Mark's Talon

[mark4g63t]

Finally got my block back! Started to assemble it and was about to time it tonight when the machine shop called and said he couldn't remember if he spun the balance shaft bearings or not to block the oil passage, since mine are deleted.. well I went and checked and they sure enough were not spun..got it back apart and knocked the bearings out and spun them. Waiting on a new front case gasket now before I can go further.

[AwdGSX13]

Coming along great, looks like youre getting close

[mark4g63t]

Thanks Matt, it's coming along at a good rate.

How's this look for timing?

[asshanson]

Looks ok from the pic, but it's difficult to tell from pics. Only good way is to take a straight edge from center of cam gear bolts and verify the marks line up on both gears.

[mark4g63t]

Went to start it and got a crank no start. It has fuel and spark, timing is good and I've played with the cas and the plug wires (swapping 1&4 and 2&3) and just doesn't want to start. I may have cooked the ecu because under first startup i saw smoke from under the dash area. After some researching I found out the isc and the injector resistor box have "identical" plugs and if you hook them up wrong you can blow the isc capacitor? In the ecu, although everything on link seems to be reading correctly I will be double checking this. Going to also throw the ecu in a friends eclipse and see if it starts.

[mark4g63t]

Got it started last night! Going to finish wrapping it up this week and get ready for a test drive. I have the launch control device installed which makes bleeding the clutch a pain, but that's the last major thing to do before test drive.

Have one issue where the isc value keeps dropping. Not sure if it's a bad sensor or ecu related.

[mark4g63t]

Had a issue where the car would start to climb in RPMs at idle once it got about 160° or so and no matter what I did I couldn't bring it down. The ISCPosition value would start off great but then drop to zero as the car heated up, causing the high idle/ idle surge.
Determined that the ECU was at fault (really my fault).
So new ECU is on the way!

[mark4g63t]

New ECU solved my isc problem I was having. Once I got that sorted out I realized that the idle would go up and down, I thought it was a MAP sensor issue and tried multiple sensors. Found out it was a timing table issue, got that fixed.
After it would idle I noticed that the clutch felt like garbage. Threw a new streetlite and 2600 in for now along with the sprung 6 puck disc.
Threw some 205/50r17's I had laying around on the GSX wheels. And took it around the block. Feels great to drive!
Need to figure out a way to mount my front bumper.
Getting tuned soon!

[mark4g63t]

Drove the car around and turbo started to leak oil from the chra to hotside.
Got some -12 fittings and a new oil pan. Going to upgrade the return from the -10 to -12.

[mark4g63t]

About to weld the oil pan bung on and make the hose. Hoping this helps.
The -10 to -12 is a big difference.