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r3dmak

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Nov 4, 2007
orlando, Florida
I've always been a fan of 2g eclipses! I was looking to get one but everytime life was getting in the way. Time kept ticking and cars were getting old so, eventually I pulled the triger on what I thought was a good example. The car was good in mechanical order, no peeling or fading on exterior paint and clear coat, even rubber seals were good. Unfortunately it was neglected underneath to the point that almost every nut was seized. After debating on what to do, I eventually decided to restore it. Fast forward a couple of years, I finally mitigated body rust(not completely yet) and painted the engine bay.

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Well now, got my laziness aside and finally finished up the underbody to my satisfaction. For the most part I used eastwood encapsulator and was suprised to find out that in some areas the rust went thru the encapsulator. After that i went with por15 and it did a great job mitigating rust, preparation was a little tedious and in some areas the finish ended up being dull as oppose to gloss as was described on the ad, not sure why. I did like por15 seam sealer, its flexible enough to fill in the voids and when it dries its rock hard. Next step is slowly assemble the car back.
 

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A little update, I dropped off some parts to be powder coated and in the meantime decided to work on some other odds and ends. First was the fuel tank, I cleaned it up with some soap and replaced the gas vent valve. First I thought about just painting the existing valve, because it was so rusted that the small studs were spining with the nuts every time i wanted to twist them off. But with some tools and patience I manage to get the nut spin off freely, for refference its a metric m5 w/ .8 thread pitch.

Next, I cleaned up both fuel pump assemblies and painted them with por15, which I thought suppose to be gloss black but mine turned dull black for some reason. I also replaced the old pump with new walbro 190 and put a new fuel supply hose.

The last thing, I went ahead and pulled out break booster out the box. In my search for a new parts I got a 3g booster with 17/16" master cylinder attached to it, but I decided to switch it back to OEM 1" to have stock appearance and utilize stock brake line fittings. My car originaly had an ABS system and I was thinking about keeping it that way, but during the remove I had to cut most of the abs lines and was unable to find replacements. In the meantime I got lucky and found new non-abs lines so I ultimately switched to non-abs system. I will be running evo8 front and back brembos as-well, so we will see how it wil pan out.
 

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Time to update this thread. I'm finally started to put things back in the car a few weeks ago, with a hectic schedule I can barely find time to work on it. I got brake, clutch and fuel lines installed, then I had to maneuver them to line up with the clips as they go back in particular order. Mounted clutch and brake cylinders. Did some research on the injector resistor pack as mine was all rusted and I wanted to find one in decent shape. The original resistor is no longer available but evo3 resistor still does, so I was looking for their differences but with no luck, at the end I did score the original in good shape.
I prepared fuel tank for the install, upgraded the pump to walbro 190, got all new hoses and clamps for the fuel and vapor, cleaned and coated fuel neck with por15. The dull finish on the fuel neck is what por15 semi-gloss/ satin black look like, I thought it would have a little more shine to it, oh well, looks better then what it was.
Next on agenda is to rehab the rear diff and put together rear subrame so that rear end would be semi done.
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Ok, a little update on the project. I was ready to assembly both front and rear suspensions when I discovered that parts I bought long time ago were complete junk. Mainly the subframes, I didn't pay attention when i got them just threw them in the storage until recently. Front subframe was in better shape with only one bolt thread being repaired. The rear one however, was complete trash, rusted thru and painted over with bolt threads destroyed beyond repair. Luckily I found a good rear donor to start cleaning it up. Unfortunately with all other comitments i barely have time to work on the project except just stock piling the parts and assemblying odds and ends. So got my koni shocks with GC sleeves and eibach springs ready to go with. Refurbished fog lights, aparently 03 base lancer uses same fog lights as 2gb eclipses. I sourced chinese copy as I was only after yellow glass which looked great. I plan on keeping the ac in the car, so I got oem filter and now looking for the new oem condenser, if anyone have one, please let me know, if not then I would probably go with china one.
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I have to add a follow up note on Ground Control coil sleeves and springs for 2g eclipse. When you buy a kit from their web site there is an option to add a helper spring, i didn't pay much attetion to it until I stated building up a shock and discovered that supplied main springs are TOO SHORT. They are short to allow room for a helper spring and with out them the main spring just bouncing up and down on the shock. The suplied springs are 7 in tall and the front ones are barely making it ok, but the rear ones i had to replace with 8 in tall springs. Anyway, hope this helps somebody and they wont need to jump thru hoops.

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Had one day off to do work on the house but it was raining so instead I messed with rear diff and subframe. With a help of a fellow DSMer, I was able to find a rear subframe in decent shape, so went and pick that up. Cleaned it and coated it with gloss por-15 along with the rear diff. The only thing missing was a subframe bottom spacers that I found in poland. The company makes poly bushes for galants vr4's and its rear subframe same as in eclipse so big win here. I mounted subframe first and then realized that there are not enough space to bolt the rear diff, so I had to go back to square one. Now I'm trying to get BFH sticker for the rear cover to finish the look.

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Time for an update, went ahead and started on the brakes. When i first got evo 8 calipers they were in terrible condition, tubes were bent, nipples were seized and pistons were painted over. So I got them cleaned up and powder coated, I was not sure what color to pick but then decided to make them stand out and look similar to new STI calipers. Next I could not find the evo8 cross tubes so I got evoX ones and they fitted just fine, also ordered black titanium nipples and brembo caps. I'm pretty satisfied how they turn out at the end.

After that I unpacked my parking brake parts and discovered i was missing a few bits so packed everything back in the box.

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Enjoying updates on your build. Thanks for including pictures. Nice choice on the caliper color.
 
Refurbished fog lights, aparently 03 base lancer uses same fog lights as 2gb eclipses. I sourced chinese copy as I was only after yellow glass which looked great.

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Nice detail.

Too bad Mitsubishi called the white lens lights “fog” lights. Only the yellow lens lights will actually see through fog and snow, whereas the white light will reflect back at the driver.

White lens lights should be called *driving* lights. Spent plenty of years driving through mountain fog and snow. Many times it was easier to see better and further by turning off the headlights and just using the fog (yellow) lights.

Although you don’t see them often, there are some aftermarket lights that have the yellow and white lenses so a driver could select the best for the weather condition.

If we drove ours in in-climate weather, we would convert our driving lenses to fog lenses.
 
Thanks everybody, doing the best i can. I had a day off and was able to unpack and bolt the steering rack I scored from ebay years ago. While inspecting the rack I could not figure out, is it oem part or aftermarket, the only difference from my original rack is the sticker on the metal housing.

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the brand new rack

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red sticker not the same

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rubber boot over steering joint, wondering why it was not there initialy even tho the manual shows it there.
 
Of all the DSMs we’ve owned, we’ve never seen one with a boot on the column u-joints. It would be a great thing to have to both prolong the life of the u-joints and clean up the bay a little.

However, on our recent work of changing out the ac compressor, I was glad we didn’t have one in the way.
 
A quick update on the resto mode. In a little time i had i was able to assemble the throttle body. It was months before I had everything together to fininsh the job. The coolant flow piece I discovered was the same as in 3000gt turbo cars. The FIAV and TPS i had to order from japan in hopes its not a chineese copy. The only thing missing is the throttle stop screw, which uses very fine thread and I may just re-thread it to most common one.

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The project is still moving but at the turtle pace. Over the summer I was able to finish up with the drive shaft project. It was taken apart, sand blasted and powder coated, then I assembled it with all new bearings, joints and grease.
A few things I wanted to pount out: first, the lobro joint kit MB837300, DOES NOT COME WITH METAL BRACKET MB505112, I realized it too late and had to refurbish and reuse the existing one.

Second, I was following Jafros driveshaft video and there at the lobro joint assembly he states to clamp metal clip LAST --> THIS IS NOT THE CASE FOR 2G, YOU HAVE TO CLAMP IT FIRST BEFORE BOLTING THE LOBRO JOINT TOGETHER. It was a nightmare to clamp it after lobro joint was assembled.

Third, if you decide to balance the shaft afterward, take it to the place that deals with commercial trucks, mom and pop shop wont be able to do it because of 3-piece shaft design.

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SHOULD HAVE CLAMPED IT NOW
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