What did you do to your DSM today?

[FIBA M - EC17PSE]

Well Bobby, I have 3 of them and no aftermarket hotsides. My 14b has the same one (or looking at it anyway). The aftermarket gate worked but I had to grind down the actuator pin on the turbo I took it from so the new gates arm hole would fit over it (4-5 years ago).
I didn't want to do that again so I simply threaded part of Kinugawa's gate rod to accept the stock arm end. If I find another stock unit out in the shop, I'll do some more comparing.
Thanks for pointing out something I wasn't aware of. The good - it works. The bad - it may not work for all TDO5s (but fits the 3 I have). Seriously, I have not ran a stock frame turbo in years but my White 1990 GSX (like the restore one you did) needs a fresh motor that is ready, so the E16g that I bought with Justin's initials on it was the only upgrade I wanted to do (not a Chinabay unit).
After seeing your post, I'm glad I got Prothane bushings when I wanted them! I didn't know they quit making them.

so the 14B on the talon i restored is R clipped vs C clipped. i cannot comment on a 13b but as its the same package i would assume so as its MHI design, but the garrett T25 has their own design so used a C clip instead.

as for the prothanes i have no idea. old market i assume but i wish ES would stop making them and prothane restart. ES bushes are fine but feel like a plastic vs a poly so the assumption is its more of a 90A poly vs a prothane 75-80A poly and some of the ES designs are not great. like the sleeves have ZERO grooves for lube so when you press the pin in the lube pushes out! so nothing left inside so noise may happen because of this poor design. you would think they learned how to make a good product by now being in this sector no???

 

[d1prospect]

Decided to see why my alternator was half cocked. Smh

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[ArcticTsi]

Deep cleaned my 1GB Talon! Alot of work but looks amazing for a 32 year old car! The last few pics are of the paint before the corrections were done

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Beautiful ride!

 

[FIBA M - EC17PSE]

Beautiful ride!

Why thank you. For a N/A its really clean for the age so I got lucky buying it. Now the paint matches the clean chassis finally.

 

[pauleyman]

Why thank you. For a N/A its really clean for the age so I got lucky buying it. Now the paint matches the clean chassis finally.

Gotta admin Bobby that is clean. I'm one of the fortunate ones and managed to have a DSM when it was almost new. Boy the early shootouts were interesting. "Go fast with class" really meant something.

 

[pat white]

Time to do a driveshaft rebuild for the '90 ...122000 miles and 34 yrs I think the old girl deserves it...one thing the ujoints from mitsubishi are drilled right thru ..the stock ones are solid ...I thought the extra cash was worth it but maybe not ...any how thanks Extreme PSI for the timely shipping out of the parts and getting them to me here in Newfoundland in only 9 days ...awesome !!

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[92AWDHX40]

Worked on door locks, removing tape from moulding, need to order a new radiator, found lug nuts. Worked on hatch struts.

 

[pauleyman]

Making small progress. Got the lifters bled and installed. Oil galleys blown out. Just gotta get cams in and head is ready to go on.

 

[CrackedDSM]

Hey I can add to this finally!


Fixed my front bumper/headlights issue. The turn signal housings or "fake" headlights and the front bumper have always had a "gap" and it bugged me, so I did some massaging and got them to be flush. Car has had an impact in its lifetime because its all kind of tweaked, but I don't want to go pulling and hammering and possibly break the fatigued metal.

Also: please excuse how horrendously dirty the car is. It's waiting a new radiator and stuff.

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Yay! Once I get the radiator in I'll probably drive it to the local self serve car wash and get it shined up. I need to paint the door trim, and install it because the champagne racing stripe on the door is starting to bug me. Lol.

 

[1990TSIAWDTALON]

Time to do a driveshaft rebuild for the '90 ...122000 miles and 34 yrs I think the old girl deserves it...one thing the ujoints from mitsubishi are drilled right thru ..the stock ones are solid ...I thought the extra cash was worth it but maybe not ...any how thanks Extreme PSI for the timely shipping out of the parts and getting them to me here in Newfoundland in only 9 days ...awesome !!

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In your situation, I just grabbed ANOTHER driveshaft. I was lucky enough to get into this game just when people were dumping stuff cheap. I need to rebuild the one I took out. It was in my Auto car and has a Std shaft in it now, just so everyone knows. It works.

 

[1990TSIAWDTALON]

Hey I can add to this finally!


Fixed my front bumper/headlights issue. The turn signal housings or "fake" headlights and the front bumper have always had a "gap" and it bugged me, so I did some massaging and got them to be flush. Car has had an impact in its lifetime because its all kind of tweaked, but I don't want to go pulling and hammering and possibly break the fatigued metal.

Also: please excuse how horrendously dirty the car is. It's waiting a new radiator and stuff.

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Yay! Once I get the radiator in I'll probably drive it to the local self serve car wash and get it shined up. I need to paint the door trim, and install it because the champagne racing stripe on the door is starting to bug me. Lol.

LOVE the look!!!

 

[FIBA M - EC17PSE]

Gotta admin Bobby that is clean. I'm one of the fortunate ones and managed to have a DSM when it was almost new. Boy the early shootouts were interesting. "Go fast with class" really meant something.

I bet that was a great feeling back then. So the white 1G I was restoring is a 1 owner car. He never did shows Etc as back then was not that kind of person but I did convert him when we met haha

His car is to his spec so another low mileage 1 owner chassis about still. Not many can say original owner so your guys get a status like no other in the DSM game

 

[pauleyman]

I never bought one new but I had a 32k 90 and a 52k 97 that I still have. I shopped for a new one in 92 but bought the 90 as it was 9k$ less than new with only 32k miles and 4 yrs of warranty left. No brainer.

 

[FIBA M - EC17PSE]

I never bought one new but I had a 32k 90 and a 52k 97 that I still have. I shopped for a new one in 92 but bought the 90 as it was 9k$ less than new with only 32k miles and 4 yrs of warranty left. No brainer.

Yeah when car shopping having money off is a good thing and lots do a similar buy. 32k for a 2 year old car was quite high even to todays standards. 16k a year miles is well up there. I do about that now in my daily. While it sucks milage rises faster its also a lovely car to drive.

Thankfully these days alot of DSM's have slow mileage increases. Both my talon and the white one have under 70k miles on them. So super low for their age

 

[90 TSI FWD]

- Replaced a broken alternator plug
- Fixed fuel pump rewire with a Radium pass-thru bolt
- Replaced 10ga wires to the pump
- Changed the AFPR diaphragm and both fuel filters hoping to fix my lean WOT issue
- (Finally) Replaced my Hallman MBC I had since 2005 with the Ingersoll Rand solenoid

After I find time to tune this thing, I’ll be getting my leather seats repaired, so the interior will be mostly complete

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[pauleyman]

Yeah when car shopping having money off is a good thing and lots do a similar buy. 32k for a 2 year old car was quite high even to todays standards. 16k a year miles is well up there. I do about that now in my daily. While it sucks milage rises faster its also a lovely car to drive.

Thankfully these days alot of DSM's have slow mileage increases. Both my talon and the white one have under 70k miles on them. So super low for their age

It was actually 3 years. I got it in November of 92.

 

[ArcticTsi]

I installed Energy Suspension Front Sway Bar Bushings which are a pain on a 1g DSM. The slot in the front subframe allows it to slide just enough to make getting the super short bolt back in with the fatter, stiffer poly bushing very difficult. This was my solution to get them back in and not strip the threads out the subframe like some have.

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Back in the day when I swapped out my factory sway bars to thicker ones I went with Whiteline. The bars came with new brackets, bushings and bolts. So made it a lot easier not having to fab anything up. But as you mentioned space is super limited, but made easier when everything lines up.

 

[92AWDHX40]

Yes very hard im going to make a project of that this winter when i pull my subframe again dsmmario did a video of this recently.

 

[curt-s]

When did topline change their HLA design?
Left is new, right is from.. 2009? Lol I've had them for a while.
LIF MI-6

STM still shows pics of the right variant but I have two boxes from RTM of the left.

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[Imback]

When did topline change their HLA design?
Left is new, right is from.. 2009? Lol I've had them for a while.
LIF MI-6

STM still shows pics of the right variant but I have two boxes from RTM of the left.

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The one's i got recently are just like the ones on the right.

 

[curt-s]

Found that my brand new, unused JM Fab o2 housing has a severely warped flange. So bad I can stick paper between it and the stamped metal gasket.

Onto the belt sander it goes tomorrow

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[99eclipsegs-2t]

I got my frayed driver seatbelt out today and prepped to send out for a repair. I’m so close to driving the spyder, I’ve also got Goodridge stainless brake lines coming in the mail

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[1990TSIAWDTALON]

Found that my brand new, unused JM Fab o2 housing has a severely warped flange. So bad I can stick paper between it and the stamped metal gasket.

Onto the belt sander it goes tomorrow

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Well that's ashame. I thought only the Chinabay O2 housings had warped flanges, as I have had to do the same thing with them to get them to seal.
What did I do to my DSM today....I blew the coupler off of the turbo outlet. I'll put it back on today and snug that clamp down better because it was only at 30lbs.

 

[curt-s]

Well that's ashame. I thought only the Chinabay O2 housings had warped flanges, as I have had to do the same thing with them to get them to seal.
What did I do to my DSM today....I blew the coupler off of the turbo outlet. I'll put it back on today and snug that clamp down better because it was only at 30lbs.

Disappointing yea but not the end of the world.
It could have also warped over time having the wastegate Vband-ed on without being bolted to a hot side. I stored it unattached for the longest time but the damage may have already been done before I even received the unit
(and, admittedly, I think I stored it for a period the same way)

My belt sander was wide enough to do the last cheap O2 housing I have, I'm hoping more of the same here. It seems to have a high spot in the middle that may not take much to remove.

 

[DreamChaser7]

Working on a little interior prep waiting on Helene to show her face. Just going through trying to find any little hints of rust that might be starting anywhere, prep those areas, hit em with some rust reformer, and some random degreasing where I’m still finding stuff.
Areas like this make me wish I wasn’t so OCD…

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