Jdabishop
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- Nov 9, 2012
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mesa,
Arizona
December 2012 I picked up this 1995 Eagle talon tsi from craigslist and as every CL seller the car is running good just needs TLC.....I wish
My goals for this build are putting in forged internals, Nice size turbo and of course all the supporting mods to get to atleast 400hp. Then worry about the body later as I can handle an unpainted car for now along with a interior that needs everything redone.
Previous owner tried putting a eclipse body on it just an FYI
Current mods:
Walbro 190 (Came with the car)
16g
HKS Bov (Came with the car)
MBC (Thanks to Tyeler18)
First thing I did when I took it home was changed all the fluids and general maintenance.
Well after driving its a couple times as its not my daily it started missing gears. Now I asked numerous times if the tranny is ok and he reassured me it was only the rear motor mount. Well at midnight coming home from work it wouldnt go into any gear so I luckily was going a decent speed to get off the highway and push it into a parking lot.
So after getting robbed from the towing company (Ridiculous Prices) I got an estimate at a local shop to change the transmission and they wanted 1400. Needless to say I took it upon myself that I will try my best to fix it myself. I do have to thank Tyeler18 for coming all the way out here to help me fix it.
Lets just say leverage was our friend when removing those motor mount bolts .
But anyways I purchased a used transmission from CL that came from a GST and we bolted it up after fighting with the pilot bearing seizing up among other issues and it ran great for a day after the install.
(This took weeks as work ate up all my time)
Now after the vigorous shaking the dowel pin wouldnt fit so I had to take everything back out and restart.
Since I thought I finished everything and it would work perfectly I decided to start buying bolt ons and trying to squeeze a little more power out of this thing. The first purchase I made was a Td05 14b that was ported and no shaft play for $80. I also got an ebay 16g for $60 as well as a guage pod since I had the boost guage ghetto rigged in the center console.
So after finishing the trasmission it sat in the driveway until february when I decided to take it out for a spin when the worst sound came from the engine bay. It sounded like I was spinning metal on metal so took it home and let it sit until now here are some other pictures before tearing it apart.
It is primed and dirty so look past that
Heres a video of the sound it made while idling it is ear piercing!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5STbOXbYXgA]Engine noise help - YouTube[/ame]
Now I sat and thought long and hard about selling the car as I didnt know how to even start building it myself and didnt have the money for a shop to do it but reading others tutorials and journals gave me hope so I decided to keep the car and do the rebuild myself.
Now if someone could make a suggestion but extremepsi has a bundle and you choose the rods, pistons etc and I was going to go with Manley H beam rods and manley 9.0:1 pistons with standard bore size for $829. Now if anyone has better suggestions let me know please.
My goals for this build are putting in forged internals, Nice size turbo and of course all the supporting mods to get to atleast 400hp. Then worry about the body later as I can handle an unpainted car for now along with a interior that needs everything redone.
Previous owner tried putting a eclipse body on it just an FYI
Current mods:
Walbro 190 (Came with the car)
16g
HKS Bov (Came with the car)
MBC (Thanks to Tyeler18)
First thing I did when I took it home was changed all the fluids and general maintenance.
Well after driving its a couple times as its not my daily it started missing gears. Now I asked numerous times if the tranny is ok and he reassured me it was only the rear motor mount. Well at midnight coming home from work it wouldnt go into any gear so I luckily was going a decent speed to get off the highway and push it into a parking lot.
So after getting robbed from the towing company (Ridiculous Prices) I got an estimate at a local shop to change the transmission and they wanted 1400. Needless to say I took it upon myself that I will try my best to fix it myself. I do have to thank Tyeler18 for coming all the way out here to help me fix it.
Lets just say leverage was our friend when removing those motor mount bolts .
But anyways I purchased a used transmission from CL that came from a GST and we bolted it up after fighting with the pilot bearing seizing up among other issues and it ran great for a day after the install.
(This took weeks as work ate up all my time)
Now after the vigorous shaking the dowel pin wouldnt fit so I had to take everything back out and restart.
Since I thought I finished everything and it would work perfectly I decided to start buying bolt ons and trying to squeeze a little more power out of this thing. The first purchase I made was a Td05 14b that was ported and no shaft play for $80. I also got an ebay 16g for $60 as well as a guage pod since I had the boost guage ghetto rigged in the center console.
So after finishing the trasmission it sat in the driveway until february when I decided to take it out for a spin when the worst sound came from the engine bay. It sounded like I was spinning metal on metal so took it home and let it sit until now here are some other pictures before tearing it apart.
It is primed and dirty so look past that
Heres a video of the sound it made while idling it is ear piercing!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5STbOXbYXgA]Engine noise help - YouTube[/ame]
Now I sat and thought long and hard about selling the car as I didnt know how to even start building it myself and didnt have the money for a shop to do it but reading others tutorials and journals gave me hope so I decided to keep the car and do the rebuild myself.
Now if someone could make a suggestion but extremepsi has a bundle and you choose the rods, pistons etc and I was going to go with Manley H beam rods and manley 9.0:1 pistons with standard bore size for $829. Now if anyone has better suggestions let me know please.