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You should be able to wiggle the turbo/manifold around enough to get the manifold off without messing with anything on the turbo, then just use a pair of vice grips on it and it should come right out. Definitely go with all bolts next time. Soooo much easier to deal with.

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Why not just take the turbo off and do it right? Do an oil change and coolant flush while your at it then. That's a pretty easy break, the shitty ones, are when they break off at the bottom...no fun in that.

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what were the results of this spaz?

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I was planning on doing a full update on Monday, after I get the car and pics from MAP.

I put off doing the turbo bolt because I was having issues with the clutch, specifically the pressure plate warping itself for no reason (I don't beat on this thing, let alone launch it enough to cause that), and since I wasn't doing much boosting on a slipping clutch, I figured it could wait. I wasn't about to do a tranny drop in a freezing garage, so I couldn't say no to the $500 MAP was asking.

Anyway, they get the car in, go to drop the tranny, and the bolts for the crossmember fell right out of the core support. Apparently it was so far rusted the crossmember was barely attached. So not left with many options, as well as a dire need for a car, I told them to go ahead and fix it.

They also said they'll take care of that bolt, so I'm effectively getting back a problem-free car.

At this point, the build is going to be put on hold until I can get my hands on something in much better shape to swap everything over to.

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That sux.

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dude, sorry to hear about this. MN rust sucks. How bad is the rust in general? Is the car rotting out all over underneath? If not, maybe you should just stick with it. If its really that bad, I wouldn't bother finding a shell to swap stuff into. Just get a whole new car.

Did MAP check for crank endplay while they had the trans off? Weird clutch issues are sometimes due to crankwalk.

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That sucks man, there is a few shells for sale right now though, best of luck!

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I didn't ask them to, doesn't mean they didn't, but they did say that the pressure plate was quite warped.

Also, last I checked, pedal pressure is variable with CW, it doesn't just sit at one point. And it definitely doesn't cause the pedal to stiffen up again when you slip the clutch a bunch. Believe me, it was one of my first thoughts, and nothing points to it.

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good. Yeah, doesn't sound like that is the case. With CW you get differing clutch engagement points, and the car is hard to drive. Ask me how I know.

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the shell it pretty much rotted out. right before the fall cruise we put a bunch of stuff in to spaz's car. the rockers,rear 1/4 panel wheel wells,rear frame rails,gas tank shield,ect are rotted out. Swaping shells is not hard to do and only takes a few days to do it.

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Sounds like you should limp it thru the winter and find you a new shell. See my post about the warehouse space, i'll rent you some room to do your swap :)

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That's the plan. Since I'm no longer throwing money at mods and am getting a few hundred back from taxes, chances are good that I'm going to forgo a shell and pick up something running at that point, but we'll see. It'll be a while before the snow melts, after all.

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Yea, idk what the point of doing a shell swap would be, he's got a pretty stck car on a high-mileage 7-bolt (not that there's anything wrong with that)...a simple part-out and a new car would be the way to go if you're going to be done with this one.

It's a dsm though...sooner or later you (not the car) get to a breaking point and you need to just be done with it or take a break (if you can).

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Let me know if you need help with the swap.

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isn't that the troof. Mine just refuses to be unreliable so far.

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Or get a reliable Daily, and make the DSM a project like myself and many others have done

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I was about there a week ago, but I've come to terms with the cost of having this fixed since and it should stay fairly reliable after this. Not having to deal with the work myself has helped, too.

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Daily drive a dsm FTW! Only real men can do it.

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So, I present to you, MitsuStyle, a picture I call... Two Core Supports.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2679/...73b6ac70_b.jpg

Rust is ghey.

Regardless, I have my car back and it's running great, shifts great, and with the return spring on the pedal they replaced, it feels like a brand new car (well, that part does, the rest still feels 14 years old). Now I just need to bleed the brakes and my feet will be happy.

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Wow...LOL! Glad you're making progress and the car is feeling better.

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holy shit, that couldnt have held up well in a collision!! lol Good to see ya got it fixed.

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Holy CRAP! That's insane, did your car get parked in a swamp for a few years or what? Now get back to modding and forget this crap about selling it :)

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No, Duluth, but I guess they're close to the same thing. :D

Anyway, yeah, I'm thinking this isn't going to stop me from continuing to mod the car, all I've really got left are easy things... Exhaust, Injectors, ECU, hardly anything that can't be transplanted down the road with little effort.

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LOL Duluth actually uses less road salt than the Twin Cities. Since pretty much everything drains directly into Lake Superior they use a lot of biodegradable ice melts.

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Well, there's no build progress to report, but I've got pics detailing this past week in spending:

Rotors:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2719/...586d389a_b.jpg

Pads:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/...e1778c1c_b.jpg

MAF-T and GM MAF
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2739/...92be87c3_b.jpg

I don't know when it's all getting installed, but the plan is sooner rather than later.

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Story time.

Last night I was driving home from a buddy's and the car felt a little down on power. I figured it was being dumb and pulling timing, since it didn't feel jerky or anything at the time, I was tired, and I had to be up early.

This morning on the way to class, it was alright for a bit, then it started missing on a single cylinder, first under boost, now it does it a bit into vacuum. So I pulled off and checked things out, all pipes are tight, plug wires are solid at both ends, idled fine, but the distributor was clicking pretty hardcore to the point of sounding like a decent exhaust leak (but we know those don't come from the intake mani).

So would I be right to start there? AKA Do the symptoms fit the diagnosis? Never had one of those things fail on me and I don't know how quickly they can go.

Re: The Spazmobile
 

Your EGR could cause an exhaust leak at the intake manifold and will make your car run funny under boost if not functioning properly.

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Nice looking brake setup though! I assume those are the newly revised Reds? Should be a great street/autox pad.

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Looks good! I had the old-style EBC reds on my 2G and was less than impressed, hopefully this new compound they've developed actually make the car stop :)

I *may* have a spare set of 2G coils laying around at my house if you wanna try them.

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It's directly under the center of the mani where the plug wires go, not from the side by the valve.

Regardless, I'm pretty sure the coil pack shouldn't be loud enough that I think I have an exhaust leak, and I know that's where the noise is coming from.

Scheides, you gonna be at OC tonight? If not, I'll probably just pick one up at O'Reilly after class.

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They have a higher friction coefficient than your DS2500's.

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And they probably still eat rotors. Oh well.

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Brakes look good spaz!

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Well first off, your car doesn't have a distributor ;) haha But yeah, I would say that the coils are a good place to start. If that doesn't cure the problem pull the valve cover and make sure you don't have a collapsed lifter.

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Go to napa or another parts store and ask for a Distributor for your car. See what they say. LOL

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^lol, awesome.

I was gonna say, I thought we found the problem with my car as well because I can't find my distributor anywhere!!!

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Yeah, I know, I was on 4 hours of sleep. Normally I could tell you there's not one, but that post was made before the morning caffeine.

Plug on #4 fouled. Pulled it out and there was moisture on the threads and in between the terminals. Looked down the well, there was a drop or two of water sitting on the piston, but just looked like it had dripped off the plug. It smelled very slightly of coolant, but I'm sure the HG's fine, compression's still factory, I'm not mixing, and I'm not losing coolant. Threw it back in to go picked up new plugs, it missed initially but then stopped doing so below 10psi. Got the new plugs in, problem solved. Cylinder moisture was gone when I put the new plug in.

So it looks like I probably got some water down the plug well. I was initially thinking I sucked it up, but after looking at the plug there's a decent amount of water deposits above the threads as if there was water sitting there and evaporating. The only thing I can think of is if I hit a puddle and splashed water up there, but there wasn't any water on the valve cover so... I dunno.

I also found an exhaust leak in the flex section on the downpipe, but that's a different story.