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95 Talon: Project Unloved 2G (RIP)

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bmxfelon420

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Sep 6, 2005
Napoleon, Ohio
Here is a thread to document the build and life and times of my poor, poor talon. When i got her, she was a mess. Interior ripped up and painted black and red, lots of stuff missing, lots of boost leaks, and a muffler that stuck out way too far. Parts on the car as i recieved it:

95 Talon TSI AWD
LSD rear end
Automatic
EEPROM ecu (not socketed)
Injen intake
fruity muffler welded to stock exhaust

first meet

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Engine before shot. This was when all the front valve cover bolts were stripped, and before I cleaned anything. The valve cover leaked, the half moon leaked, and a cam seal was in the process of letting go. One exhaust manifold stud was missing completely, the other broken, and yet another one with a SAE bolt in it. The gasket also leaked badly.
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Fruity interior. I dont know what would posess someone to paint a grey interior red and black.
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Being worked on. The guy I bought it from traded a truck and $500 dollars for it because it didnt run. The reason was because the power transistor was unplugged (and missing the clip)
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Just brought home from purchase. I actually drove it to the shootout before i officially owned it, that was scary. Driving around with plates off of an 86 Starion is nerve wracking.
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Broken foglight. You know how hard it was to find just one foglight to replace it?
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New door panels. I got these for $40 bucks at the shootout, made the car look a lot better
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plastic BOV mod! I found a thread here somewhere and decided to attempt it, it helped but the valve still leaked.
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engine after a lot of cleaning. I had also at this point installed Stainless exhaust studs and Heli-coiled the three bad ones and replaced the gasket. It was a Fel pro that i had laying around and let go again because i couldnt torque the bolts properly.
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ghetto made 1g BOV upper. We made it from a stock 1g flange, a piece of exhaust and a radiator hose. Worked pretty well, the flange warped a lot from the welding and needed machined later.
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Just a pic, I think at this point I had the ECU socketed and set up with link V2. I also had a Translab shift kit installed with the medium spring. Made it shift a lot less lazily.
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Here's one of some new seats i got in the Junkyard for 50 bucks. After this and a thorough scrubdown, it made the car look MUUUCH nicer inside. Huge difference.
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Goodies ordered to put the 16g on
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Working on the new Exhaust and IC. I also put new upper window moldings on, almost pristine ones at the junkyard for 15 bucks!
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Intercooler finally on. It sucked because the guy i bought it from bent the brackets all up for some reason, and we had no vise.
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Shot of new exhaust. It fit pretty well, except that I forgot all the bolts and gaskets at home and had to go to NAPA to get more, it was a long drive home.
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and then, the car caught on fire. After i had put the IC and Exhaust on, all of the various hooning done in the interim seemed to do in the T25. So i parked the car, and had got a big 16g for free that needed rebuilt, so I was waiting on that. In the meantime, i started the car periodically to keep my tune, because the default flash was for 780's and I didnt have the cable to set it back if i unhooked the battery. One night when I did this, I let it run, came out, shut it off, went inside and about three hours later it was full on burning down. I think oil must have just been pouring out of the turbo while it was idling, which i didnt see at all when i went out to shut it off and it didnt smell like oil or anything. The fire department thought that the oil smoldered over time and started just catching on fire.


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and then
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and then
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and then
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and then
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no and then!
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The car was a total loss, and was insured fortunately. So it got replaced with the car you see in my avatar, which I will start a thread on shortly. Final list of mods when the car burned down:

intake
OBX 3" DP
SRS 3" catback
link V2
cheap boost gauge
OBX FMIC
t25@16lbs


I'll try to get a video up of the drag passes i got in pretty soon. They were pretty underwhelming, I was still on a stock ecu because I didnt have time to socket it before the shootout that year, and still had the leaky BOV. I had another pass that was going really well too before the transistor came unplugged and shut the car off. What a PITA.
 
Wow.. crazy. Thanks for sharing. And scaring the crap out of me!
Always sad to lose one. :cry:
 



Videos of the drag passes I made with this car. I have a feeling it would have been high 13's if I could have done another pass the next year after I put the Exhaust, FMIC, and tweaked the tune a little. It pulled much harder after that. But we'll never know :(
 
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