1997 GSX - DD, RR, and 11's.

[SlowWhite]

What does the title say it is? Does the VIn number on the dash match with other places on the car? If a door doesn't have the mounting holes, that door could've easily been replaced in the past with a base model door.

This is the other thing that has since raised questions. I know the dash gauges have been swapped out.

The doors do not have holes for the lower plastic panels that the eclipses had.

Only the side slash holes or what ever they are called the talon came with.

And as far as the vin goes the only vin still left that I've found is on the dash. I never ran a vin check on the car figured for the price and what my intentions for the car I was willing to skip it. (Supposed to be just a weekend / track car not really my full time daily.)

But after changing n my interior to black and everything else im finding (maybe im just to paranoid now) but looks like maybe the dash vin was swapped. It looks like its held on with I think they are called rivets.

Which maybe standard I cant remember what my old cars looked like.

And the title does state eclipse gsx.

But I even asked about that. You're supposed to tell the dmv if you change colors of your car and if you changed body styles. Ie like eclipse to talon etc. Probably has to do with , if a cop runs your tags what the descriptions comes up like

[A//// Guy]

Title states GSX? That is so odd... is the title clean? Steering wheel is even a talon wheel. I would run a carfax on it and see what it shows. Maybe you have a swapped chassis or something else is going on.

[JET]

Dash VIN is held on by rivets, so that is right. I would do like Peter said and run a carfax on it.

[niterydr]

Dash VIN is held on with rivets, but not that hard to swap dashes.

There should be a vin etched into the firewall, look at that. Each body panel should have a vin tag on it as well.

[SlowWhite]

Title states GSX? That is so odd... is the title clean? Steering wheel is even a talon wheel. I would run a carfax on it and see what it shows. Maybe you have a swapped chassis or something else is going on.

The previous owner actually bought the airbag from tkrperformance on here.

But so far all other normal vins are gone but ill keep looking.

[polishmafia]

http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/how-to-read-your-toyota-vin-code-80056_2.jpg

This shows where most VINs are located on vehicles. Strange that you are missing some.

[TkrPerformance]

re-looked at all the pics of your car it is a more likely a 2gb talon with eclipse bumpers on it. the doors and qt. panels have the holes in them for the side strakes. 97-98 2gb talons did not come with side skirts on them since they had the side strakes. so no holes for side skirts or holes in the bottom of the doors for the door caps

way to check quick.

if the mounts for the rear bumper were moved up. they are welded on. talon bumpers brackets are low and eclipse are high.
eclipse spots
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o280/tkrperformance/awd%20spyder/IMG_20110915_163254.jpg (http://s122.photobucket.com/user/tkrperformance/media/awd%20spyder/IMG_20110915_163254.jpg.html)
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o280/tkrperformance/awd%20spyder/IMG_20110915_153136.jpg (http://s122.photobucket.com/user/tkrperformance/media/awd%20spyder/IMG_20110915_153136.jpg.html)
after I moved them for the talon.
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o280/tkrperformance/awd%20spyder/IMG_20110915_160759.jpg (http://s122.photobucket.com/user/tkrperformance/media/awd%20spyder/IMG_20110915_160759.jpg.html)
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o280/tkrperformance/awd%20spyder/IMG_20110915_163244.jpg (http://s122.photobucket.com/user/tkrperformance/media/awd%20spyder/IMG_20110915_163244.jpg.html)
you would be able to see if the mounts were moved since they are spot welded to the car and have to be drilled off and re mounted to the high spots for the eclipse. I have also seen guys not bolt the center and use long bolts and spacers on the sides to mount eclipse rear on a talon.

[SlowWhite]

So the "new" hx40 bep housing showed up from extremepsi.com

And im not impressed. The two gaskets I ordered with it were bent to shit as they were just tossed in a zip lock bag and put in the box with the housing. I did what I could to try to flatten them out.

And then moved onto the housing and the casting looks like crap.
There are 3 holes in the housing where they drilled to far and went all the way through to the inside of the housing.

Where they flattened out the parts you bolt the housing to the manifold and o2 housing they didnt fill the metal off the edges so there's sharp crap everywhere. Even on the inside.

Looks like someone used a Drexel tool to try to clear some of it and it got away from them and skipped the bit across the side of it.

Posting picts, tell me what you think. Anyone with experience with these housing please let me know of this is normal and I nees to do the clean up myself or should I just return it amd ask for an exchange.

[asshanson]

That bullseye performance stuff, quality.
Seriously though, those pics make it look like total crap. Good luck figuring it out, hopefully extreme psi is good to work with.

[SlowWhite]

the outer side i wouldnt mind (mostly covered anyways once installed) however the 3 freak'n holes where they drilled to far really pisses me off, how do you not catch that crap.