Welcome to My
Car
1997 Eagle Talon TSI
AWD
Picture Gallery:
Performance Mods:
(Note: All
installation labor, porting, and custom work was performed by me )
Instrumentation
Intake
K&N 3000GT FIPK
Pre-95 BOV (crushed to open at
20mmHg)
Shortened BOV return tube
Custom
Upper Intercooler Pipe
1g Throttle Body and a gasket match
ported intake plenum
RRE Griffen Frontmount intercooler
using spearco end tanks Stock piping lcations to be changed soon for shorter
straighter pipes
Exhaust
Ported Exhaust Manifold
Ported Lancer Evolution Oxygen
Sensor Housing
Custom Self-built 3" Downpipe,
3" spiral wound flex xection, 3"x18" glass-pack resonator
RS-R Cat-Back Exhaust
Turbo
- 16g w/7cm housing, ported,
unclipped
- Self-installed 34mm wastegate
flapper
- RRE SS oil supply line
Boost Control
GReddy Profec B boost controller
mounted below stereo
17psi Pump Gas (my car does NOT
like this hot dry las vegas air)
22psi 115 leaded race gas
Fuel System
- Rewired Stock Fuel Pump
- APEXi S-AFC (set for about 0.87 all
rpms on pump gas)
Handling
Road Race Engineering Strut Tower
Bars (Front/Rear)
Road Race engineering Lower Stress
Bar
RM Racing Front and Rear Sway Bars
(80% stiffer in the rear / 40% stiffer in the front)
Ground Control Coil Over Height
Adjustable Spring kit (450/300) set for .75" drop
Ground Control Front Upper Spring
perches for 0.75" extra shock travel
Tokico Illumina Shocks
DIY rear camber kit
Auto specialty front camber kit
(from RRE) set to -1.5 degrees all around with 0 toe front and rear
Wheels and Tires
Street: 17x8 38mm offset Konig
Villans with 235/45-17 Kumho Ecsta 712
Track: 17x8 38mm offset Konig
Villains with 245/45-17 Kumho V700 Victoracer DOT legal race tires.
Notes: I am a cheap bastard and
have often been called McGyver. Everything I have bought has been either used, on
sale, or through a group purchase. All labor for porting, customizing, and install
was performed by me. If you wanted to buy a turn-key solution similar to mine, all
at once with little to no searching for great deals . . .you would likely pay double what
I have, not including installation labor costs. These cars ARE able to be made fast
for cheap, but like any other car you must be smart when looking for deals, be willing to
wait for that great deal, and installing stuff yourself can save you a BUTT load of
money. The cost of the tools to do the job right is way WAY cheaper than paying
someone else.
Current Best 1/4
Mile Times
12.998 and 106.34 MPH
Click here
to see all my time slips (out of date)
Cosmetic Mods:
"DSM Racing" sticker on
the top of the windshield
"Club DSM" Plate Cover
"Club DSM / www.dsm.org"
sticker on the driver side rear corner window
"Powered By Mitsubishi"
sticker on the top of the lower front cowl
"Larson 2g Hose Kit" in
blue from Road Race Engineering, just silicone hose :)
Sound System
- Subwoofer - 2 JL Audio 8w1 in a
sealed box powered by a bridged HiFonics 2x45 amp
- Orion 4x65 (RMS) driving main stock
speakers
Near Term Mods:
- Make a better air box to keep hot
air out of the intake and make a cold air vent using the stock IC hole
- Possibly 550 springs in the front
of the car rather than the 475
Long Term Mods:
Home built water injection kit
New Main speakers all around
Credits
These are the
people who have helped me by either selling me parts cheap or explaining how to do
something. Either way they saved me lots of time and money.
In no special order
than when they came to mind
Jeremy Sibert
Eric Simpson
Dave Brode
Nathen Pharr
Eric Typo
Thomas Wahjudi
Quinn Whipple at Creative Concepts
Racing
Aaron Larson
Mark Hessler
Jason Korb
Dallace Marable
Adrian Melillo
Jason Allerding
Road Race Engineering
Doug Derby at Dougs Dyno Power
Dave Buschur of Buschur Racing
Todd Day for Club DSM and the Talon
Digest
.... and many more . . . thanks a
lot!!!
