Yea I figured as much lol it's usually that way in most cars but I had to check.

The intake manifold having a leak could very easily be the issue here allowing it to receive unmetered air. I've seen it before on a number of engines.

This may be my problem with my idle spike.Awesome. I'll check this when I work on my talon next. Thank you, I have no idea that it was electrically impossible to idle above 1500.

For pump gas and tuning I'd go with the lower compression ratio to allow me to turn up the boost more in the future.

I'd check for boost leaks or one of the sensors on the intake manifold.

So I just finished the fresh rebuild on my 420a. New pistons, rods, Crower stage 1 cams, water pump, oil pump, valve seals, new gaskets on all surfaces. I'll be turbo-ing the car in the future but for now it's NA. Only real HP upgrades to it are the cams and header. Would it be worth it to swap...

Head to your local pick n pull and take one out of another car is the best option I have to fix a broken blade. It seems like every one of these cars has a sunroof lol

Well it would be much easier to find a 99 special edition that had black interior and swap it because dyeing stuff usually winds up wearing away or flaking off over time.

This is true and of course you'll need 1g head bolts or studs

My bet is in valve seals. A compression check would indeed be needed.

The other reason these benefit is oil starvation which is the biggest reason for spun rod bearings on something like the 420a and if I could find one that wasn't expensive I'd have it.

As a general consensus after hunting for a long while seems the 6 bolt wins out in most groups since it tends so suffer crank walk less. Though the 7 bolts cylinder head is a superior design.

To use the oil pump would involve turning the engine over since the pump is spun by the crank itself on the 420a. Being that the flywheel is also directly attached to the crank it would be just as easy to use the starter motor provided it's in good shape. So that's what I'll do. I've placed...

I like dsmcrzy's idea. Should be a lot easier and I think my blue top battery can handle turning it over for a bit

So I'm mid rebuild on my 420a and I'm at the point where I wonder what I should do once the engine is bolted back in. On the old small block chevys we prime the engine. Is there a priming procedure for these engines? I'm kindof a novice in the small 4 cylinder area. I assume pull the spark plugs...

So I have a friend who used to do a lot of racing with the gst 2g cars and has a bunch of parts kicking around that he never used and hes to selling me for a great price. This includes centerforce clutch, an apexi catback exhaust, t3/t4 hybrid turbo, front mount intercooler, and a few others. I...

They are refurbished rods that I ordered as a set of 4, they have been refinished and prepped. I already installed all 4 with the freeze and heat method and a 3D printed jig I made. I figured out orientation by using a post in the neon 420a forums. I checked with my machine shop and I got it...

well alright apparently no one knows the answer guess I'm just going to wing it

Alright so I picked up my first eclipse ever earlier this year and It has a spun rod bearings internally and I have no idea for how long they have been like that. However, I really don't trust the original owner to have taken care of it since he let it sit for the last 2 years and he told me the...

For now its a a solid place to house the parts I want for the GSX or Talon swap. As it sits as I said earlier I'm going to being a solid checkup and maintenance procedure cleanup the interior and exterior and then I'll post it in the for sale add on here. If someone on here wants a 2gb talon for...

Honestly I could but I pretty much decided after owning the GS that I really want the GSX, plus the GS's locks are annoying the key I have will only open the driver door and sometimes the trunk, it needs a cable in the door to fix the alarm going off when I open the door as well, the GS will...

I didn't even know blue interior was a thing lol

Well I'd imagine that the dash and door cards being black and tan is standard which is what mine is, for me two tone means two tone seats but I don't really know. I'm new to DSM culture so I'm pretty much just diving in head first. I'd imagine this car isn't that rare but worth a shot. All I...

Damn the love you guys have for this car is going to make me have to keep it this way. Dammit. Well I guess I can work on getting it back into the shape that it should be. Clean it up fix everything I can before I swap it. at this rate I'm going to wind up pulling the wheels and interior from...

Alright so for the sake of things does that honestly translate into real world dollar value? Because I'm going to put it up on craigslist for 2000 once I've cleaned it up and take a reasonable offer if I receive one. Did the 2gb not have the side skirts?

That would make this a 2GB then? I'll be honest before doing some research I had no idea than was a 2ga and 2gb. I just hunted down the closest best prices AWD DSM 95-99 and I found this one. It runs and drives but it needs some mechanical work since its either running lean from what I can tell...

Awesome, I was worried about having to swap the entire dash. Only having to swap the lower section makes it much easier to convert the black and tan dash to a black and grey dash.As for its location. I'm in springfield missouri, the car made a 6 hour drive from just outside of Jackson Tennessee.

Shoot me a pm, I don't want to turn this post into a sales post. So far I like this community and don't want to cause the admins any trouble since this isn't the classifieds section.

If someone wants to trade for a gsx I'm in. If you want to know why I bought this instead of a gsx. It's in my above post. At the time the cheapest running and driving gsx within range of me was well over 4000$. Theres one nearby me with no engine that has ruined paint and he wants 1800 just for...

^I know all of the above, I've been researching the swap, I have to drill out spot welds on the bumper tab and move it then reweld it and Ill have to drill holes in the doors to mount the skirts. I have an entire car next to it for reference so it won't be that big of a challenge.

I'm well aware of cars being built in very low quantities being that my daily driver was only sold for 3 years in the US and only 43k were sold with only about half surviving and thats every color, and every option mine due to options is 1 of 1. So no, I really don't want to take away its...

Well everything is for sale for the right price, before I got into the nitty gritty I was going to do a basic checkup on the talon, compression check, leak down if any showed 0, then a fuel filter, air filter, and an 02 sensor if that showed anything off. I'm more than happy to sell the talon as...

Ohh I'm not building it for resale. That isn't the intent, if I swap the bumpers and interior rest assured I'm swapping everything and repainting it all. Ill leave the roof black I think though. Everything thats green will be red.I just don't want to offend anyone when I do it. Some people...

Alright so I'll start buy saying that these two cars were my first DSM's. I have wanted an eclipse GSX since I was 10 or so. These are my carsI found an opportunity to pickup an 1999 eclipse 5 speed GS with the stock 420a 130k miles for really cheap. I expected some issues however, the...