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I think I figured it out for the most part. I went to change to another 2g pressure regulator I found in my Stratus and to make things easier, I unhooked number 1 and 4 plug wires. I noticed that the number one plug wire must not have been making good contact as the boot was slid out farther than the others preventing it from going in all the way. After I fixed that, I put the regulator on and sure enough, idles great and pulls hard. Only thing is it now breaks up around 5k-6k. My afr's go from a steady 11.1-11.5 to 10 by 6k and thats exactly when it starts breaking up.


I've been trying to lean it out a bit on the high setting with my Maf-t and it helps but only pushes the point at which it breaks up further down the rpm range. Could my spark be blowing out? I'm rockin bpr6es gapped to .028.

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Try BPR7ES, I wouldn't trust 6s past 12psi

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I was going to try them again because I've always had 7's in this motor. I put the 6's in hoping to get me somewhere in figuring it out. I'll have to do that tonight at work.

EDIT: Forgot I took a pic yesterday:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC12440.JPG

Thats my buddy's 86 Quantum Syncro. 1 of 3000 imported with the Syncro option. Factory locking center and rear diffs with an inline 5 cylinder powering it.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC12430.JPG

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC12429.JPG

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7's do the same thing. If anything maybe a little better. I'm considering throwing my COP on it again after a long time of not using it....

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So I've had a realization. I swapped my COP back on my car and soldered in a nice plug and what do ya know....20 psi is so fun! lol


If anybody owns a 1g awd and wants to know the single best thing they can do to they're car handling wise....it has to be welding your rear trailing arms or getting the Jay's Eliminator kit. You wouldn't believe how it changes the way the car handles.

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I'm confused, how does the jay's racing kit eliminate active rear toe?

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With that kit you basically remove the stock bushing and it's mount on the trailing arm and the jay's kit will slide in where the stock rubber was and you weld it to the arm. I opted to go the super cheap route and buy the energy susp. poly bushing set for the upper & lower control arms, and trailing arms and then welded a washer on to make it solid.

http://www.jayracing.com/images/products/ATE1.jpg

This is the only pic that you can see the trailing arms when I was done with them, right before going back in my car:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC12300.JPG

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so that eliminates the lateral flex of the bushing, which creates the active toe? That seems bad to me, as your control arms don't move vertically, they move in an arc and that could create binding, no?

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I can tell you mine do not bind and neither would the Jay's racing kit. That kit uses those rod ends which I doubt will bind. If anything, going the route I did can cause binding if you do it wrong. Mine went together really easy, and works really good.

Twack has ridden with a couple times and might be able to put his 2 cents in, but I'm on stock rusty springs and shocks, stock sway bars. Poly control arm and sway bar bushings in the front as well. The way it handles is anything but stock DSM.... if I throw the car into the corner, it rotates. Even on snow tires.


:::Kind of a late edit to my post, but I must add that when I aligned my car at school I did not fully follow the factory specs. The factory is tuned with tow in already, and lots of camber from the factory in the rear. I lessened the camber just a hair and actually added a little tow out in the rear. I feel like that contributes to the nice rotation I get as well.

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So I stuffed the car in it's first ditch. You can see on the left side of the picture is where my rear end was. My right front tire was hanging off that cement pipe. Luckily there was a farmer with his tractor that was passing by just a little bit after it happened. He had a bucket setup on the front and we were able to lift the front end up and back on the wheels and then pull it out. We're pretty lucky:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC10326.JPG

All that was damaged was a bent right front rim, my wideband sensor got bent pretty good, and I need to replace a stud on my o2 housing for the downpipe. I already replaced the sensor (86 dollars later...) and my friend Zach is bringing another rim for me to paint and mount the tire on. I'll have to pull the exhaust side off my turbo to remove the stud. :( Could've been a lot worse though....

EDIT: Here is the video but for some reason ends right as my front end is about to be white washed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6vq3gcmGAM

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Long time no update...


Just got a few nice upgrades for the talon over the last couple days. Found a nice, true e3 16g turbo, some nice couplers and t bolt clamps for the gm maf, and a greddy catch can.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC12836.JPG

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC12837.JPG

This o2 housing didn't come with the turbo, but a stock 2g one did. This is my ported 1g o2 housing:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC12838.JPG

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Installed the turbo yesterday at school. Ran it at 20 psi up until after school today with good results. Then I turned it up just a little bit more and now it seems happy at 25 psi with 11.2-10.8 afr's to redline. Pulls really hard so I'm very happy. I should try and get to the dyno day....

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I was bored on my day off today, so I made a heat shield.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC12840.JPG

My catch can setup:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC12841.JPG

Dirty engine bay FTW...

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is your MBC tee'd into your BOV?

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No, I actually drilled and put a nipple on the compressor housing of the turbo for the boost controller.

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Painted the stealth wheels I got from Ryan last year. Also painted and installed a little piece from my Laser on the front:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC13002.JPG

Had to remove the muffler I welded on. Noticed the inside had fallen apart and was just floppin' around inside the muffler. So, back to straight pipe:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC13003.JPG

Still daily driving it, and the car has been running great.... aside from a little crack in the I/C. Good thing I'm in blow-through configuration. Car also handles amazing with these tires and the new e3 16g power. I get lift-off oversteer, and throttle on oversteer whenever I want. I'm very excited for autox season to start.

I'm also adding power steering to it:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC13007.JPG

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC13006.JPG

I don't have fluid in it yet so the belt is not on either. I have to get the cooler mounted and plumbed yet, so I don't want to make a mess and waste fluid.

My alternator went out a few weeks back so I bought a 90 amp gvr4 alt. from work (oreilly's), made a little heat sheild that bolts to the o2 housing, and installed a volt gauge where the cig lighter use to be.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC13008.JPG

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Well I started putting fluid in and the belt on Sunday. Everything was going good until I look under the car and sure enough, there's a big puddle. I push it in the garage and jack it up. Turns out this line, number MB501433, was rusted through right where it runs through the rack mount on the passenger side.

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da...eringlines.jpg

I undo the sway bar and take the rack mount off that side and luckily I'm able to get a compression fitting to work. So far it's been holding...

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told ya from day one that was the issue, your text "o thats what you mean by leak" was priceless. pic of the repair?

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I thought you had told me one of the lines was stripped out going into the rack, not one of those lines were rusted. lol No pic of the fix, all I did was route the line out of the rack mount, cut the leaking section out and then put a compression fitting in its place.

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Tried fitting cobra rotors on my car with the stock caliper. They'll fit, but my rims won't so that idea is scratched:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...0311101746.jpg

This would be the bracket that'd have to be made:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...0311101813.jpg

Only other thing is the rotor would need to be turned down .10. Now though I'm looking at doing the 05 Outlander setup.