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Sweet action! Keep the windows cracked b/c you guys will be letting out some nasty gasious aromas!

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Csm are over rated. Real boys drive 2g dsm!:D

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2g Bubble cars? Real guys drive 1g wedges.... B have a safe trip to pick her up. Wave alittle south east at me. When you hit Detroit.

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Well I just got home. The trip took way longer then we though because we ran into a few bumps along the way. But I got her, and she's in the driveway! Definately has some rust that's for sure! Looks like this guy, or the one before, had a lot of shit rigged up. Some of the wires look not stock in the engine bay. I'm sure I'll be having fun troubleshooting this baby! I need some sleep though, I am beat!

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^^ not a good sign. Glad you made it back ok.
Here is my hot rod.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...pj74/fmic2.jpg

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nice. Yup I just got to get this thing in the garage and start cleaning up everything. Might take some time, but it's all good! One of the first things I'm going to do is rip all this emissions hosing out of there. It's a freaking cluster of hoses everywhere. Then decipher this wiring shit.

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You better not leak colt juice on my quest you bastard!

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Dude you ever get that thing started?

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It's cold out, so I haven't gotten a whole lot done. What I have gotten done, is I figured out a bunch of his goofy wiring. I removed all the emissions and non-neccessary vacuum hoses because that was a complete mess. I found 2 spark plugs were crap (the annode and the cathode were touching) so i replaced all the plugs, it's looking like the timing is screwed up, so I will have to redo that. One of the spark plug wires is shot, so I'm looking for replacement wires for cheap right now. The throttlbody is pretty stick, and has a small piece broken off it, so I will be converting it to accept the spare 91-94 style Throttle Body I have laying here. I have the intake and charge piping all off, and I'm going to sandblack it all because it looks like absolute hell. I'm also awaiting CVD to do a couple things to his car, so I can use his ECU since my car doesn't have one.

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Thats good you are finding issues at least, maybe the spark and timing issues alone will be enough to get it fired up.

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If you want some cheap wires, I got some from my 1g motor you can take for free. I also have some other things laying around i.e. spark plugs,450 injectors, side mounts, 90 tb,..etc

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Where are you located. I'd take those wires off your hands if you aren't too far away. I don't think I'd need anything else though. I'm going with a front mount, I should be fine with my 91 TB which i prefer over a 90 TB anyway, I already have someone hooking me up with 450's, I will use CVD's ECU to troubleshoot with, and once the car starts I have a 90 ECU to put on the car, a 1g MAS, stock dsm cams. I should be set I think. But if you're nearby, ya I'll pick up those wires. Otherwise I may just buy new wires for the talon, and throw the old ones in the colt.

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I live in STP but work in GoldenValley (across the street from steve hill's car dealer). LMK...

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What is STP? St. Paul?

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Yes.

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Well I figured I'll just use this thread as a record of everything I'm doing. I've already ripped some shit out, but I'll just start where I'm at right now. Here's a couple current pics of the project, in it's supreme glorious form!

That's my Non-Cruise Throttle cable laying on the valve cover. Haven't gotten that totally installed quite yet.

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Since they're non-intercooled, and since Nash seems to be doing damn fine with his stock fmic, I picked this up off a local guy. The fins were in pretty bad shape, but nothing a pair of tweezers, and about 4 hours couldn't finish. I also gave it a light coat of flat black spray paint, too keep things on the DL, ya hurrrd.

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As you can see by the first 2 pics, she's been pretty neglected. Right now I'm going through, and redoing all the ghetto arse wiring under the hood. And excessive amount of wire nuts, and butt splices are present. I'm cleaning it up using a soldering iron and some heat shrink.

Also the TB could be better. It has a 90 style TB on it. I'm swapping in a spare 91 I have sitting here, with a lovely blue QPR isc/fiav blockoff plate!

I also removed all the emissions off it. That was one of the first things I did as it looked like a vacuum line bomb went off under there.

Once it is running, I plan on switching to a honda half sized radiator to make a little more room infront of the turbo. So if any of you have a spare honda half sized radiator laying around, hook a brotha up!

Anywho, it's not quite the project that TKR took on, but it's a decent one for me. I'll keep this thread updated with my progress.

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looking good
come on make it awd like mine

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Looks like a fun project B! Cant wait to see it in action.