i've been told by several people that they think its the valve seals and myself also thinks this is what it is but i will do a leakdown test to be sure. and i knew that crankwalk can potentially happen to any engine, but i have never heard of any instances of it happening to a 420a car but maybe...

If you don't want anything crazy maybe you could look into higher compression pistons or maybe a striker or long rod kit. I have no experience with any of them but I'm sure there are several people on here who do and I'm sure it's something over stock. Or do cams and a head port mixed with one...

here's all the information you need regarding the swap. http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/420a-turbo-conversion/36892-420a-4g63-engine-swap-im-doing-need-help.html lol you'll see how it worked out for this guy and what everybody has to say about the 420a's. dude, i'd say just rebuild what you...

i was just recently thinking about this same thing when i was given an offer on this site about a 4g short block but after i did some research, it would be much cheaper to just rebuild what you have or even sell it and buy a turbo car. from what i've read, if you do the swap, basically the whole...

okay, well i had a previous thread about rebuilding the motor in my n/t talon, but i'm going to college next year at university of northwestern ohio for high performance/ auto tech and i decided if i could make it last, i'll just use resources there to build a motor for my car. heres the...

I'm no expert on exhausts but from what I've heard and had experience with, I wouldn't recommend getting just a test pipe. My car has one and it sounds really raspy and somewhat annoying to me. It seems to me that I've read somewhere that if you put a high flow cat or a resonator in there it'll...

lol hey thats my car! yeah man i believe that lope is all cams. i bought the car with these cams installed and i did see the reciepts, i think i have them somewhere, and i know they are obx cams in the car and it also has an obx intake manifold. i was told the car didnt lope at all before the...

i need some help from somebody who has already rebuilt a 420a engine. i've been doing some research on what i'm gonna need to get an engine that is just as good as it was when it drove off the lot brand new, but i need help with the head. i dont have a motor yet to start with other than the one...

i was under the impression that the early 4g turbo cars had the motor and trans in the same way as the 420a cars? anyways, after doing some research, i think i'm gonna have to pass on that offer. as much as i'd like to do the swap and thats also a good deal from what i've seen, but this car is...

Thanks everybody for the suggestions. Hey 16g1g, let me know how much you want for it but I'm gonna look into how much it'll take to do the swap before I make a decision on if I wanna go that route or not

Well after talking to a family friend who is also a mechanic, I believe it's about that time. After 186000 hard driven miles, the car is starting to smoke and is burning oil and I believe the problem is in the valves. If anybody has an old blown 420a that could be used to rebuild please let me...

Hey thanks man the plugs are new but the wires aren't as new and neither is the coil, but I didn't even really think about either because it runs fine higher up in the rpm's but I guess I can't just make that assumption. And I did check the compression and all cylinders are sitting right at...

hey everyone, i know there are already a million threads relating to this same thing but none of them that i've read have been the same symptoms or the same motor or anything as mine. anyways, my car is really acting up. its running really rich at idle, but it always has and i just figured it...

my car has exactly 185768 miles on the odometer and it still runs strong with these cams. i have a friend who has rode in my car and he said its alot quicker than the other two nonturbo eclipses he's rode in, but mine also has an obx intake manifold and full cold air intake and full exhaust, but...

i really like the rims i have too but they all are curb rashed, i'm sure i can fix that but one is bent to the point where it slowly leaks because of the da** pothole in the parking lot at work that sometimes you have no choice but to hit, and two of the other ones are bent but they are bearly...

okay does anybody know how to upload videos? all i have is a phone that can send thirty seconds of video but if anybody knows how to upload them then i'll be the first one to post one up of how it sounds at idle. i think it sounds pretty good to be honest

hey man, thanks for the input. i was thinking the same thing about the third set of rims that i have listed there, plus i believe they are cheaper than the others in the end anyways. i do like the style of the other rims too, plus i know a pinstriper who could change the color of the lip i'm...

okay first off i'm sure those of you who are good with photoshop are probably getting annoyed with all the please photoshop these rims on my car for me threads, but i have to start a new one because i dont have the knowledge nor the software to do it myself. so, can somebody please photoshop the...

mine did the same thing. when i bought the car it was cold out side and the blower was on all the way home, and when i started the car up later to go drive it it wouldnt work. after going through all winter last winter with no heat i decided this year it was gonna be fixed, so i just wired it up...

okay, so this girl comes to school today and hands me the estimate to fix the car. its $563. i'm no certified body man but i have done quite a bit of body work in the past few years including painting a buddy's truck. well at least spraying primer before he got impatient and payed some other guy...

i talked to all my friends who saw it happened and one of my friends is dating the girl so i dont know. i'm the kind of kid that when i do something stupid and i know it it just eats at me til its fixed. she didnt seem too concerned about it because she said she needed to talk to her dad and by...

i'm so mad at myself and i dont know what to do. i was going to school this morning and i had some stressful stuff going on last night which kept me up literally all night, i didnt get to sleep til after midnight at least. well i was pulling into the parking lot and i started to pull into a spot...

i have obx cams in my car. it runs just dandy. i bought the car with them already installed and the previous owner went cheap with obx cams and the intake manifold but i still think it performs decent for a car only putting 115hp to the ground stock. i have a friend who has rode in my car, i...

Kanye west produces some weird sh**. i wont lie i do like alot of his music. its different from most of the stuff you hear today and some of it is good some of its bad. i on the other hand am not a fan of country music. that being said, i think he has to be a f***ed up individual to take taylor...

nope everything is still there just the plate that mounts the strut to the strut tower was rusted out and with the force of the car it just broke the plate around the washer and so the strut just came up through. the studs and everthing are still there

okay i was on my way home from columbus today and i was on an overpass that i know is covered in potholes and so i was trying to dodge them and i hit one and the passenger rear strut went through the mount. i have pictures but they arent very good i just want you to know what i'm talking about...

okay i'm not a huge fan of cars with body kits but that dark green eclipse is effin sick. its so clean and i want that front bumper

man, i just saw your work and i think it looks pretty amazing. i just did the same to my tails except i have the center section painted black and i sanded the paint off the letters and tinted them. i think mine looks pretty good but now that i see what it looks like without tint and the rest of...

I had a little extra time today and some sandpaper laying around so i did some more work on the tail light section of the talon. here's a quick pic of it before i sprayed the tint over the lettering and put it back on the car. i got in a time crunch before i had to run off to work so i'll try to...

sometimes i get the same problem with my 97 n/t if i drive it hard. i always just drove it easy for a little while after and it went back to normal after driving a while. i just assumed that maybe everything was getting hot and expanding and once it cools it goes back to normal? does that make...

my dream cars arent much, not so much into the flashy exotics. first is a 1988 thunderbird. my first car was one but after my mom saw how i drove it around in the snow she made me sell it for my fwd talon. that car had a 302 v8 in it and it looked like poop, literally it was brown and we called...

i agree with the red lip comment, but i don't know how you could do it on these rims with the lip the way they are. here is a picture of what it looks like. any suggestions? sorry about all the different questions in this one thread but i'm trying to keep the number of different threads to a minimum

i have 18's with stock suspension. i like the look of the rims but i think when the wheels are really on the car, they have alot bigger of a gap between the fenders and the wheels than is shown in the pictures they show on the website. btw i really do like the momo's in both colors

i too have the obx intake manifold, and also i believe my car has obx cams. my car runs pretty good so no complaints here either

yeah i agree with the clear coat now after a few days of looking at it. i made some extra cash today helping a friend around his farm so i might go get some clear to spray on it tomorrow. what would any of you recommend using? and as for the lift kit, lol well that'll be gone as soon as i break...

so heres the final result. i got in a time crunch and therefore got a little lazy and didnt get to take the silver all the way off so i just ended up masking it off and painting what was silver black and tinted the lights. the niteshades went on very easy and smoothly, alot better than i...

i believe by looping the lines it means to take the hydraulic lines going in on both sides of the steering rack that connect to the power steering pump, and cut the lines and connect them together so the fluid just goes from one side of the rack to the other while you are turning instead of...

okay, i've been driving my car for six months without power steering because it kept popping the belt off so i just took it off and kept it off. sorry i'm not trying to steal this thread or whatever but from what i'm reading i'd just be better off just taking the whole set up off and looping the...

i believe the silver is just spray painted on. i bought the car like that and i never really liked it myself. in fact when i first was walking up to look at the car i thought it was duct tape or something. i just never took the time to fix it. i think i'll just sand it down a little and just...

the rims are 18x7.5 enkei zr2's and they are pretty beat up i need to get all four of them refinished. and i want to scrape the silver off the taillights but i just dont know how to without messing up the taillights or spend a day just sanding. lol any suggestions?

okay so i finally decided that i'm gonna tint my tail lights with vht niteshades and i bought some today at the local advance auto. my only question is that my tails already have some silver paint on them and my rims are gunmetal so i wanted to know if i do use the tint spray and just spray over...

okay, i just went to autozone and hooked the car up to the computer like you said and there were twelve codes to start. there were codes about a small and a large emissions leak but i think the small leak was because of the gas cap and i was messing around with vacuum lines today trying to...

i usually get 350-400 miles out of a full tank of gas depending on how i drive it. if i fill it up all the way it just seems like from half down to empty on the fuel gauge goes by so much faster than the first half. i work at the local pizza hut and after paying my bills i usually have less than...

i can tell its running rich because when it sits and idles for like ten seconds the whole car smells like raw gas and i noticed where i could usually get 250 miles before the gas gauge gets to half way before, i only got to 135 this time. the car has high miles and its not in the best of shape...

i think the o2 sensor has been bad for a while but i'm not completely sure. could that just mean that the computer may be relearning something? the guy i bought the car said the cams were a stage two cam but i dont remember the brand so i'll try to figure that out but he was honest with about...

oh, and if it helps at all the car has a cold air intake, obx intake manifold, headers and exhaust, msd ignition, new plugs 3000 miles ago, i was told it had bigger cams in it when i bought it but im not sure if its true or not, and its a manual transmission

Okay, i'd like to start off by saying hello to everybody. i am a new user to these forums and they have helped me out alot but i've searched this time and cant find anyone with any problems like mine. i am 17 years old and i have a 97 talon esi and i dont make much money so i am trying to fix...