Project Winter Beater

[s1ngletracker]

so that eliminates the lateral flex of the bushing, which creates the active toe? That seems bad to me, as your control arms don't move vertically, they move in an arc and that could create binding, no?

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Originally Posted by s1ngletracker

so that eliminates the lateral flex of the bushing, which creates the active toe? That seems bad to me, as your control arms don't move vertically, they move in an arc and that could create binding, no?

I can tell you mine do not bind and neither would the Jay's racing kit. That kit uses those rod ends which I doubt will bind. If anything, going the route I did can cause binding if you do it wrong. Mine went together really easy, and works really good.

Twack has ridden with a couple times and might be able to put his 2 cents in, but I'm on stock rusty springs and shocks, stock sway bars. Poly control arm and sway bar bushings in the front as well. The way it handles is anything but stock DSM.... if I throw the car into the corner, it rotates. Even on snow tires.


:::Kind of a late edit to my post, but I must add that when I aligned my car at school I did not fully follow the factory specs. The factory is tuned with tow in already, and lots of camber from the factory in the rear. I lessened the camber just a hair and actually added a little tow out in the rear. I feel like that contributes to the nice rotation I get as well.

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So I stuffed the car in it's first ditch. You can see on the left side of the picture is where my rear end was. My right front tire was hanging off that cement pipe. Luckily there was a farmer with his tractor that was passing by just a little bit after it happened. He had a bucket setup on the front and we were able to lift the front end up and back on the wheels and then pull it out. We're pretty lucky:



All that was damaged was a bent right front rim, my wideband sensor got bent pretty good, and I need to replace a stud on my o2 housing for the downpipe. I already replaced the sensor (86 dollars later...) and my friend Zach is bringing another rim for me to paint and mount the tire on. I'll have to pull the exhaust side off my turbo to remove the stud. Could've been a lot worse though....

EDIT: Here is the video but for some reason ends right as my front end is about to be white washed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6vq3gcmGAM

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Long time no update...


Just got a few nice upgrades for the talon over the last couple days. Found a nice, true e3 16g turbo, some nice couplers and t bolt clamps for the gm maf, and a greddy catch can.





This o2 housing didn't come with the turbo, but a stock 2g one did. This is my ported 1g o2 housing:

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Installed the turbo yesterday at school. Ran it at 20 psi up until after school today with good results. Then I turned it up just a little bit more and now it seems happy at 25 psi with 11.2-10.8 afr's to redline. Pulls really hard so I'm very happy. I should try and get to the dyno day....

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I was bored on my day off today, so I made a heat shield.



My catch can setup:



Dirty engine bay FTW...