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Woot! I just picked up my buddies (Skipdag on here) old 92 talon as he bought a pretty nice EVO8 from South Dakota. I'll be updating this regularly as I make progress on it but for now it's doing what dsms do best, driveway ornament.

A few pix below of the good, and the reason why it's now sitting, thanks to a 97 year old woman in a SUV failing to yield @ a stop light intersection.

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Not a fan of the interior but it looks clean! Get that damage fixed and it'll be perfect.

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red, ew! Looks like a fun project, keep us posted!

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Cleanest 1g I have ever seen in person, so sad when I heard it got smacked. I know you'll bring it back to life.

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Alright I got all the clearly damaged parts removed, now I'm in process of scheduling some time on a frame rack. Here's the victims.

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This.

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Alright, looks like the front bumper escaped completely unharmed. The hood closes correctly and looks alight, although there are 2 weird looking dents it it now that aren't from the accident, no idea where those came from. PDR may be able to take care of them, otherwise I'll either replace it with one from a junkyard ( I know of 2 junkyards with 3 white 92+ talons) but that would be spending more money and getting the same old heavy stock hood (WTF do these hoods weigh like 50 lbs?).

Or I can put the money towards a carbon fiber hood. I've liked the idea of Deft Racing's colored carbon fiber/Kevlar hoods. I was thinking of going with what they call their silver carbon fiber hood. I think it looks pretty good a white car. Example of one installed on a white stealth.

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That hoods crazy, i'd like to see it in person.

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Damn, that thing is clean other than the accident damage. Good luck with your build!

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reminds me of my old white 1g from when I was in chicago. get that thing back in shape!

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Sweet man! This looks like a good project! How bad is the frame damage? Can't wait to see this thing tooling around again.

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I got all the suspension back together on drivers side. Now it's off to the frame shop to get straightened. Oddly enough I test fit the new fender that I picked up onto the frame rail and it still lines up for the most part. I could actually bolt it to the chassis b/c of how large the mounting holes are on the fender.

So far I replaced the broken knuckle with a used one that I rebuilt completely, rebuilt axle halfshaft from Napa, new k-sport coilover that took way too long to receive (a little over a month to get - ridiculous!) . When other one of these k-sports go I'm not getting another because the cost and the wait, (not to mention their performance) isn't worth it. Probably just go with some lowering springs.

Now I have to track down another ADR GT-Sport 18" rim, they are older than sh*t, and noone has them anymore. I'd rather have a complete set that I could use than have 3 that I can't. Doesn't really matter though, as I have a set of Evo MR rims that will go on.

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That think is clean looking. If you get it done in time, that could be a serious competitor at the Cookout.

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Update, When I put the new axle in on drivers side, I drained the tranny fluid, and put in the redline cocktail.

Tonight, got the battery back in, double checked everything, and started it up. Everything works great, with the exception of the dash lights / parking lights don't work. Fuse pops immediately when I try to turn them on. Must have a pinched wire to ground where the sheet metal is folded. I took it for a quick spin around the block and it drives pretty good with it needing an alignment. Planning on dropping it off @ body shop Wednesday morning. After that going back to Jeff the Alignment guy. Don't think it will be done in time for the cookout though.

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Awesome.
It seems like all the 1Gs left will be white.

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I put the EVO MR wheels on it and sent off to Sears body shop to get the frame strightened. Drove it up 494 @ around 60 MPH felt great, no weird vibrations, pulses, just smooth. Needs an alignment badly, but that will be done after the sh*t is straightened.

Some co-workers of mine wondering why I'm calling my talon, the MR, because I'm eventually swapping as many Evo parts onto it as it can take. I'm looking into those Brembo brackets that dude on DSMTuners makes, and eventually get some Brembos on it. I'm leaning toward the FP HTA68 for the turbo, or maybe EVO 3, I can get a genuine Evo 3 turbo on 3si for $475 shipped.

I just picked up the crystal clear headlights / turn signals from Desolate on here. They look great should really modernize the front of this car. And got a valve cover from him too. I'm thinking of having Primo Performance powercoat it gloss white to match the cermanic coated FP race manifold.

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Looks nice! I like the wheels on it and the headlights are going to look great.

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Shits tight yo.

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Looks great. I remember talking to you and your buddy at the Dyno day about it. Keep up the good work!

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Car is looking great Jason, I'm super jealous. :D

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It's back together, drives straight, rides nice (as good as K-Sports can get). Sears pulled the frame straight, Jeff aligned it, but I still need to replace the lower control arm as it maybe bent a little. No worry as I was planning on replacing the control arm bushing rubber w/ poly. I took off the Evo MR rims and swapped in the daily driver 18s / all seasons. No need to be burning up the Evo Yoko rubber on casual street driving.

Now I can start modding it. Won't be driving it during the winter months so I'll be able to work on it in the storage garage. So far planning on doing:

- Canadian seat belt conversion (hate the chokers + weight reduc.)

- Headliner started to come down quite a bit, so I'll pull the headliner out and redo it w/ black alcantara in an attempt to remove some of the porno-red from the interior.

- Retrofit the 2g crash beams in the front and the back. (quite a bit of weight reduc.)

- Replace the battery with gel type and relocate it to the trunk.

- Modify the washer reservoir in the trunk to work as the washer for the front wipers (like how the 2gs have it), and remove the front reservoir completely.

- Modify the mid 90s caddy plastic undertray that I got, to fit the front bumper.

There is a few more things, like actual performance mods but those I'm planning in spring time, e85, eIII 16g...

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Looks brand new. Stunning

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Awesome, u gonna bring it tomorrow?

I'm interested in some of your mods we will have to talk about them.

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Just finished a few appearance mods, before it goes in storage / down for power upgrades.

I never cared for the amount of amber on rear of the talons, so I had the center section painted body color, and did red translucent paint over the tails.

Next, last time I was junkyard'n I grabbed a set of side marker lights from a 03 Outlander as they are the same part as the Dsms. Cut off the red reflectors and epoxied on some clear lens made by Wesbar.

I still want to try to get the tint done before it gets garaged for the rest of the winter, can anyone recommend good places since the Plymouth SS is gone?

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Tien and the guys from SS have a mobile tint install now. Tint Pros is the name. 612 229 5691 is the number listed for them.

Car looks great. Love a white 1g.

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I highly recommend Tint Pros. They did my tint and it turned out great, good guys to work with.

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Little Update:

Just got done changing most of the interior color from the bloody vag red to black.

-removed all of the carpet (floor, door, side tunnel, & floor mats) and power washed the s**t outta it. Then bought about 12 bottles of liquid black RIT dye, used a 50 gallon storage tote from Walmart, and alot of almost boiling water. Soaked the main carpet for about 14 hours, the other smaller pieces about 4 hours. Let dry for about 4 days. Then re-installed.

- bought 3 yards x 60" of foam backed synthetic suede from yourautotrim.com + 4 cans of Heavy duty headliner spray by Permatex. And redid the headliner, door inserts, and rear hatch cover. Still debating on maybe covering more parts inside with this stuff as it looks, and feels nice.

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I like it! I'm a fan of porno red dsm's lol.

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Haha nice! You can almost see a hint of the red still through the black, I think it looks great! Now how about the seats?

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Looks much better than the "bloody vag" red. LOL

I have 2 good condition 1g door panels with the stock black/grey pockets on the bottom if you wanted different ones.

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The flash does bring out a very small amount of the red in the carpet. Normal lighting conditions is undetectable. Still trying to figure out a game plan with the seating.

I was thinking of maybe keeping the red on the outer part of the seats, and just have the insert section (the seating area) redone w/ black Alcantara or other durable synthetic suede. But I would like to do the headrest elimination like in my 2nd attached photo, as it cleans up the seat and makes it more like a race seat.

Mike, I may be interested in those bottom door carpets, I'm still on the fence of getting rid of all the red or keeping a few outlines.

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Nice work,one of the nicest around these days.

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I like those seats better without the headrests. They don't look nearly as....80's-ish. LOL

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Little side project I've had working on... Since I have a ix MR (aluminum roof) I can not mount a bike rack on it. I recently picked up a Yakama rack from WiDSM.org for a pretty killer price, & in good shape.

I've modified it a little to be able to transport my boy's modified Lightning Mcqueen power wheels around (I may start a project tread just for that, lol). Now I can take him anywhere now with his car pretty easily. Only takes about 5 minutes to mount and strap it down, this thing is mounted SOLID.

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That shit is pimp! Is there any way you can crank them things up? My son has a little JD Gator. Thing scoots for a 1.5 yr old, but in a year or two he may want more :p

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Easiest way is to bump up to 18v if it is a 12v model. Mcqueen was a 12v stock, he is now up to 18v & it moves pretty good now with no reliability issues at all. My son learned how to drive before he learned how to ride a bike LOL.

The next round of upgrades is currently shipping via UPS, & will be putting them in this weekend.

The best place I've found is http://forum.modifiedpowerwheels.com/

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still have this?

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Yeah, no real changes lately other than new rubber and a few interior changes - covered the ribbed sections between dash and center console w/ the faux alcantara. Thinking of adding a ef1 when the 14b starts to go. Mostly saving money for evo mods.

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I don't know why I didn't check this out earlier. I've got pretty much the same plan for mine, updating via Evo type parts. I'll have to check out the online interior place, I'm planning on doing the interiors in both my Lotus and DSM with that synthetic suede. Keep the updates coming.

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http://www.yourautotrim.com/suheobl.html is where I picked up the headliner material. Nice quality stuff not expensive at all, had enough leftover to do my boy's lightning mcqueen interior LOL.