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Well since the talon is officially parked for the season now, I started removing the rear off of it to convert it over to the 92 style rear end. I had to do a tiny bit of cuttin so far, but now I have it all figured out except one part. The electrical plug on the 92 tails is different then the 91, because there is an additional blinker bulb in the top orange part of the 92 tails that is not in the 91 tails. Has anyone else done this conversion? What did you do to make it work? Here's some pics to help explain my problem.

In the picture, the 92 tail is on the top, and my 91 tail is on the bottom. You can see how the top one has one extra bulb, and that it has a white square plug with four conductor pins, while the 91 tail is rectangle with only 3 pins.

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That is going to look nice when its all done. Are you repainting the whole car?

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Just wire in another bulb socket to whichever of the two existing ones blink from the 91 harness. Should be too hard, just play with adding on wires.

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*sniff*
Man, at first I thought you took a pic of my car before you took the bumper off. Makes me get all misty-eyed for the good old days.

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Well so far what i did is just remove the litte bulb wiring harnesses off the both sets of tails, and attached the 91 bulbs and plugs onto the 92 tails. Looks like it will work fine. All I'll have to do is take off that extra bulb socket off the 92 harness, and run some wires over to the other blinker bulb wiring. But now I ran into another problem. The little socket dealy for the blinker on the far corner of the tails, well apparently they were a different design, becuase it will not plug in. CVD, can I gank these 2 sockets off your car? It's just that one socket the bulb plug into, the ones that go into the very ends/corners of the rear tail lights.

Edit -Here is a pic that shows the piece I need. I need the grey/black plug connector dealy that the bulb plugs into and goes into that hole. Anyone have them? CVD are they still on your car?

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And to answer your question Hughes, yes I'm getting the car painted. Same color, just going to lose the silver bottom. So I suppose the paint will look similar to Shep's car. But I'm leaving the 91 spoiler on there, and am debating whether to get that and the roof done in black, or do it all the Black Cherry color. Here's a pic of another person who did the conversion and left the 91 spoiler on. I think it looks sick!!

http://boostcontrol.org/index_files/image4581.jpg

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^Hell yeah that looks sick! It looks like a conquest.^


CVD no longer has that car.
I agree with Chris, this is gonna look good.

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ya, if only someone could get me the rims I want! I finally gave up I think, after like 6 months of waiting for them and no one ever coming up with em. Freakin lame!!

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Bada bing! Before and after!

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Sorry yuck. But whatever floats you 1gb talon lovers' needs ;).

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Looking good man. Definatly going to be a nice looking car when its done.

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Looks alot better than before I think, good work!

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I am more of a fan of the 1GA body style, but the eclipse has the better body then the talon for the 1GA and the talon is nicer for the 1GB.

Doesnt look to bad though, especially if you get it painted ;)

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I had a 1gb talon & prefer it's ass end to the rest of'em. Sits a little lower, and wraps around the muffler...a more finished look, in my opinion. The rest are like, ah, yes, and we'll just hang the muffler out below the bumper like so...

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I personally feel the 92-94 Talon is the best looking of any 1G. Front, sides, rear, spoiler, everything.

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I really liked the 90-91 Talon rear, but the 92-94 also looks great. I did the Talon rear on my GSX and left the rear spoiler. It was unique til Gates copied my idea. :D

With the harnesses being that different, I'd swap in the 92+ taillight relay, then mark down which bulb lights and mark the corresponding wiring harness accordingly. That way you'll know what bulb you have to add and how to wire that. Hopefully you don't have to run wires all the way up to the front harness.

Good luck.

Steve

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Thanks for the compliments. I'm getting the lighting figured out. I think it'll work out just fine!

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06/02/06 = Conversion complete!

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last one i got. All I need now is my Veteran plates! They'll be here in like a month or so.

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That is so fuckin awesome!!! I really like the conversion, looks sick as hell, but I have to stay true to my 1ga roots ;). Fuck yeah for purple talons man! You, me, and shep are the only ones I know of. God DAMN that car is pretty. Where did you get it done? How much did it cost?

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wtfpaint? Looks great man! I cant wait to see it again in person. Now go get it tuned.

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Looks awesome brandon!! Nicely done!

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Looks good! After checking it out in person today (we accidentaly ran into each other while scoping Calhoun for hotties) and knowing what you paid, you definitely couldn't go wrong :) I really like the metallic flake in there, was that included in the factory paint or did you ask them to toss that in?

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factory it came metalic, and they just copied exactly what the factory color was! Again you can point out flaws in it, but for what I paid, I can't complain, it's exactly what I wanted!

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Looks nice, I saw it the other night at Porkys. But damn dude, clean those fucking tires and get the rear camber adjusted. Your not going to have any back tires in a few hundred miles.

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I wasn't cleaning anything because I wan't sure how long you're supposed to wait until you wash a freshly painted car.

And the camber is under control. It was supposed to get alligned last saturday, but Brian found a problem where the upper control arm gets adjustd. Some metal colar piece in there is bent, so he couldn't allign it. So I am going to have LSE take a look at it one of these days. So don't worry about me young weezy.

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Looks good, minus the 92+rear ;).

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Looks solid brandon!

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Looks good man, nice work!

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Hold off on waxing for now, but spray it with a hose and quality car washing soap all you want!

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You can wash it all you want, but like S2Kracka said, hold off on the wax for the first 3 months or so. also, the quality of the soap doesn't matter much, but just make sure you get the water off with a soft shamois otherwise you'll have little scratches all over it.

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Quality of the soap greatly effects the shine properties of the paint. Meguiar's Gold Class is the best easily available wash I have found so far. Meguair's NXT paste wax is really tough to beat too. It shines better than Gold Class paste wax, but doesn't last as long. For drying, I personally use a California Water Blade followed by a waffle-weave microfiber towel. Cotton never touches my car.

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nice. i always wanted to do that. if anyone wants a set, i have complete set with lights for sale. its in bonazai blue color.

anyways good to see one out there.

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If it's a good quality clearcoat it doesn't really matter what soap you use on it, just what you're using to wash and dry it with. from my personal expierence, those california waterblades are crap. I find that they're hard to get into tight places and bodylines can be a bitch to get dry as well. Although, I do like microfiber towels.