Not your everyday project

[punxnotdead185]

Well spent the first day on my new project, a productive one if may say. I need to cut a coil or two off the rear, I used the KYB AGX's and Eibach's out of my Talon and the Mirage is too light to compress them at all lol. I think also before it sees the road I will weld in a little more bracing where the front of the subframe is attached.

[CornFed2.4]

Looks like a muscle car!

[punxnotdead185]

Originally Posted by CornFed2.4

Looks like a muscle car!

Yeah, I want it a little high in the back so it will launch straight but this is too much, needs to lose like 2 inches or so.

[turbotalon1g]

Buy the right springs?

[EclipseGST]

Originally Posted by turbotalon1g

Buy the right springs?

Thats what I was thinking. Figure out the recommended spring rate and get some that match that before cutting up springs.

[DSMINMN]

Gotta love AWD coupe Colts/Mirages! Looking good so far.

[punxnotdead185]

Well so far here is what I have and what the plan is, I have an auto awd trans that's going in it with the translab shift kit and a welded center diff, 93 7 bolt motor with EVO 9 rods and pistons, stock cams for now till I can afford better ones with EVO 9 springs and retainers in a MAP stage 3 ported head with a "Rev 2.5" ported 2g intake with a 95 Sonata valve cover, twice as heavy as a DSM valve cover and probably twice as strong and I call the intake a rev 2.5 because it's a rev 2 map port job plus most of the reshaping of the rev 3 without actually cutting it open, I have a big H1C with a BEP bolton housing and I also have a billet HX40 Pro wheel I might fit in it, ECMLink V3 with a 4 bar GM style MAP sensor getting tuned on speed density of course, 1000cc FIC injectors with a modded walbro 255, JM Fab cop plate with 300m coils, full ARP hardware in everything, plus a few other goodies, should be a decent little setup for now lol.

[CornFed2.4]

So did you do the rear end swap? Did you use a 1G Dsm rear end? Define rely not your everyday project that's for sure.

[DSMINMN]

Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and say that'll be one bad ass setup.

[punxnotdead185]

Originally Posted by CornFed2.4

So did you do the rear end swap? Did you use a 1G Dsm rear end? Define rely not your everyday project that's for sure.

Yeah me and my friend did it, took 10 hours, after doing it once now I could probably do it in 5-6, and yes it is a 91 TSi subframe

[dsmghost]

Nice, I would like to get my hands on one of these.

[punxnotdead185]

Well got some stuff done, here are some pics, I ran my BEP housing through the polisher at work after porting and I can literally see my reflection inside it lol, hopefully that helps spool some.

[punxnotdead185]

Finally got my compressor wheels in from Japan, took a month but worth the wait, from left to right they are stock big H1C then 60mm H1E then one of my custom slim nose HX40 pro wheels and last but definitely not least a 67mm upgrade wheel for HX40 w/ extended tips, what I call the HX40/52 hybrid wheel lol. Time to build some badass turbos.

[Goat Blower]

Holy crap! That's a ported head.

[punxnotdead185]

Yeah the port work I did on my head is the same as the Evo and RX7 at MAP when they were both over 1000HP, so it should flow alright lol. Just need to quit being lazy and finish it, its like 75% there right now, hard to work up the initiative when you port all day to port some more when you could just go home.

[turbotalon1g]

I'll take one of those heads and HX40 setups please.

Nice work.