lporte01
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- Apr 7, 2011
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Van Buren,
Arkansas
Well I recently (3 weeks ago) traded my civic for a 1997 Gst spyder. Drove 2 hours for the trade, and when I got there I did the usual inspection of the vehicle. There was alot of cultures engineering done, Alot of missing bolts and stuff out of place, but it looked to be a great starter as it had a used longblock from "theDSMgraveyard.com" and a fresh timing belt and water pump. Well all the problems aside I got the car, and made it back to my hometown when getting off the interstate the clutch slave cylinder gave out. I managed to get it down the road a while before I had to stop and got it into a parking lot. Well figured hey, a 25 dollar slave cylinder isnt too bad. Well was I ever wrong. When I pulled the bolts for the slave cylinder out, I noticed the transmission bellhousing was split all the way down the front and the only thing holding it together were the clutch slave cylinder bolts. So I put the new slave on there and it pulled the case back together. So I drove it for about a week, getting some of the bugs worked out, and low and behold the transmission case came apart and won't let the clutch disengage/engage. So the cars been sitting for a week and a half now. Just wondering what the best plan of action would be to take on this endeavor.
On a side note here's a few of the random things wrong, missing manifold bolts both turbo and intake sides, coils resting on top of motor, missong valve cover bolts and upper timing cover, boost leaks at every coupler, bov zip tied on, hose clamps used to hold couplers on, missing o2 sensor and wiring, numerous other plugs left undone, random vacuum lines undone and ran wrong, battery relocation to trunk all rigged up, and no a/c or pwr steering belts. Oh and a leaky top, even though I was told it never leaked a drop. Ive fixed Alot of the issues but it will be awile before it's right again.
On a side note here's a few of the random things wrong, missing manifold bolts both turbo and intake sides, coils resting on top of motor, missong valve cover bolts and upper timing cover, boost leaks at every coupler, bov zip tied on, hose clamps used to hold couplers on, missing o2 sensor and wiring, numerous other plugs left undone, random vacuum lines undone and ran wrong, battery relocation to trunk all rigged up, and no a/c or pwr steering belts. Oh and a leaky top, even though I was told it never leaked a drop. Ive fixed Alot of the issues but it will be awile before it's right again.
But about a week later the shift linkage came loose 
I have to tighten that up daily. I'll have to re tap the holes when I have more than an hour of spare time. Then about 2 weeks after the shift linkage started coming loose, my master cylendar went out (so I thought) so i replaced that and still had no clutch!!! It was permantly engaged and I did some pokin around and found a missing bolt under the slave cylendar was missing!!!! So I re taped that hole and put in a larger bolt and only last week I found the bold on the back of the motor was missing to but with it being so far down against the firewall, I'm gonna have to take off all the motor mounts and roll the motor forward to re tap that one. My local speed shop Adrenaline put this motor together 2 years before I bought it and I've heard nothing but problems and I'm not the first one to have missing bolts and nuts from them. Next DSM I buy will deffinently be stock and I'll be the one removing and replacing all the bolts and nuts 
you just can't trust people these days!!!!
