Percentages and Automotives

    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...
  47. TunaTalon

    Reverse and license lights harness

    The Mitsubishi part number for the License plate light assembly is MR162485.Available from several on line sites for 14 to 16 bux.
  48. TunaTalon

    Which stroker is best?

    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...
  49. TunaTalon

    Sherman or Tiger?

    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...
  50. TunaTalon

    What is this called / Where does this go / What does this do? [MERGED]

    For more part numbers for the 2G sun roof see pages 71 and 72 of Club DSM Southwest! Car club for Eagle Talon - Mitsubishi Eclipse - Plymouth Laser
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