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I just remember what the Welsh cage builder told me when I asked about the idea of a red roll cage in my stage rally car...

(read in a thick Irish accent)

"Red? RED??? Aww noooo Maan. You'll look like a couple of gay boys racing around with a fooking red cage... you can't to red."

His wisdom stuck with me :D

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^^Paul wins.

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Lol well good thing this isn't a rally car. personally red would have been my second choice to go with the car haha. Then black. But this car is kind of ridiculous so I figured a ridiculous color was in order

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Haha, I don't care, it's your car to do what you like :)

Being fast covers a multitude of sins :Banane56:

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Haha this is kinda what I was thinking.

Plus I'm not going to go crazy and paint the whole car pink lol

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Only GH haha

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I wouldn't expect any less from him haha

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:D

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Got the interior back in. Hopefully we get some warmer weather soon!

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Actually doesn't look too bad. Wouldn't be my 1st color choice, but not too bad actually, contrasts all the black nicely. And as long as you're good with it, who cares. Good job man!

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Now you just need some glowsticks :)

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I like it dude

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Thanks man! Wasn't exactly my first choice either but I love it now lol




That can be arranged haha

Thanks!

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And while the interior was out we out some carpet in and a headliner to help clean up the inside of the car.

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Glad to see my only 1G I ever owned parts in a sweet car! Headliner and carpet look good!

We're you up working on the car?

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I'm up here right now!

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Here's a little update on the car. The car has about 130 miles on it no issues. So right now the plan is to put as many miles on it as I can over the next two weeks. Then the weekend of April 6th and 7th hopefully swapping turbos and having my exhaust redone to fit the new turbo. Then I'll have about two weeks to get any boost leaks or any other bugs that may come up sorted out. Then the car should be going on the dyno for a tune on April 22nd. Things are finally coming together with this thing. Can't wait for it to be done

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Okay I put some more miles on the talon today and we ran into some issues. It died on me and wouldn't restart. I had to have it towed to my work. I ended up not having spark. the light on the side of my msd wasn't lighting up. of course I forgot my bypass plug for the msd. nick (cornfed2.4) and joel (99gsxjoel) were kind enough to run my bypass plug down to me. The car fired right up. I let the car warm up and then plugged the msd back in and it ran fine.

Then on my way back to my buddies house where I have been keeping the car the alternator quit charging again. I barely made it back to wyoming. The car died right as I pulled into my buddies driveway. so now I get to look into that yay.

On the bright side there is now over 200 miles on the new engine. A huge thanks to nick and joel for helping me out tonight!!!!!

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I was able to take a look at the talon today to see why it wasn't charging. I was not looking forward to dealing with charging issues. Luckily it's just the alternator relocation bracket broke. So it's an easy fix. I was able to get a hold of jay from Jay racing and he said he can ship a new one out tomorrow. It was either another aluminum one free of charge or an upgraded steel one for $25. I went with the steel one to hopefully avoid this issue in the future.

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I think that same thing happened to Swifty a few years ago as well.