I am always open to new tests and studies. More information is always better. What I will say though is in all my time messing with dsms I have never seen anyone say castrol is the best before. Maybe there are newer tests and stuff now, I might be running off of old info.For me the go to study...

I don't know what kind of eclipse you have, I don't know what kind of clutch you put in, and I don't know what flywheel you are running. What I will say is in the past I tried to use an act streetlite with an act 2900 and southbend kevlar disc and it wouldn't work, tried alot of stuff. Still...

When it doesn't start have you checked if it is missing spark or fuel? When you say you "remade the mpi relay with 3 regular relays" that seems like a red flag to me. Even the best people make a mistake here and there, I always start looking at stuff i've changed vs stuff that is the same.

Your intake manifold gasket is good?

I always use valvoline vr1 20/50. They make a couple viscosities but some are hard to find in stores. To be honest I have never used mobil 1 and from what I have heard will never use mobil 1

Our cars are super easy to break into. 1 hit on the lock and it pushes into the door and a screwdriver can then unlock it. I know that's not the situation here but just keep in mind that ANYONE can get into your car, and if they can get in they can pop the hood. Just imagine if you had hours how...

I would recommend the id2600s or the fic stainless 1650s

Yea the vendors would need to be protected for sure. Possibly something like if you want to cancel you can either pick which items on your list you want that add up to the total balance you have and won't be charged a fee. Or you can get your money back but with a 10 or 20% penaltyI got the...

To simplify it, 500hp is imo right around the number where your TORQUE reaches the line of risk/reward with a 2.3. Where a 2.3 shines is bottom end and spool. The problem on these cars with torque though is if you look at a 2.3 dyno graph the torque line usually peaks super hard at a fairly...

So I was reading a thread and the op had made a list of everything he needed, where to get it, and how much it costs. As I was looking over his build I thought of brownells.I don't know if anyone here is familiar with that website but basically it is a site to buy guns. The interesting...

Your list looks ok to me, I personally would switch the pistons to 1400hds, switch the flywheel to an act streetlite, not sure why you need nitrous unless your auto but I didn't see a convertor in the list, and I think if your goals are 400-500 I would downsize the turbo or make the rebuild a 2.3

If you measure the compressor it will narrow it down for you like the above post said, either way that is a great find. They were both awesome turbos

It depends what your power goals are. 500 or under a 2.3 is one of the best, over 500 a 2.3 is probably your worst option.

If I had money to be hands off I would bring the car to STM and tell them your pretty sure you jumped timing, bent valves and let them give you their opinion.Best case they take the head off and say yea you're right we can rebuilt the head for you and then you'll be good.Worst case they say...

Well if you decide to go with a gm maf, v3 came out about 12 years ago so your good on the tuning issue...

Yea man even if you get a top of the line build your looking at around 5-6. So they are charging you 10k in labor? Just based on how far off that quote is I personally wouldn't trust them

We've all been picking the "best" out of those 3 but to be honest most of us wouldn't buy any of those. Even the best one imo, the 90, will take enough money to get it to where it's respectable that you would be better off just spending alittle more on a different car that has been maintained well.

I am so ready for the moment I see this thing on 1320 running it's first 6.

It sounds like your turbo is going, as far as the misfire code. I have never once found any problem by trying to track down a check engine code that had anything to do with misfire, I honestly think they programed the ecu to throw a misfire code for any problem when the ecu knows something is...

Fluid getting on your clutch would be much more likely if you had a hydraulic tob style release, if your dad is more used to domestics that's what he might be picturing. On these cars being that they have an external slave outside of the bell housing it's very unlikely even a drop of fluid could...

If you get the 420a there is a chance you will regret not getting a 4g63...on the other side if you get a 4g63 there is no chance you will regret not getting a 420a.

I had good intentions when i started writing that but somewhere in the middle I just went off the rails and let frustrations from the past cloud my judgement. I've already apologized in our PMs so im hoping we can get this thread back on track, there's a lot of good info in here.

I vote 90, unless it has more rust than the 95.

Did you or a shop at any point adjust your clutch pedal?

According to my numbers from when I used to DD my dsm that would mean you broke down at least 4,000 times. Now that is commitment!

Just relax and think rationally. You pulled the valve cover, you pulled all the timing covers, the motor mount, all the other stupid junk in the way, i am hoping you put a new tensioner in which means at some point you had tension off of the timing belt.You literally did half of the work to...

This is amazing, you are single handedly taking this platform to another level with this release. I'm so glad I was too poor to afford all of the previous options and now that we have truly reached the pinnacle of dsm rear end upgrades, let the saving up begin!Is there any chance you will...

I am going to be straight with you. I hope you don't take it the wrong way, we are all trying to help you. As much as I love this platform I will tell you 200% this is not the platform you want if you are going to take it to a shop for anything that goes wrong.If you take this to a shop they...

Not everyday you see a double revive bump

I will bet you right now $200 you have no compression. If you show us proof you have compression and tell me your venmo or paypal or whatever I will send you $200. No BS, prove me wrong

You gotta admire his optimism though!

This thread is just what this place needs, now that all of our cars are getting up there in age. Maybe post it in a new thread split up in different sections so the mods could potentially sticky it

I would think of it this way, if you had a fully charged brand new battery there is no fuse in the car that has an amp rating high enough to withstand if you short a positive wire to ground. So I don't want to confuse you with all the 1 in a million chance things that could possibly happen but...

Just to clear one thing up for you for the future, a voltage "drop" would mean that you have normal voltage on one side of a wire or connection and low voltage on the other side. Usually from excessive resistance caused by corrosion or a damaged wire. So for instance if you had 12.6 at the...

I don't want to give you the wrong idea here, we are all here to help. After being in this community for awhile I would never jump ship. The people in the dsm community are probably the reason we are all still here after all this time. I am talking people will stay up to help you fix your car...

First of all I just want to say this is probably the best thread I have seen in 10 years. This is high level knowledge in this thread. Fantastic. So first observation is that you don't have a voltage drop. Voltage drop would not effect the whole car unless it was at the battery terminal. Do you...

Look man, you really don't even have to do a compression test. We already know you have no compression and if stuff is all bent up in there you might not want to be cranking the thing over more than you have to. Check your timing marks. They are not going to line up. If for some reason there is...

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I was more active on dsmlink forums but I was around here too. Still hangin in there. Infact I just bought a 3rd dsm 2 weeks ago, and this new one will be the crown jewel of my dsm legacy. I have 2 sons so after im gone they will carry the torch...trust me 15 years from now when I finally save...

Not to pick sides but I think a big reason dsm's got the reputation of being completely unreliable is because alot of people build the bare minimum they can get away with as far as supporting mods.Trust me i have wasted so many thousands of dollars buying parts just to have to rebuy the same...

Motors can be rebuilt, everything can be rebuilt...but rust is a real problem. Maybe try to find a non running one with no rust and then just do an easy low budget engine rebuild and you have a car that is basically new

Of all the things you could half ass and get away with it probably being fine flywheel is not one of them. It's probably the most dangerous thing on the whole car to be honest. If that thing lets go you are suddenly going to think to yourself hmm I can't feel my dick anymore that's weird and...

Your main symptom to focus on is fast cranking. Forget everything else. Pretty much the only thing that causes fast cranking is loss of compression. So all you gotta do is figure out why you lost compression. For you to lose the compression in all 4 cylinders at the exact same time the only...

I can't remember ever seeing any complaints about jmf build quality. I would just assume the sales rep was a nobody, it's covid times man. Who knows what the staff situation is over there. What was your wastegate question?

I would be in for 1. Even if the group buy doesn't go through I would purchase a welded one like the original you made

A gt40 is not a good idea, it is WAY too big for your goals. I would also recommend against fic 1800s, they will be a hassle to tune even on e85. Also depending which turbo you end up using you may need a small shot of nitrous to stall, but hopefully you can get away without. Probably going to...

Holy macrel, this is probably the most dedication to an idea I've ever seen. You should probably watch that movie about the intermittent wiper guy so you don't get screwed over by any big corporations

Turbo4.com as good as magnus or boostin without paying for the name

Even if the clutch welded itself to the flywheel it would still shift fine with the engine off. I'm in the shift mechanisms/trans group

The most reputable mechanic is yourself