1GA TALON

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Bought this car for $1100, supposedly had no spark.. swapped the ECU, CAS, PT, MOI relay and still no spark when cranking over. Compression test showed 30-0-0-0, turns out the timing belt had completely shredded on the previous owner, and the crank was not even turning the cam gears over at all hence no spark.

Took the head off and slapped a new head on, was a pretty straight forward job. The timing belt somehow melted on one area.

 

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Car runs awesome since swapping the new head on! Had a small scare after 30 seconds of run time, it had randomly dropped cylinder #1.. still had spark and fuel, compression test showed 30 PSI.. Took it around the block and it fixed itself and runs like a dream, must have been a lifter sticking or something.

Took the car out to a local drag event that was 1/8th mile, i entered it into the 8.5 second class, so could not run faster than that. They also do handicaps here with the bracket racing so If you run a 9.5 and your opponent runs an 8.5 you will get a 1 second jump off the tree. So its important to really get a good jump off the tree and get as close to the dial in time as possible.

Long story short the DSM was UNDEFEATED all day! Beat a Porsche, JEEP SRT, Big tire fox body and mustangs, and a few others. The car was absolutely dialled in to the extreme, my dial in time was an 8.7, I was running a pretty consistent 8.75-8.72 with RT's down to 0.074 leaving such a small margin for the other person to beat me. I should also mention this was on a small 16g with an electronic boost controller on ~17psi, also has an HKS VPC to adjust fuel trims vaguely. The aftermath of the whole day of abuse was my 3rd gear syncros seem to be tired, starts grinding in third gear every other shift bad. Gives me an excuse to swap the auto and 68mm turbo and send this to the moon.