compression
15+ Year Contributor
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- Dec 9, 2004
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vero beach,
Florida
a little bit of backround on my history with dsm's before we get started. it all started when i was 15, my father got me a 1993 eclipse with a 1.8 4g37 , really riced out ;body kit huge wing big tach fart can blah blah, i loved that car.
When we purchased the car is had a small turbo in the trunk a 13g from the auto 1g's was used mainly as a paper weight that i just thought was so cool. then one day i found these forums! i was 15 and new to forums so my forum behavior wasnt that great (remember then in the links) started looking at all the "cool" turbo dsms and decided i wanted one! my father said hellll no. we will just turbocharge the 1.8 , so i said sure! so here is a few links for that
first here http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/newbie-forum/156856-1-8-sohc-turbo.html
then http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/1g-...turbod-finally-posting-link-dissbeleif-4.html
well, that project kind of ended when i purchased a 1990 tsi awd from the junkyard for like 200$ all it had was bent valves and dull paint, however i didnt know so i started ripping parts off of it left and right like a piranha in hopes to make my 4g37 faster! but i found a really nice 4g63 nt with a blown headgasket really cheap. Bought that and intended to put my brand new super shiny evo 3 16g turbo on it! never got around to it.
That car had given me quite a bit of trouble
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/420a-turbo-conversion/199459-ive-had.html
and the new thing around here was awd, so of course being 16 not having much cash flow i asked my father he also liked the idea and we were awd shopping!
looked at lots and finally found a 1990 eclipse gsx in denver colorado 1400.00 with apparently nothing wrong with it on ebay. we bought it! we flew out met the guy, he picked us up from the airport, and by this time i had some general knowledge on turbocharged vehicles. so hes trying to be cool and boost it through the parking garage where its loud and echos, the only thing that was echoing with the fuel cut and compressor surge , so my father and i look at each other and think oh my lord this car is probably about to die. we were stuck in Colorado so we took the journey to florida anyways.
(most fun i've ever had with my father)
Long story short car had a dead hole, turned out to be a melted piston probably larger then 3/4" around hole missing melted away from the skirt. so the rebuild started! here : http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/cyl...-posting-pics-engine-re-build-i-am-doing.html
then went uphill from there ( or downhill however you look at it )
ended up with a nice setup e316g fic 650's 190lph maft saf2 fmic blah blah blah. turned into a little street racer, won lots of money but lost more of it.. including my drivers license for a year. while i wasnt able to drive i had very little motivation to do anything to the car. i did manage to put a 50 trim t3/t4 of some sort on there and run it gained a few mph but lost ALOT of spool and pep.
well anyways about 8 or 9 months go by and i start getting the bug im 18 working my first full time job , i started buying all kinds of parts for this thing! i had my engine taken to a local builder and had him start ordering parts and machining the block. i almost accumulated all i would need to get it running aprox. 7,000$ worth of stuff in about 4 months.
a few years later i started working on the car when i could ,gutting it out changed some colors, had a roll cage installed and fuel cell with lines, then removed the cell and returned it and decided sumping the stock tank per regulations on the class i wanted to run. then the car sat.
had a turbo build for me an an aircraft turbo shop, 400$! its basically a t4 t67 of some sort.
punishment racing t4 manifold! jmfab race styling smim, order with nitrous bungs , unpolished, they polished it on accident ,didnt mind the polish job free
but really wanted nitrous, so had to send back
paying attention still? good!
so almost getting my license back, i meet a girl hang out , start dating, getting a little serious. we moved in together shortly after the dsm project came to a stop, we moved into an apartment paying 1100 a month rent only ( i didnt know any better ) no room or money to work on the dsm, plus with a new fresh relationship living together any free time we had ... yea. car sits.
i would be getting my license back soon and i didnt really have a car to drive, so i started reviving my 94 gs 4g63 nt! had loads of parts to spare, so made it turbo! i bought an car with a blown tranny super cheap and just swapped the engine over, i was accually very pleased in how this turned out!
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/1g-n-t-tech/322382-how-many-slapped-turbo-nt-called-day.html
needless to say stupid idea on my part, never changed or freshened anything up water pump seized in the middle of construction with solid concrete barricades at a red light with no where to go , by the time i was able to pull off the road it was far too late , the engine was toast. sad because this thing was really starting to be fun, with only 7 psi!
so thats out of the picture now (again), i sold the gsxr 600, bought a 2006 Hyundai tiburon gt v6 (in 2008) totaled it two months later
then bought a 2005 scion tc which i still drive to this day!
fast forward 5 years later , 5 YEARS! that girl i was dating is now my wife and the mother of my beautiful little girl. the car sat outside on an open trailer for nearly 5 years with a large hole in the trunk from where my fuel cell used to be. car scene is now dead but i started getting the bug again, i only had a few parts to buy still and alot of work to do! so i put my garage to use finally took the car off the trailer and set it in my perfectly empty CLEAN garage. then came the rest of the shit. all the spare parts cluttered my 2 car garage really nicely interior was nothing but metal, so i started putting everything back together and seeing what all i was missing ( it had been 5 years! ) i still had three spare cars at this time, grabbed when i needed from them, and completed the interior fairly quick!
took the engine off the stand and set it in the car
finished buying the few parts i needed and bought some i really didnt but had income tax money so i bought anyways! i also relocated my batter to the subframe using a 51r
put it all together!
car is ready to run! i ported the manifold to fit the new larger throttle body and did an absolutely terrible job and cleaning the shavings (used a vaccum cleaned with manifold still attacked to the head) car wouldnt start took off the head (son of a bi***) shavings caught in ALL of the valves and they wont close project stopped right there and car went for sale.5,000 for the car ALL of my spare parts the red gs(t) and the open trailer, i was tired of it done working on it, thought it was be a nice down payment on an evo.
well if you read the "i've had it!" you will know i just put a new head on that car (the red 4g63nt w/ turbo) RIGHT before it started the rod knock, that head sat for maybe 7 years or so, but was still in excellent condition, so i gave it a thorough cleaning and put my comp 101202's in it with the stock springs just to get it running to sell it easier ( this was a few weeks ago ) and after that i proceeded in getting the car to run correctly with the new SD setup and fixing all the leaks and what not and getting it tuned, well i fell in love with the car again and immediatly took it down from where i was selling it (ebay, dsmtuners, craigslist and the bulletin board at work)
This is where my journey catches up with the present i have been out of the dsm game for quite some time and am trying to immerse myself back into it. i am still fixing the leaks i found the largest appearing to be from the oil pan , i used the gasket that came with my kit, why wouldnt i have? it was the oil pan gasket after all, well after reading apparently its a terrible idea to use the gasket , use rtv instead. DUH! years ago i wouldnt go anywhere without rtv! ( dsm is slowly coming back to me! ) however i forgot how much of a pain in the ass it is to remove the oil pan on the awd, especially in the garage without the proper tools ( breaker bar for cross member ) as i progress i will keep this updated with LOTS of pictures and videos!
here is my entire photo album(s)
http://s48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/mxdawg121/race car/
http://s48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/mxdawg121/
When we purchased the car is had a small turbo in the trunk a 13g from the auto 1g's was used mainly as a paper weight that i just thought was so cool. then one day i found these forums! i was 15 and new to forums so my forum behavior wasnt that great (remember then in the links) started looking at all the "cool" turbo dsms and decided i wanted one! my father said hellll no. we will just turbocharge the 1.8 , so i said sure! so here is a few links for that
first here http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/newbie-forum/156856-1-8-sohc-turbo.html
then http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/1g-...turbod-finally-posting-link-dissbeleif-4.html
well, that project kind of ended when i purchased a 1990 tsi awd from the junkyard for like 200$ all it had was bent valves and dull paint, however i didnt know so i started ripping parts off of it left and right like a piranha in hopes to make my 4g37 faster! but i found a really nice 4g63 nt with a blown headgasket really cheap. Bought that and intended to put my brand new super shiny evo 3 16g turbo on it! never got around to it.
That car had given me quite a bit of trouble
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/420a-turbo-conversion/199459-ive-had.html
and the new thing around here was awd, so of course being 16 not having much cash flow i asked my father he also liked the idea and we were awd shopping!
looked at lots and finally found a 1990 eclipse gsx in denver colorado 1400.00 with apparently nothing wrong with it on ebay. we bought it! we flew out met the guy, he picked us up from the airport, and by this time i had some general knowledge on turbocharged vehicles. so hes trying to be cool and boost it through the parking garage where its loud and echos, the only thing that was echoing with the fuel cut and compressor surge , so my father and i look at each other and think oh my lord this car is probably about to die. we were stuck in Colorado so we took the journey to florida anyways.
(most fun i've ever had with my father)
Long story short car had a dead hole, turned out to be a melted piston probably larger then 3/4" around hole missing melted away from the skirt. so the rebuild started! here : http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/cyl...-posting-pics-engine-re-build-i-am-doing.html
then went uphill from there ( or downhill however you look at it )
ended up with a nice setup e316g fic 650's 190lph maft saf2 fmic blah blah blah. turned into a little street racer, won lots of money but lost more of it.. including my drivers license for a year. while i wasnt able to drive i had very little motivation to do anything to the car. i did manage to put a 50 trim t3/t4 of some sort on there and run it gained a few mph but lost ALOT of spool and pep.
well anyways about 8 or 9 months go by and i start getting the bug im 18 working my first full time job , i started buying all kinds of parts for this thing! i had my engine taken to a local builder and had him start ordering parts and machining the block. i almost accumulated all i would need to get it running aprox. 7,000$ worth of stuff in about 4 months.
a few years later i started working on the car when i could ,gutting it out changed some colors, had a roll cage installed and fuel cell with lines, then removed the cell and returned it and decided sumping the stock tank per regulations on the class i wanted to run. then the car sat.
had a turbo build for me an an aircraft turbo shop, 400$! its basically a t4 t67 of some sort.
punishment racing t4 manifold! jmfab race styling smim, order with nitrous bungs , unpolished, they polished it on accident ,didnt mind the polish job free
but really wanted nitrous, so had to send backpaying attention still? good!
so almost getting my license back, i meet a girl hang out , start dating, getting a little serious. we moved in together shortly after the dsm project came to a stop, we moved into an apartment paying 1100 a month rent only ( i didnt know any better ) no room or money to work on the dsm, plus with a new fresh relationship living together any free time we had ... yea. car sits.
i would be getting my license back soon and i didnt really have a car to drive, so i started reviving my 94 gs 4g63 nt! had loads of parts to spare, so made it turbo! i bought an car with a blown tranny super cheap and just swapped the engine over, i was accually very pleased in how this turned out!
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/1g-n-t-tech/322382-how-many-slapped-turbo-nt-called-day.html
needless to say stupid idea on my part, never changed or freshened anything up water pump seized in the middle of construction with solid concrete barricades at a red light with no where to go , by the time i was able to pull off the road it was far too late , the engine was toast. sad because this thing was really starting to be fun, with only 7 psi!
so thats out of the picture now (again), i sold the gsxr 600, bought a 2006 Hyundai tiburon gt v6 (in 2008) totaled it two months later
then bought a 2005 scion tc which i still drive to this day!
fast forward 5 years later , 5 YEARS! that girl i was dating is now my wife and the mother of my beautiful little girl. the car sat outside on an open trailer for nearly 5 years with a large hole in the trunk from where my fuel cell used to be. car scene is now dead but i started getting the bug again, i only had a few parts to buy still and alot of work to do! so i put my garage to use finally took the car off the trailer and set it in my perfectly empty CLEAN garage. then came the rest of the shit
. all the spare parts cluttered my 2 car garage really nicely interior was nothing but metal, so i started putting everything back together and seeing what all i was missing ( it had been 5 years! ) i still had three spare cars at this time, grabbed when i needed from them, and completed the interior fairly quick!took the engine off the stand and set it in the car
finished buying the few parts i needed and bought some i really didnt but had income tax money so i bought anyways! i also relocated my batter to the subframe using a 51r
put it all together!
car is ready to run! i ported the manifold to fit the new larger throttle body and did an absolutely terrible job and cleaning the shavings (used a vaccum cleaned with manifold still attacked to the head) car wouldnt start took off the head (son of a bi***) shavings caught in ALL of the valves and they wont close project stopped right there and car went for sale.5,000 for the car ALL of my spare parts the red gs(t) and the open trailer, i was tired of it done working on it, thought it was be a nice down payment on an evo.
well if you read the "i've had it!" you will know i just put a new head on that car (the red 4g63nt w/ turbo) RIGHT before it started the rod knock, that head sat for maybe 7 years or so, but was still in excellent condition, so i gave it a thorough cleaning and put my comp 101202's in it with the stock springs just to get it running to sell it easier ( this was a few weeks ago ) and after that i proceeded in getting the car to run correctly with the new SD setup and fixing all the leaks and what not and getting it tuned, well i fell in love with the car again and immediatly took it down from where i was selling it (ebay, dsmtuners, craigslist and the bulletin board at work)
This is where my journey catches up with the present i have been out of the dsm game for quite some time and am trying to immerse myself back into it. i am still fixing the leaks i found the largest appearing to be from the oil pan , i used the gasket that came with my kit, why wouldnt i have? it was the oil pan gasket after all, well after reading apparently its a terrible idea to use the gasket , use rtv instead. DUH! years ago i wouldnt go anywhere without rtv! ( dsm is slowly coming back to me! ) however i forgot how much of a pain in the ass it is to remove the oil pan on the awd, especially in the garage without the proper tools ( breaker bar for cross member ) as i progress i will keep this updated with LOTS of pictures and videos!
here is my entire photo album(s)
http://s48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/mxdawg121/race car/
http://s48.photobucket.com/albums/f224/mxdawg121/
had to reduce to 20 
