J_HEATH
10+ Year Contributor
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- May 30, 2010
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Mobile,
Alabama
Where to begin......
Before I do I'd like to say thanks to my Buddy Chuck for selling me the car and all of his help with the build, using his shop, and hours upon hours of his free time helping me. Also I'd like to thank Lucas English, Jeff Bush, Kevin Kwiatkowski (Kiggly Racing), and John at IPT for all the help and answering our countless questions.
I'd also like to thank Jesse Abele and his brothers for posting their video of "Cdubs fastest Street Cars" a few years ago which got us convinced to find an automatic AWD in the first place as well as Darren Thomas who also races an Auto DSM who we met at Import Face Off in Montgomery, AL a few years ago.
My Buddy Chuck and me got this car almost 2 years ago. We drove from Mobile,AL to just south of Cincinnati,OH somewhere in KY to get the car. A 26 hour nonstop round trip. He Origionally traded a 92 TSi FWD Talon for this car but then decided he wanted to finish his 5-speed Talon so he sold me the Auto.
When we got the car it was completely stock and only had 61k miles on it, but the talon was in rough shape and it looked like no maintance was ever done on it. It had a bad tapping noise which we thought was just gunked up lifters but later found out it was a spun bearing on the number 3 cylinder and the 7-bolt block was trash. This was after we had replaced everything on the front cover and rebuilt the head.
After getting the Talon back home
Origionally we planned on doing a budget build and make it a quick street car for as cheap as possible. Of course not too long into it that went out the window and the build got serious.
After first pulling the valve cover off. Oil was burnt onto the valve cover, we had to repleadly soak it in simple green, and degreaser and scrap all the caked up burnt crud off.
Step 1: remove unwanted crap for weight reduction. Two 55gal toutes full of stuff.
Step 2: Rebuild head and general maintenance.
For a Turbo we got a hold of a Buschur 20G that has been around the since 97. It was purchased off NABR by Chucks cousin Jeremy then and a few years ago he finally sold his 91 GSX to our buddy Dan who upgraded the turbo setup so I got the 20G setup for a steal of a deal. THANKS Dan!
Buschur 20G compared to the stock 13G and a Percision 6262BB
Buschur 20G, old school Buschur ported 2G manifold and O2 housing with 38mm Tial wastegate welded on.
Turbo mounted with ARP bolts (turbo and manifold)
Misc pics during origional startup
Cometic HG and ARP headstuds
Walbro 255 and rewire
Battery relocated to trunk
Before I do I'd like to say thanks to my Buddy Chuck for selling me the car and all of his help with the build, using his shop, and hours upon hours of his free time helping me. Also I'd like to thank Lucas English, Jeff Bush, Kevin Kwiatkowski (Kiggly Racing), and John at IPT for all the help and answering our countless questions.
I'd also like to thank Jesse Abele and his brothers for posting their video of "Cdubs fastest Street Cars" a few years ago which got us convinced to find an automatic AWD in the first place as well as Darren Thomas who also races an Auto DSM who we met at Import Face Off in Montgomery, AL a few years ago.
My Buddy Chuck and me got this car almost 2 years ago. We drove from Mobile,AL to just south of Cincinnati,OH somewhere in KY to get the car. A 26 hour nonstop round trip. He Origionally traded a 92 TSi FWD Talon for this car but then decided he wanted to finish his 5-speed Talon so he sold me the Auto.
When we got the car it was completely stock and only had 61k miles on it, but the talon was in rough shape and it looked like no maintance was ever done on it. It had a bad tapping noise which we thought was just gunked up lifters but later found out it was a spun bearing on the number 3 cylinder and the 7-bolt block was trash. This was after we had replaced everything on the front cover and rebuilt the head.
After getting the Talon back home
Origionally we planned on doing a budget build and make it a quick street car for as cheap as possible. Of course not too long into it that went out the window and the build got serious.
After first pulling the valve cover off. Oil was burnt onto the valve cover, we had to repleadly soak it in simple green, and degreaser and scrap all the caked up burnt crud off.
Step 1: remove unwanted crap for weight reduction. Two 55gal toutes full of stuff.
Step 2: Rebuild head and general maintenance.
For a Turbo we got a hold of a Buschur 20G that has been around the since 97. It was purchased off NABR by Chucks cousin Jeremy then and a few years ago he finally sold his 91 GSX to our buddy Dan who upgraded the turbo setup so I got the 20G setup for a steal of a deal. THANKS Dan!
Buschur 20G compared to the stock 13G and a Percision 6262BB
Buschur 20G, old school Buschur ported 2G manifold and O2 housing with 38mm Tial wastegate welded on.
Turbo mounted with ARP bolts (turbo and manifold)
Misc pics during origional startup
Cometic HG and ARP headstuds
Walbro 255 and rewire
Battery relocated to trunk