sytherstrike
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- Mar 19, 2013
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Flint,
Michigan
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I just thought I would share my journey, that started 10 years ago. I found a 1990 eagle talon with 65k for sale. It was in a wreck and didn't run. The wreck caused the old owner to install a new trans and attempt to delete the turbo. I bought the car, brought it home put in fresh gas and plugs, it fired up. I installed the b14 turbo the previous owner bought, never installed, on the car. I went for a ride, had the crank pully fly off the side of the engine and smashed all the valves. I bought stainless valves off ebay, heli coiled one spark plug hole that got stabbed hard by a broke valve and put it all back together. Went for another ride, found the car pulled hard to the right, as in I'm headed for a front yard somewhere. I than bought a 91 eclipse fwd with no engine trans. I swapped the engine and trans over, plus drilled every spot weld on the front of both cars. I removed every bracket that was required for the awd set up and put it on the fwd, sorry no pics of that, trust me it was a lot of work. I than realized you can't run a awd trans in fwd mode, unless you weld the diff, easy fix. After putting some miles on the car decided I wanted awd. I bought a 8.8 ford explorer rear end. I went to tractor supply and bought tractor end links. I than cut the end links in half and welded 1 inch water pipe in between to lengthen. I bought a aluminum drive shaft from a salvage yard, not sure what it came off of but was ford. I than laid it under the car got measurements went to a local shop said I need it shortened x amount and the mistu spindle install on the end. They lathed out the inside of the ford spindle inserted the mistu one than shortened the shaft to where it needed to be. After that I finished building all the brackets for the car and stuffed the rear end under, welded everything in place. Also welded the rear diff. The car is really fun in straight line, has an extremely bad turning radius.Than one day decided to crank the boost, to scare my wife a bit, and at around 120 mph had a cloud of smoke billow out from the car. We were 2 miles from the house did everything I could to keep the motor running, but made it home. There was so much smoke you could look back and see every turn I made. After inspecting the engine, thought that I just blew the turbo oil seals. There was a bunch of oil in the intake and all throughout. I bought an ebay turbo t3/t4 kit, installed pulled it out on the road and found no matter how much boost it made the car was like driving a geo metro. I pulled the cylinder head and found the turbo was fine, I'd melted a piston.
Over the next 9 years I would buy parts to rebuild, and do small bits of work to it here and there. I bought weisco pistons from a shop for cheap, because they'd been sitting on a shelf for a long time. I than bought eagle rods. When this corona thing hit, to keep my sanity, I started working on my car. I got it all back together, fired it up. After a bit of tuning in my driveway, my son and I pulled out on the road and went for a nice easy drive. Every time I'd get around 4k rpms the car would start to buck hard. Check data logs found I was making no boost. Pulled the ebay turbo off and found thrust bearing failure. The comp wheel ground hard into the housing. I have since than bought a rebuild 6262 and a few other parts, but hope to have the car fully ready this summer. Also feel free to speak your mind about my adventure, I take criticism very well, and in a lot of cases appreciate it.
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