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

[vanilla gorilla]

Lol, yea the kitchen build is trill as hell. Things lookin great man, keep it up.

[ned032002]

Did your old landlord ever catch you rebuilding a motor in the kitchen? I would be like wtf?!?!

[david-b]

He's never been inside the place actually since I moved in. He was going to check it out once around Easter but I denied him since the place was a mess. Never came back lol. God only knows what he would say. I make sure I move the stand around almost everyday so it doesn't leave marks in the floor. I have one that I'm hoping will pop up eventually.

Budweiser FTW... have to drink while doing this kinds of things

Nothing here is bolted together in the pics, just mocked it all up to make sure everything was good. I have some more cleaning to do on the head but I'm planning on have it altogether and timed by Sunday.

[david-b]

Didn't have a chance to work on it at all this weekend. All my tools are still at the garage. But everything is basically ready to get bolt on.

Got some new toys coming now too. Also been reading on how to repair the rusted out strut tower.

[david-b]

[ned032002]

Look at the piston on the floor...did you forget to put that inside the engine? JK

[vanilla gorilla]

Damn, that shits sexy man for real. Hope it runs good as it looks, if so it'll be a beast. What brand is that manifold?

Also, it looks like the external wastegate tube/flange is right at the turbo....or do you just have the turbo on backwards?

[david-b]

It's OBX brand. There's mixed feelings about this manifold but the price was right. Cheapest I've ever seen it for. Worth staying up late one night to win this shit.

Ya the WG runs right into the compressor. I think the turbo is too big Going to try to make a flange and use a little curved piece going up and around. Not sure how well that's going to turn out. It's a 4-bolt 40mm WG, but still going to use my Tial 38mm.

[ned032002]

Can you have someone heat up the wastegate flange and just bend it up a little bit more so it will be easier to flange up the wastegate?

[vanilla gorilla]

Originally Posted by david-b

It's OBX brand. There's mixed feelings about this manifold but the price was right. Cheapest I've ever seen it for. Worth staying up late one night to win this shit.

Ya the WG runs right into the compressor. I think the turbo is too big Going to try to make a flange and use a little curved piece going up and around. Not sure how well that's going to turn out. It's a 4-bolt 40mm WG, but still going to use my Tial 38mm.

yea i figured it was an offbrand manifold. Its purty as hell but i didnt see a brand tag on it. Theres always mixed feelings on cheap manifolds, well turbo ones anyway. As cheap as it is its worth the try i guess. I ran 2 pacesetter mild steel manifolds on my car and they both cracked after a month. But yet pacesetter makes great headers for v8s. So you never know.

ned
I really dont think that that can be bent.

[cantgo2fast]

Your probably better off cutting it and turning it to a better angle, heating the metal enough to bend it would mess with the strength of it in that area

[david-b]

Ya I'm not going to try to heat it. Figure it may mess with the structural integrity of the piece. I ordered a flange and going to fab up a little extension piece. It may have a weird angle coming off of it. It's hard to find pics of this thing installed since not too many people have it, so I can't see how everyone else does it.

Not much update besides the motor is headed to the garage tomorrow. I'm sick of it being in the kitchen. There's not much more I can do, and it'll be easier to move now from the kitchen, through the house, down stairs, through a yard, onto the back of a pickup, and back off the back of a pickup as is, then all assembled. I was going to do timing but realized that I still need the crank sprocket off the existing one. So it'll be moved and completed at the garage now.

STILL waiting on coils for Grand Am. Piece of shit.

[david-b]

Talon made it the garage today.



Got pretty much everything pulled that I needed. I can't get the crank pulley off the old block and ended up cracking the UDP so now I have to buy a new one. New motor is together and nearing completion.

Where she sits now.

[vanilla gorilla]

Beautiful. Get us more pics asap.

[SilvrEclipse]

When is the blown motor coming out?