How long was your DSM down for?

[98mitsubishigst]

Okay, 180k miles and i been rebuilding my eclipse since End of September.

October, Ripped it all apart.
November, Finished Engine Bay, Paint.
December, Ran out of Funds.

Its been 3 months and it feels like i havent been able to drive my baby foreverrrrrr ... I ride around in my buddys Gs everyday and everyone compliments him on how nice his car is, that use to be me!

How long has your cars been down for, and how the hell do you cope!?

 

[flawlessTSI]

its been since may for me. i just got kiggly 6bolt in a auto 2g adaptor plate and flex plate today hopefuly will be done by new years.

I just broke me tranny mount and am a part timer working 0 hours. What a christmas .

how did you break a tranny mount???

 

[HurleyTSi]

its been since may for me. i just got kiggly 6bolt in a auto 2g adaptor plate and flex plate today hopefuly will be done by new years.




how did you break a tranny mount???

O it happens

 

[DeadlyPariah]

My talons been down for 2 months now, but it feels like 2yrs and 3months. As I just got done with a 25month tour in Okinawa, Japan. I get back home, go to drive it to my new base, and my clutch smokes, and I didn't have enough time to fix it before I had to get to my next base. So now it's sitting back in my parents garage until I can take leave and pick it up. what a PIA. ... How did I cope? Well when I was in Okinawa I worked on a R32 skyline. That helped keeping me from missing it to much. I'm just glad that in a few months I will be able to work on it again!

 

[TurboStutr]

Mine hasn't been completely down, but I've been limping it around town for about 3 years now without being able to take it to the track. It's been slowly spewing oil since my last track day, and with money being extremely tight, gathering parts for the engine build has been slow at best. Almost got everything together, the head is ready to rock, just need machine work done on the bottom end, then it's assembly time!

 

[MM's Talon]

mine has been down since the end of may and it SUCKS! i hate just seeing it sit there. it went from a quick engine to a complete diaster, hopfully in 2 weeks she'll be back!!!

 

[1twistdtalon]

miines been down 2 weeks and i have not even paid for it yet haha

 

[asrdave]

bought my car last year around this time still haven't driven it yet

 

[mattdev]

Overnight clutch job turned into a month+ long transmission build.

1. My second ACT 2600 broke (not burned out).
2. Limped around for over a month.
3. Ordered Competition Clutch and Fidanza Flywheel.
4. Pulled the trans by myself, while draining trans fluid, it looked like mercury with metal chunks in it.
5. Ordered a Jack's gear cluster, waited a week and got it.
6. Popped open the trans to find almost EVERY gear is chipped, missing tooth/teeth. Won't get my core charge back.
7. Waited on new output shaft gear for another week, it was missing 2 teeth.
8. Went to install flywheel and clutch. Flywheel was a factory defect and picked up another flywheel locally since fidanza would take 3 weeks to send a new one.
9. Every shop in town with a press (to pull the bearings off the output shaft gear) said their press was broken.
10. I Decided to pull off the bearings incorrectly and bent them. 1 week to find a local bearing supplier.
11. Almost finished putting trans back together, when the welds broke on my "freshly"welded center diff (done locally at a mexican shop, bad idea). By some miracle I broke them before it was installed and in the car.
12. Trying to find a legitimate place in town to weld the diff... in progress

All this, around X-mas, meaning shops are open at odd times and closed for 3 days around X-mas, and probably for New Years as well! All on my DD, full time student, and full time at Costco...

/therapy

 

[motox-010]

Been down for a couple months this time for the engine swap. Been driving my '78 Chevy pickup
Previously it was down for about a month for the trans. But I was gone for 2 weeks. Drove a friend's Grand Am for that
And before that it was down for 3 or 4 months while I waited for the shop to do the flywheel. Never will I take my car to a shop to do work again. They hate DSMs here. Had my Jeep at the time.

 

[92AWDHX40]

4 months now, its getting work done to it, it should be back on the road early summer. I think. I went sand blasting and powdercoating crazy, then fresh paint. Wire tuck, and fmic, Major clean up.

 

[Dsmj89]

Just recently thursday morning my car doesn't want to start and has not even more than 30 psi compression in it's best cylinders, not sure how this happened out of nowhere...
I will be expecting to be down for 2-3 months.
This blows...

 

[93spoolin]

My first DSM was down for months I bought it back in 98, after the original engine went, I saved up to replace it. I got a engine shipped from NY. I was 19 then. I worked as a fabricator on a caterpillar line as a welder, and made pretty good money to be 18 years old, didn't take me long.

funny u said that man,i worked for leroy somer for 6 months and i was a welder as well. we built the generator cores for cat.






but anyways mines been down 2 months

 

[standard235]

I bought my 92 a year and a half ago. Got rid of it 4 days ago. I drove it home, drove it to my friend's house once. That's it.

Bought the 94 in September. Broke 2nd day I had it. Took control arm off the 92. Back on the road for 4 more days. 3rd day, went to a Friday meet to take people for rides in my moderately quick 1g. Next day, clutch suddenly stops functioning properly. Limped her home and now she sits in my driveway, waiting to be put back together.....

I LOVE MY DSM

 

[ryan lemley]

I got my 95 GST in September 08, got it on the road in Jan 09. Went down again in July 09 got it back on the road in September. It is winter now and I need a turbo so I haven't been driving it.

In late July I got my son an AWD 92 laser, his 3rd DSM. The motor is all back together and running great, but the clutch won't let it shift when the car is on and it needs new calipers all the way around. Hopefully he will be on the road in March.

 

[jessebloomquist]

mine has 174324 just took a shit today crank walk im rite there with you man this shit blows already

 

[my98gsx]

Since 2007 i have not driven my gsx for longer then 1000 miles per year... break and rebuild i guess.

 

[dabishop1983]

I've had my car since 2007 and it's only been down once for about a week. Other than that I've been pretty lucky with this one(fourth dsm). It's also my daily driver.

 

[TsiDan]

I bought my 95 Tsi back in September of 09... i drove it for a day before i got a rod knock. turns out the guy mixed oils... well its been sitting in my garage since... motor half out. i do have a fresh 6 bolt.. bored .20 over with forged internals. im picking it up from the machine shop tomorrow and hope to have the swap complete within the next 2 weeks...

 

[36mafia]

does breaking down every other day count as down time? if so, 25 months

 

[AshTsi]

i'm going on 4 years now But i'm looking forward to the day i get to drive it again... it's going to be badass!

 

[Bluefire16]

Wow, i dont no how some of you guys go that long! I have random little things here and there but o actual rebuild downtime yet. But im giving it a repair maintance session here pretty soon, so i plan on 3 days tops. Dropping the tranny, new head studs, and trubo rebuild. I HAVE to get it done in 3 tho haha, not much of a choice. LONG ALL nighters it looks for me

 

[Grimis]

it was 3years 7months, but it was worth it to hear it run again ,,, i think

 

[2gmummy]

Wow, i dont no how some of you guys go that long! I have random little things here and there but o actual rebuild downtime yet. But im giving it a repair maintance session here pretty soon, so i plan on 3 days tops. Dropping the tranny, new head studs, and trubo rebuild. I HAVE to get it done in 3 tho haha, not much of a choice. LONG ALL nighters it looks for me

Yea i dont put time lines on workin on my dsm..things that should be like a days work can turn into... wtf

 

[khartley]

Which time??? I would say a total of maybe 3 weeks, both times the clutches went out, and the time the water pump went out. It gets back on the road relatively quickly.
I disabled it a few times, which I consider to be different, because it is by choice. One month to rebuild the engine, a month to paint it, a few days here and there to swap some new parts in.

 

[stroked_AWD]

14 months piston ring broke and ran throught the head but STM hooked me up now i got a built 2.3ltr and a sick 60-1 setup the wait was well worth it!