Capt Obvious
Probationary Member
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- Mar 25, 2024
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Gig Harbor,
Washington
In high school (late 1990s), a friend in the grade above me had a red '91 Talon TSi. He let me take it for a spin one day (even though I didn't have my license yet) and I fell in love. That was the moment I became a car nerd, and cars have been my main passion ever since.
A couple years later, I ended up with a '95 GS-T that I then modified pretty heavily (for the time) with a big 16G with external wastegate, ACT 2600 clutch, front mount, etc. I sold it during college because it was getting beat up from street parking and always told myself I'd have another DSM some day.
Well, 20+ years later it's "some day" because I stumbled upon a really clean 1G that I just couldn't pass up. It's a '91 TSi AWD with 75,000 original miles(!) and it's pretty much all original and unmodified.
The original owner bought it new and parked it in 2011. The second owner bought it about two years ago and did a bunch of maintenance to it then decided to move on from DSMs, which is how I ended up with it.
Items taken care of in the last year or two:
Overall, the car is super nice. Mechanically, it's about as perfect as a 30+ year old car can be. The paint it hammered, but the body is really straight and everything is there. The interior is very nice as well, except the front seats are pretty trashed.
My plan with the car is to restore it back to its former glory and do some period-correct bolt on mods. I'm going to do my best to restrain myself on this one since it's so original.
The car came with the following parts that I plan to utilize:
Right now, I'm just browsing a lot of build threads on here trying to re-learn everything I've forgotten about these cars over the years, and trying to learn all the new ways of doing things. A lot has changed since the days of "tuning" by using a Super AFC to correct for larger fuel injectors and doing data logging with a Palm Pilot...
A couple years later, I ended up with a '95 GS-T that I then modified pretty heavily (for the time) with a big 16G with external wastegate, ACT 2600 clutch, front mount, etc. I sold it during college because it was getting beat up from street parking and always told myself I'd have another DSM some day.
Well, 20+ years later it's "some day" because I stumbled upon a really clean 1G that I just couldn't pass up. It's a '91 TSi AWD with 75,000 original miles(!) and it's pretty much all original and unmodified.
The original owner bought it new and parked it in 2011. The second owner bought it about two years ago and did a bunch of maintenance to it then decided to move on from DSMs, which is how I ended up with it.
Items taken care of in the last year or two:
- Timing belt, water pump, balance shaft delete with all OEM parts
- All new fluids
- New tires
- New clutch (Southbend Kevlar) with ACT flywheel with new OEM throwout bearing, slave/master cylinders
- Jacks built transmission with TMZ 4-spider cross shaft
- The original transmission from this car was send to TMZ for a rebuild but got destroyed in the fire last year. He ended buying the transmission that's now in the car from someone here on DSMTuners.
Overall, the car is super nice. Mechanically, it's about as perfect as a 30+ year old car can be. The paint it hammered, but the body is really straight and everything is there. The interior is very nice as well, except the front seats are pretty trashed.
My plan with the car is to restore it back to its former glory and do some period-correct bolt on mods. I'm going to do my best to restrain myself on this one since it's so original.
The car came with the following parts that I plan to utilize:
- Freshly rebuilt small 16G from Justin Whitesell
- 850cc injectors from FIC
- Dejon SMIC with piping
- Megan Racing aluminum radiator with slim fans
Right now, I'm just browsing a lot of build threads on here trying to re-learn everything I've forgotten about these cars over the years, and trying to learn all the new ways of doing things. A lot has changed since the days of "tuning" by using a Super AFC to correct for larger fuel injectors and doing data logging with a Palm Pilot...
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