My battery is new. My alternator easily passed the bench output test. At idle my car's battery voltage is only 11.9 instead of 14.8 like usual. My brand new headlight bulbs burnt out about a week before my car's electrical died on the freeway while driving. I called a tech at the dealer and he...

So my Alternator must have went out being that my electrical power died out while driving home from the gym. I'm curious, there are tons of n/t dsm's at the local junkyard, will those alternators work fine on my car?? Or if anyone knows of the best place for me to get a rebuilt or cheap oem one...

Story: Picked up this chassis (fwd) for 200$ and my two xbox's solely for the rare paint it has. I plan on either daily driving it with a stock 7-bolt or putting the 6-bolt from my 1g in it and scrapping the 1g fwd chassis. I'm open to all opinions on where I should go on this car and I prefer...

It's about time there's a discussion on people opinion for using water lines on any and all MHI turbos. I never used them on my 14b because they were such a hassle to take off every time I was taking the manifold/turbo off (same reason I got rid of my p/s) . I know Lucas doesn't use them on the...

My fuel pump either failed or the hose popped off yesterday from pump to feedline..I don't get over cruising fuel pressure!For about a month i've been hearing a loud whistling or moaning sound from the back of the car when accelerating normally and only at a certain rpm does this whistle...

I have a nice replacment valve cover i want to paint nicely and replace with my cracked current valve cover..So i sand blasted it at my school and realized, oh crap there's probably tons of sand under the baffles!! I was thinking i should just submerge the v/c in a tub with bleach and water and...

I've got plenty of vacuum/boost leaks I'm positive, when testing for leaks, my dang pcv leaks insane amounts of air into the valve cover and i can't pump past 15psi to find other leaks, So i figured i'd put a one-way check valve just before my crappy factory pcv so I can at least do a proper...

I just yesterday installed my new eprom ecu with dsmlink in it!! Then put in my evo injectors! Then replaced my isc o-ring that was causing a mad boost leak! So by now I'm stoked, then I realize after I download ecmlink v3 software onto my laptop... The laptop doesn't have a male serial db9...

I recently installed my AEM fuel pressure regulator, and since i have every time i turn the car off my fuel pressure disappears! Thus making it about 5-6 seconds to start up every time..I've sealed any leaks up around the rail, fittings in the regulator, and the return line doesn't get...

I keep breaking the Idle Air Control motor/sensor when i put new ones in to try and solve possible vacuum leaks. Does anyone know where i can pick one up that doesnt even work? I don't plug my ISC in anyways. I just need to plug the damn hole in the throttle body where it goes so i can test for...

Ok, I've got plenty of bolt on modifications and i use mmcd datalogger. I logged a second and third gear pull and when i looked back on the graph, at 5700 rpm my injector duty cycle said 106.3%! I have stock injectors, and a rewired stock pump..wtf? It starts to cut top of third due to lack of...

I vacuum tested my 38mm Tial gate and it failed miserably..My car has also been having bad idle surge issues when rolling in neutral. I'm about to pull it apart, is there anything unusual i should be looking for on the diaphragm? If there's an obvious tear do you guys think i can repair it!?

So on the top of my valve cover i found a little puddle of oil rolling around the spark plug area. I looked around and found a little vent hole on the cover that looks completely carefully placed? Does anyone know what i'm talking about, (on the inside toward the right). But everytime i drive it...

Ok, I've just got done putting my car together, and i've been testing it but not pulling hard because of the new clutch that still needs to be broken in. But about 35% throttle the boost slams up to about 20 psi! which on the stock pump and injectors, i hit fuel cut right then and there. sooo...

I put everything back together on my 6-bolt 1g, and when it was time to start the starter wouldn't crank. So i put 12-volts to the starter directly from the battery to get it to crank so the starter was working. After it built fuel pressure and fired up, it INSTANTLY bounces off the rev limit...

I know there was the DSM-obsessions crew last year, but I think it's time to start a new and very local type of DSM clan. I live smack between olympia and tumwater and I RARELY see DSM's around here. If you're representing it's time to come out of hiding.