david-b's 95 Eagle Talon ESi-T Motor Build

[vanilla gorilla]

Haha, Ive had the same problem. My DP nuts backed off the studs on the o2 housing, and the DP hit the dirt....scary as S*** when your ballin on 95

[david-b]

Been getting some work done on the car.

MS is close to being finished getting wired up (for logging, not tuning). Been doing lots of reading on all the little details and shit, but so far so good. It's in the glovebox, and then just run a USB cable to my HP Mini when I need it. Thing threw a CEL for some reason when I first got it running, but it's since went a way. SAFC is completely disconnected, but still sitting in the dash. That'll come out soon and get sold. We had a good run, but now it's time to part ways.

I fixed the MBC; when I took it apart I installed the spring/ball backwards. I hit 15psi the other day and wow! Sadly, I can't run it like that because of the block and I think I'd be out of fuel very soon. Still working on bringing it down more.

Turbo was still whining pretty nicely after I fixed the downpipe, and realized I had a small pin-size leak at my joint. So fixed that today and it's quiet again and no leaks.

[david-b]

Small set back yesterday. Was racing a stock GSX on the expressway and the boost ended up spiking. Gauge read about 18psi... don't know how though. But I heard a loud pop and loud whooshing noise under the hood.

Was able to make it home with a terrible idle, and turned out I blew the throttle body gasket, and was letting in a huge amount of air. I don't know if this happened before or after, but the WG hose was also off. Don't know if it blew off or what but hopefully this is all fixed. Have to get some clamps for the hoses.



PS, I beat the GSX

[david-b]

Found a shop to do my dyno at. Decently close by, like 45 minutes away. Pricing is good too. Will take a day off or half day or something to get out there. My buddy in his is300 will be coming out to the dyno too. I'm making more power than he is right now, but he's modding it up nicely trying to beat me.

MegaSquirt is still only about half wired up. Just haven't had time to get things all together.

I busted my downpipe again all hardcore and will be fixing today when I get home. I'm going to buy a GST downpipe and just run with no cat until I need it in for whatever reason.

As far as the motor goes, just waiting for the clutch and FIs. I'm still going to pull the pistons again and doube check all my work, hopefully I'll get that done by this weekend. I'm listing a bunch of old parts this week so I can have some extra cash so I can order everything up. So by next week I should have everything else I need ordered up. The new turbo is sitting on top of my tv so each time I'm watching something I just see this thing starring at me like a sexy beast. Very motivational.

SO.... it won't be in before the meet. The week afterward though, is my new goal. Second week of August it's going in. I'll post some pics tonight of some random shit.

[david-b]

***Update***
Been making it happen, here's what's new:

Exhaust
-Got my 2.5" - 3" GST downpipe this weekend. I'm going to cut it up so it'll work with my car.
-3" cat-back came in. Huge 4.5" muffler tip on this thing. It just looks massive
-Have to make the turbo to DP sectional piece, so have some 2.5" pipe and flanges/gaskets coming in
-New rubber hangers and O2 bungs are all on order. Don't know what size the EGT bung is though.
-New WG flanges/pipe coming in

Hopefully I will do the exhaust this weekend if it's nice. I'm going to install a V-Clamp off the turbo at 2.5", then it's 3" after the flex pipe. No cat this time! Since the V-Clamp sticks out off the turbo even farther that just the flange and pipe, I'm going to move the Wastegate a little. You can see in the pics of my engine bay, the exhuast comes really close to hitting the WG pipe. So the WG will be on it's own little pipe sitting away from the exhaust hopefully.


Clutch
-Fidanza 8lb flywheel comes in today
-ACT clutch is already sitting at my house. After doing some reserch, it may be the wrong clutch though. We'll see once I get to the flywheel tonight. Won't be happy if it's not what they said it was. Is rated for ~412lbs of torque. Should be good enough
-Have to order longer Neon flywheel bolts for the new setup.


Fuel
-Found my extra fuel rail at my parents house, and it's a 95! For those who don't know, the 95s have a built in FPR and a return line. Easier to work with since my car is already setup for everything with that.
-I cut out the FPR and repaired the rail (small crack) with JB Weld.
-Will clean up some more and paint.
-Have to order fuel injectors either tomorrow or wednesday. But happening this week for sure.
-Replacing OEM fuel filter with aftermarket and using as much SS line as possible.


I'll be taking pics of everything this week I'm hoping. My place became a big mess again, and I like it.

Besides all the above, the car is running like absolute shit. I know a cylinder is just about gone because of the way it's running. I have oil all up in my vacuum lines going to the boost gaugse and MS which are tee'd off the IM. Mad exhaust leak somewhere (after the O2 sensors so I really don't care) and my passenger wheel bearing is def worse than before. And the clutch is slipping really bad. RPMs go up, car doesn't move. It's pretty bad. I've never driven a clutch before this car so I'm assuming that's the cluth slipping. On the plus side my gas-mileage is phenominal right now. Not sure what the deal is there. Not complaining though.

[vanilla gorilla]

Whoa, sounds like you got alot of stuff going on. Good to hear you making progress. And yes that definately sounds like the clutch slipping, Im suprised its lasted this long. My stock clutch lasted about a day after I turboed it before it started slipping.

[david-b]

Originally Posted by vanilla gorilla

Whoa, sounds like you got alot of stuff going on. Good to hear you making progress. And yes that definately sounds like the clutch slipping, Im suprised its lasted this long. My stock clutch lasted about a day after I turboed it before it started slipping.

Ya I"m pretty excited to finally be pushing to finish this up. The clutch and the trans were less than a year old when I turboed so it was nice and fresh. Now, not so much.

[david-b]

Little stuff:
OBX Radiator hoses


Fidenza Flywheel


3" N1-style exhaust

[SilvrEclipse]

Nice. I need to upgrade my exhaust

[steviek]

oooh very nice!

[vanilla gorilla]

Looks great man. Sometimes I wish I had a real exhaust on the red car....but then again, i love loud, redneck, trashy sounding exhausts.

[david-b]

Originally Posted by vanilla gorilla

Looks great man. Sometimes I wish I had a real exhaust on the red car....but then again, i love loud, redneck, trashy sounding exhausts.

I was working on it yesterday and ended up having to move the car with just the DP coming off the turbo on and that thing is loud. Don't know what this new exhaust sounds like yet. My buddies were hoping for flames shooting out of it lol.

[KoDKingVegeta]

Originally Posted by david-b

I was working on it yesterday and ended up having to move the car with just the DP coming off the turbo on and that thing is loud. Don't know what this new exhaust sounds like yet. My buddies were hoping for flames shooting out of it lol.

You could always cut the cat, and resonator pipe off, so then its straight pipe.

[david-b]

I need to get this going.... just blew the motor today

[david-b]

I started doing a compression test and only got half way through. Going from right to left: 120 and 90. When I did the 90, it smoked out from the piston. Also, when trying to get the spark plugs back in the 120... the heads keep breaking, so there's something in there for sure

I think I'm going to start pulling everything off this motor and rip it down to the block. When the Grand Am is finished, I'll push the Talon to my parents and then pull the block there. Should be easier that way right?