Holy cow this is the best thread! I hope in all the pictures taking and posting he forgot to wipe!

You can take you chances with ebay and cheap parts, but majority of the time they end up being crappy and cause more problems. Spend a few more dollar and get OEM parts and never look back. Odd are it will end up saving you tons of problems, headaches, and money in the long run.

Agree. But the worst thing is to rebuild and have made an error of some sort in measuring. I'd probably take it to a shop and have them check it unless you are dead positive the cylinders walls are okay. Spend a few bucks now and prevent wasting a ton down the road.

The only way to ensure that you did or didn't spin a bearing is to drop the oil pan and look at the bearings. Then you have some positive answer and can start fixing it or troubleshoot some more. You can guess all day be you have to dig in it really find the problem, its the easiest way in the end!

Check how you have the hoses connected and make sure its correct. It seems strange that you are building that much pressure and leaking that severely unless there is a major misconnection of some sort.

DSM heads can be very touchy. In my experience, when you pull a head and fix something small like that, you should always go through and replace valve guides and all that crap because little problems always turn up. Also if you don't have a tuning program it could be something random triggering...

Are you running a stock turbo because many times aftermarket turbos will cause surging and the cruise control cannot compensate for the increased airflow and boost.

Ya good luck with that. With that kinda budget you cannot properly prepare the car and run it without blowing it to pieces. If you do turbo it plan on buying a new motor or car soon after because it won't last. And not to stereotype, most male high school students do not have the self control to...

I had the BC 280's for a while on my car (turbo) and they are kinda crappy. You get what you pay for. If you are going to spend that much money on a part save a little more and get a good one. I wouldn't recommend any BC products because I have not had good results and lots of problems. For cams...

Turbo timers have been an issue of debate for a long time. There is no question that you need to let the turbo cool off after the car has been driven, even if the driving as not been wot. If you have an aftermarket turbo and you want to get some life out of it, they are essential. Basically they...

BC cams...just watch for breakup and lots of knock on the high end.

Sounds like a headache to me. If you are starting to find problems then mostly there are many more coming.

^x2. If its that severe of an rpm drop suspect crankwalk.

Do not use cheap, crappy parts on a DSM! I learned this lesson the hard way! It is worth the extra money everytime to get the good part. Arcing is not good, get some NGK plugs and only runs those with some good Magnacore wires and you'll be golden.

Take it off the car and clean the crap outta it and ensure that metal shavings are not going to be pushed into your oil, other than that it'll be cool.

Dumps are awesome. They sound gnarly but you have to be smart with anything. If you cruise around boosting all over the streets you will piss people off and eventually the cops will hear it and nail you.

First investment should be a wideband. I have an AEM and its great, highly recommend it. If you start modding with a WB you will blow stuff up. Then save up and get DSMLink, you can do wonders with just these two mods!

I had a similar problem at the beginning of the year. I overheated (long story) and after it lost coolant and would overheat if I didn't watch the level. It turns out after tearing it down that the head was warped enough to push a miminal amount of coolant. I'd try the 'block tester' but it does...

SonySlave, That 2g you like has my orginal eprom in it from my talon. It does look nice though.

^Should be the same thing as long as it does have the mitsu hotside

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I have read awesome things about these cranks, I think you should run it and then post up and tell us what's up firsthand. gl.

It looks okay to run in my opinion for a few weeks trouble free.

Ha ha. Every setup is different but follow the advice on this thread, its good. Make sure you are safe with how much boost you run so you don't blew stuff up. I'd stick at 16 psi max, that will pull good for sure.

I would run lower compression to be safe rather than sorry. The thought of high compression is fun, but really if something goes wrong it won't be so forgiving. You can still make loads of power on a lower compression as you know. gl.

KYB Gr2 struts are awesome and worth saving up for!!!

AWD's are a pain to getting rolling. Glad you found the problem without too much hassle!

Honestly if you are not 'mechanically inclined' I would limp it to a shop personally and have them check it out and most likely they can tell what's wrong pretty quick. Hopefully its not something major but from the sounds of it, it might be bad.

I would also go with a helicoil kit. I had this happen to me and after playing with options I decided to simple drill it out carefully and retap just to make sure I would avoid problems down the road. Enough you need the car up and running quick, make sure and take the extra time and do it...

Yep my bet is the rings. A fresh rebuild would eliminate tons of problems and then you'd be good to go!

I tuned a guy and was having similiar problems and turns out the fuel line had a slight kink in it and after replacing it with some goodyear fuel line at Smucks it was fine. Something to check out possibly. Just my 2 cents.

I would be on the safe side and weld it. Even though it seems like a small issue you might as well fix it right and arrest the problem.

Save up and grab a DSM Link off the classifieds, its one of the best mods!

Way too go that's great man!

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Looks great nice car

Side pipes? Might wanna think about new exhaust?

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