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Haha I know! Tell me about it. Its home now, so I will try to figure it out. If worst comes to worst, ill be looking for a 6 bolt longblock, to plug and play (and this time no balance shafts haha). So Im just gonna keep pressing forward, got one of my female friends coming over to help fix it. She doesnt know anything about dsm's but she will ease the sting of it not starting...haha! I got some pics of the car in all its glory (on the flatbed..lol), ill try to post them later.

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So it cranks (slowly), gets fuel, and has spark. I gotta get the oil pan off soon. Really at a loss.

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If I am not mistaken, this is your car when a local guy here was selling it.
http://www.mitsustyle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20993

I bowl on a league with the guy and he had this flooding problem for a while, replaced allot of parts trying to figure it out. Then when the headgasket blew, he thought maybe that was the cause. He lists some details in this thread, you may want to PM him for other info.

Hope it helps!

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Thats def. my car, i will have to pm him. But doesnt sound like he knows the issue either.

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Yeah, that's the car. I fixed all the stuff wrong with it as well as some other small things not listed there. Whatever it's doing right now has nothing to do with running rich or flooding, that's a pretty simple fix. When I did the headgasket, I inspected the cylinder bores very closely, all looked very good. The head and block deck surfaces were straight and in great shape, it simply had an old stock gasket which eventually failed. There was no signs of detonation on the piston tops or even large carbon build-up from running rich. Except for a choppy idle, it ran great while I had it. This isn't something I've seen before.

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I smelled gas when it died on the freeway, and even the tow truck driver said why it smelled so gassy. The non-start issue is the main problem now, and if its had fuel issues, and I'm smelling fuel...kinda sounds like a fuel issue. Possible f.p.r. problem?

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It's possible that the diaphragm in the FPR blew out and the fuel is getting back into the intake manifold through the vacuum line. I had that problem on my car a couple years ago, but I was running an Aeromotive FPR at the time. What fuel pump is in it?

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That why I asked it it still has balance shafts.

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And I answered you in an earlier post. Its running a walbro 190, i think the ad said. I wasnt informed of any prexisting fuel issues before the sale, wouldve made me think a little more about buying it.

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Since its been a while, I figured I would post up a little update.
The talon has been taking a nap under a blanket of snow, until today when my family mechanic stopped by. After a few minutes and a compression test, we found out it had none in a couple cylinders....compression that is. I guess the lower timing belt pulley wiggled loose a bit, allowing the belt to jump some teeth and bend some valves.
So, I will need a head, and then we will check over the rest of it as well.

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The talon is heading out to the family mechanics house tomorrow. Gonna hurt my pocket a little bit, but I should have her back next week!

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Well, sucky, but hopefully all will be well. Maybe slap in some arp headstuds?

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I believe theres a set already installed, and a cometic hg thats going to waste. I just want to get it running good, mods will have to wait now.
When I get it back I'm planning on fixing a couple cosmetic things. Need a new driver side end piece for the spoiler, a front bumper cover, and maybe a new driver side fender (its orange peeling).

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sounds like center diff to me

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Well here are some pics of the talon in all its glory (up on the flatbed...lol). I picked up a head today (thanks to iceminion), and have to get all the fluids, gaskets, belts, from my pops (bday present). It didn't get picked up friday, but will be out early this week, and hopefully back by the end of the week.
(notice in the first pic, the talon decieded to take a nap on 35w North....haha)

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It's got brand new ARP's, and you can reuse the Cometic. I still don't get how the pulley wiggled off.

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Well unless the timing wasnt done right. The marks are off at least 4 teeth from eachother, I havent even had a chance to see how far off the main pulley is, and the belt shifted over an 1/8th of an inch. It just doesnt magically do that, especially since the timing was just done. It takes something drastic to do that.

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The timing belt was done right, my only thought is the main pulley bolt backed out somehow, which doesn't make any sense either. Let me know what you find out.

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Well after pulling the head and all the timing components off, we found that many simple bolts, LIKE THE MAIN CRANKSHAFT SPROCKET BOLT!, were halfway or more out, leading me to believe it was never tightened. The result of it was the crankshaft main sprocket backing off the crank, and damaging it. Also the lower timing belt cover bolts were barely tightened down (hand tight or less).

Secondly, the timing belt tensioner bracket was not there, leaving the timing belt tensioner loose. So overall it seems that the timing belt job was less than satisfactory. The result of this was catostrophic valve damage, to the exhaust side, and some piston damage.

I have tons of pics of the damage, some are pretty wicked (and will post them soon). Have most of it put back together, just going to finish up a couple things this week, and hope all is well.

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Get this thing on the road! Maybe you'll see me on the road lol.