Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000

[Perkul8r]

Anywho, small update. Pulled the turbo and manifold off. Trying to clean it up a little. It is leaking oil in a couple places. For one, my oil return line is cracked and leaking. And it was really oily on top of the turbo itself.

Gonna take a couple days just cleaning, but its worth it.

[awd-drifter]

niice. that's what i did when i had the manifold/turbo out. good cleanin' goes a good ways :)

[Perkul8r]

Oh this thing needed it. It looks like it wasn't cleaned in like, ever. lol. I mean, it looks like the only time it was ever taken apart was to weld up the turbo mani. It has two big ass welds on it.

[Perkul8r]

Well, finally got some work done to the car. I decided that maybe working in the Talon aint gonna be my main focus. I will be parting that out completely.

Anyway, I did put the 16g turbo and exhaust manifold off the Talon on the Galant tonight. I also replaced the crappy bolts that were holding the exhaust mani on with an FP stud kit. Also put on a new exhaust mani gasket of course. lol

Gotta order a couple little things for it and will hopefully have it running again soon.

[Perkul8r]

WOO HOO!!! Finally got a trans for the car tonight. Picked it up from Daneatsv8 while dropping off parts to members. Gonna try and get it in this week and got some other things I want to do too.

Also got my non cruise cable coming, deleting that since it dont work, and possibly ac too. All depends on whether it works after I get it running again. Also gonna start looking at getting the Evo intercooler on and seeing if I can somehow use the 1g short route piping I got from Goodhart on it. May take some time to get it done, but I am hoping to clean up the engine bay quite a bit.

[Perkul8r]

Not much of an update, but finally getting somewhere on the Galant. Been kinda tough working on it due to a new work schedule. Only get about an hour of daylight everynight to work on it.

But I have everything apart and just gotta pull 2 bolts off the trans and the trans mount and than it will be out.

Than when that is done I gotta put in my non cruise accel cable and thinking about doing a small battery relocation inside the engine bay. I will have some pics of that stuff.

[Perkul8r]

Well, was on a roll today getting the galant back together until I noticed that when I bought the trans I never even asked about what spline count the transfer case output shaft was. Well, Its different than what I have, so I am gonna swap that out tomorrow.

On the upside, I got my gauge pod just about done. I had the gauges below the radio but did not like looking down at them all the time. And I didn't want to do the a pillar pods. So I got a Galant GSR dash pod and made my 2 gauges fit in it. It looks pretty good for a quick job. And it hides them pretty well also.
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/Perkul8r/Galant%20VR4/IMAG0251.jpg
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/Perkul8r/Galant%20VR4/IMAG0252.jpg

[goodhart]

Gauges look good man. So what is the deal with the transfer case? Did you put a 1g trans in the car and don't have the right t-case or what? I have a 1g transfer case and a GVR-4 transfer case if you need one.

[Perkul8r]

When I picked up the trans from Daneatsv8 i forgot to ask about spline count on the output shaft for the transfer case. My car has a 22 spline transfer case, while the trans I bought has a 23 spline output shaft. I think this is cause Dan told me the trans is a JDM Galant VR4 trans and I never 2nd guessed it. So it was my fault.

For a little while I thought I was boned and needed to buy a new transfer case. But after doing some reading I see that its actually a pretty easy thing to swap the two shafts. I kinda jumped the gun on it and posted up a WTB and FS ad for my old trans. Kinda felt like an ass after I did some reading. lol

[HiImBrian]

Gauges look really good! Kinda make me jealous a little haha.