93 Tsi budget warrior

[EisHERE]

Yea I know haha, after the holidays im going to be in the market for a SMIM and a 4" FP intake pipe. Possibly some other goodies.

don't get a 4" unless it's not too much of a difference from the turbo! or unless you're getting a turbo that's inlet is nearly that size. I've been reading that it makes a difference if it's too big. good luck.

 

[Thatvteckid]

I can't wait to see the progress

 

[tkstoygsx]

Well I finally got around to backing it out of the garage on its own power this past weekend. Wanted to see how it would react if you would! Transmission feels great and the suspensions looks amazing but im gonna have to raise it back up just a little bit to level out the control arms and such. Also having a hard time with the idle, did find a boost leak at the throttlebody and I have a NEW UPGRADED one coming from Steve @ Throttlebodies.com which should be here in the next day or two.

After some body work and paint, DSMLink and minor finishing touches I think I will be ready for the 2013 race/show season.

 

[CountryDSM]

I love my GSX rims on my 2g but damn! Looks very good on a 1g

 

[EisHERE]

lookin good! it's come a long way!

 

[92AWDHX40]

Looking good mines in the works too its running now and new engine and such, next working on cosmetics body work paint, and stuff like that looks good.

 

[tkstoygsx]

Got my new Throttle Body in the mail today, second time I have purchased one from Steve and i have to say I am quite pleased.

Also, after hearing it run and driving it up and down the street knowing that its all good (so far) I am going to be yanking the engine back out and repainting the engine bay while painting the car. Its going to bug me that the color wont match so I figured I may as well do it now since the car is undergoing paint as well. i will post pics of the progression as it comes along!

 

[tkstoygsx]

This week I have started the process of tearing apart my wiring and getting ready to re-route for the wire tuck. I would like to mention that the factory routing of the wire harness and how it was constructed is very poorly thoughout and kind of angers me to think they would have done it so poorly, but anyhow. Over the past couple days (totaling about 15 hours) I have managed to pull the engine harness out and strip it down to just the wiring with the help of my buddy Justin. i am going to be running all the wiring for the engine harness' on the driver side of the engine bay to eliminate visibility of them almost completly. I have routed most of them under the intake manifold, under the location of the brake booster and into the fender well which will lead to them running into the cabin through the firewall. I have a couple pics of the process so far but will have much more to come. Once the wire tuck is mocked up and completed, the engine is coming back out for an engine bay makeover (plug welding holes and repainting with the car)!

While doing my harness work, I have come across a few areas that I would like to gain input from some other knowledgable members. i will be eliminating all unneccessary wires from the harness through this process and I am not sure if I can leave the plugs out of the ECU harness. Do any of you know if this will be ok? The wires Im going to be leaving out are:

(numbers correspond with PIN Location)
3 - Turbo Gauge
5 - Power Steering Oil pressure switch
7 - Air Conditioner Switch
11 - ABS control unit
15 - EGR Temperature Sensor
53 - EGR Control Solenoid Valve
57 - Fuel pressure Control Valve
62 - Purge Control Solenoid Valve
65 - Air Conditiong Relay
105 - WasteGate Solenoid Valve

 

[doayamaha]

All this work we have been doing and no update. What gives

 

[Or3O]

Where did you order you gear ?

 

[tkstoygsx]

Where did you order you gear ?

Most of the items that I have purchased have been from Extremepsi.com or ModernAutomotiveperformance.com. Hope that is what you were looking for!

Updates coming soon. I have a ton of pics to upload!!

 

[tkstoygsx]

Decent project updates have been concurred for the first few months of spring 2013. The past few months have been very busy with school and work but me and two very dedicated friends of mine (doayamaha & 98mitsu_gsx) have been able to pull off quite a bit of work to the old Budget Warrior. Alongside of doing performance mods and body repair to other friends vehicles we have been pretty busy!

Since the beginning of my build thread I have ventured many different ways on how I wanted to attack this build and to this day I would have to say that I am still a little undecided on the total end outcome. However, I have focused a lot of my (our) time and effort on making it as clean and pleasing to the eyes as possible for the allotted budget that I have to work with. The results to this point seem to achieve this goal and I am very pleased at this point in time. The biggest and most thought consuming was the color combination of the car. In some of my previous pics (updates) I had stripped and redone the engine bay in black truck bed liner just to clean it up and re-assemble everything. That didn't last long because after months of looking at it this way I decided that it was just too plain and common among most and I would rather take the time to make it a really custom and clean looking engine bay. So the engine came back out and to this day is sitting on the stand waiting to go back in.

I had also started the wire tuck and re-situating of the harnesses and I am still in progress with this task. This will be getting finished up in the next few weeks as the engine goes back in and I can be sure that wires are leading to the proper locations and working properly. When I left off a few weeks back I think I was nearly 75% done with it and shouldn't be much longer until complete.

The first items I would like to point out are my recent Powder Coated Items. A few months back I was driving down one of the main streets here in town and noticed a sign that stated ("POWDER COATING" LNP). Needless to say I stopped and checked it out. The name is "LIKE NEW PARTS" and upon entering the door I noticed a table full of items that had been coated as well as some larger items on the floor. They looked pretty darn good! After talking with the gentlemen (Harley) for quite a while I decided that I would bring in a bunch of items to have them coated. Pricing was said to be pretty fair and the work looked to be really good. Now before I could take the parts into his shop I had to decide on the color combination that I want to go with and after hours of thought I had made up my mind on Blue and Gold. This decision was soon changed once I arrive at the powder coating shop with my parts. He had hundreds of color cards to look through to find the perfect color of Gold and I just couldn't find one that I was pleased with. I did however find a color card that was pretty close to the color blue that I had planned to spray the car and right next to it was a really awesome looking purple. So after roughly 20 minutes of comparing and sorting thru all of his color cards my mind was set on the Blue/Purple color combo. The color is called Translucent Purple (Violet) and it's pretty sweet. Here is the list of parts that I had done in this color which added up to a grand total of just under $500.xx!

Motor mount brackets
K Member
Cross Members
Power steering reservoir bracket
Support bracket, oil cooler mount
Power steering bracket
16g Turbo housing x2
Hood prop rod bracket
Radiator brackets

Now I also had Rear bumper support sand blasted and coated in black, my fuel rail coated the same color as my Crower Cam Gears which was needed after having my -6an fittings tig welded on. It's an AEM rail and they are prone to leaking around the fittings provided and I was one to find this out the hard way.

Aside from all the new additions and powder coating the progress continued on the body work and prep for the painting stage of this budget build. After many, many hours in the garage sanding and priming, the day has finally come to get some paint on the beast. Last weekend we sprayed the first coats on and after drying they didn't look too awfully bad but there were a few spots that I was not pleased with so we are in the final prep stages now for the last painting session this coming weekend!

I would also like to mention that my project was one of the few chosen by MISHIMOTO for the sponsorships they were offering. To this day I have used my sponsorship benefits to purchase the Aluminum Radiator and Fan Shroud set they offer. These look very well under the hood (or should I say, in the engine bay since hoods off at the moment)!

Just some teaser pics before the final product... Also the Paint is East Woods Royal Blue Metallic Urethane based... Doayamaha (Bobby) is the guy smilling from ear to ear in the black coat. Im the guy that looks ripped after spraying some paint on the car, but was just tired!

Thanks for looking and there will be much more to come, SOON!

 

[tkstoygsx]

Havent really had too much time to be working on the Talon due to helping others with their projects and working alot of OT lately. I did manage to get the engine and trans installed and I am really pleased with how the colors are matching.

After this coming weekend I will be putting much more time into getting it done so that I can drive it after I sell my Audi. We will be in OHIO this weekend for the Buschur Racing Sport Compact Nationals which should be a good motivator for my project as well as an awesome time at the track.

 

[tkstoygsx]

MOD 2013 update:

It’s that time of year again, and I am very pleased to say that the “BUDGET WARRIOR” has finally come to a street-able status. I don’t want to call it a completion due to the fact that it will never be completed due to constant upgrades and planning for bigger better numbers and achievements. I have finally gotten it all together and on the road again for the first time in over a year. The build is not complete by any means but it has come to a good point where I can drive it and enjoy the many, many hours put into this project over the last two years. Thanks to the helping hands of many of my friends (Bobby Troyer and Justin Carver the most) and the support of my wonderful wife for not caring about the countless hours in the garage and money spent on trying to get the car done. I have set many completion dates throughout the last two years and this will be the first that I have actually been able to tackle. I was not able to take the car to DSM/EVO shootout but I did attend to show my support and witness the awesome event. Can’t wait for next year’s event to be able to take the warrior and compete in some of the festivities.

I will be making the trip to MOD in Bloomington/Normal this weekend and this will be the big test to see how everything is working and sounds since hitting the streets two nights ago. I now have 30 miles on the engine and everything seems to be going good. There are a few things left to finish up but I can do most over the winter months. I’ll start with a little update on the past few tasks I have completed on the car.

First off the list was the NON EPROM CONVERSION provided by ECMLINK.COM. Before I mention how awesome of a job they did I would like to Thank Tom Dorris for the amazing services and excellent communication and cooperation with the demanding needs that I had for him. The work is top notch, works perfect and is done in such a timely manner that would be hard to compete with. When I first sent the ecu to him for the conversion it only took but a few days to receive it back and completed. Then there was an issue, but on my part. I had tried to remove the chip to get the serial number and the socket that they had placed in the ecu was a very tight fit and when I removed the chip I bent a few of the prongs. I panic’d and instantly emailed Tom to see what my options were. He mentioned that I could send the chip back and they could most likely replace the prongs rather than have me buy an entire new flash module. This was fantastic and I sent the chip to him that very next day (OVER NIGHTING) and had the module back two days later. Thank you very much Tom Dorris and ECMLINK.Com for the excellent service and offering such a great product. Pic at bottom of the end result:

Next on the list of recently tackled items was the installation of the srt4 seats. I picked these seats up off a buddy for a very reasonable price of $150 and have no regrets because not only do they look great in the car but they are very comfortable. Making the brackets for mounting was not a very fun event nor was it very complicated so I spent my Labor Day off work doing the install. I wasn’t able to get pics because I was too busy making the brackets but I do have a little remembrance of how I did it. Starting with 1/8” thick x 2” wide sheet metal I cut to lengths of 18.5” and drilled holes to fit on the floorboard of the car around the OEM mounting holes/studs. Once complete, I sat the seats on top of the brackets while sitting in the car and positioned them to my liking for the most part because they are quite a bit wider than the OEM seats and will not sit perfectly square inside the car. After placing where I thought was a good position, I traced the srt4 seats brackets to the brackets that I had just made. I then pulled both the seats and the brackets out, lined them up and welded them solid. Now after welding the two straight pieces to the seat you will also want to weld at least one piece of sheet metal between the two to make them just a bit stronger however this is probably not needed since they do not have this from the factory. Then, clean up the welds, paint the rails and lube up the sliders. Couple pics at bottom:

The next task to mark off the list was the install of my new OIL FILTER HOUSING from extremepsi.com! During the install of my sending unit for the AEM digital oil pressure gauge I installed, the filter housing decided to crack. I didn’t think it was tight enough when installing but I guess it was. These are available from extreme for a very reasonable price of $80 and I would much rather pay that for a new unit then to buy a used unit and risk the material being weak again. This was a very simple install being a seasoned dsmer and having performed many timing jobs. Took me about two hours from tear down to assembly and looks a lot better than the corroded OEM unit that I had originally installed. Little picture lovin at bottom:

The last few things that I have tackled over the last few nights are installation of the fuel pump rewire and getting the tune situated for normal driving conditions. I will have more to follow in the coming months and years but for now this is what I’ve got. Once the car is cleaned up nicely and I’m off work on a sunny day I will get pics of the entire build to post up for the comparison of beginning to current end.

P.S. Yes I am missing the center section of my wing, it broke the other night while trying to put it on and I have yet to fix and remount it. Also, the car isn’t perfect and there are many issues I have yet to fix but for the most part it doesn’t look too bad and it sounds amazing with the Delta 272’s!


Thanks for Looking,
Travis
Boosted Techniques

 

[Dakota_DSM]

Didn't realize how long you have been working on this. Congrats on getting it on the street looks like you have a lot of blood sweat and tears in this thing I look forward to seeing it one of these days.

 

[aron99189]

I love what you did with the car it looks very professional

 

[Blu90GST]

Lookin good man. Hope to see it cruisin around Pekin sometime, I go over there quiet a bit.

 

[tkstoygsx]

Dakota_DSM: Thanks and yes, there is a ton of blood sweat and bad days involved with the build of this car. It has taken along time to get this thing to the point it is now however i am not happy with it yet it will be worth it in the end.

 

[tkstoygsx]

Didn't realize how long you have been working on this. Congrats on getting it on the street looks like you have a lot of blood sweat and tears in this thing I look forward to seeing it one of these days.

Lookin good man. Hope to see it cruisin around Pekin sometime, I go over there quiet a bit.

Blu90GST: You just might see me cruisin around in the coming weeks. I took it to MOD this past weekend and had an issue with my oil cooler but have purchased a new one and it will be going on in the next few evenings after work. i also work in peoria and cruise threw N. Pekin/Creve Cour/E. Peoria on my way to work.

 

[tkstoygsx]

I love what you did with the car it looks very professional

Thanks for the positive words, I have still got a decent amount of work left to do with the car and im stuck in between making it a fast drag car or a decent street warrior that looks damn good...

 

[tkstoygsx]

Totally F'd up that multi-quote, !

Anyways, the budget warrior made it to MOD in Bloomington over the past weekend and with nearly NO issues. The only issue I did have was that my oil cooler lines are too short and are pulling the fittings loose when driving due to the vibrations and such. Because of this I went straight to the local speed shop upon getting home from MOD and purchased up the parts to swap in a new setup. Should be back on the road in the next day or two. I am also in need of an alignment pretty bad so I will be setting up an appointment for that as well.

If you made it to MOD this year in Bloomington you should have seen the car sitting in the 1g area.

 

[Bud92gsx]

I'm loving the interior man good job.

 

[tkstoygsx]

I'm loving the interior man good job.

Thanks Bud, its not quite done yet but getting close. I still have another dash that im going to re-wrap and install in black to match the rest and im ooking into harness's and a harness bar for the near future...

 

[Ozyeclipse]

Wow man for a second I thought u had my car no seriously I just stareted a rebuild and the cars are exactly the same keep it up

 

[tkstoygsx]

Wow man for a second I thought u had my car no seriously I just stareted a rebuild and the cars are exactly the same keep it up

haha nice, is your Royal Blue metallic in color as well because thats not a stock paint!