DSM + Big Turbo + Stance = My Build

[morghen]

beautiful car.
do you plan to do something to hide that fence(intercooler)?

[Dyesuperman]

Lol. Nothing really hasn't changed, except the godly amount of n00bs that ask stupid questions and get pissed off and make threads in OT. Also, Charles (the dude that was building the 3g with Pharmecis) hasn't been on since the big fight between him and Silvertune lol. You should go catch up, many lolz

Haha I can see that, there were a lot of dumb questions asked on there. I was looking forward to seeing Charles' car finished though so that's a bummer.

Love this build read most of it sitting in english class :p thank you for keeping me from boredom

Haha you welcome, thanks man

[Dyesuperman]

beautiful car.
do you plan to do something to hide that fence(intercooler)?

Thank you, and that's a definite no lol. I love the look of the intercooler poking out

[rsingh3g]

Charles' just got a bit butt hurt. As far as I know, none of his cars have been worked on or been completed

[Dyesuperman]

December 23, 2012 - New crankcase pressure evac setup (ie-new valve cover)

Well boys and girls, I switched up my valve cover a bit, and will soon be switching my accent color from red to something a little more...unique. But that will come later when I get money for powdercoating

For this update though, we shall focus on the valve cover and all of its glorious-ish-ness. For a while now I have had oil leaking from the weirdest places (oil pan, top of turbo oil return line, valve cover, internally from the cas) so I figured something was going on with my crankcase pressure. I thought it was odd since I already had 2 -10an hoses coming off of it to a Calan catch can, which has a -12an hose going to the intake. This seems to work for most people at preventing any pressure buildup...but apparently my car is weird. Or my motor is dying, whichever works. Compression was 150 across the board so it is well within spec for a 130k stock motor that has had the piss beat out of it by the previous owner and somewhat by me. No leakdown to verify any pressure loss past the rings, but whatever, I wanted a new valve cover anyhow so I could customize it. Also, this one would retain the pcv valve, rather than eliminating it like my current setup.

Luckily, I had one lying around that a friend had given me nearly two years ago. It made it through two moves and I finally decided to use it. He had already shaved most of it, I just had to touch up a few spots. Already had the holes drilled in top for the fittings to be welded in and had the stock baffles drilled out. I wanted something a little more customized than that though, so I took the plunge and ordered a Vibrant oil cap. (No more leaky oil cap for this guy). I took everything to a local shop and told him what I wanted done and proceeded to order Compworks baffles to be put back in after everything was welded up. This is the result.

An area I smoothed out with a file, the two ridges aren't there anymore


Full view yo


Vibrant cap and bung awesomeness



Compworks baffles


Ok, so step one was done, I had the valve cover finished. Now I just had to get it on and swap over -an hoses...and add another catch can

It's on! Raw finish for now, powdercoat to come later


Up close and personal


The second catch can I bought was an unknown brand to me called AMW. I had never heard of it before but a local posted it up for sale on a local forum for $30 so I figured I couldn't go wrong. I asked him if it had any baffling and surprisingly he said yes. My interest was piqued, so I ventured on to researching the brand. Come to find out, it seems a lot of LSX guys use AMW catch cans on their cars and they typically sell for a much prettier penny. I'm down with that. So I bought it immediately and here is what the inside looks line. Pretty good machining if you ask me, and a good design as well.




Moving on to my Calan catch can, that ho was dirtier than, well, a ho I suppose. Because ho's are dirty my friends, and you should never touch that because it could look like this inside





Luckily a bit of gas solved this problem and cleaned it right up after sitting a bit. (Do not try this on a ho, as that is called murder, and is highly frowned upon in most societies) While that was going on I decided to find a place to mount the other catch can. Luckily, the motor mount presented itself as a likely candidate for mounting.




I had to go to Ace Hardware for a bolt to use for the bracket on the catch can, but it all worked out and it fit there like a glove.

I added this guy between the catch can and intake to prevent any boost pressure from leaking into my motor because of a bad pcv valve.




Now I don't have pictures of the last part, re-doing one of the -10 hoses going from the catch can to the valve cover, but let me just say. That thing was a bi**h to get together. Geez, I thought it was bad enough the first time I did it, but it was just as bad this time. Yet again, I scratched up my $15 a piece fittings getting it on there. My problem is getting the threads started on it, same problem every time. I think my mistake was not using oil on the fitting to lube things up though, idk. All I know is that it is done, and hopefully for a while.

Happier thoughts now, tis on and complete! Well, for the most part. As I said earlier, powdercoating will come later on. There are no car shows or the like coming up so I am not too worried about it.





And that ends this update. Next one will be of me trying to fit my DCSports strut bar, the driver side shock shaft touches it when mounted so I have to drill out the holes or something. Never seen that problem before so I don't know why it does that. Also seems to hit my hood or something, it's all screwed up

[rsingh3g]

Can't wait to see the new color you pick out for the accent

[Miroteknik]

There are still plenty of riced out DSM's around here, and they only seem to be 2g's.

Even the Fast and the Furious 2g is 5 miles from my house...
Its a bone stock GS under all of those wings and stickers.

THE actual car that was in the movie?! I've seen those cars being sold off on eBay, that would be hilarious to live next to a guy with the car from the movie haha. Does he daily it, or is it a rice-shrine that he worships in his garage?

[rice4life]

THE actual car that was in the movie?! I've seen those cars being sold off on eBay, that would be hilarious to live next to a guy with the car from the movie haha. Does he daily it, or is it a rice-shrine that he worships in his garage?

Undergoing a full GSX swap hahahaha.

Everything inside the car is non functional, like those nos buttons on the steering wheel.

From what I understand, this was in the movie.

[Miroteknik]

Undergoing a full GSX swap hahahaha.

Everything inside the car is non functional, like those nos buttons on the steering wheel.

From what I understand, this was in the movie.

Sickasssss......

[Dyesuperman]

Car is down for various upgrades/maintenance...more pics to come after it is done. For now, here are a few to give a hint as to what is going on...

Who needs a fender when you have wiring to hide for an electronic boost controller?


This wiring is going bye bye...pretty much all of it


Anndd certain parts may have been sent to the local powdercoaters....

[rice4life]

Nice valve cover, is that one of those new space age cloth like ones that Billy Mays advertised?



Really digging the progress in the engine bay.

[skunkworx]

I completely respect your commitment to this build, its been along road for you and you sure are sticking with it, but after going through it, i now want to gouge my eyes out in frustration. Keep going, i know i wouldnt have been able to. But, then again, i dont like eclipses. AWD or not. So... props to you i guess.

[rice4life]

I completely respect your commitment to this build, its been along road for you and you sure are sticking with it, but after going through it, i now want to gouge my eyes out in frustration.

wat.

Why are you frustrated by this DSM?

[Dyesuperman]

Nice valve cover, is that one of those new space age cloth like ones that Billy Mays advertised?



Really digging the progress in the engine bay.

Lol I can't have random things falling down into my engine :P the cloth is supposed to absorb heat better, and it is super easy to change colors with it so I may just leave it on there

I completely respect your commitment to this build, its been along road for you and you sure are sticking with it, but after going through it, i now want to gouge my eyes out in frustration. Keep going, i know i wouldnt have been able to. But, then again, i dont like eclipses. AWD or not. So... props to you i guess.

Umm, thank you I suppose? Lol

[Dyesuperman]

January 26-February 16, 2013 - Headliner work, powder coating, wire tuck, water pump replacement, ebc install
Alrighty, let's see where to start. I guess I can start with the headliner work, although I did it before the dates listed above. I finally got the motivation to cut up a spare headliner I had to see if it would work, and surprisingly I think it is going to.

Some cutting

Filled in some extra holes

And how it looked when I stopped for the day

Unfortunately, that's as far as that project got for now. I located the fabric I will be using and bought the spray adhesive, but I need to fix the small leak I have first and decide if I want to make it power again, which I will likely do since I was only quoted $100 to put a new motor in with switch.
Fast forward to January 26th, this is the day the car started to come apart.
Parts taken off for the powder coater.

The water pump leaked ever since I put it on last fall. I thought it may have been just the gasket leaking or something, but no, the "low mile" oem pump that I bought was leaking through the bottom weep hole, what a rip.

Good thing I bought this stuff though

Took out the baffles again in the valve cover so there would be no chance of sand getting stuck under there

So I got all of the items sent off to the powder coater, which included a hefty amount of brackets and such. So, I took a break with the timing side (sent off parts required to put it back together) and began other endeavors...like my ebc install. I sent off my extra wiring harness to Kevin Beeck to be tucked while I had the car down anyhow. So, I didn't want some tacky ole electronic boost controller wires cluttering up my engine bay. This was my solution...

Ran the wires through this hole

Interior came apart to rip out the old wiring harness


Well this looks like poop, reason for sending off the harness


^^^ As you can see in the pic above, the wiper motor wire isn't there anymore. I drilled a hole in the bottom of the wiper cowl area and ran the wire down through where the wiper hose used to come through since I don't have one. Had to depin the connector and run it through but it is pretty well hidden now. At a later point I will likely just drill a hole on the side and run the wire through the fender and into the cabin through that area.
This is where the wiper motor wires came out, passenger footwell

Got parts back from the coater, satin black

Put a few of them on

Ran a few more wires through that area


Moved my alarm horn as well since the wires were visible in the engine bay, ran them through the fender