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How many liters of water+coolant go inside the '98 Eclipse GST colling system?

Whats the easiest way to disassemble the lower (turbo) heat shield? It looks bad and I want to paint it. I took all the bolts off, but the shield hits either the dipstick housing, alternator, engine block, o2 sensor... What should come off to get this done? Thanks

Oh s**t, I found it :sosad:

More carb cleaner and intense frowning unfortunately didn't make it better! ROFL PCV valve is leaking sometimes less, sometimes more. If the VC side of the PCV is down leaks less (because of the gravity helping to force the ball against its seat), otherwise air flows free. Probably the PCVs...

The first time it was leaking air from intake to VC direction. The second time didn't. I had used carb cleaner. Anyway, I will give another shot letting it sit on the carb cleaner and test it again with 13psi. I'd replace it with a new one but I can't find it in here. So if cleaning it won't...

Did some tests yesterday and I couldn`t conclude if the PCV it's working fine or not. I understand the intake manifold, as long as turbo doesn`t build boost, is under vaccum and suppose to keep the PCV valve open and draw the gases from blow by. This way I guess is working fine, like I tryed to...

I'm suspicious about engine "ventilation" (pcv maybe or bad crankcase ventilation) beacuse when I go down hill without pressing throttle, the engine sounds weird and it brakes the car more than used to. Also when accelerating, turbo sounds loud but the car goes slow.

It's happening the same to me, plus it leaks from the gasket all around. The place where the spark plug wires are in gets wet from oil as soon as I go for a short road drive. The engine is all stock, the cover was never open so I believe the gasket, cover and bolts torque must be the way it...

If someone still have this doubt, I put 225/50 on the stock rims and had no problems at all. By the way, I still have a pair of Goodyear RSA 205/55 that came factory stock in the car (DOT 97). Comparing the new 225/50 with the old 205/55, weirdly their widht are the same. So definetely, there'll...

Yep, i had tested this possibility on a bench. It works, but the taillight will flash the opposite the front/dash/fender lights flash. Going ahead with this, I tryed to connect a second flasher relay on the wires that go to the taillights, switching a NC/NO relay another 12V source, the way to...

Tell me about it man! If there's a simpler solution I'd go for it. Although I did a nice job (modesty apart), simpler is better. I'm not very familiar to electrics/electronics, so help me to understand how this work. I suppouse to put the diode before the splice in the brake wires, not...

Temperature gauge shows the needle right in the midle of the range. Coolant level is where it suppouse to be. Turbo shields and hood shield are all in. But just driving around like grandma makes bay hot as hell. The drivers wheel well, for instance, gets hot enough you can't leave your hand over...

I did the convertion from JDM to USDM taillights, making the turn signal overwrite the brake signal in the bulbs the side you want to turn. It's not an easy thing to do if you're not a professional like myself, specially if you don't want to cut any stock wire, but if someone wants it too, I can...

After two years studying, testing, cleaning and replacing things in my cars engine, I fixed it giving a real bad tight on the alternators belt. My episodes of bogging happened when I hit the throttle the exact same moment the AC compressor was comming in. It's something that you can't notice...