Got my first ever Link logs today!!! See the attached logs if you're curious. I havent really nailed down what "normal" logs look like but nothing bad appeared in these logs other than my coolant temps topping out at like 239f


Confirmed as well that my car isnt running lean and causing heating issues through my wideband. I narrowed it down to the turbo having some sort of oil/coolant problem and getting insanely hot, which has been melting my a/c condenser fans off of my mishimoto shroud.


Next steps for the Talon are the 20g, 750 injectors, new radiator and fan(s), fuel pump rewire, porting the exhaust mani, etc etc.
Big power and, if im lucky, a tad bit of reliability are on their way.
Absolutely cant wait.

Man... its probably about time I update this thread.

Per the last post, got my 20g installed, new injectors sent off to FIC tested at 775 so I installed those.

The biggest deal of all though: the car is dailyable again. In fact, I've been dailying it for nearly a month now. It finally keeps itself cool via 2 spal fans, and the "run fans at full speed" option checked through DSMLink. While I think it would keep itself cool without that option, I dont want my 180$ spal fan to suffer the same melty fate my 2 shitimoto fans fell to.

I mean, the Talon still has its quirks. Radio is completely dead, sub amp also not getting power, rough cold starts sometimes, etc. Car also won't run over 10psi of boost at the moment, but I have a feeling its due to some settings on my electronic boost controller thats paired with my innovative wideband. They probably could use some tweaking, but I dont really want to fool with it, and I have no clue what settings I need to change anyways. Im just happy I can drive the damn car again.

So many people on my college's campus appreciate the car too. I thought no one knew what they were, but I catch people staring and get compliments more than I would expect.

Anyways, finally got it back on the road! Cant wait to send er to a dyno and have it explode before my eyes

Wow... a LOT has happened in the past month and a half. Goes from bad, to really really good, so for sure read everything if you have the time

So, I guess I'll get into it:

First off: I learned some valuable lessons recently.
1. Always listen to your enthusiast mechanics. Always.
2. If you feel a certain way about something related to your car and people less knowledgeable try to tell you to do something different than what you were planning, dont listen to them.

Part of being young is not exactly knowing what im doing, or having the time to pull it off. Hood pins, though, should have been something I did long ago, but didnt feel confident enough to approach it myself, and my dad wanted to focus on less important things on the car so I didnt install them. I do wish i took much more control over the project since I'm much more meticulous on everything, and it would have saved a lot of time and money as of recently. But, some good things came of it.

Not installing the hood pins came back to bite me driving home from work one night. Yeah it was.. bad. 1st pic.
The piece of the hood that holds the hood down wasnt damaged at all, it just mustve slipped out of place on the interstate after hitting a lot of potholes and bridge joints.
Worst part was that the pins were sitting next to the parking spot in my parents garage. Bummer. My longtime personal DSM wiseman in TN told us to do the hood pins long long ago. Should have listened for sure.

No worries though! Thats why I have my dad's spare car ready to go. I take it down to college and drive it as a daily as the new glass is replaced, thinking I'll have the car back soon-ish.
Well, 1 test drive later from my dad without taking the old hood off, and the 3rd picture happened. Bigtime bummer. At least we were giving a small business more money to reinstall new windshields...

Not all bad things came from this downtime of waiting for new windshields, though!
Dad went out to some craft stores and got replacement fabric for my headliner, Alcantara to be specific. I think the beige color of it looks PERFECT in my interior! Sure beats having no headliner at all, and the mirrors look great too! Dad even saved my SRS caution labels from the old mirrors, so my girlfriend will likely be able to stitch them on for that extra touch of OEM

Also got me a new headunit for my upcoming birthday! Apple car play is unbeatable, and I made sure this radio had an HDMI port for Pi-Link in the upcoming future!
I'm stupid happy with how everything has come out now. The stereo sounds so much better, and works finally, and the interior just feels so complete now. Cant wait to daily it again!

And, no, I still havent installed the hoodpins! The CF hood we had on the car is ruined at this point, though, so the stock hood has gone back on for the time being.
Met a great guy at the shootout who helped us plan out how to do the project though, so once we do need to take on the job with a new hood, i feel confident we could do it.

What can I say? DSM life!

Hm. Not quite sure why the pictures posted out of order after the fact, but just see the pictures of the smashed windshields for what i was referencing in my post

Glad you guys got the radio working. Sorry I wasn't much help there, but I was totally burnt out Saturday night when I got that text.

Food for thought, when I did my sun visors I just super glued the air bag label on and it worked out great. Stitching it might be more trouble than it's worth since the label is plastic anyway

Yeah no worries! One of these days we ought to chase the mystery of why the 12v wire in the harness just stopped working.
But, for now, its great!

Good thought for sure. The labels still have a bit of foam on the back so i’ll have to trim it off before gluing for sure.

Otherwise, i’ll need to do some long range driving to work and back to check temps, and maybe pull out the laptop to check what the alternator is doing, but its back for sure!

Talon is dailying again! Since the stock hood is back on the car, im closely monitoring temps since it used to get to 223 every now and then with the old CF hood (rip). But, with the cool weather in Tennessee, the needle didnt even move off the operating temp, which is nice.

The new stereo is so good it has me contemplating whether or not to monitor my battery’s voltage through link just to make sure it isnt too power hungry

Wow... last post on this thread was in late 2023? Yikes! Glad I remembered my password

Well anyways, not much has really changed on the car! Put a new carbon fiber hood on it with hood pins, a new Nardi Personal Grinta steering wheel, and did some random maintenance to the intake system mostly. Put it down over the Summer of 2024 to fix the overheating and the rear wheel bearings, then ended up driving it out to the college I transferred to in Missouri after fixing those issues. The more and more I drive it, the more and more things begin to start feeling odd or start breaking, so I'm looking forward to putting it on blocks again over the summer to go through and properly do some installs. Since its cold out here in Missouri, I ended up snapping the doorhandle as pictured when it was about 11 degrees out so that's pretty sad. That was an original beige doorhandle that was on the car when I bought it, since I had to replace the driver side with a beige since it came with a black one.

Also, since my new college is 500 miles from home, my mileage has gone from about 216,000 at the start of the Fall 2024 semester to just shy of 220,000. Though things still feel off about it, its still been killing it. Really proud of the car since this is the longest time period its ran in my entire period of owning it. Speaking of which, this car turned 30 in August of 24 which is pretty neat, since its build date is 08/1994.

So like any sane person would, I also bought a 2nd DSM today to fix up while I work on the turbo car
Going to make a vehicle profile for it here soon with pictures and whatnot, so go check that out to see the story! Excited to work on my cars more now that I'll be out of college in May and working part time.

Cheers to any tuners who see this! Looking forward to participating somewhat on the forums again.

Man, when I drove the car in October (I think?), it was remarkable how smooth it was. It drove almost like a stock car, and was such a stark difference to mine.

Let me know when you're ready to k swap that new talon.

IHeartMyHonda said:

Man, when I drove the car in October (I think?), it was remarkable how smooth it was. It drove almost like a stock car, and was such a stark difference to mine.

Let me know when you're ready to k swap that new talon.

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It does still feel pretty smooth when it warms up to temp, but its been having some incredibly strange behavior related to the turbo / intake system when cold. I don't have the time to take it all apart and figure out what it is, but we'll see how much I'm able to do when the ESi hopefully gets running.

Its almost like someone's advice, help, and repairs help it get to the spot where it is

Infiltrated my dad's 944 group and went and had some fun

Need to address some crankcase pressure issues and oiling issues, but man this car is getting close to really cool. Work + school is doing a lovely job of getting pretty in the way but oh well.

Yall, have I got a story for the forums today.

I got an email from the local junkyard that a 1992 Talon had arrived this morning. After looking at the pictures of it more, I determined it was a 1g turbo car and figured it was worth a shot to go out and scrap.
This car was in shambles, but the turbo was left there for me to take out at least. As I was taking it out, I looked at the wheels more and DAMN, are they cool. I decided that they had to come with me, since all 4 were on the car and in pretty decent shape.
Of course, they have anti-theft hub caps denying access to the lugs which worried me, so I went back and pulled the turbo while I was brainstorming. Turns out, after all the work I did to get the turbo out, it was seized, so I didn't even wanna buy it.

I had a eureka moment, though, as I realized the car arrived this morning and had clearly not been gone through. I looked in the center console, and found the key that would allow me to get the caps off! That's some pretty insane luck in my opinion, once in a lifetime type stuff for a yard car.
So I got the rear wheels off relatively easily once I found some junked exhaust to use as a cheater bar for my breaker bar, but ran into a big issue. The front wheels would just... keep spinning on the axles. Even in gear, they wouldnt stop spinning.
So I stuck my pry bar in there and used a LOT of pb blaster and elbow grease to get the fronts off. Man.. every lug nut on this car was torqued to what felt like 170 ft lbs. My back still hurts hours later.

After getting them home, and literally using 1 wipe to clean them up, I think the results show themselves pretty immediately! A friend also sent me this article showcasing these wheels on the black talon in the top left which i think is pretty neat.
I think that once I get my silver eclipse running, I'll swap the evo 8 wheels currently on my AWD Talon onto the eclipse and put these bad boys onto my AWD talon. Might be the start of trying to a little more period correct with the build if I can.

What yard is this in?

BLACK'98DSM said:

What yard is this in?

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LKQ in Huntsville Al

BLACK'98DSM said:

What yard is this in?

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Honda hit the nail on the head. Some bits of the interior are in pretty good shape, and the trans + axles are still on the car, but otherwise the car is pretty rough man.

Ah, more than an hour drive for me. That's why I don't stop by. Red interior is really rare now days though!

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Ah, more than an hour drive for me. That's why I don't stop by. Red interior is really rare now days though!

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I also got the email that the car arrived the same morning i got the wheels. I think I was the first to look through it.