New dsm to minnesota?
 

Hey guys, got some video of the possible new ride for me tell me what you think about it. Pros, cons, let me hear them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soPUOIVPdsU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjzUwmXCbkg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NftqrAIrkg

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looks real clean!! alot of guages in there

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is that good or bad, i know what they do but like are they good

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for the most part its good, does he have a list of mods and has it been tuned?

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here it is, and yea it was just tuned yesterday

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/cto/1623850899.html

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"This thing does... ummm... its got lots of different things it does."

"Here we have readouts... This is a turbo timer."

"This tells you readouts."

"This one, you can do this and you can do that."

Guy sounds like he has no friggen clue what he is talking about.

I pray to God that I'm wrong, cause if you buy this, it might be a nightmare. If he did it all himself, who knows what could be wrong with it. If he paid a shop to do it all, his money and intelligence ratio is way off... and his intelligence is the part that is heavily lacking.

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he bought it from the guy who did all that stuff to it, he brings it to a shop so yea doesn't know much but neither do i. just want a nice dsm that i dont have to worry about...too often

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Whats his reason for selling? He can't figure out what all the gauges do or what?

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in the ad it says over 400 hp, but he never mentions what turbo he is running.

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LOL!

This car seems really nice, and does have some nice things going for it. What numbers did it put down? On what dyno was it tuned on? Somebody has put some money into it, or at least it seems that way. I'd have him bring it into whatever shop he goes to, and have them give it a thorough going through, and get in writing if there are any problems. If you're buying a car out of state, you gotta be twice as careful, and also be ready to come home without a car, if it's not what you want. If you get out there, and it's shit, you can't feel obligated to take it home.

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RRE Big 16G w/ TRE 34 mm WG valve

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you can find a clean one local. unless you are going out to have it checked out your self I would not even think about it.

All that crap in side the car need to go
all you need is
dsmlink (dump the safc2)
boost gauge
oil press gauge
aem wide band (dump the narrow band

take out
the avcr and put in a mbc
narrow band
egt
safc2
move the aem wideband to the piller
move or take out the blitz turbo timer
the 5 point is not hooked up right at all

remove the so called car audio install and redo it right.

from the out side it looks clean. you need to get it up in a lift and check out the under side of the car and all the balljoints,tie rod ends,wheel bearings,bushings,ect

also there is no way it is making 400who on the big 16g

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ive been looking, for a long time, and thats the one i have liked the best, i love the outside, the inside yes, i hate, thats where my money would be goin after the purchase deal until it can be redone and hey if i buy the car , tkr you think we could meet up sometime and do the stuff your talking about, i like your setup better and its a big if

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yeah, he clearly has no idea what is going on with his car, and that means there is huge potential that the idiot messed it up.

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Ok the previous owner was the one who did all the parts. The guy was a semi pro race car driver and this was his car he built. The guy who owns it now has had all work done by a shop

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even owning/driving a modified car and not knowing whats done to it or having mechanical know-how is a dangerous proposition.

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I saw the car and I thought, wow nice clean dsm. Then I listened to him talk and it just went out the window.

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400hp worth of air+550cc injectors=Very lean engine :smoking:

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My stupid internet...Double post action.

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My vote still stands for buying locally. With patience you'll find something as good if not better than that locally. I know it seems like that's the car for you, but there are some things that throw up a red flag. Personally, it would be hard for me to trust a car I just bought (especially unknowing of who did the work, or how it was done) and trekking it half way across the country.

Just because it was supposedly built by some Pro-Am racer doesn't mean anything once it's out of his hands. Any bonehead can start throwing parts in to it, messing around with the tune etc...Overall, this could be a real money pit, and not the fun go-fast parts kind of money pit; more like the I gotta keep this thing running and somewhat reliable money pit.

None of us are trying to rain on your parade, we're just looking out for you.

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I bought my car from the same situation, a kid who had not a clue about the car but bought if from someone who built it. Luckily my dad is a smart man, got the original owners info from the title and called the first owner down in Georgia. Mine ran rich because it was supposed to have an AFC that had been stolen, and the kid I got it from had no idea. Moral of the story is don't believe everything you hear. Do your research.

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this.

It looks clean but if I'm going to buy a 'reliable' dsm, I would personally go take a look at it. Even if it's modded correctly by the previous owner, you don't know what the current owner has done to the car...unless you personally drive the car itself to see it for yourself. Like others have said on here, you can find better ones here in the forums and locally. I've been DD'ing the Galant for 2 proud years through winter and summer. I'd wouldn't take the risk and just buy locally ;)

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It would easily make over 400hp, but most people talk flywheel numbers to the general public, only us car guys talk in wheel horsepower. So figuring 350whp=400hp, this should be easily doable.

It is a clean car, but you are taking your chances driving a car all the way across the country after just buying it. Although I did this yesterday, bought a 160k mile Acura TL in Kansas City, jumped in and drove 80mph all the way home, no problemo. Just be prepared if something happens and get out your credit card.

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^^you drove an acura tl home, he's driving a 17 year old dsm home....there's a large difference between the 2 haha.

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Looks like it idles at 1500rpm?

Looks nice, but there are nice cars like this locally as well.

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"someone put in the wrench time.."

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These were the best i could find i know the first two are not local and the last one is more than likely someone one here but i honestly have no clue what to do i want awd just dont know if i want stock or modded. and it idled around 970rpm

http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/1627812057.html

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/1626005669.html

http://lincoln.craigslist.org/cto/1627404069.html

http://eauclaire.craigslist.org/cto/1613143392.html

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oh no! lol

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"A couple of Nissan SR20's would pull a premium one week before race wars. "

:rollinglaugh:

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research alot more if you're not sure. I'd suggest getting a car that is stock but I don't think that is going to happen. If you purchase a modded dsm, you don't know how much abuse it has taken. I researched/read online/asked around for a good 3-4 years before getting the galant and I know enough to do what I like in the car. The only reason why DSMs are known to be shit is because of shitty owners.

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Well on the 2nd video you posted, at 1:35, he goes to the cluster and it's sitting at 1500rpm and then he revs it.

And do all DSMs have an A/F curve at idle that the gauge hops around so much? I never had one on my DSM, but on my SRT, it moves between 14.7 and 15.2 at idle only.

Just trying to point out possible issues, not trying to give you crap.

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^Mine hops around a ton at idle, but that's because of the cams. At Idle, it's tuned to run a bit lean, since the engine isn't working hard, so it needs just enough fuel to stay running.

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well i want to get rid of my fwd and get awd it doesn't have to be this spectacular car, im sixteen and can't afford a super nice car, therefore talons and eclipses are in my price range and i wouldn't mind some tasteful mods to make it go faster but im not to familiar mechanically wise with cars but i have some buds that can help me with things if they go wrong so im not too worried about that i just don't want it breaking down constantly so i was asking you guys what you thought

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Yeah makes sense, this one doesn't have cams though. Or at least isn't listed in the FS ad.

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why not keep your current one then? Older cars will tend to break more often especially if the previous owner hasn't taken good care of it. If you want to go fast, I'd suggest reading/researching online more about how to properly mod a DSM. DSMs will make you a mechanic, a reason why a tried to sell the galant, but right now I'm not going to do so because plans are changing :) .

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i want awd for the winter so thats why and i dont want to mod this one because of the fwd if i get an awd then i will start modding if it doesn't already have some

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I say you just start collecting parts for an AWD swap if that is the only part you don't like about the car. I know others on here have done it.

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I wouldn't even invest the time/energy/money into converting a 1g fwd to awd even if I had all the tools in the world unless I was a rich zillionaire. lol. I guess you can get the awd but like I've said in every single post...RESEARCH :)

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yea i am and have been for awile i just wish by some act of god somebody would just say ill buy your car then all my problems will be solved