98 Eclipse GSX 350-400hp DD

[longislandDSM]

Nice buiild so far! As suggested by a few others change the way you have the oil pressure sending unit mounted. I had a similar setup and it snapped on me one day while driving. Luckily I caught it right away and didn't suffer any engine damage.

 

[PrimerPLus]

Still working on getting it tuned with the help of Gofer and Snowborder714 very grateful for them! We have it boosting at 25psi on 90 oct!
I plastidiped my wheels.
I have it getting a new viper alarm system installed today.

I need to upgrade fuel injectors. I think I will be going with FIC 1150cc.

 

[PrimerPLus]

Since I have plastidipd my wheels I have had to change a few things. I got my new Car alarm installed
FIC 1150cc fuel injectors
Also got some used Koni Yellows with GC's
New front wheel hubs, and a complete rebuild kit for the drivetrain. Also an STM SS clutch line(the short one).
This all should make for a pretty smooth ride.
Also got a brand new in box B&M Short shift

 

[2nd Gen Mnstr]

i have a big 16g on my car and it has the internal wastegate... not to sound like a noob but is it possible to delete the internal and hook up an external tial wastegate on it?

 

[PrimerPLus]

Yes, did you want your external wastegate to be on the o2 housing or off of the exhaust manifold?

I did not show it but I should have. I grinded out the flapper arm and where the long rod came through to control the flapper I threaded it to a slightly bigger size and put a bolt into it. I think this is a good alternative to welding the rod back in. I put some high temp rtv onto the bolt as I threaded it in.

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In the past couple of days I have added my DC front and rear strut bars, put on koni yellow strust all the way around with ground control coil overs. Also I replaced my old OEM radiator with Mishimoto Aluminum radiator and replaced all the coolant hoses with the import evolution 11 piece kit. I am so happy I did because now my car actually gets warm. My old radiator had issues .

 

[2nd Gen Mnstr]

cool. try to get some pictures of the internal wastegate delete plezzzzzz

 

[PrimerPLus]

Pictures of it lowered. I will post some more later of the new DC Strut bars.

**EDIT Pictures have been lost to time. Updated and will re-Post pictures.**

 

[AK Maniak]

Gah I want that B&M!

 

[awdtalon4451]

Ahhh makes me want to go empty my bank account to work on mine . Nice work BTW. So we're still waiting to see if you hit your 400hp goal. If not im sure your close

 

[PrimerPLus]

I am trying man .
Every time I get ready to see how far she can go another issues pops up!
I am hoping to get there soon.
I just did a Leak Down Test and I don't think the rings are looking too good .
Cylinder #1 : 35%
Cylinder #2 : 30%
Cylinder #3 : 30%
Cylinder #4 : 35%

Air is leaking out of Dip stick and Oil fill cap.

 

[kasumax]

Ok, im sold on the "all Aem" guage look...

 

[PrimerPLus]

Found some pictures of my evo 3 16g while I was taking it apart to make it externally gated.

In this one you can see I am removing the wastegate arm.


In this one you can see the flapper that is going to need to be removed.



Where my finger is at here you need to take that out. What I did was grind off the flapper and then took a small die grinder and cut the arm off and was able to pull it out. Then I got a tap and tapped for a slightly larger then the hole is and threaded in the bolt. Walla it is not ready to be externally gated. You can see those Tial wastegate in my previous pictures.


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[IrishBeatdown]

Found some pictures of my evo 3 16g while I was taking it apart to make it externally gated.

In this one you can see I am removing the wastegate arm.


In this one you can see the flapper that is going to need to be removed.



Where my finger is at here you need to take that out. What I did was grind off the flapper and then took a small die grinder and cut the arm off and was able to pull it out. Then I got a tap and tapped for a slightly larger then the hole is and threaded in the bolt. Walla it is not ready to be externally gated. You can see those Tial wastegate in my previous pictures.


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you should port the bajeesus out of that wastegate flapper hole now, prime. cant wait to see this sweet punishment elbow in there, woop woop

 

[PrimerPLus]

Yah I need to get some pictures of it installed. I did not port the hole but I wish I had . Who knows I may do this on my christmas break. But I must say with that Tial wastegate the boost holds solid. No spikes. So not TOO worried about it but bigger is better .
I will try and get some pictures of the bay tomorrow. I need to wash it kinda dirty.

Oh and PS I wish I had your return line

 

[IrishBeatdown]

Yah I need to get some pictures of it installed. I did not port the hole but I wish I had . Who knows I may do this on my christmas break. But I must say with that Tial wastegate the boost holds solid. No spikes. So not TOO worried about it but bigger is better .
I will try and get some pictures of the bay tomorrow. I need to wash it kinda dirty.

Oh and PS I wish I had your return line

I'll make one for you at cost if you want, I like fabricating. I've got some new ideas for next time as well for better flow. Let me know when you want to go holset big and ill set you up. I'm working on my holset feedline now, this is it so far:

-4 AN off the OFH into a .75 restrictor into a FP red inline oil filter. Inline oil filter is courtesy of smalltowndsmer, a donation to my project. Man has a heart of gold. I guess ill stop before I completely hijack your build thread

What Bar are you running on your tial gate? You have the stock 1 bar springs in there? I replaced my springs the other day, im going 1.7 bar in both.

 

[PrimerPLus]

Yah I will let you know when I decide to upgrade to a bigger turbo.
I have the .9bar in it atm. And I use my MBC to turn it up to get to 25psi. Man I wish Alaska had better fuel options. we only got 90 octane. I would love to run E85. One day I will when I move out of Alaska .

 

[turbolover10]

Solid build man, came together nice! Good luck with hitting your goal!

 

[PrimerPLus]

Here are some updated pics taking just a few minutes ago. I am working on gettin her tuned.

 

[raiderrodney]

Beautiful!

 

[-Erics97GSt-]

How is the horsepower and throttle response on the car since the rebuilt upgrades ? Also how do you have your AFPR hooked up. I can see in the pic. Bit why from stock fpr then to AFPR?

 

[PrimerPLus]

Well as of right now the hp and throttle response are quite bad. The engine is going through a complete rebuild. I started out suspecting bad rings because of poor leak down test results. I drove it and was going to replace rings when summer got here. However shortly after I realized my rings were going I was driving home and all of a sudden I hear this loud tick tick tick so I pull off at next exit because I was on the highway. I pop the hood and I knew I had spun a rod bearing. Got that car towed home and waited until I could work on it. Got the entire motor out and all broke down to be takin to machine shop.
Turns out my crank journals were toast bad bearings metal shavings on oil drain plug. I was planning on swapping a lot of stock parts anyhow this summer but wasn't planning on needing a new crank, turbo rebuilt, new oil pump and oil lines.
So the block is getting cleaned decked and awaiting to see what the new overbore size will be. New freeze plugs. I have eagle rods and will go with either weisco or manley 8.5:1 cr pistons depending on price.
I have a set of dks2 cams on the way from ffwd and they were cool enough to help me out and locate a crank for cheap plus do all machine work on it too. So I was stoked about that.
I have a new gasket kit from felpro to go on.
I am trying to decide if I should do bs elimination or get new bearings and keep it. The only real hold back from doing bse is I don't want the vibration. I want a nice and smooth ride as this will be a dd. Input from people that have bse or experience in a dsm without it would be great.
Still waiting to do that head. It will be getting new ss values bronze guides, springs to support dks2's.
While i'm waiting I took that entire interior and hatch all apart to track down wires that went to no where and see if I could fix my rear defrost not turning on. Also had to rip out there motorized antenna. I also cleaned out all that dirt and dust replaced nasty ass screws and bolts with new ss ones.
If anyone is getting rid of their interior I could use a bunch of the clips that go on the plastic parts. It drives me up a wall when people that do stuff only half ass. My p.o was a moron.
Any-who I got interior back together, missing clips though.
I am about to take purple power to the engine bay and see if I can clean all that junk up. Me and my brother built a car hauler from an old 5th wheel. Its sweet I hauled a truck and my car with it. So i'm going to get my car back on it and go to a car wash and blast the bay.

Oh the AFPR is connected to the brake reservoir. Also the AFPR is not connected to the stock fpr.

 

[PrimerPLus]

So here is what has been going on. I will get pictures soon!

What is going on and what will come.
Short Block
OEM Crank from FFWD, along with all machine work for it.
ACL Tri Metal bearings for rods and mains. std/std
Tank to be inspected, milled .005 or less, new freeze plugs, and possible overbore.
Eagle rods still waiting on overbore size to decide on pistons, but im leaning towards weisco or manley.
I have decided to go with a BSE kit from STM
new front case and oil pump - JNZ
evo 9 ofh with B&M oil cooler kit from JNZ
new oil strainer

HEAD
Cleaned hot tanked, and milled.
DKS2's cams
new valves, guides, springs and retainers,
Fidanza Blue adjustable cam gears
ARP cam bolts

Turbo
Rebuild of my evo 3 16g by Justin
new oil Black Nylon oil feed from OFH with restrictor
new oil drain black Nylon

Paint
Painting all aluminum with Aluma Paint
Motor mounts and most everything else Black.
Painting my side skirts, and rear wing same color as car (P75 Barcelona Red Pearl)

Misc
I did a fuse box relocation. (Under the passenger fender where the SMIC use to be. Need to modify the clutch line bracket now.
Looking into poly motor mounts. Will do Calan's mod to them.
Need to get a Calan Catch Can
Might do a battery drop to subframe.
Cleaning out engine bay and touch up the inside with paint.
Need new headlights, and a few sensors

I will update my list on page 1 soon. I will get pictures as well.

 

[PrimerPLus]

Though I would update.

Here is what I had done.

Block decked, hot tanked, overbored .020, entire rotating assembly balanced, crank micro-polished, manley Pistons coated 8.5:1 Compression, acl race bearings, Eagle Rods, Head decked, 3 angle valve job, Top Line Revised 3g lifters, Manley springs and Titanium retainers, DKS 272cams, Fidanza adjustable cam gears, new oem oil pump/front case, STM BSE kit with 90 straight cut gears deburred, EVO 9 OFH, B&M Oil cooler, Tial BOV, k&n air filter, switched to Speed Density with GM IAT and mitshubishi Style omni 4bar,

Fuse box Relocated, cruise control delete, non cruise control throttle cable,
a lot of miscellaneous items as well.
I plan to take it down to the local tuner shop and have it tuned on their awd dyno,

Here is a lot of pictures I had more but phone ended up destroying my SD card, I will get some updated engine bay pics too later.



**EDIT Pictures have been lost to time. Updated and will re-Post pictures.**

 

[spyderdrifter]

Really like those last two pics

 

[952g63t]

Damn, already back on the road? You dont mess around!

Good choice going with the BSE/Polly mounts and throttle cable swap.

Hows it running?

Bet you could have gotten away with starting it dry with all that assembly lube!

Awesome DSM