New dsm to minnesota?

[2g Monson]

I bought my car from the same situation, a kid who had not a clue about the car but bought if from someone who built it. Luckily my dad is a smart man, got the original owners info from the title and called the first owner down in Georgia. Mine ran rich because it was supposed to have an AFC that had been stolen, and the kid I got it from had no idea. Moral of the story is don't believe everything you hear. Do your research.

[awd-drifter]

Originally Posted by polishmafia

"This thing does... ummm... its got lots of different things it does."

"Here we have readouts... This is a turbo timer."

"This tells you readouts."

"This one, you can do this and you can do that."

Guy sounds like he has no friggen clue what he is talking about.

I pray to God that I'm wrong, cause if you buy this, it might be a nightmare. If he did it all himself, who knows what could be wrong with it. If he paid a shop to do it all, his money and intelligence ratio is way off... and his intelligence is the part that is heavily lacking.

this.

It looks clean but if I'm going to buy a 'reliable' dsm, I would personally go take a look at it. Even if it's modded correctly by the previous owner, you don't know what the current owner has done to the car...unless you personally drive the car itself to see it for yourself. Like others have said on here, you can find better ones here in the forums and locally. I've been DD'ing the Galant for 2 proud years through winter and summer. I'd wouldn't take the risk and just buy locally

[Goat Blower]

It would easily make over 400hp, but most people talk flywheel numbers to the general public, only us car guys talk in wheel horsepower. So figuring 350whp=400hp, this should be easily doable.

It is a clean car, but you are taking your chances driving a car all the way across the country after just buying it. Although I did this yesterday, bought a 160k mile Acura TL in Kansas City, jumped in and drove 80mph all the way home, no problemo. Just be prepared if something happens and get out your credit card.

[Constant_Project21]

^^you drove an acura tl home, he's driving a 17 year old dsm home....there's a large difference between the 2 haha.

[mdost03]

Looks like it idles at 1500rpm?

Looks nice, but there are nice cars like this locally as well.

[Swifty1638]

"someone put in the wrench time.."

[Brandito93]

These were the best i could find i know the first two are not local and the last one is more than likely someone one here but i honestly have no clue what to do i want awd just dont know if i want stock or modded. and it idled around 970rpm

http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/1627812057.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/1626005669.html

http://lincoln.craigslist.org/cto/1627404069.html

http://eauclaire.craigslist.org/cto/1613143392.html

[Ihearrtdsm]

Originally Posted by Swifty1638

"someone put in the wrench time.."

oh no! lol

[goodhart]

Originally Posted by Swifty1638

"someone put in the wrench time.."

"A couple of Nissan SR20's would pull a premium one week before race wars. "

[awd-drifter]

Originally Posted by Brandito93

These were the best i could find i know the first two are not local and the last one is more than likely someone one here but i honestly have no clue what to do i want awd just dont know if i want stock or modded. and it idled around 970rpm

research alot more if you're not sure. I'd suggest getting a car that is stock but I don't think that is going to happen. If you purchase a modded dsm, you don't know how much abuse it has taken. I researched/read online/asked around for a good 3-4 years before getting the galant and I know enough to do what I like in the car. The only reason why DSMs are known to be shit is because of shitty owners.

[mdost03]

Originally Posted by Brandito93

and it idled around 970rpm

Well on the 2nd video you posted, at 1:35, he goes to the cluster and it's sitting at 1500rpm and then he revs it.

And do all DSMs have an A/F curve at idle that the gauge hops around so much? I never had one on my DSM, but on my SRT, it moves between 14.7 and 15.2 at idle only.

Just trying to point out possible issues, not trying to give you crap.

[Swifty1638]

^Mine hops around a ton at idle, but that's because of the cams. At Idle, it's tuned to run a bit lean, since the engine isn't working hard, so it needs just enough fuel to stay running.

[Brandito93]

well i want to get rid of my fwd and get awd it doesn't have to be this spectacular car, im sixteen and can't afford a super nice car, therefore talons and eclipses are in my price range and i wouldn't mind some tasteful mods to make it go faster but im not to familiar mechanically wise with cars but i have some buds that can help me with things if they go wrong so im not too worried about that i just don't want it breaking down constantly so i was asking you guys what you thought

[mdost03]

Originally Posted by Swifty1638

^Mine hops around a ton at idle, but that's because of the cams. At Idle, it's tuned to run a bit lean, since the engine isn't working hard, so it needs just enough fuel to stay running.

Yeah makes sense, this one doesn't have cams though. Or at least isn't listed in the FS ad.

[awd-drifter]

Originally Posted by Brandito93

well i want to get rid of my fwd and get awd it doesn't have to be this spectacular car, im sixteen and can't afford a super nice car, therefore talons and eclipses are in my price range and i wouldn't mind some tasteful mods to make it go faster but im not to familiar mechanically wise with cars but i have some buds that can help me with things if they go wrong so im not too worried about that i just don't want it breaking down constantly so i was asking you guys what you thought

why not keep your current one then? Older cars will tend to break more often especially if the previous owner hasn't taken good care of it. If you want to go fast, I'd suggest reading/researching online more about how to properly mod a DSM. DSMs will make you a mechanic, a reason why a tried to sell the galant, but right now I'm not going to do so because plans are changing .

[Brandito93]

i want awd for the winter so thats why and i dont want to mod this one because of the fwd if i get an awd then i will start modding if it doesn't already have some

[goodhart]

I say you just start collecting parts for an AWD swap if that is the only part you don't like about the car. I know others on here have done it.

[Brandito93]

http://www.wi-dsm.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1857

[awd-drifter]

I wouldn't even invest the time/energy/money into converting a 1g fwd to awd even if I had all the tools in the world unless I was a rich zillionaire. lol. I guess you can get the awd but like I've said in every single post...RESEARCH

[Brandito93]

yea i am and have been for awile i just wish by some act of god somebody would just say ill buy your car then all my problems will be solved