"banjo cat ghost of oppo past" (brgdsm)
09/22/2014 at 12:51 • Filed to: None
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"banjo cat ghost of oppo past" (brgdsm)
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A step-by-step intro to my college/mothballed project car and its impending resurrection. I now present last year's short-lived transmission revival...mostly because the turbo needed to be replaced immediately after.
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! I omitted the actual car: 1993 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX turbo awd 5 speed, 6 bolt 4G63 motor bored .20 over with 3 angle valve porting, 4 bolt LSD rear, modified everything else @ 20psi formerly using a "big" 16G turbo from a JDM Lancer Evo 3.
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...Actually the entire engine is from a JDM Evo 3 but it takes a while convincing people that the previous owner really did swap in basically the same engine with a few key differences.
The first pic is the cracked housing on the old tranny, which had apparently been rebuilt. It met its end from trashed motor mounts and a faulty transmission mount meant for another Mitsubishi. As these things go, it was days after I got the new ecu working and replaced all the fluids. A gentle shift traveling down a favored lakeside road led to a KERCHUK-KERCHUK and the whole car bucking. Then- a rock tumbler for a gearbox and I have to call my ladyfriend to pick me up instead. Again.
The air sensor in the top left is from a range of GM v8 engines but programmed to work on my car because of the big free flowing 3" diameter vs the stock like 1.75" honeycombed sensor/ intake filter combo.
Hard launches from at least two of its owners on stock rubber mounts probably weren't kind...
I personally
never dropped the beefed up ACT clutch at redline although I did enjoy hardy launches from abouts 4500rpm. With the turbo dialed in it would just squat, and spin all four wheels.
*sigh*...
I was going to save this but Funk it, boom new reinforced tranny I worked on/ painted.
Polyurethane mounts will hopefully stop it from grenading again. This tranny had been rebuilt but it took me almost a week with a wire wheel, nasty degreaser and a damned toothbrush to clean the grody transmission housing used, finished off with five or so coats of engine enamel.
Replaced 1st speed gear, seals, bearings, all syncro's and blocking rings, the cyncro hub and sleeve and front/ rear spacers, throw out bearing, reinforced transmission fork, and so on. In DSM's the 1st & 2nd gear syncro's tend to get a lot of work.
Next post will feature the car's antique Japanese Piggyback ecu technorogy!
HammerheadFistpunch
> banjo cat ghost of oppo past
09/22/2014 at 12:54 |
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took me a minute to find it but...dayum.
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banjo cat ghost of oppo past
> HammerheadFistpunch
09/22/2014 at 13:08 |
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Yeah I had mostly the same reaction when I coasted to the lakeside pulloff to take this pic. Luckily my preferred towing service was literally a mile down the hill and they knew where to take it, and to bring a flatbed or rollers...for the 5th time.
Takuro Spirit
> banjo cat ghost of oppo past
09/22/2014 at 13:10 |
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banjo cat ghost of oppo past
> Takuro Spirit
09/22/2014 at 13:23 |
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I lol'd esp after noticing the guy under the car