AM2009
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- Aug 12, 2009
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milwaukee,
Wisconsin
I recently bought a 1990 Eclipse GS-Turbo 155k Miles for $1200... Knowingly that i would be doing some work under the hood.
The interior and exterior are in excellent condition for being 20 years old in wisconsin, only a few problems. Under body is excellent, transmission and clutch are solid and strong...
The major problem is under the hood... the original 2.0 was replaced with a 2.3 stroker at around 75k od miles. The 2.3 has about 80k miles on it... just received a new head gasket as well.
There is oil all over the place and i am degreasing what seems like everything. It's starting to look like brilliant shiny red engine bay.
The day I had bought the car the owner warned me of it dying at idle.. and it did, often. He said it was probably a vacuum leak... and that it needed little work and tuning to get it running correctly again. His word seemed solid, and I know what I was getting into buying this car.
When the car was accelerating normally it didn't sputter or want to die. It was only at idle that it would start to dip up and down in rpms and eventually die. I drove it home 100 miles from greenbay to milwaukee as gently as possible.
The car was not running well after i returned to my neighborhood, the turbo was not spooling and the car was now running very rough and choppy. the boost gauge now bounces randomly every other second from negative reading to 1 psi, no longer sits at 0. When acellerated it makes it to 1 psi tops. The engine has little power now, not drivable. haha. No oil leaks from engine on the good side.
My first idea was to clean the ever living shit out of the engine compartment... Which i have started doing and wow it looks much better.
I noticed a few things that were removed as well on a positive side...
Powersteering pump was gone
ABS is gone...
Negative side...
For whatever reason he had removed the air filter which disturbed me a bit. Recirculating hose from intake to bov removed also... doesn't look good to me haha. I will be putting the original intake back together.
What I want to do is eliminate as much as possible and create room. O2 dump, wiper fluid, relocate battery, fuse, wires. and other parts... Removing all emissions. eliminating unnecessary parts before replacing parts.
Here is the pics I took from when I first got it home (yea its a mess haha), i have others from after I cleaned it up a bit that I will post tomorrow.
The interior and exterior are in excellent condition for being 20 years old in wisconsin, only a few problems. Under body is excellent, transmission and clutch are solid and strong...
The major problem is under the hood... the original 2.0 was replaced with a 2.3 stroker at around 75k od miles. The 2.3 has about 80k miles on it... just received a new head gasket as well.
There is oil all over the place and i am degreasing what seems like everything. It's starting to look like brilliant shiny red engine bay.
The day I had bought the car the owner warned me of it dying at idle.. and it did, often. He said it was probably a vacuum leak... and that it needed little work and tuning to get it running correctly again. His word seemed solid, and I know what I was getting into buying this car.
When the car was accelerating normally it didn't sputter or want to die. It was only at idle that it would start to dip up and down in rpms and eventually die. I drove it home 100 miles from greenbay to milwaukee as gently as possible.
The car was not running well after i returned to my neighborhood, the turbo was not spooling and the car was now running very rough and choppy. the boost gauge now bounces randomly every other second from negative reading to 1 psi, no longer sits at 0. When acellerated it makes it to 1 psi tops. The engine has little power now, not drivable. haha. No oil leaks from engine on the good side.
My first idea was to clean the ever living shit out of the engine compartment... Which i have started doing and wow it looks much better.
I noticed a few things that were removed as well on a positive side...
Powersteering pump was gone
ABS is gone...
Negative side...
For whatever reason he had removed the air filter which disturbed me a bit. Recirculating hose from intake to bov removed also... doesn't look good to me haha. I will be putting the original intake back together.
What I want to do is eliminate as much as possible and create room. O2 dump, wiper fluid, relocate battery, fuse, wires. and other parts... Removing all emissions. eliminating unnecessary parts before replacing parts.
Here is the pics I took from when I first got it home (yea its a mess haha), i have others from after I cleaned it up a bit that I will post tomorrow.
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So they "Cut" the cover off.
Replace that missing turbo bolt while you're in there, too.
