Turbo Swap a DSM

[CoreyB]

Sounds like it wasnt fuel cut but timing being pulled do to knock. You might of had bad knock from over boosting and the detenation finaly crushed a bearing.

[AshyBone]

Sounds like it wasnt fuel cut but timing being pulled do to knock. You might of had bad knock from over boosting and the detenation finaly crushed a bearing.

This makes the most sense to me. I never heard any knock though but I know sometimes it would need an actual scan device to detect. When I get time or when ever I get my tranny back into my VR4 (biggest pain in the ass) I'll pull the GSX into the garage and check for metal shavings in the oil then drop the pan and look at my bearings.

I want to just rebuild the engine to be honest with yall. At this point I have no faith in the last person who had this GSX and think he was another hack mechanic DSMer. I'm not sure if I mentioned it on this thread earlier but the person I bought the car from said the person they got it from did the work. It has a 1st gen engin and tranny in it but they said the guy replaced a bearing and piston and piston arm? I can't find the exact email anymore but I don't know anything other then that about this cars engine. I'm not even sure about the "16G" that's in the car either.

Austin when I say it was low in oil it was a quart low. This car can through ALOT of oil out of the exhaust system on cold starts reving it to keep it from dying thats why I think the turbo was blown... That or it has has bad rings or something. There is always oil in the valve covers sitting around the spark plug holes.

[mh3kgt]

Uh motor doesnt sound good from what you are explaining. Best bet is to do a FULL rebuild and make sure you clean the hell outta that motor to get any trace of bearing material outta there, luckily the 4g63 is fairly inexpensive to build in comparison to the 6G72.

[AshyBone]

Ya that's what I Thought too. This eclipse is probably going to be on the back burner for a while... Main reason is because its not really my car. I bought it for my cousin but he fucked up. Damn and Here in a lil while I was going to get the evo 9 fuel pump and evo 8 560cc injectors for it... Oh well. How will I know if the crank is cast iron or forged... Or should I just get a new crank... I just looked and a stroker kit for these cars are ONLY $1694.95 that would barly buy my VR4 a one piece CFDS

[mh3kgt]

Yup, that's why they say if you wanna go fast for cheap, buy a DSM. Complete opposite for the 3s crowd lol

[AshyBone]

Seriously I'm still wondering WHY there's not more 9 second DSMs??? After looking around for stuff for this car I relise I could have it down to at least 10 seconds for half what it would take to get my VR4 there... If that. This is funny as hell. IF was all 100% my car I'd make it into a beast. But since its still my cousins car (long stupid story) I have to remember not to get to carried away. By march if not sooner I can see this becoming a build thread lol.