well i went over to the vw game for a while. still do own a vw for a dd but was always missing the fun i had with my other 4 dsms i used to have. the vw dosnt break no matter how hard i try and i need a project car. so dsms were the choicegot out of dsms a few years ago since they were...

yeah i bought this 91 talon tsi awd and he told me the car broke at idle and it sounded like it jumped timing well this is what i saw when i tore it apart. im still happy with the buy cause for $500 the car is in dam good shape and has a recent tranny for it with alot of documents.i know...

i have a 91 eagle talon tsi awd. on the motor that came out of it it had a water cooled oil cooler. on my old 90 tsi awd it had a radiator style oil cooler. when i put my new motor in which one would you guys recommend?im thinking about using the air cool one due to radiator fluid is already...

hey where has everyone gone? how many people are still willing to meet up in the tri cities? anyone want to meet up and work on their cars or whatever? i got a 2 bay heated shop. ive been really bored lately.also dose anyone have a set of wheels in the tc like the ones on my avatar pic...

i just bought this 91 talon tsi awd yesterday and i pulled the cylinder head off. i thought that it had jumped timing since i could move the motor by hand and it would stop when i got to a certain point each way.well i got done pulling the head about 15 minutes ago to find that cylinder...

hey this week is my one year anniversary to dsms!!! ive now owned 4 in this short time.90 talon tsi awd $1600 90 talon n/t 4g63 $350 90 eclipse n/t 4g63 $200 and my new one i get this weekend 91 talon awd tsi $500.wow!how long have you had your dsm's and how many have you owned...

recently my 1990 n/t talons transmission died on me with the third gear synco break. i have a awd tranny that works good and the flywheel, clutch, and starter.so i was wondering how should i go about making my awd transmission into a fwd? ive heard of welding the differential and something...

well in the last week i have had to fix up my eclipse because my 90 talons transmission decided to take a crap.so the story behind this car is i traded my 1978 el camino stripped shell for this 1990 eclipse gs. its a 4g63 automatic car. the previous owner tried their own timing job and...

i have a 1990 eclipse gs n/t 4g63. the car will shift great into 1st, 2nd, and 3rd but will not go into overdrive at all. when i hit the od button the car just stays at the same rpm and dose not do any thing. so at like 70 mph im at 4k and my gas mileage is horrible.the tranny fluid looks...

i was wondering who if any people from around the tri cities want to still have the bbq or who all wants to show up for the hastings car meet on saturday night the 18th or both?lets keep it all dsm people for the bbq since i dont have room for more than 15 cars.sorry about the crappy...

yeah. it was a great night. thank god for the good lookin girl to make my car look better.who all has taken their dates in their dsm's?

where have all the dsms gone?i have only had contact with one other dsmer in the tc.anyone interested in starting up a meet here soon?like my car looks pretty bad right now cause of all the body work im doing but yeah i want to see where all of the tc dsmers went

bought a 91 talon tsi awd. it has a new transmission new cvs. full history of receipts and a whole lot of other stuff.only bad things are turbo leaks and it jumped timing at idle.but for $200 my step bro is stoked for the car i found him., the interior is nice and the body is awsome...

CAR MEET FRIDAY 15TH AT 10:00 P.M. AT THE RICHLAND TARGET ACROSS FORM THE WALMART.HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE AND SPREAD THE WORD(i did not set up this meet. the jdm guys did so yeah)it will be big cause last time we had 60 + cars.

a dsm pulling a chevy tahoe. usually it was the other way around till i spun a bearing in my tahoe. btw the tahoe made it to 180xxx miles and my white talon is at 261xxx miles. im putting the new motor into it today.BTW dont hate on the non matching wheels right now. i have my other rims...

has about 5 1g dsms. i just went there today and they are kinda picked over but there are still some good parts.just throwing that out for you guys cause a few are going to go to the crusher soon.

i just got done redoing my interior on my 90 n/t talon with a Grey and black color combo instead of the yellow ish tan color.but i havnt done my headliner yet and i am thinking about putting in a electric sun roof the slides back. what do you think about that?i work at a body shop so it...

whos all going?ill be there at the paintball shop with my black eclipse. (right now it has my talon grill though.)but yeah it would be nice to get a few dsm guys there just to bs.

ill be there tomorrow night at 9pm (friday)so yeah all types of cars are welcome to come. im not setting this one up but im just giving a heads up.ill be there at 8 since thats when the euros show up and i know most of them so feel free to show up then.

well i just did a cylinder head replacement last night. its a 1990 n/t eclipse 4g63 and i had the car running with about 180 lbs of compression across all the cylindersnow today i have 120 across 2 of them and 150 in the other 2 and it wont start. the timing is dead on and the valves are all...

well i have 2 of my dsm's going!!!! last 2 days i did a complete cylinder head replacement on my 1990 n/t auto eclipse so it works now. this car will be my moms dd.and my white 1990 n/t 5speed talon works great. also looks pretty good after i put some time into fixing it up.not bad...

this is what i posted on my myspace so all my friend who ever ride in my car or are around it know why i get mad at them." is when people dont respect other peoples stuff.i hate that just because i got my car for cheap and it dont look like a great car that it gives them the right to sit on...

idk what is wrong with my nt talon.at first it seamed like it was the mas sensor but now i have replaced it and the car is still acting up. its running so rich. ive tried all new sensors and everything. now the car wont even rev above 1k with out holding the throttle wide open.if...

hey i drive around the tri cities every day and see a whole bunch of dsms. i was wondering if any are really on this site. i know theres a few. i just got 2 more dsms in the past week.my tsi awd is still broken but both my n/ts work.so i was thinking we need to start getting together...

on thursday i bought my white 1990 talon for $350 fixed some minor body stuff on it also had to tune the piss out of it but now it works great and today i traded my 78 el camino shell for a black eclipse that is pretty dam good looking on the outside(i am going to paint it white for my mom to...

i just got this new 1990 eagle talon non turbo as my daily driver. the car has 150 lbs of compression in each cylinder. the timing is dead on.when i got it the car will not go above 4k and has a 500 rpm idle surge. while sittin still with no load i can rev the car sometimes past 4k. it feels...

yep while i am in the middle of my first dsm going for a 500 hp autocross car.i have came across a 1991 eagle talon fwd nt for 400 so i am going to check it out tomorrow and if the compression test and i drive it and all is good ill have me another dsm as a daily driver since my 96 tahoe...

hey i havnt really been on alot lately due to alot of work and i have been extremely ill. but i though i would just stop by and show you all what cool new stuff showed up in the mail today for my sweet little eagle talon. and ill show you what ive been doing with the body and stuff.as far...

well to start this out i dont even know this kid who lives in my town who sent me this message on myspace. all i know is through other people is that he has a d series Honda crx. i have never talk anything about my car to people really and he sends me this message titled"DSM for life= Slow...

ok well i went to this honda meet last weekend with my tahoe since im still building my talon motor. While i was there i was woundering how come in the tri cities we dont have a meet up like the do every month? i see sooooo many DSM's in my area and i work on a few.so would it be too hard...

ok so today i was going to push my talon inside so i can clean the motor bay and paint it. i want to have my motor bay be black instead of the blue.well this is what i woke up too. my car is covered by 7 inches of snow and under the snow is a 1/2 inch sheet of ice.so instead of...

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ok well im rebuilding my 1990 tsi awd. the reason i am doing this is because i want the ballance shaft gone since it slipped and caused a valve to break. the motor had about 150 lbs(each cylinder) of compression before i took the valve broke.my question is what should i do to make this...

ok i have a 90 talon tsi awd with the stock tb. i want to buy the fiav and isc block off plate so i don't have to deal with the coolant running into the tb anymore. and my isc is bad anyways.would this cause my car to run like crap if i get rid of them or what mods do i need for the ecu...

ok ive been looking all over for a fmic piping kit cause i just got my intercooler of ebay(which when i tested it dosnt leak). well ive found a few kits but the wall thinkness is really thin. also i need to find a kit that has the 2.5in intake elbow and the elbow off the turbo.i want to get...

where should i go to have my cylinder head rebuilt in the tri-cities?i will have all parts needed but i need to know what shop to go to that will do a good job for my talon.heres what my head looks like now after my valve broke. surprisingly there is no motor or turbo damage due to...

last night i was driving home and was at about 4500 rpms when my balance shaft tensioner went out and the car started shaking violently at rpms over 3000 so i limped it home about 4 blocks.i seamed to have lost all my compression in cylinder #3. now when i started taking it apart i checked...

I am in the middle of making a innercooler SMIC kit for my talon so far i have made the innercooler sprayer. it is a very shaby sprayer due to someone walked off with my tube bender and its really hard to bend stainless tubing.I have a electric soleniod on the way so i can us my sprayer at...

Yesterday i went to put it into reverse and my car kinda jumped then poped out of gear. today i was adjusting the tranny to see what was wrong to find that my cable was broken for my linkage and one of the wires were fraid.my question is where do i find new cables at?I've looked all...

i just got a new oil pressure mechanical guage and i was wondering where do i connect the end to the motor so i get a pressure reading and not to have the oil go into the line?i need a place where there is a plug that dose not have oil go through it but will read the correct pressure...

ok well to start out when i start my car with the stock gauge the car at idel when it is warm is barely above to the lowest make on the stock gauge. then at 3000rpms it is at the 1st real make on the gauge.what could this be?i checked that the timing of the oil pumpm was right and it...

where and when in the northwest are they going to have a bring what you got race time trial thing? i want to do an autocross race or something like that and i dont know where they have them at? and who else is from the tri cities with a dsm?

ok well to start out i just redid all my timing and most of my gaskets on my motor last week. well i drove it last night and it was running so good with the new alternator, pulleys, and gaskets ect. well i was fixing my power steering leak so i dont fri another alternator and i was slowly turing...

here is some pics of when i first got the car on october 20th till when i will get it done. (probely never cause there is always something new to put on it)ill put more pics up when i get farther with it.

Ok here is how you can paint your ugly stock rims too make them look a lot better and other parts on your car. Also motor parts. For less money than bringing it to a shop. and if you scratch it you can touch it up easily.Where i work for a real paint job of small parts we charge about a $100...

ok well i am in the middle of changing my timing belt and water pump. also my tensioner. i want to eliminate the ballance shaft but i dont really know what i have to do that since the motor is still in the car.i have the motor proped up on a jack so i dont have much room to work. and i dont...

ok im in the process of tilting my motor out so i can replace the timing belt befor it breaks. i have undid all the little things like the battery and the airbox. i also removed the radiator and the hood.now this car is a 4wd so do i have to remove the transfer case to tilt the motor? or a...