Re: Project Drag Talon
 

Nice man good luck and hope you hit your goals!

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I'd take allen up on that challenge! :D

Anyways, I have been drawing up the front end of the car for a good 2 weeks now. Been kinda lazy with the holidays and shit. Things will pick up in the next couple weeks for sure!

The Evo hubs and control arms are ready to be picked up from the junk yard, suspension I just have to order it once I find out what springs I want to use, and I need to make a Jig for the front end somewhat close to where it originally was. As of right now the front end is completely off and ready to be assembled as a jig. Here are a couple pictures.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2.../random004.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2.../random010.jpg

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Anything to motivate a night of drinking. :D We'd need to get Jacek back in town though.

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YES! He is one funny man, even more when he is drunk! He was here back in Sept... Who knows when he'll be back again!

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So are you keeping the factory shock towers? If not you'll end up in the fastest class. I think even Brent worked around using the shock towers and weaved the tube frame through the unibody.

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Are you building the car to run in any specific class or jsut for fun?

I think Brent didn't retain the factory shock tower, which has kept him out of the NHRA Modified class. He would have to run in the fastest class (Pro RWD) in NHRA.

Re: Project Drag Talon
 

Brents car is front/back halfed, factory fire wall and floor remain, but that is about it. Looking good.

~John

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I am ditching the strut towers... Pro Modified I believe is the class I will try to enter. All that is required is OEM Firewall and Floor to the B Pillar.

My car will be very similar to Brents car accept I might keep the factory K-member in the rear and stay AWD. Depending how business is, I might put a 4 link in the rear and finish tubing the back half as well. Just something fun to do and to be different. I dont really care if I can compete in a NHRA class.

I am basically just doing it for fun. If I cant run it in a class for some reason, that is fine with me. I'm just doing it cause I like to go fast and dont need sponsors to do it. I dont sacrifice much to race my car, I still live my normal day to day life, work monday through friday, get trashed on the weekends and enjoy working on the car whenever I want. I dont want to become Brent where his whole life is the car. From what I've heard is if he doesnt get a sponsor he's screwed. Thats not the fun racing I like to do.

Thanks...

Re: Project Drag Talon
 

If you're staying with AWD, you might as well 4-link the rear and put a 9 inch in the back and save yourself some headaches, apparently the rear doesn't hold up as well in the 8's. Then if you do go RWD at some point, you can just narrow the existing rear and put in shorter axles.

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I would love to but I'm takin it one step at a time. I can always put the 4 link in later. The cage is finished, now the front end, then if I have enough money to play around with I'll do the rear end. As of right now I need to focus on the front end and get the car to be a rolling chassis before I can even think about how to do the rear. I still have to figure out a solution for the t-case. I've heard about the DSS having a decent t-case but cant find any info out about it.

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You can run the NHRA Modified class if you stay AWD and remove the front strut towers. If you remove them and go RWD, like Brent, then you have to move up a class.

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Might as well go RWD at this point and not worry about t-case solutions.

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I'd agree w/ go RWD and eliminate the headache of the driveline issue. There's no real solution for a trans unless you go auto but then you still got the t-case to worry about.

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I would say the Dog box gear sets should solve the tranny problem, 300m out put shaft and sleave should take care of the tcase, stage 3 front axels and stage 5 rear(I think thats what they are) and a new prop shaft should take care of the driveline, but then you need to worry about the rear pinion/ring gear breaking.

~John

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Yeah, check with Shep, he's got the upgraded xfer case stuff available through him and you're probably best going with the dogbox as well.

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Dog box's still break. Shit we already broke a bogdox and fried an end clutch in the auto. Damn DSM's just have no solutions, haha.

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Who built the "bogdox"? ;)

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When I talked to Shep about the dogbox he told me I cant break it... 10k launches, wont break.

Thats the same think he told the guy that ran 1.2 - 60ft I guess. So he launched it at 10k and guess what he got.... Tranny still works fine as far as I know.

So thats what I will go with.

I dont want to go RWD cause its overrated and I wouldnt do it to an eclipse/talon. If I wanted RWD, I'd get a supra/camaro, or even a RX7 with a V8 in it. I dont want to have to find a 5spd RWD tranny and I dont want an auto cause that takes the fun and skill out of driving. Sure its faster but I'd rather have a manual and I like my car.

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Hell yeah!!!! I couldn't agree more.

Looks great, I can't wait for an update!

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It is my old car but it looks a little different now than it did when I had it. Good luck on the project.