The car didn't make it to the cookout as I wanted it to. It was running rough and I didn't want to risk hurting it.
I did want to post pictures of it to show progress. Not all of the photos have been uploaded but I just wanted to show how much work I have been doing on this car.
http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc272/Andrew7dg/
This isn't a high budget car with lots of money stuck into it but it does run nice now.
I bought it with a couple of problems which is never the way to buy a dsm
It had a bad boost leak and that was an easy fix
What really bugged me was that it was smoking when it was idling and I thought it was the turbo (when I bought it someone had stuck on a 13g...weird) switch turbos to a 14b and still had the same problem. Then being new to the dsm world I put on a 3" exhaust system and was introduced into the world of boost creep.
just wanted a clean running engine that would be somewhat reliable.This year I finally did something about it. I pulled the engine and changed all of the gaskets along with installing
APR studs
eliminated the balance shafts
Installed the FMIC with hard pipes
Installed 16g (ported)
2g o2 housing (ported)
Evo III exhaust manifold (ported)
New valve cover
Custom made hard intake pipe
2600 ACT with Flywheel
GM MAF-T
I didn't install this all at once however. front mount was installed before I took apart the engine just to make sure it would work.
I just got done and I am quite impressed with the results.
I thought removing the balancing shafts would be annoying when driving but I don't notice it as much as I thought
Anyway I will add more when I find more pictures
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