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Techboy's 99 4G63

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Car was scheduled for a 4 hour alignment. Got the fenders rolled while it was there too.

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Now its time to enjoy it and get familiar with each other for the next month until the weather turns.

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When I get a chance, maybe this weekend, I'd like to put it up in the air and check out the DP work JMF did.
 
So, I've had the car home an entire week now and I have driven it 3 times ... so I have some initial reactions:

First, it's my car, but its not. Lol. It "feels" so different. I've had this car 20 years, so we have a lot of history together at this point. It's looks the same inside, but doesn't feel like my car.

Second, up to this point it's always been a GST so the launches and hard accelerations where always kinda violent with wheel hop and torque steer. Now, it just squats and goes. I say squats b/c most of my daily drivers have been trucks - I currently drive an FJ Cruiser, so everything has been RWD. I've never owned anything AWD and it just reminds me of how a RWD feels, except without the fear of getting squirrely.

Third - it's loud. Way loud. I still have mixed feelings about the STM exhaust. I really loved my Greddy and the aggressive tone it gave the car without being obnoxious. The STM is louder and at some RPM's has a frequency that rings in my ears. I'll probably learn to live with it, but I'm definitely not in love with it. I guess it's louder b/c it's a straighter shot from the turbo to exit and has a much smaller muffler. The Greddy's muffler was huge and I think had some baffling inside, and the GST piping itself did some twisting and turning which I'm sure muted it a bit.

Fourth - it needs a good detail. It doesn't look it in the pics above, but up close it looks like a car that has a lot of work done to it over the last 24 months.

Those are my thoughts so far. So good to be driving it again.
 
My 1st DSM was a GST. I can remember having to get used to all the driveline clatter when I got my 1st GSX.

Now when I say clatter, Im not referring to anything wrong or broken, its just all those additional moving parts.

I missed that ultra smoothness the GST offered, but that lasted a very short time and I was over it. Great job on the swap dude.
 
This weekend I put the car up in the air for the first time since the GSX swap just to take a look at things underneath and make sure everything was cool. It was also my first chance to see the work that JMFab did to my downpipe. I tried looking for the engine bay, but I could see anything. It looks like they added about a 1 inch section to the downpipe.

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You can see very clearly now how much space there is between the downpipe and the oil pan. I can easily get my fingers in there now.
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I have been running a UDP for probably close to 15 years now, or maybe even more. There was a point in time they were all the rage. Years ago I noticed at night my lights were dimming at traffic stops, so I decided to upgrade to a Galant alternator, but it didn't fix the problem. So, I did some research and found out that UDP's can often cause this, so I bought this OEM sized pulley available from VMS. And then I put it on my shelf and sat there for probably 5 years. I bought it so long ago, I don't even know if it's still available. Since I finished up the GSX swap and the weather has been cold I've had an awful belt squeal. Kinda embarrassing. So, I dug around in the garage until I found the pulley and then picked up some new belts. I quick swapped them on yesterday while I had the car up in the air. So far, no squeal.

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Issues with the belt?

make sure the waterpump pulley assemblies outer half is not on backwards...........I bought a car a few years ago that came this way. Took me a couple weeks and trying a couple belts for me to finally notice. It can be bolted on and will work both ways.........its just that if its backwards, it will throw things off just enough to cause a fussy annoying belt.
 
Update on the squeal I was talking about above. Still no squeal. P/S belt is the same. Put a new Alternator belt along with the new pulley and removed the AC belt entirely.

When I had the downpipe modified at JMF the dp gasket got destroyed so they put a temporary paper one in there for me (they game me a heads up about it). I didn't last very long. I could hear within a few drives I had a leak. Took apart with some time I had off here over Christmas. Sure enough.

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Grabbed a Vibrant gasket online.
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So that minor problem is all buttoned up now. The oddly warm weather allowed me to get the car out and get it washed up before throwing the cover over it for the winter. I put exactly 301 miles on it since completing the swap relatively problem free, so I think we should be good to go in the spring. I'll be anxious for this winter to end and really put some miles on.

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Maybe I missed it, but where did you buy that silver front bumper logo from?

Lol ... I bought that about 20 years ago when the 3G's first came out. I either got it right from Mitsu, or MachV ... which I'm not even sure if they exist anymore. I had the front bumper repainted at one point in like 03 or 04 when I stopped dailying it and it was all full of road chips. I removed the red one then and put the silver one on.
 
I've been kinda quite on the forum here the last few months so I figured I'd jump in with an UPDATE: I've got almost 600 miles on the car so far this year. Two long distance trips where I put on 120 miles at a shot and it's been great! The AWD setup is awesome. I'm falling in love with my car all over again. I've literally done nothing to the car so far this year other than drive it. I just found out last night one of the car shows in our area was rescheduled for July 12th now that we are "green" so I'll definitely be hitting that up.

Oh, and I'm apparently on ECMTuning wait list for a DSMLink. Hopefully I can make that switch soon.

Here's two pics I posted on IG from an early evening run I did the other week.

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Lol ... I bought that about 20 years ago when the 3G's first came out. I either got it right from Mitsu, or MachV ... which I'm not even sure if they exist anymore. I had the front bumper repainted at one point in like 03 or 04 when I stopped dailying it and it was all full of road chips. I removed the red one then and put the silver one on.
Mach V still exists, but sadly no longer do anything for these cars.
 
Like everyone else back in the day I debadged this car. I'm not sure why that was all the rage, but I did it too - I guess we were trying to be mysterious OMG. I thought completing the GSX swap would be good reason to badge it back up. So here we go.

The Mitsu decal I've been sitting on for a couple of years, along with a GST one I bought as well. The GSX decal I just picked up over the winter.
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Here's back of the car as of now.
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I never noticed this before ... ever, but in this is dusk lighting with a work light at just the right angle you can actually still see the marks of the original decal.
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Measured in 35mm on each side and up about 4mm ... specs I got from another post on the forum here.
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I LOVE the "new" look. Makes me wonder why I ever took them off.
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Been out to Front Street Media's C&C event hosted by Turn14 Distribution the past two months. I'm hoping they'll have one more before it gets too cold. It's been cool to be featured on their site. Lot of cars ... but still the only DSM.

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Hey ... not sure how far into my thread you read, but if you keep scrolling I took a picture of what was done. They added about 1 inch section just below the flange at the O2 housing. That shifted everything down and I can now easily get my fingers between the DP and oil pan.
 
Hey ... not sure how far into my thread you read, but if you keep scrolling I took a picture of what was done. They added about 1 inch section just below the flange at the O2 housing. That shifted everything down and I can now easily get my fingers between the DP and oil pan.
I saw it on like the very next page “facepalm” sorry
 
dude i love how you clean and paint everything you take off, it looks so amazing, ive always wanted to see someone do this swap and reading through this was so much fun LOL i cant wait to see what you do next!!
 
Well ... speaking of next. Here's what's next. I've been wanting to do this for years, but my Starion restoration and money kept getting in the way. But I finally pulled the trigger on ordering up the ECM Link.

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Hopefully going to get around to installing this real soon. I'm crossing my fingers the basic tune on here is enough that I can drive the car to have it dyno'd and dialed in.
 
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