DeeBo
20+ Year Contributor
- 97
- 6
- Jan 3, 2003
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long beach,
California
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Welcome back to the DSM community. Car is starting to look good. You really cleaned up the engine bay.
thanks man!!! btw see your profile says your from leesville!!! I use to be stationed Ft.Polk back in the dayyyyy!!! is there anything to do out there... in my day it was pretty much just walmart and the bowling ally on post!
I know that carHey everyone! So its been about 14 years since I last had a DSM! Recently I picked up somewhat of a project 93 talon tsi AWD. The ad said it had a built motor but was having fuel issues and couldn't get it to run. So one day after work I went to check the car out and had my buddy from RRE swing by to give it a once over since I have been out of the loop for so long! After my buddy Sam got there we popped a plug out and he stuck a camera in and sure enough it had forged pistons and can see the cylinder walls where freshly done. The head looked brand new including the valve train it even had cams (not sure what size) The kid I bought it from told me he added 670cc injectors and walbro 250 fuel pump but when turned on the fuel barley came out! Sam told me it was prob installed wrong (it was) and can be fixed easy! So I pulled the trigger and bought the car and had AAA tow it home!
p.s. i was a little worried because that car is from Missouri and had some rust. also the kid didnt know much about the car since he got it with all the motor work done and what not.
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got it home and parked it next to my now wifes wrx (gave it to her so i could get the talon....balance)
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First thing i did was to pull the fuel pump and sure enough it was an improper install!!! which i fixed
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then the fix (i know the housing is muffed up! i will fix later)
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reinstalled it half ass because bunch of hardware was missing along with cover for hole in trunk but the car ran!!!!! but really rough had to hold it at 2k or it would die. Sam came over that night and hooked up his PC to the ecmlink (forgot to mention that it had link with car) We found that car had bunch of sh** going on with it... some connectors were for 2g and bunch of stuff wasnt wired correctly. also something were still trying to figure out is the ecu is jumping from 5% to 10% throttle which we checked harness from tps all the way to the plug of ecu and its fine which leaves me to believe its the ECU. anyway Sam got the car to idle at about 1k because of all the other issues. Thats when i also noticed oil was leaking from turbo.
After inspecting I saw return line only had one bolt in it and turned out to be a 2g one... holes didnt line up... which I tried to drill out and bolt back on.... didnt go so well
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broken bolt!!!!
had some rain so took a break for few days!
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ended up getting a down pipe, test pipe and cat back off ebay... test pipe didnt fit... downpipe feels off to but hey....ebay
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fixing some of the wiring!!!
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man this engine bay is ugly!!!
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So a local FB group had a guy selling bunch of stuff. I ended up getting a fp mani and a 16G (later found out i kinda got riffed off on that deal) also got a FMIC from him aswell!
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here is sam playing with his butt...
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