Hello From Rosemount MN

[cudvig]

I am in rosemount also. If you ever need any help, well I am on the weekends anyway...

-Colin

[Andrew7dg]

I am glad to see a lot of people from Apple Valley and Rosemount. Cool.

[Tauni]

I live in Eagan! Run it into on coming traffic. I made some money off my 2g that way :) haha I'm only kidding. I have a 1990 for sale :) GST tho.. FWD.. big project... but oh well. Have fun!!

[Andrew7dg]

So just to keep up with the news of what I have been up too. Bought a cylinder head for the GS. Very happy about that. It is the turbo head so maybe i should get a little go out of it now

Here is the good news:

Because the project is taking so long I have been searching for another car. My dad recived a letter from his ralley group saying that there is a Eclipse GSX for sale. I am going to check it out this friday and if everything is ok with the car i will accually have a TRUE DSM. I am hoping brother is going to buy the GS but on the otherhand it isn't bad to have a spare eclipse laying around incase the other breaks.

Anyway I will keep everyone up to date. Friday this week will not come fast enough!!!:D

[Andrew7dg]

Hello Everyone!!!!!

It is friday and I have very good news!!! I have now a 90 GSX in my driveway right now!! I am a owner of a awd turbo DSM. I am very very happy!!:D The car is pretty clean exept for a couple rust spots. The car isn't perfect just yet as well. There are three major things that need to be fixed on the car

First I think is the fuel pump because the car starts to sputter at higher rpm. Also when going up hill with the cruise control and the turbo is kicking in around 7psi (exept this is the factory boost guage which aren't reliable)
Included was a fuel filter NEEDS TO BE FIXED TRUE POWER NOT AVALIABLE

Second there is a constant squeeling sound in the front of the car. I think it could be the powersteering or the alternator. NEEDS TO BE FIXED ANNOYING

Third is the radio needs to be installed as well which this isn't a nessesity because I am liking the sound of a turbo spooling up!!!!

Other then that the car is in very good condition. The previous owners kept really good care of it and replaced a lot of parts even after they knew that they were going to sell it. They are very nice!!

I haven't ever seen a cleaner engine bay on a stock dsm as well.

here is a picture of it:

[Kougar]

Yea, that does look pretty clean. Shoulda bought my GSX though, I don't have any of those problems you listed ;)

[TkrPerformance]

very nice
time to mod it up and then to the jack stands as it is a real dsm now

[Andrew7dg]

Well just updating on my bio or on the bio of my car

The belt sound was getting really annoying so the mistake I did was take it into the shop.

I just wanted it to be done and fixed so I could drive it to school and back. Well the people over at the shop said kind of bluntly that they really don't work on the turbo Eclipses very much so they didn't know what to look for or to check to see if there was a boost leak. The squeel they said could be a number of things
(quick update i determined the fuel problem might be a boost leak that is giving me problems, if it was fuel cut, the check engine light would come on)
So they said they really don't know what to do and they think i have some valve clatter and said "here is your bill"

Lesson number 1 NEVER TAKE A DSM TO A PROFESSIONAL SHOP unless ofcourse it is a performance shop, or i guess if people have worked on these cars before.

So I decided to start eliminating belts, first one was the AC because it doesn't work. Clipped that belt and the squeek went away. DONE WITH THAT PROBLEM car is very enjoyable

The next thing I did was replace the fuel filter and the hesitating problem went away or so I think...
I kind of want someone that knows their DSMs to look at the car yet and see if there is anything that I am missing.

The radio is still a mess and i am not going to deal with that one for a while yet.

[cudvig]

Take your AC and power steering out. No need for them. Me and a buddy are going to be working on his talon on sunday if you are around give us a call. We will be more than willing to look at it. PM for my number if you want it.

-Colin

[Andrew7dg]

I hope no one mind that I keep updating this, making a journal of my car.

SO i just got done replacing a good majority of my fluids. The oil filter was pretty stuck on there REALLY BAD (O the joys of buying a used car). It was so bad I put a dent in the oil filter trying to get it off. I got it though and put a heavy duty oil filter on though. I put Mobil 1 synthetic in there. It seems to work pretty good. The old stuff looked pretty black but I think that because it was recently changed to synthetic and was unclogging all the carbon deposits in the engine.
SO here is the good news. I found out the problems with the car and the hesitation. It was the spark plugs. The plugs in there were new however I now know that brand of plugs makes a difference. NGK are a bad brand (if it makes you guys feel better i wasn't the one that put them in there) and make your car run like poop and give you bad gas mileage, Autolite copper run very good and cheap but need to be replaced every 6000 miles. I can live with that though.

So I am very happy. The car is running strong, has good fluids, new plugs and wires, and good belts. This is a very good start.:D

So the next step is modifying the car SLOWLY. I am going to try to take my time at this and enjoy every minute of it. I could stick a lot of money all at one but whats the fun of that, plus i am broke.

Next though I would like to put a Boost guage on the car and start modifying the exaust.
I don't know if I want to buy a MBC yet because I will be too tempted to twist it and I want to get the exaust flowing nicely first. There are other ways of increasing boost without adding that yet.