ajpm26
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- Jun 22, 2010
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Niles,
Illinois
background info, I bought the car last summer, was completely an impulse buy, looked promising. I was very wrong.
Some background about the car, its a '93 talon tsi fwd, been sitting for 3 years, long enough to have multiple beehives in it.
Drove the car a few miles before the clutch master cylinder went out, luckily for me, I broke down right next to an autozone that had one in stock.
Drove it for a little while, didnt do much other than a few free mods, then it got bad, so badly that sparks started coming out of it.
YouTube - this better ####ing work
(skip to 43 seconds, me against my buddie's bugeye wrx w/ sti turbo and tranny)
Then I went from engine rebuild to complete build on the car.
Engine in:
Engine out:
Pulled the engine out at school, if anyone was wondering.
Found out that it had a 6 bolt swapped into it, too bad I already bought a gasket set, 7 bolt shortblock, head, and other 7 bolt stuff.
(not using that headgasket btw)
Specs on the shortblock and rest of the engine parts are:
acl main bearings
evo 9 pistons and rods
felpro permatorque composite headgasket
arp studs
272 regrinds similar to hks specs
evo9 valvesprings and retainers
And thats where I'll stop for now.
Some background about the car, its a '93 talon tsi fwd, been sitting for 3 years, long enough to have multiple beehives in it.
Drove the car a few miles before the clutch master cylinder went out, luckily for me, I broke down right next to an autozone that had one in stock.
Drove it for a little while, didnt do much other than a few free mods, then it got bad, so badly that sparks started coming out of it.
YouTube - this better ####ing work
(skip to 43 seconds, me against my buddie's bugeye wrx w/ sti turbo and tranny)
Then I went from engine rebuild to complete build on the car.
Engine in:
Engine out:
Pulled the engine out at school, if anyone was wondering.
Found out that it had a 6 bolt swapped into it, too bad I already bought a gasket set, 7 bolt shortblock, head, and other 7 bolt stuff.
(not using that headgasket btw)
Specs on the shortblock and rest of the engine parts are:
acl main bearings
evo 9 pistons and rods
felpro permatorque composite headgasket
arp studs
272 regrinds similar to hks specs
evo9 valvesprings and retainers
And thats where I'll stop for now.
, most likely my wheel bearing that was failing, the axle boots were torn, the rear motor mount wasn't even connected, the whole car was swapped terribly before it came into my hands.
