How often does your DSM break?
 

I was driving to work today just wondering... I hear people saying how DSM's are always broken but so far my DSM's have been very reliable. With any car you have to replace some parts every once in a while, but why are so many DSM's broke down all the time? Seems like 90% of the people on this site either don't own a DSM or have one that doesn't run. What's the deal?

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I purchased mine with an oil burning issue so technically the only problem which has developed is my clutch issue. I'm hoping to have that resolved with a new master & slave cylinders along with braided clutch line.

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The braided clutch line has been the best $10 I've spent on my car so far. My clutch used to engage just off the floor. Now it engages a few inches off of the floor. It made the 2100 feel lighter than stock. Two thumbs up.

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you should re:title this as


"how often does your dsm work"

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Then nobody would have posted.

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DSMs are fine unless you modify them, obviously that just accelerates shit breaking. I have owned a bunch of DSMs and they usually were pretty decent when they were stock. But who the fuck can leave a car stock, I sure can't.

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Mine does great when it's together. :p

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Its all in the boost addiction. Once you feel the slight rush of the t25 for the first time you have been addicted and want more and more boost. and then you o.d sometimes so you have to fix it. Its just the way modifying cars goes. we get our fix and want some more, when we get more we want even more then that. until it dies. Then you give it a heart transplant and it starts all over.

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I've only had the GSX for a little over a year and i can't complain. It's pretty modded up and I thankfully didn't have any problems with it to date.

My only complain would be the tranny's. Whomever designed the tranny's, had their head up their asses. JUNK!!! I went through 4 of them with my old '97 GST.

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I'm still thinking about buying a 1g, because of all the maintenance work i've heard on a decent one...i might have to go to a 2g dsm. My cousin's talon has had his talon no longer than 5 months, daily driven, and the tranny broke out on him.

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It might be you and not the trannies. Think about the fact that they can handle 3 & 4 times the power they meant to see. Do they need some tweakiing at times, yes, but over all, they are very strong transmissions.

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I've never had any issues other than replacing a worn out clutch, alternator, starter, crank pully, or coil packs. All occurrend on different cars. 97 GST, 95 GSX, 98 GSX, 91 TSi AWD. I never made as much power as anyone normally does but when I had my 95 gsx (13.404 on the T25 with no fuel control) I would beat the shit out of it. 6500rpm clutch DROPS, lots of 3rd gear pulls into high rpms, off road fun, etc ect, and She took it all and drove my ass to work the next day.

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I broke stuff, but it was due to power levels, mistakes, or age of the part. I've honestly gotton about 80k out of the dsm's i've owned. Some needed minor repair, some more major, but overall good.
The stealth was a rockstar, hopefully it will be the same as far as reliability is concerned when it is complete.

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Well it could be partially due to me but I'm generally pretty good with my stuff. I was probably making 300-315HP with the GST. I wouldn't say it had ridiculous amounts of Horsepower. In every single one of my tranny blows it was always shearing the gears off in the same spot. It was nothing to do with the diff either. Brian(slowwhite), I know went through his share of tranny's.

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I've been pretty lucky. So far the only things that broke on either of my DSMs (95 GST and a 99 GST Spyder) are one alternator, one a/c belt (who needs ac anyway lol), and now the convertible top (a couple of brackets, not the motor, though I am sure it will one day give up). I have, however, had a stupid problem with both cars: The windshield washer sprayers! On both cars they leaked..it jacked up my paint on the 95, leaving this nasty etched look, no matter what I used to take it off. It looks like the same thing happened on the 99, but I drained the resevoir (sp?) and never use them anyway. When I get my CF hood, I'm not gonna have em at all (never use them anyway, stupid things).

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My '95 kicks ass. Just cause I'm saying this somthing will happen now... Anyways, all that I have need to do is a clutch. Everything else is in good shape and so far, has held up well. I think I'm going pretty good for running mid 12's on a 2g.

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mine breaks everytime I look at it. What ever breaks, I upgrade, then it breaks again. I am with craig on this. The more power you make, the more stupid shit breaks. I didn't have a problem with the 16g power, but when you get bigger than a 16g, problems start happening. On my car with a 20g, a rod bearing went and a few piston rings fell off when I took it apart. With bigger turbos, we have had many problems. It wasn't a tuning issue either. 0 knock on both the motors we went through.

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It has to be running to break, so my cars technically haven't been broken in over a year. Except they haven't been running for a year.

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Mine was extremely reliable with the 50 trim, until my "professionally" rebuilt engine went. I had popped a few headgaskets, but those were my fault trying to figure out the AEM. We'll see how it lasts now. I think it will be decent, but I am not expecting 100k miles out of the setup either.

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You have got to realize that some of these cars are pushing 15 years old. Combine that with us beating on them, doubling their designed hp/tq outputs, and any car under that condition would break. You just don't see it that often with other cars because there is a big following for DSM's and not too many people are taking 92 Civic's and putting down 400hp(besides the few that are out there, but those still have the same issues we do).