1990 eagle talon detroit area

[Mike9490]

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[Vegas Smith]

Really nice car. Post some more pics of it.

 

[Mike9490]

Thanks! im digging through all my pictures right now trying to find all of them that I have since I bought it to go over everything

 

[Mike9490]

So I've been going through all my old pictures in my phone and got some together from the beginning up until present day.(hopefully I can upload most of them some may be to big). so this is all the fun I've had with the car since I bought it.

So the first two pictures are of the day I brought the car home and how it looked(keep in mind I bought this car fully built driving and running). about 2 weeks after I bought this car my cousin was getting married in Iowa so me and my other cousin jumped in her and took off at about 1am got there about 10am. made it the whole way on E-85! averaging about 19MPG. not to shabby and round trip cost in gas was about 75$(even though we seriously stopped about 6 times on the way there for gas and 5 on the way home .)
Now comes the fun stuff, issue one. driving around all of a sudden no more boost uh o. do a little boost leak to find my intercooler is cracked, pull it off take it to work get it rewelded, issue solved Right?? nope about 2 days later pop again different spot, take off intercooler get it welded install drive and again....this happened like 6 times, I tuned the boost down to about 25 and it still kept popping, well I didn't have enough funds at the time to buy the ets I needed so badly, so I just kept band aiding it. Well then one day I drive the car to work because my daily died on me up north(this was by far the worst week of my life ever) I was leaving work and right in front some lady blew the red light hit a jeep who came over 3 lanes and smashed the side of my car in, FML! o but it gets better, so the next day driving to my grandfathers for dinner gave it like 1/4 throttle to get through a yellow and bang, car comes out of gear. so push the clutch in nothing but horrendous grinding noises. pull over less then a mile away from his house and got a tow to his house(luckily this is where I was parking it that winter so winter started early for me). tear it down to find out I blew out the splines on the clutch. so bought a new comp clutch 4 puck and threw it together got it running again the next year. didn't drive it much because of the intercooler issues. nothing major or interesting happened this year just drove it around all banged up because well it was fun to have people in nice new shiny cars laugh at the damage of your car then leave them in the rear view mirror. so winter came that year pulled the motor and trans and emptied out the engine bay as much as possible and sent it to a good buddy of mine I used to work with who painted this car and did all the body work for me and it came out stunning! yes this car was painted in the garage not a booth. so I got it back from him cleaned up the engine bay a bit and then started installing motor trans etc. I FINALLY got my ETS 3.5" intercooler got that installed and all new piping put on and bam good to go! drove it around barely that year I put 600 miles on it that's its. I was just afraid of getting it scratched because I just spent so much money on getting it to look this good. parked it last year went over there about 3 weeks ago and got the car fired right up and went cruising with my cousin for a little, not a bad day. now we are here cars back home and trying to sort out this weird bug I seem to be having all of sudden. tonight im digging into it more and will hopefully resolve it once and for all.
If you read all that I owe you a beer! but that's about everything and my dsm story. I know I didn't build it but in all honesty I really don't care. People are gunna talk shit no matter what, but hey at least I own up to it. I've done what I've done to it and that's all that matters. I've put tons of hours into this car and even more money . but nothing makes me happier then getting in and cruising around and getting all kinds of different looks because you don't see these cars at all by me. let me know what you all think!

 

[Mike9490]

So I've been going through all my old pictures in my phone and got some together from the beginning up until present day.(hopefully I can upload most of them some may be to big). so this is all the fun I've had with the car since I bought it.

So the first two pictures are of the day I brought the car home and how it looked(keep in mind I bought this car fully built driving and running). about 2 weeks after I bought this car my cousin was getting married in Iowa so me and my other cousin jumped in her and took off at about 1am got there about 10am. made it the whole way on E-85! averaging about 19MPG. not to shabby and round trip cost in gas was about 75$(even though we seriously stopped about 6 times on the way there for gas and 5 on the way home .)
Now comes the fun stuff, issue one. driving around all of a sudden no more boost uh o. do a little boost leak to find my intercooler is cracked, pull it off take it to work get it rewelded, issue solved Right?? nope about 2 days later pop again different spot, take off intercooler get it welded install drive and again....this happened like 6 times, I tuned the boost down to about 25 and it still kept popping, well I didn't have enough funds at the time to buy the ets I needed so badly, so I just kept band aiding it. Well then one day I drive the car to work because my daily died on me up north(this was by far the worst week of my life ever) I was leaving work and right in front some lady blew the red light hit a jeep who came over 3 lanes and smashed the side of my car in, FML! o but it gets better, so the next day driving to my grandfathers for dinner gave it like 1/4 throttle to get through a yellow and bang, car comes out of gear. so push the clutch in nothing but horrendous grinding noises. pull over less then a mile away from his house and got a tow to his house(luckily this is where I was parking it that winter so winter started early for me). tear it down to find out I blew out the splines on the clutch. so bought a new comp clutch 4 puck and threw it together got it running again the next year. didn't drive it much because of the intercooler issues. nothing major or interesting happened this year just drove it around all banged up because well it was fun to have people in nice new shiny cars laugh at the damage of your car then leave them in the rear view mirror. so winter came that year pulled the motor and trans and emptied out the engine bay as much as possible and sent it to a good buddy of mine I used to work with who painted this car and did all the body work for me and it came out stunning! yes this car was painted in the garage not a booth. so I got it back from him cleaned up the engine bay a bit and then started installing motor trans etc. I FINALLY got my ETS 3.5" intercooler got that installed and all new piping put on and bam good to go! drove it around barely that year I put 600 miles on it that's its. I was just afraid of getting it scratched because I just spent so much money on getting it to look this good. parked it last year went over there about 3 weeks ago and got the car fired right up and went cruising with my cousin for a little, not a bad day. now we are here cars back home and trying to sort out this weird bug I seem to be having all of sudden. tonight im digging into it more and will hopefully resolve it once and for all.
If you read all that I owe you a beer! but that's about everything and my dsm story. I know I didn't build it but in all honesty I really don't care. People are gunna talk shit no matter what, but hey at least I own up to it. I've done what I've done to it and that's all that matters. I've put tons of hours into this car and even more money . but nothing makes me happier then getting in and cruising around and getting all kinds of different looks because you don't see these cars at all by me. let me know what you all think!

 

[DetroitStroker]

There is a big following in the area... you sound like a true dsm'r. There is supposed to be a big dsm get together at Milan may 7th. Let me know if you are going and we can plan to say hello.


Car looks really nice!

 

[Mike9490]

As long as I'm in town and not traveling for work I should be there!

 

[Vegas Smith]

Ahh, you had the old SBR fmic. Those things are notorious for blowing welds. As a matter of fact, I had one just like it and got rid of it for an ETS kit due to blowing welds. I sold the stupid thing for $50.

 

[gfritz25]

Sweet, love the story. Nice to know there are some other DSM people in the Metro Detroit Area. Car looks great by the way! Now I REALLY wanna get my trans done so I can pull this car out...

 

[Mike9490]

Yea i blew the welds about 6 times had enough of the bs. The end tanks are to big for high boost applications and expand and contract way to much!

Thanks gfritz25. Get it done and get it out man! That's the worst when your cars down man!

 

[Mike9490]

So i haven't updated in quite a long time. So here we are 4/12/18 car didn't get a lot of work or driving at all last year. maybe put like 400 miles on it, me and my girlfriend bought a house in October and have been doing a ton of work around there. unfortunately its a 1.5 car garage and there isn't much room. my tools and workbench take up a lot of space. But none the less its a garage. So come this weekend we finally have some decent weather rolling in and i have a free weekend i need to be at the house to let the plumber do his thing downstairs(we decided to add a bathroom fml...worst decision ever) any who i plan on finally getting to the bottom of this high oil pressure going to pull the valve cover and check some stuff out and look at the ofh and make sure its ported. Debating on ordering a kiggly hla cant remember if it has one or not. will find out for sure this weekend. I miss having time to actually dedicate to work on this car, i feel bad it just sits now but at least it looks good haha. hoping i can get this issue fixed this weekend and get this thing out on the streets more this year. Also hoping to make it to the track at least once this year.

Happy boosting yall!

 

[Vegas Smith]

Yeah that's a sweet little car. Good luck.

 

[92AWDHX40]

Hey nice build thread so far I'm from kalamazoo but I got family in liviona as well, I get the as much as I can. I'm currently doing my 6 dsm build, I'm hoping to get her at least running before summer, but I will at shootout in ohio, dsm or not, I hope to get her there, kinda behind schedule, lots of things do, I love mine too really rare .