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[santa]

man I feel your pain my car is still sitting. Everything is finally coming together I'm currently in the process of doing a valve job on my head and once thats done its time to put everything back together. Good luck with your car.. look here.....> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...&category=33617 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2457978482&category=33617)
That looks to be ok? check it out

Kj

[MATCHBX]

Yeah I was looking at that one.

Yep. It got a whole block away from work when it happened. started to accelerate and POW!!! It sat on 13 from 12:30pm until 6pm. AAA is awesome though!!!! I am so glad I got it. DSM's should come with a lifetime membership!!! I shouldn't say that though. This ones been pretty good to me for the amount of abuse it's been thru.

[santa]

Originally posted by awd1dr@Feb 6 2004, 11:18 PM
Yeah I was looking at that one.

Yep. It got a whole block away from work when it happened. started to accelerate and POW!!! It sat on 13 from 12:30pm until 6pm. AAA is awesome though!!!! I am so glad I got it. DSM's should come with a lifetime membership!!! I shouldn't say that though. This ones been pretty good to me for the amount of abuse it's been thru.
well if you need any help let me know!

[MATCHBX]

I appreciate that. I might ask for help later on. We're not sure how long it will take to get all the parts and stuff.

[santa]

yeah waiting on parts is the worse ever I got my head studs tonight though wich was awsome!!1 Just let me know likeI said I'm down for helpin out if I can

[Nash]

Damn that sucks! Also the 1G 6 bolt heads have bigger holes for the head studs.

[MATCHBX]

Well, I got a head. It cost me a whopping $38. We went to U Pull R Parts and found one on a 90 GST. Belt was in good condition so we yanked the head. It appears to have no bent valves but I'm going to take it apart and clean it to make sure. I looked around and they have about 10 1g's out there. about 9 out of the ten are 90-91's. There are about 5-6 talons, 2-3 eclipses and one laser. About 4 of the talons were awd. I looked and all of them had A/C so no under the dash boxes. I did however find a perfect hatch cover and a single din radio bezel. Sorry Andy, no ecu's. They have most of the color combos out there as well. The eclipse I got the head from was blue (I know Mike, this head will be more powerful). Some are picked over pretty well but the talons were mostly intact. Almost all had spoilers on them. The blue eclipse had the 3 piece mitsu spoiler like the talon's but it doesn't extend all the way forward. There were a few others like that as well. Most taillights were intact in good condition. If anyone wants anything from them, you should get out there real soon. There's a lot of snow there but it's not too bad. Just dress warm.

Also. I looked at the car this morning and the timing belt didn't break and there are no teeth missing that I can see. It has something on the backside of it that looks like it rubbed onto something. I think it just jumped. I'm going to probably yank the head anyways and do it all right so I know everything is ok.

[AJ]

$38 bucks. hot damn! Did you see what the OD had on it for miles?

[A//// Guy]

The same thing happened to me. The belt didnt break but the engine started knocking because the TB skipped 3-4 teeth. I would check and make sure there is actual damage on the inside of the engine with Mikes boroscope and then if it looks bad replace it but my engine knocked a little but no damage came out of it. So I just redid a new Tbelt and other crap and started right up.

[MATCHBX]

The car had 164,000 on the odo. The car was unmodded and in really decent shape. The block looked good as well. Just some oil from a leaky valve cover gasket. The valve cover had a small crack in it, otherwise I would've nabbed it too. There was one talon out there that still had it's smic attached. I was going to grab it but decided not to.

As for looking at it with the boroscope, I had thought about that but I don't want to go thru the work of replacing the belts only to find out the head was bad. I just want to make sure everything is good. Plus I'm thinking about doing a little port-matching and such while I have.