Haven't been around here since I let my Galant go (worry not, it's in the good hands of an old-school DSM'er). Glad to see this place is still in one piece.:cool:I haven't done anything major with the Corolla hatchback I picked up (renamed Project: Ugly Betty). Just maintenance stuff to...

I went to the track today and made a very dissapointing run of 14.3 @ 95. I was so pissed I went home, and on the way back I noticed that I couldn't run any more than 11 psi, no matter what I had my controller set to. It's a Greddy Profec B (three knob) and the only thing I can think is that...

On this day in 1775, in a tiny Philadelphia bar, the first battalion of Continental Marines was first formed. 231 years later, we're still kicking ass and taking names.To those who have earned the right to wear the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor, past and present, I wish you a happy birthday, and...

I've recently replaced my worn out, 150K mile suspension with some KYB AGX shocks and Eibach Pro-kit springs. The ride's fine, the handling's okay (can't really expect much on snow tires), but it sits too low in the rear. It might be hard to see in this picture, but the back end is lower than...

These pictures are the turbine housing and CHRA from my Precision Turbo GT3251E. You may think I've just answered my own question, but I haven't.The CHRA is blown. Instead of sending it out to be rebuilt, I figured it's better for me to just order a replacement, since I won't have to pay...

My used PTE GT3251E needs a rebuild. There's excess shaft play, and it spits oil, and lots of it. I've been calling around to find out how much it could potentially cost to fix it, but every shop I've called won't give an estimate until they see the turbo, which doesn't help me decide if I...

I'm not 2G savy but a friend of mine is doing a Haltech install and he's trying to figure the wiring. He asked me, but I had no idea, so maybe you 2G guys know:I figured out what the TPS wires are, but I still don't know about the CAS, and the FSM doesn't have any descriptions of what each...

I'm proud to announce that two hours ago, my 1991 Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 fired up for the first time in five years. I haven't had the car for five years, but it's been dead for that long. Sounds mean as hell with just a downpipe.

I have a transfer case that I'm picking up from a friend that needs to be rebuilt.1. Does anybody have a part number and price for item #5?2. Does anybody have a general estimate of the cost for a transmission repair shop to replace this item?The transfer case is a 23-spline...

Goodbye to the Banshee, and hello to The Box (or as my nephew calls it, 'The Ugly Box')Before pics:Parts pics:more to come...

Somebody just showed me his website http://www.switzerperformanceinnovation.com/ and now it's left me dumbfounded.And who are these unnamed unscrupulous people that screwed them over? I'd like to know so I can make sure my money doesn't go to them.

I've been trying to work out some calculations in planning for another turbo setup that I'm buliding for a GVR-4 i just picked up and I have a few questions.Given a stock block (heads & cams) and a conservative tune (11.5:1 A/F ratio), how high would intake temperatures have to be before...

I was doing a once-over of a TRE transmission I recieved that I will be putting in my Galant later this spring. While I was examining it, I noticed something odd. I have no experience with 91-94 transmissions, so I figure to ask you guys:Shouldn't there be two levers for the shift...

I just picked up an oil cooler pulled from a 1990 Talon. The cooler itself and the lines are intact, except for the banjo fittings that go to the filter housing. Is there a part number for thoseon CAPS, or can they be replaced with an -AN fitting?

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Here's my situation:I live in NJ, the car i'm acquiring is in MD. The car is not driveable. I have one friend with a truck and trailer, but the weekends that I would need his truck and trailer are the weekends that he's not available. U-haul will charge me about $2.50/mile to rent a truck...

Posted from Jeff Oberholtzer a.k.a. Keydiver:The sellers list themselves as Technomotive. This is not the TMO folks that we've come to know and love. DO NOT PURCHASE A CHIP FROM THEM! They are bootleggers, and neither TMO nor Todd Day will not get your money if you buy from them...

Former WRC Champion Richard Burns has died after a two year battle with a brain tumor. Burns, who was synomous with the Subaru World Rally Team, also enjoyed brief stints with Peugeot and Mitsubishi before taking home the title in 2001.He will be missed by rally fans worldwide.More on...

My sensor has gone to shit. Gooey stuff oozing out of it, 43 full counts in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gear, no timing advance. I was reading RRE's page and they wrote that the 1G sensor is crap to begin with and the 2G is a better unit (This was an article about installing an AEM EMS in a 1G, btw)...

I've flushed and replaced the brake fluid with DOT 3 synthetic, which improved the firmness in the brakes a little bit, but they're not where I want them to be as far as firmness goes. Is there anything that I can do to increase the firmness, or at least eliminate the sponginess that I feel...

Before the rebuild, the compression on my engine was 135-135-110-135. For my rebuild I did the following:Replace stem seals on cylinder head. Resurface cylinder head. Resurface block. Replace 1G pistons with new 2G pistons (w/ new rings) Re-hone cylinder walls w/ deckplate Arp studs on...

This video is taken from the Japanese Rally where Japanese professional tennis player Shuzo Matsuoka gets to ride along with Harri Rovanpera during the shakedown trials of the WRC Lancer before the rally.http://hkoski.pp.fi/evo/rovanpera.avi

Engine is recently rebuilt w/ 2g pistons. Head and block were machined and sealed w/ cometic gasket & arp studs. After break-in, I've noticed i had a small coolant leak. I thought it might be from the HG not properly sealing because I'm seeing coolant under the exhaust manifold, but in the...

I was messing around with photoshop to see what my car would look like if I painted my hood black. Looking for opinions on what you folks think... (click on image)I know it looks like a dull faded black, but I couldn't figure a way to get more shine from the hood.Here's a second pic...

I know people have beat this thing to death as far as how it looks compared to the previous generations. We've all heard the gripes (I've griped too) about the lack of a turbocharged engine, and the lack of AWD for that matter as well. But I've reserved judgement until an automotive journalist...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/02/custard.finger.ap/index.htmlThis time a mystery finger shows up in a bowl of custard at a North Carolina restaruant. WTFHow long before we see one that has a fingerprint that bears the image of the Virgin Mary show up on eBay? Anyone care to guess?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/05/02/last.ride.ap/index.htmlMan who takes up bicycling after his bypass surgery gives him second chance on life dies of a heart attack one day after he completed a 2,400 mile cross-country trip.You can run, but you can't hide from the reaper.

Carnage, bloody carnage!It'll be easier for me to give you a list of who made it through the rally unscathed than it is to tell you who crashed and burned, so here goes:Solberg, Loeb, Martin, and um....that's it.But since that would make for a short post, I'll go down the list of who...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1352292.htmHamburg, GermanyHundreds of toads have met an unexplained, explosive demise in Germany in recent days, it was reported on Saturday.According to reports from animal welfare workers and veterinarians as many as a thousand of the...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/14/mit.prank.reut/index.htmlThree MIT students managed to get a computer generated paper full of weird, gibberish, doublespeak mumbo-jumbo accepted at a scientific conference.Titled, "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access...

What started off as a three-way battle between Sebestian Loeb, Petter Solberg, and Marcus Gronholm in the morning stages of Day 1 became the Sebastian Loeb show quickly that afternoon, as he dominated from the fourth stage on. Showing off the right stuff that got him a Driver's Championship...

Sunday, April 10th, 11pm on the NASCAR network, uh...I mean Speed.For those who are out of the loop, here are the current driver and team standings:1. P. SOLBERG (N) 20 Pts 2. M. MÄRTIN (EE) 19 Pts 3. T. GARDEMEISTER (FIN) 17 Pts 4. S. LOEB (F) 15 Pts...

My setup:16G, w/ ported manifold, housing, and o2 sensor, boost set at 18 psi. FIC 650 injectors, Walbro 255 pump and aeromotive afpr, base pressure set to 45 psi. Dejon intake and UICP MAFT w/ Keydiver chipMaft settings: Base 6, Idle 4, Mid 0, WOT 1I would've thought that this...

In a comedy of errors, a woman gave birth to a baby boy before she could get to the hospital. She pulled over at a gas station, popped the li'l one out and went on her way. A gas attendant who witnessed it all, called the police to let them know that she's on her way to the hospital. In the...

Johnnie Cochran, the famed lawyer who's clientele list included celebrities such as O.J. Simpson, and Sean "Puffy" Combs died yesterday from complications of a brain aneurysm.While Mr. Cochran was known for his big name cases, he often told people that he relished repesenting what he called...

My fuel pump assembly is leaking at the top where it bolts into the tank. What can I use to seal it up?

Well, unless you've put yourself in a full fledged media blackout you are all well aware of the court battles between the husband of Terri Schiavo and her parents. While much of the focus has been on the right-to-life issue (and to a lesser extent, states' rights) there is another important...

Do not read this if you haven't watched the race yet!Say what you want about the French, Sebastian Loeb is the man, period. After being pretty much left for dead when a blown strut took out his right rear tire, forcing him to go two stages on three wheels, and nearly being forced to retire...

I have itunes for windows. Never had a problem burning cd's with it, until now. I upgraded to 4.7.1, and now I can't burn a cd for the life of me. I can burn cd's with every other program. I've been able to burn vcd's, divx videos, even music with windows media player, but as soon as I try...

If you would rather wait to see the Rally Sweden on Speed and see everything unfold then, skip this post. Othersiwe, read on :dsm:.Driver Results (Points):1. P. Solberg (10) 2. M. Martin (8) 3. T. Gardermeister (6) 4. H. Rovanpera (5) 5. H...

Well, I figured that since tomorrow is the Big Game, now would be the perfect time for all of the Super Bowl urban legends to come out. Here's some that I found from snopes.com. As far as I know, they're all just legend, but quite funny.1. Sewage systems of major cities have broken due to...

It's bad enough that we had cheese sandwiches that looked like the Virgin Mary....Now we have this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=25210&item=5160695893&rd=1&ssPageName=WDV

That is the picture posted on an Islamist website where insurgents claimed that they had captured an American soldier and would behead him if Iraqi prisoners were not released.More on the story here

I just installed a set of FIC 650 injectors, and they don't seem to be seating right. I can hear air leaking around the lower head seals (sounds like a pressure cooker when it's at full boil). Has anyone had this same problem when they installed FIC injectors? Am I missing something here...

TOKYO (AP) -- Mitsubishi Motors Corp. is getting a fresh infusion of cash from its affiliated companies, barely eight months after an earlier massive bailout failed to revive the scandal-stained automaker.The company said Friday that other firms in the Mitsubishi conglomerate will invest an...

I just realized that I did a helluva n00bish thing. Instead of using Dextron II in the power steering resivoir, I've been using (what else) power steering fluid. How do I flush the old stuff out? And if it's too late and the pump is done for, once I replace it, how do I bleed it?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/25/train.fire.ap/index.htmlSide note: The A-line is the longest train route in the city, travelling 35 miles through three boroughs.

If you haven't been keeping an eye on the '05 WRC, here's a quick update from the Monte Carlo Rally (first rally of the season)Mitsubishi took a podium finish. Their first podium win since the Spain rally back in '01 :dsm:Giles Panizzi finished 3rd after a series of unfortunate events...

"I should have known something was up," he said. "She had all her teeth."That was the quote from a prospective juror who was describing his arrest for solilciting an undercover officer for sex. He was one of the many people who were disqualified in what defense attorney Leslie Ballin...

You might not know him, but you've seen his car featured on this site before. The red and yellow Laser that races against Vipers, 'vettes, Cobras, and the occasional Ferrari (yeah, that Laser).Well, in the midst of racing this 300 whp beast and going toe to toe with the best that the auto...