Re: 1994 Talon TSi
 

I'm almost certain you will make more parting out than you will selling as a whole. Just depends on if you got the time to rip it all apart.

Re: 1994 Talon TSi
 

The 1350's will be just fine on stock turbo. why downgrade, then upgrade again when you wanna start throwing more power at it?

Re: 1994 Talon TSi
 

Oh yea, I should be able to knock most of the disassembly out in a day or two I would think. At least the main parts. Selling is the crappy part, no one ever wants to come to St. Cloud to buy parts haha

Re: 1994 Talon TSi
 

Sorry to hear, wonder why a new trans would leak?

Good luck and if you need a hand give me a shout.

Re: 1994 Talon TSi
 

Well finally heard back from TRE. With the pictures I provided (I took about 50 good pics of everything around the entire transmission area before even parting it) He said that most likely what happened with it was that the half shaft somehow came out while driving (pic below shows the grease from it all over the k-member) and that is where most of the trans oil leaked out, and the rest probably just boiled and burned off.

When he took the thing apart he found almost everything in the thing to be black and blue from the crazy amount of heat it made with no fluid in it. (I'm trying to get some carnage pics of it right now) He said internally (this is all from memory now, and I don't really know the internals of transmission well at all, so it is the best i could remember after a 90 minute phone conversation) after the lack of fluid, the intermediate shaft was seized, most the internals were black and blue from the heat, and he rockwell hardness tested a bunch of the parts and they came out to be in the low 50's, like 51-52 he said they are usually in the 60's. If he put if back together, it would work, but probably wear out/break super fast.

So, since it wasn't an internal failure, and really no ones fault at all, he said he cannot warranty it. He feels bad because its a real shit thing to happen, and he said it's only the second time in his career this type of thing has ever happened. I have mixed feelings about the whole thing, he has been a super guy to deal with (hard to get a hold of at times, but a real good guy when he does get back to you) but then again, I realize it wasn't really his fault and at the end of the day he still has a business to run. it was just a shitty freak thing, that pretty much epitomized my entire DSM ownership experience. Freak problem after freak problem. :(

Towards the end of the conversation, he asked me what I would like to do and since I don't even own a DSM anymore, and the trans parts were not re-usable (he said gears were going for $.10/lb or something LOL) The whole works was maybe worth $50-60 in scrap metal and he really had no use for the rest of it. he said he would give me a free Sight glass rear diff cover for my Evo for my troubles.

Like I said, major mixed feelings, but at least I didn't get completely stiffed and I got a trick ass diff cover

Here's where you can see where the half shaft came apart/popped out just enough and sprayed grease all over along with letting the fluid out:( I highlighted it to make more visible

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3167/...6f7e14c2_z.jpg

Both front axles had less then 1,000 miles on them also.

Re: 1994 Talon TSi
 

Shitty at least you got some closure I guess.

But hey, it pushed you to get an evo and that's what counts.

Re: 1994 Talon TSi
 

:( sorry to hear dude but that rear diff cover will probably be nice :)

Re: 1994 Talon TSi
 

Jon just called again, he said there looks to be a few more re-usable parts than he originally thought. He said he has to finish going through everything (hardness testing stuff, etc) and depending on what can be used again, he will try to give me a sort of store credit and hook me up on a discount on a Evo VIII 5 speed rebuild since we had talked about my Evo as well. Not keeping my hopes up, but it would be damn sweet!!