As so many other dsm'ers have succumb to the pressures of selling their yard ornament eclipse, I have hit the road of hopefully no return by posting my turd up for sale. After selling off the two engines I had for it and the trans. My next idea was to v8 swap it with a fine mopar engine. Of...

Oh yes, lots to do before spring haha its going to be a long winter.

updates on the engine, I've got it tore downAnd I've pulled measurments off of the short block in the back to order new bearings and rings. In the next couple of days I'll be polishing the crank up and honing the cylinders.

that's a shame, indy and cinci is trying to get all there runs in late in the year now, but I have no car to go with. hopefully next year for both of us haha

Sup man, I also took a small hiatus as well, looks live you've began a nice stock pile of parts while I have neglected my eclipse in that time haha. I didn't see any updates on autocross stuff. did you run this year at all? I'm excited to see what this new engine has instore for you.

I'm not dead. . . . . . . it was a toss up weather or not to work on the spirit rt or the eclipse this winter. I figured since I already have 2 engines on stands for the eclipse I should probably work on it first. so this weekend I'm going to tear into the old engine that had spun a rod and...

I'm in the same boat, every since my car turned out to be a heartbreaker its been pushed outside and ive been working on other stuff, it had been about 3 weeks since id been on here so i figured id check out what everyone had accomplished.

Any updates man? surely you have 500 miles on that trans by now haha.

Ludachris, great aftermarket availably on engine parts from what I can tell. not so great with everything else haha, I do have leads on anything I may need but currently im just driving it how it is. I do have some parts coming for it in the mail, 1 is a 6v tach because is so quite I cant hear...

Well I figured id update you guys, I havent gave up on the Spyder, its just been sidelined. I habe the short block on an engine stand but nothing has changed. Ive pushed the car out and tarped it so maybe after summer I'll get back to it.In other news ive made some good choices in the past...

Well its been a while since ive been on here. Saturday I pushed the car out of the garage to give me more room to move stuff around. I tarped it today cause apparently the driver side still leaks a little bit. Ill more than likely start taking the engine down once I get a free work bench in...

Well shit, posted the car for sale just to see how much attention it would get and ended up driving 7 hours round trip to pick up a short block for it. Looks like I'm back in business for a while. Thank you Willie for the great deals. That guy is awesome.

Is there any recommendations in the Indy region or south near Louisville for a engine machining? Figured I'd have my block prepped for new crank/rods/pistons.

so if you buy it I'd be interested in the engine if you aren't planning on using it! youre not too far from me, id make that road trip haha

Well....... after a long process of thought, mood swings, and a bit of rage, I have decided to move up in class. street touring here I come. More than likely this car will be down til next spring but atleast it gives me time to do the job right. ill be honest, its going to be hard not to sell...

Thanks man

Well. . . . not excited about having to pull this. But its done now so all I can do is complain to whoever will listen haha. Still on the fence weather to part it out or fix it. I'm thinking the safest bet is to get it back on its tires and push it outside so that I have time to think.

Jinscho. . . . . I tried man, I really did haha the saw was like a drug though . . . One quick swipe and the head was off. Then I hammered it out fairly easy from the front. Popped both the axles out and called it a day.

I will have to barrow one of those. . . . .I hate them with a passion so I don't own one haha.

Well. . . . I'm driving myself insane, at work we are so slow I get to search for vechicals all day online. Ive came close to trading my 18 Cherokee, 06 300c,00 dakota multiple times . . . . ive also looked into selling the eclipse, parting it out, fixing it, upgrading it, changing it to a v8...

Thanks for posting this, ill be watching this tomorrow on my lunch break haha.

Hell yeah man, looks sweet.

Cant wait to see more on this car! it looks very well kept.

Its been a long weekend, the internal fight between what to do with my new knowledge of the broken engine was put on the back burner as I used 90% of the drywall I had laying next to my car. I filled my garage with all the construction supplies I had in my living room. during the weekend I hit a...

I did see your build is going about like mine with the trans being rebuilt. its always nice to go through a shitty time with a friend, it builds cohesion haha

FUN = having 1 DSM down with a knocking engine 1 dodge spirit rt with a broken cyl 4 rod 1 73 superbeetle waiting for a frame transplant (frame is sitting next to the car waiting for me to finish some welding) 1 73 superbeetle needing a tube chassis built for...

Lifter tickRod knockWhat rod knock looks like when you drop the pan

Well looks like I'm going to have a fun summer of not racing my eclipse. This just pushed the house to priority number one, I will occasionally work on the cars to stay sane but working on them will slow to maybr one day a week. My plan is to work on getting the engine pulled in the next month...

youre not a true DSMer unless you have sold a DSM and had so much regret you bought another!

tk's9d2tsi I may look into that. thanks for the tip.

it was, all i could hear back then was the high pitch screaming of the lifters, i guess there noise was hiding a worst noise.

Well I guess thats reaility knocking back at me saying screw your racing season. . . . . my excitment to hear one lifter after another become more quite was turned to horror when I got out of the car and walked around to the engine bay, I had thought I heard a different sound and I was right. ...

Well I spent my weekend right for once. She loves to "work on daddys car" which normally consist of her picking up random tools and beating on it . . . but she is learning. With timing belt components laying around I had her sit this session out haha. I didnt take a whole lot of pictures but...

So turns out my phone was dying again last night and when I realized it I only had about 3% and a dark screen to take pictures with. The only ones I'm going to post are of the tool since the others are pretty out of focus or just bad shots in general.So this is the tool I made. After using...

nothing to do with the engine itself. . . . more to do with the lack of a special tool and the use if a broken phillips screw driver and a m8x1.25 mm bolt laying around haha

Black'98dsm I have the same one, but a little better condition haha. I may see if I can dig it out of my daughters stock pile she inherited. Its funny the things we do when we are kids that mean something when we are older haha.

Updates are coming, My job is currently still active so I'm still working on side projects after hours and weekends. That being said I have made a huge improvement on the size of the drywall stack in my second garage bay. Also my Dakota decided to lock up a rear drum the other day so I've been...

they where kind of high at cars and parts in brown county. I didn't ask them how much the tails where but the headlights were near 100. But At pull a part in Louisville one of there cars had something similar to euros but they were black. i made out with a set of oems for about 45 so you could...

I didnt pay too much attention to it, by the time I stumbled acrossed it I was cold and wet, having been rained on for about 2.5 hours prior I was sick of it. I didnt even get to go to the dodge section that day. But I bet someone with some skills could fix that up and make a decent profit. I...

I'm sure you got your answer already, my video sounded similar to your video, I decided id try deep cleaning mine first and seeing if that would help. I update my profile constantly so hopefully next week ill have the timing belt installed and the cleaned lifters back in and I can give you...

98dsm I have felt the same way about this site since I've been on it. Everything I've always needed has been somewhat easy to find. I'd say if you don't want to post a how to or something that has already been posted on just update your dsm profile so we can see the new stuff going on with your...

You still around with that car? Looking for more dsmers to hang out with.

Figured it may help someone out. cars and parts in brown county indiana has one orange gs not pictured here, but it has good fenders and head lights with euro tail lights. I was at pull a part in Louisville 2 weekends ago and they had 4 2nd gen, I didnt take pictures of all but one was...

Well my correct timing belt is on its way. I should see it Wednesday. Since I was having an off day yesterday I didnt do much on the car, I took my stock lifters and rockers out of their diesel bath and inspected them. I knew atleast one rocker was chewed up after seeing it last time i moved it...

Hopefully your synchro is well enough to just drain the fluid and put the correct in. But since you used the work "depletion" I'm assuming there was already noticeable damage.

Well, the weekend started off decent. went to my local junk yard, spent 27.50 on two sets of lifters and rockers, one out of a 04 kia optima and one out of a 05 kia optima. both with a 2.4 4g64. both have relatively clean engines. I haven't went back to my soaking lifters and rockers to inspect...

Any plans or updates for today? If I had to guess I'd say you should be elbows deep in your car pulling the clutch?

My Timing kit is on a ups truck from extremepsi:sneaky:

Sweet bio man! Excited to see you compete with this car. Keep us updated.

Yeah, it was really hard to hit the button after seeing the economy kit for a third of the price, but since I plan to beat on this for a while I figured I'd do it right and bite the bullet.