92 Galant VR4

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I can tell you what that is. Any sort of FOD gets in there its close tolerance. Busts the case. Usually a chipped tooth wedges itself. Happened to a friend of mine.

That actually makes a lot of sense. Still a strange failure in my eyes.

 

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I hate when updates are far and few between but we suddenly been so busy that when i get home my motivation is at a all time low. The 90 transmission has been in but it was notchy and there a few factors. I remade most of the plastic bushings by 3d printing them. I also adjusted the cables. It still felt off so i eventually swapped to a new slave. But between the air i had stuck in the slave i noticed the master rod was wet so i swapped both to new units. The shifting is finally feeling good again. I also swapped over to silicone radiator and heater core hoses since they were swollen. After swapping i realized a had a nasty air pocket i couldn't bleed. When i had one of my guys weld the spare ports in my housing shut they created empty voids that would normally have a sensor in it. When i took the car to work it would make the gauge peg to the H but my coolant temp sensor never read that high since the check engine light didn't come. I have it set to go off at 216F. I was able to get the light to go off throwing it in neutral and then popping it back into gear that would normally make the air pocket pass. I was looking into making my own thermostat housing when a guy posted on FB about his billet housing he just made. I was sold. I ordered a day after. He is on here but doesn't frequent the board. @Fatboy Fab . He was awesome to deal with and i couldn't be happier.

I can't say enough good things about how happy i am with the housing. It even includes a rear 1/8 npt for a aftermarket coolant temp sensor. I have been driving the car a bunch which makes me more motivated to fix all of the little nuances that annoy me. I finally took the valve cover off and threw on a new gasket and rtv'd the cam cap corners. I did some research on rtv's and i was surprised to see mopar rtv was so good. So that's what i ended up using. I didn't want to change the oil into a billet forward facing i ordered in october came in but i don't like to go over 2k or 4 months on the oil changes especially with it being a fulltime e85 car. I am a little disappointed on these silicone gaskets i bought because my oil pan always looks wet by the gasket. I will re seal the pan with rtv next time i have the time to do so. My friend is going with a cop on his car so he gave me his bracket and spark plug wire cover which i think looks pretty neat.

I also finally fixed a enhuast leak i has from the apexi muffler. I ended up going with a vibrant single tip muffler. I hated the chrome muffler when it was new but it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb now after a few heat cycles. I took before and after DB readings. I dropped almost 10 db from the switch.

I keep forgetting to take pic of things i do. I redid the hangers over as well. I also picked up a new FMIC i just haven't had time to get it mocked up yet but maybe that will be my next update.

Now that i don't have to weld a bung onto my radiator i finally installed a aem coolant gauge i picked up. Now i can see the real time temp. Not that i really care since it's set to go off at 216 but the gauge on the cluster can sometimes be deceiving .I never go over 190 and i hang around 180 which is awesome.

I did have someone make a offer on the car but i declined. I always regret getting rid of my talon that i had for 14 years i don't want to repeat that mistake.

 

[92Turbski]

Solid updates, man! Thats awesome you're back to putting some miles on it again and motivation has picked back up!

Damn, thats a high quality water neck from fatboy!

Way to work through the shifting issues as well. OEM or nothing. Haha.

I messaged a guy on FB about his Galant for sale in VA, but never heard back....typical FB.

Good job, nice to see the progress on your car!

 

[19Eclipse90]

…I was looking into making my own thermostat housing when a guy posted on FB about his billet housing he just made. I was sold. I ordered a day after. He is on here but doesn't frequent the board. @Fatboy Fab . He was awesome to deal with and i couldn't be happier.

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I can't say enough good things about how happy i am with the housing. It even includes a rear 1/8 npt for a aftermarket coolant temp sensor…

Nice to see someone is making this!

Do you have pictures of the inside? Or can you comment on whether he retained the (for less of a better word) “baffling” on the inside?

 

[Imback]

Solid updates, man! Thats awesome you're back to putting some miles on it again and motivation has picked back up!

Damn, thats a high quality water neck from fatboy!

Way to work through the shifting issues as well. OEM or nothing. Haha.

I messaged a guy on FB about his Galant for sale in VA, but never heard back....typical FB.

Good job, nice to see the progress on your car!

Thanks man. Yeah the housing is solid. It's a shame you couldn't snag up that vr4. I have a local that is selling his. If none of my friends buy it i can forward you his info before he throws it on FB

Nice to see someone is making this!

Do you have pictures of the inside? Or can you comment on whether he retained the (for less of a better word) “baffling” on the inside?

I don't but i can take some since i have a friend that will be getting one for his Galant as well. There is no baffling .

 

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So i've just been in a waiting stage for parts and I finally got a few in this past week. This is the new billet forward facing housing from evospec for a 6 bolt. It's nice to see some love for 6 bolts since the 7 bolt guys have a lot more options.

I still haven't heard anything about my transmission since january . I'm not sure if my patience is getting better or worse but i try to be understanding. I really wanted to do some bigger brakes and i was close to pulling the trigger on new wheels and brakes but i chose to hold of for a few since my biggest pet peeve currently with the car is the sloppy shifter. The shifter has new bushings and still feels meh. I was looking for other options but 3d printed bushings are meh. I could make them myself if that's the route i chose but i wanted some machined bushing. I started hearing the long lead times with dudes customs and the no replies i got from him online which turned me off as well from doing any business with him. I could machine them myself but if i'm taking the shifter off i want to just replace it with something newer. So i ended up getting a kdn shifter. I got 80% done with it today tomorrow i'll finish with the interior and trimming the center console.

I also finally got some time to start a project i wanted to do a few years ago but every time i was close to starting something came up. I started getting the machining done for the o-ring to make some SS waterpipe for me and a few locals.

I did pick up new outlander rotor from a member on here so now i just need to choose some brake pads to go with them. I was leaning towards hawk hps or ebc red but i need to do more research to see what would be better for me. When having some fun with the car it's a little sketch trying to get it to stop in a decent time .