Well thought I would share what I have been working on for the past 2.5 years. It’s finally all coming together now and I hope to be driving it this summer. First off I’ll just start with a list of mods
Evo 3 16g turbo and o2 housing
660cc injectors
wally 255
e.t.s. fmic
fluidyne radiator
DNP tubular exhaust manifold
3" turbo back/HKS cat-back
couple others but you get the idea
Keep in mind that the avenger and the 2g dsm’s are just about the same sub frame design just the avenger is a little bit long in the front, so I had more room up front in the engine bay to work with. Not much maybe about 2" and the back is longer because it’s a trunk vs hatch, there is maybe a 4" difference in the wheel base of the cars. I started out with a stock 2.5l v6 fwd and an autotragic transmission. Picked up a wrecked 95 Talon Tsi from West Virginia for $800.
I am NOT a photographer by any means so if the quality isn’t to great I apologize.
I rewired the entire car front to back, I tried to keep the avenger rear wiring for the tail lights the same but after running into to many problems I just gave in and used the dsm wiring. The dashboards are the same between the 2 cars the only major difference is the cluster and the rear
wiper on the hatch.
This entire project was needless to say a wiring nightmare for me. Many fuses were blown before I found out the cause of the problems, but now I can have the dashboard In and out real quick with minimal left over parts each time.
This was the first day the car had been out of its home in over a year and a half. Yes my duct tape holding the wiring harness is gone. Check out the cleverly placed shop towels so you can’t see the custom side motor mount that had to be made.
We seem to be missing something here, oh yes a drive shaft. I ended up taking a recommendation and going to fleet pride. I think I payed just under a $100 for the work they did and it looked great.
At this point it was starting to look less like a big fuster cluck and more like a car. I went with just a small 25x7x3" front mount, said it was rated for 450hp and I wasn’t looking to even be around that so it was sufficient enough.
Now everything was starting to come together real nice. who knew disaster would strike. Next few pics will be just the drive shaft and how well it will it fits but leaves no room for an exhaust pipe lol.
This is kind of what it looks like as of now, maybe a few things are in different spots but that’s about it
This is how it sits as of now, I’m just waiting for my down pipe and ECM Link to arrive, also I’m right in the middle of changing the head gasket. I thought I blew the valve seals so I was going to build the head up a little bit with a set of 272’s but my dumb ass had the turbo feeding off the oil filter housing un-restricted so I had oil pouring out of the exhaust. I am aiming to be hopefully just under 300awhp at 20psi. The motor is a stock 7 bolt. Budget cuts have made me put this on the road before I could finish it to what I wanted it to be, but I sold my ninja and now I really got to finish this car.
Thanks for commenting and enjoy.
