Project Nicole, 2gb AWD Talon Spyder

[Doubleot]

I see, I never had that luxury as my spyder was only running for about 2 weeks before it was in full project mode. Hope you find your answer!

 

[LouieAWDTSi]

Great build...sorry to hear about debris

My spyder is almost done her AWD swap as well. And of course I am converting it to a talon this summer (parts are all collected).

It seems that everyone who has an awd talon spyder is fairly spread out throughout the country. One day we must all meet up...maybe at the shootout!?!?

Keep on building man, I have enjoyed reading this Omar. Clean work man!

 

[GRNDSM]

I have pretty much conceded that I will not know until I am done, but your project gave me a hope someone else did this . Back to the "wait to the end" plan.

 

[Doubleot]

Great build...sorry to hear about debris

My spyder is almost done her AWD swap as well. And of course I am converting it to a talon this summer (parts are all collected).

It seems that everyone who has an awd talon spyder is fairly spread out throughout the country. One day we must all meet up...maybe at the shootout!?!?

Keep on building man, I have enjoyed reading this Omar. Clean work man!

Thanks man! Really appreciate the support!

 

[NWHTanK]

East meets west and north meets south dsm shoot out!

 

[LouieAWDTSi]

East meets west and north meets south dsm shoot out!

 

[Doubleot]

Here's what I find when pulling the oil pump FML after finding this, I checked my oil pan with a magnet and nothing was magnetic. Leads me to believe its spray paint shavings.

 

[Blurred Talon]

Don't you love when idiots build motors?

 

[Doubleot]

Sure don't the previous owner had no business driving this car much less "re building" this motor.

I got the motor torn down and this is what I found

The grooves are pretty deep, surprisingly the crank has no scarring or grooves anywhere.

I'm going to drop everything off at the machine shop next week and have them give everything a look over.

 

[Blurred Talon]

I could write a book on the stupid stuff I seen/been told by car owners over the past 10+ years of screwing around with cars. Surprisingly DSMers are low on that list but that's mainly because I only hang with the local ones here. I did meant a few yahoos when I was on the mainland.

Just gonna do a stock rebuild? What about a 6 bolt?

 

[Doubleot]

Going to see what the machine shop tells me and go from there. Really wanting to stay 7 bolt.

 

[Doubleot]

Dropped everything off at the machine shop today. Let's spend some pennies!

 

[TSicktalon]

Your machine shop must be cheaper than mine. They don't know what pennies are .

 

[Doubleot]

I heard back today, everything but the main bearings looked fine, the head was cleaned and leak checked and was perfect, the crank was perfect and had only needed to be polished. He said there was some odd wear on the pistons and recommended I do a .20 overbore and get new pistons.

So my rebuild will consist of stock .20 over pistons, rings, ARP rod bolts, ARP headstuds, new main bearings, rod bearings, polished crank, bored and honed block and a 4 layer Felpro or Mitsu headgasket, new front case with BSE, and new gaskets everywhere.

I've never been in this far with a motor and I'm starting to understand why people always say do it the right way the first time, Because this shit isn't cheap!

Now I know what you meant by not spending pennies haha!

 

[Blurred Talon]

Buy some rods and pistons with your tax return

At least there is no crazy damage.

 

[Doubleot]

Haha what's a "tax return"

 

[casperfast]

yea i hear ya. the tax man likes to shove it up there dry for me aswell. but i will be getting a really clean fwd tsi chasis to swap my awd into that im really excited about.

 

[Doubleot]

Well I got my stuff back from the machine shop yesterday

Also got my wheels powdercoated a while back and got some tires mounted

Also ordered my timing belt kit, water pump and a few random things. I still need to get a few things but they'll have to wait until I save up a few more dollars

 

[nickfromfortfun]

glad things are coming along on the car! thanks to you my car is slowly coming back together! thanks for the great photos

 

[Doubleot]

Started working on the engine bay a little bit, started by taking the firewall material off, it was flaking and I have always hated how it looks on these cars

Next I deleted my powder steering cooler and looped the lines, pretty simple and self explanatory

I started to get the car ready for the VRSF IC Kit
Cut the radiator support corner out and laid down some primer after grinding the metal down and making sure it wasn't sharp (so it doesn't tear the coupler)

Painted

Drilled and tapped the stock fog light mounting holes to 8x1.25mm and mounted the core to make sure it fit correctly

And a teaser with the 2gb talon bumper hanging on

Next I started to do the battery drop onto the subframe as per Gofers thread. I did this previously on my old 2g and it's 100x easier with the motor and transmission out of the engine bay

I did some cleaning of that area as it had some surface rust, primered it and laid down some mixed up OEM paint by my local Jones paint shop. It looks decent enough I just laid it down with a brush and used some engine enamel clear coat, did the same for the radiator support area. (Will update with pictures later)

I also cleaned, wire wheeled, and painted the battery bracket and tray with some rustoleum

I did these a while ago but didn't want to make a single post for them.
I unbaked the OEM headlights and painted the chrome housings black with some Duplicolor Fusion gloss black spray paint. Turned out pretty good IMO I'm going to have a friend sand and re finish the faces of them to make them look like new.

That's all I've got for now thanks for looking!

 

[Doubleot]

Got my valve cover and momo shift knob powder coated candy purple love the turnout!

 

[Blurred Talon]

Looking good man.

FYI, do some sort of coating (Venture Shield, there's others but that's the only one that pops in my head) to your headlights after being restored or they will look like poop again in no time.
Also send them to me for some retro goodness.

 

[TSicktalon]

First time I've seen a VRSF witha 2gb talon bumper, always wondered how it would look. Now i know.

 

[Doubleot]

Lol you sure do.

 

[sirbow2]

looks kinda weird to me. maybe its just off center?