Glad to see it goin. What happened with the oil spewing?

Hey man, I just caught up on the whole.

Very impressive build! Tons of hard work, and dedication. Glad the car is working, and it was great seeing it in person. After seeing the original pictures I realized the car you brought to MOD clearly had a TON of work.

If you are ever in the Philly area again, let me know!

Exhaust patch work and new resonator.

No more banging around turns.

Been super busy lately but I got s few hours off today and swaped the rear driver door on the old gal. I had a big dent in the top and the window trim wouldn't fit on right.it realy irked me. Problem solved... Too bad swapping everything over to the current door took almost 6 hours.


I really wanted to swap back to the proper dsm/vr4 slave cylinder (3kgt currently), however the one I had looked a lot more beat up than I rememberd. There were grooves in the mating surface to the compression line and I didn't want to risk a leak. Clutch pedal is nice and high but very heavy. I'm trying to make the car more tame. A lighter clutch pedal sure would help in traffic.

Out of nowhere I'm getting 5th gear popouts. Like 10 today. Going to have to pull the end case and have a look to see if everything is tight.

I also get water in my trunk along the side galleys. It doesn't seem to be coming from the top as none of the carpet or fabric walls are wet. What's down there that's prone to leak? Tail lights maybe?

That was for your fifth gear and would let it pop out of gear in fifth while loose like that. If the shafts are loose then it's time for a rebuild.

Chop the filter open. If there's metal, that's where it will be.

So this car has been on Jack stands since January 20th.I finally got my 4 spider center differential last week. Thursday I shimmed and assembled the transmission. Today I bolted it in. There were some issues with the dowel pins and the rear bolt hole was stripped out on the replacement transmission case. Always Chase your holes with taps before you do this. I had to pull the trans back out to put a coil in the back of the case. One of the mount holes was completely stripped out too. Had to go with a 5/8x20 bolt because the hole Was so bad. Fixed some minor issues with the shifter cable bushings. I ended up using a thin. .042" washer as a shim under the pivot ball and swapping back to the standard bore slave cylinder. It's still the 3kgt style thought. Axels are in and the exhaust and transfer case are bolted on. I'm going to finish it up this week hopefully. I'm pretty sure my last transmission broke because the engine mounts were wrong. Added stress on the output shaft cracking that beading race like it did. Hopefully all that is behind me now. I have new reccaro knockoffs to install as well as ultra racing front fender braces. Would also like to set up the wires to activate a dual stage bov actuator. It never ends.

So, success! 5 year warranty on the battery got me a new one. Started the car up and drove it around. Transmission was working as it should. The smaller bore 3kgt slave cylinder (stock Galant bore size) is working properly with the regular length rod and .047" pivot shim. No noise no issues clutch engagement is over an inch from the floor.

Next day I advanced my exhaust cam 3 degrees and instantly noticed a difference. 18psi of vacuum at idle and a log that shows no knock after pulling just a little timing above 6k. This adjustment was made based on reexamining my notes I took while originally degreeing them, before final assembly. I may also still advance my intake cam 1.6°. It's working pretty well now though. The 225/45/18 tires make the ride a little better too.

The next project is to fix some wiring issues I have with the solenoids. The gsx model doesn't have these with the exception of the purge control solenoid. The #105 pin is populated though. Turns out that it come to the resistor heater in the o2 sensor. I'm pretty sure it's powered the same way and I can just connect it to pin 101 (ignition switched ground) instead but I will double check before I connect it that way. I had some wires run in to the cabin for other reasons and just decided to repurpose them. Now I have 4 outputs. I'm considering connecting my wide band to my ecu as a native 5v o2 monitor and a map sensor to the egrt input. Some guys running pressure based Maps instead of load based. Thought I might give it a try. After all this checks out I need to get my cyclone to work. And after that I want to use another solenoid to switch between open and fast release on my dodge garage modded bov. A little more work but the end is in sight.

Been a while since I updated this. Mostly working on my turbo mighty max swap. I'm Finally getting around to install some parts I've had around for too long. Here's a new solution for evo rear suspension swaps and a 1" ST sway bar installed.




Soon to come rear lightened bumper support and a nice fresh hood and rear bumper cover.