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1995 TALON ESI

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This is more of a getting it back on the road build.

Quick back story,
This was my first dsm, the one that got me hooked. My parents bought me this car at an auction back in 2004 as my high school car. After graduation and working part time with no mechanical experience, I gave local builder the task to turbo charger the esi. Had a custom manifold using a oem 14b. Took him a few months but when i got it back and drove it the first time, WOW! I was hooked on turbos. But the old 420a did not last long after, had someone else rebuild the engine and that didnt go great. So in 2006 i went to school to learn the trade.

Since then i got my first AWD and then A evo 9, so naturally i passed on the esi to my little bro for his high school car.
I had since swapped another engine in it but it had a small miss fire of sorts at idle and oil consumption but it never smoked. So he got into cars and after high school (in 2016) he got into miatas and subarus. left the esi parked in my property.

Now his miata has broke down and his subarus are broke as well Ive decide to get this back on the road to get him hooked on dsm again LOL. On to the pics,

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So between moving to our new house,I had my other bother @GSTsiAWD help me with this build.
Took the head off and sent it to get decked and valves redone. Found all the valves leaked cly 2 was bad. Had180, 130, 180, 180 compression.

Back before I got my first AWD dsm I got a set of cower cams 64462 for the esi but never got around to using them. Thought now would be a great time to use them.
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New Timing belt
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Engine back in
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Now I want to pull out the carpet and get it cleaned once i get settled into the new house and hand the keys over to the owner.
 
Well I didnt get to clean out the interior as intended. We were in the process of buying a new home, so my little brother ended up taking the car. It developed a oil leak. So had him bring it back to my new place. Valve cover needed to be re tighten and the crank sensor was leaking. Its a aftermarket sensor and the o ring was to thin to seal. Put a size bigger and looks like no more leak.

So i took it on a test drive and pulled the codes as it felt gut less pulling hills.
Got P0505, P1297, and P0300. Im in the process figuring out why.
 
I replaced some parts.
Idle air control valve
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New Cam sensor pigtail
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New cam sensor installed
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Took it out for a spin and checked codes again, and they are gone except the egr code as i removed it, Thinking of putting it back on.
 
Long over due update. We did get the brakes installed and found a cheap set of rev9 coilovers on CL.

Here's the little bro installing his new parts.

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