Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Anywho, small update. Pulled the turbo and manifold off. Trying to clean it up a little. It is leaking oil in a couple places. For one, my oil return line is cracked and leaking. And it was really oily on top of the turbo itself.

Gonna take a couple days just cleaning, but its worth it.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

niice. that's what i did when i had the manifold/turbo out. good cleanin' goes a good ways :)

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Oh this thing needed it. It looks like it wasn't cleaned in like, ever. lol. I mean, it looks like the only time it was ever taken apart was to weld up the turbo mani. It has two big ass welds on it.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Well, finally got some work done to the car. I decided that maybe working in the Talon aint gonna be my main focus. I will be parting that out completely.

Anyway, I did put the 16g turbo and exhaust manifold off the Talon on the Galant tonight. I also replaced the crappy bolts that were holding the exhaust mani on with an FP stud kit. Also put on a new exhaust mani gasket of course. lol

Gotta order a couple little things for it and will hopefully have it running again soon.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

WOO HOO!!! Finally got a trans for the car tonight. Picked it up from Daneatsv8 while dropping off parts to members. Gonna try and get it in this week and got some other things I want to do too.

Also got my non cruise cable coming, deleting that since it dont work, and possibly ac too. All depends on whether it works after I get it running again. Also gonna start looking at getting the Evo intercooler on and seeing if I can somehow use the 1g short route piping I got from Goodhart on it. May take some time to get it done, but I am hoping to clean up the engine bay quite a bit.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Not much of an update, but finally getting somewhere on the Galant. Been kinda tough working on it due to a new work schedule. Only get about an hour of daylight everynight to work on it.

But I have everything apart and just gotta pull 2 bolts off the trans and the trans mount and than it will be out.

Than when that is done I gotta put in my non cruise accel cable and thinking about doing a small battery relocation inside the engine bay. I will have some pics of that stuff.

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Well, was on a roll today getting the galant back together until I noticed that when I bought the trans I never even asked about what spline count the transfer case output shaft was. Well, Its different than what I have, so I am gonna swap that out tomorrow.

On the upside, I got my gauge pod just about done. I had the gauges below the radio but did not like looking down at them all the time. And I didn't want to do the a pillar pods. So I got a Galant GSR dash pod and made my 2 gauges fit in it. It looks pretty good for a quick job. And it hides them pretty well also.
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Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Gauges look good man. So what is the deal with the transfer case? Did you put a 1g trans in the car and don't have the right t-case or what? I have a 1g transfer case and a GVR-4 transfer case if you need one.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

When I picked up the trans from Daneatsv8 i forgot to ask about spline count on the output shaft for the transfer case. My car has a 22 spline transfer case, while the trans I bought has a 23 spline output shaft. I think this is cause Dan told me the trans is a JDM Galant VR4 trans and I never 2nd guessed it. So it was my fault.

For a little while I thought I was boned and needed to buy a new transfer case. But after doing some reading I see that its actually a pretty easy thing to swap the two shafts. I kinda jumped the gun on it and posted up a WTB and FS ad for my old trans. Kinda felt like an ass after I did some reading. lol

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Gauges look really good! Kinda make me jealous a little haha.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

The pods are getting cheap man. I know I overpaid when I bought these ones, but I was desperate and nobody else had any for sale. And honestly for the time being the piece that the gauges are in is just hot glued to the pod. I was mainly doing that cause I wasn't even sure if it would fit so I didn't want to make it permanent.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Well, got the transfer case shaft switched out today. Dam that was easy. I was thinking it would be a hard job, but nope.

Also got the car mostly back together. Found some wiring connectors that were messed up so went to the junk yard and got some new ones. Should be able to get it back and running tomorrow as long as the weather holds out. 80% chance of rain tomorrow. Here's hoping they lied about the weather report.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner about the transfer case, I've been busy with school and everything. Good to see that you got the shafts swapped out. Let me know if there's anything else I can do. Good luck getting it running.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Nice gauge setup up! Keep up the work.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Its cool man. I asked you about the transfer case before I even read about it. I know things are crazy right now with school. Seems like everyone is having a hell of a week so far. lol

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Finals FTL

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

So. It runs!! Trans shifts great, and the extended slave rod helped the clutch engagement. Now I only have two things to figure one.

First off, when coming to a stop the car will idle down pretty far, around 500 rpm if I am reading my tach right, and the oil light comes on. but if i bring the rpms up just a little it goes away.

Second, the ignition switch is messed up so i need to find a new one.

Otherwise I am happy with it. And on only 6psi of boost on the 16G feels good.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Glad to hear that it runs and that the tranny is working well for you. I guess my Galant will live vicariously through yours for the next couple years.

As for your idle issue, I would try messing with the BISS screw on the throttle body. You will have to put the car in timing mode in order to do this properly. Once it's in timing mode, then you can try turning it counter-clockwise a few turns to see if that helps with the idle and oil pressure.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Not much of an update. Just a pic. I got bored on the way home and decided to see how high the river was here seems as how they have been releasing alot of water from the lakes around here. And well. Its pretty high. lol
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Anyway, Hopefully It will stop raining so I can continue checking things out on the car. Just waiting for my data logger setup to get here so I can see what the car is doing. And hopefully that will help me solve some issues.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

So got my data logger and found some issues. WHich I am taking care of. Got another TPS coming. That was the major thing. Probably wont get much time to work on the car in the next couple days/weeks. Been helping friends and others sandbag and prepare for this flood were are having. Its been pretty epic. They are saying its a 100 year flood. And that water can remain at that level till august. So....I might look at relocating to a different town. Just not sure where yet.

BUt, hopefully I will be able to still get some things done with the car. I am forseeing alot of downtime at work which will give me time to sort things out.

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

So..bringing this back from the dead...

As ya probably seen, but wont remember...I had this thing for sale back in 2011. At the time, we had just got done getting through all my son's chemo treatments, and as I was the only one working...bills were getting stacked up. So moved to get a better job and take care of the fam and the car got sold to a buddy.

Well...for the past two years I have been bugging my buddy about buying this back now that everything family and job wise has been sorted out for some time now.

He was very reluctant as he loved the car and wanted to continue working on it. But...late last year he finally said he would sell it. He has a baby on the way and wanted the car to go back to someone who would continue working on it.

So today I was able to get to town and pick it up. It dont look like much has changed on it, well, because it really hasn't lol. He has only put maybe a total of 3000 miles on it since he bought it. So it was pretty much still just like when I sold it.

I forgot what it was like to drive this car. I totally forgot about the clutch I put in, an act 2600, and forgot about the clutch engagement. I still gotta get that figured out. Seems like the clutch still engages just a little bit off the floor. So was a trick to getting used to drive it again.

But minor things will come to bring the car back to where I want it. Really just glad I was able to get this thing back and continue the work I wanted to do to it.

Edit: I know the pic links in this thread are gone. I was having issues with photobucket so saved all my pictures and closed my account. I will try to get them back up.

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Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Nice job on getting it back! Should be a fun project, always thought the galant vr4 were cool cars!

Hope your son is doing well too!

Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Even though I do need a new turbo...I decided to take some time and install my jdm front mount on the car today. I have an ETS intake pipe set sitting here for it also, but need a few more things before I can put that on.

The setup isn't anything special, but it's def an upgrade over the stock one. Specially since when I took my stock one off, I found the outlet side to be damaged. It had to be leaking there.

Kinda nice that the jdm and usdm setups share some of the same pieces. I needed the hose that goes from the turbo elbow to the intercooler and the stock one worked fine.

Only thing I had to modify was the bumper beam. Luckily...the plasma cutter at work made it easy.

Stock little intercooler
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Jdm intercooler
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Cutting the bumper beam
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All back together...Cant even tell I changed anything.
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The outlet of the stock intercooler
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Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Not much of an update...but been having an issue with the alternator belt squealing at times. Figured I would take some time tonight and check it out. Well, the belt was loose but I also found 2 of the screws that hold the case together coming out.

So I pulled the alternator and attempted to bolt it back together. That was a no go. The threads are stripped out so looks like its time for a new one. I am unsure how old this one is anyway.

Man I am glad it isn't raining. And it was pretty decent tonight.

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Re: Perkul8r's 91 Galant VR4 1055/2000
 

Not much of an update. Picked up a new alternator yesterday for the car. Was in Bismarck so hit up the junkyard there and grabbed what I need for the abs delete. Seems as how the abs pump is not working I figured might as well just delete it. I do need to order a new brake master cylinder though, its leaking.

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