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Rex has a new toy - CaptainHenreh - 09-30-2005
![[Image: underhood%20-%20resized.JPG]](http://www.mmsports.org/members/albums/userpics/10025/underhood%20-%20resized.JPG)
Uh-oh.
- Ryan T - 09-30-2005
w00t.
more boost!!
- Jeff - 09-30-2005
Yeah...I learned to hate Metros tonight. Sexy Rexy's new toy makes me smile
- Nis01 - 09-30-2005
Looking good.. The boost continues to grow. Congrats.
- CaptainHenreh - 09-30-2005
![[Image: DSM%20purchase.JPG]](http://www.mmsports.org/members/albums/userpics/10025/DSM%20purchase.JPG)
Help! It's the attack of the 1000 dolla DSM! It's gonna eaaat usss!!!
- Evan - 09-30-2005
nice.
looks like its in great shape
awd?
- Jeff - 09-30-2005
See the fine black print in front of the back tire? Hint Hint.
- CaptainHenreh - 09-30-2005
Evan Wrote:awd?
*nods* With VLSD in the rear.
- Evan - 09-30-2005
very nice procurment, sir. :thumbup:
I would undoubtably hit that for $1k
- ScottyB - 09-30-2005
helluva deal Rex, looks like a bad mamba jamba. those 3rd gen. wheels are a nice touch, too. how many miles, and was the vlsd stock?
i'm sure it will take a while to get used to the DSM compared to the mongoose-like reflexes of the metro
- CaptainHenreh - 09-30-2005
ScottyB Wrote:those 3rd gen. wheels are a nice touch, too. how many miles, and was the vlsd stock?
i'm sure it will take a while to get used to the DSM compared to the mongoose-like reflexes of the metro
126,000 miles on the chassis, the engine is a JDM six bolt. Timing belt was done in March, along with the ACT clutch and fidanza flywheel. VLSD is a stock unit.
ScottyB Wrote:i'm sure it will take a while to get used to the DSM compared to the mongoose-like reflexes of the metro
A retarded mongoose that fell out of the stupid tree and drank antifreeze.
- Jeff - 09-30-2005
Rex, tell them of our journey...we have come far and been in the ghetto.
- CaptainHenreh - 09-30-2005
TurboOmni08 Wrote:Rex, tell them of our journey...we have come far and been in the ghetto.Maybe tomorrow morning. I'm beat.
- Mike - 09-30-2005
1000!?!?? jesus i'd be on that like white on rice. and it is white! damn! nice find! are yours and dave's identical now? i really am jealous, i've been wanting to do a dsm ever since the first mm autox...
- CaptainHenreh - 09-30-2005
Mike Wrote:1000!?!?? jesus i'd be on that like white on rice. and it is white! damn! nice find! are yours and dave's identical now? i really am jealous, i've been wanting to do a dsm ever since the first mm autox...
ok, so I'll tell the story.
This guy has this DSM he got from another guy. His insurance just dropped him, and the DSM "needs work". He's trying to buy his buddy's Integra, which is only 950 dollars, so that's what He needs out of the DSM.
What's the problem with it, you ask? Well, as many of you may know, DSM's use a Mass Air Flow Sensor to measure air input for fuel delivery. Stock, they use a boost recirculation valve to re-input already measured air back into the intake tract (post MAFS) to prevent 'water hammer' damage to the turbocharger. Well, this guy had some blingy R2-D2 blow off valve which vented to the atmosphere. Combine that with an 8lb flywheel and some kind of crazy elephant-leg clutch and you have a car that, to be honest, barely runs. In between shifts, if you're not real, real quick with the action, the car will cut off. That's right, the car will die mid shift. The fidanza flywheel doesn't hold any revs at all, and the tach drops like a rock while the ECU dumps fuel into the motor to provide for the air it *thinks* is going to be there, but isn't because it just all went "psssh!" out the BOV.
His "mechanic" thinks it's some kind of idle controller. This is why I do my own work.
Now, I don't tell *HIM* that all he needs to do is put a stock valve back on and he'll be fine, I make some shit up about how it is probably the advanced idle air control valve stepper motor gone bad, or the post-turbo alphatronic flux capacitor is probably fried, and I'll need to find a replacement.
Then, I *carefully* drive it from Falls Church back to Harrisonburg.
I don't know if any of you have ever driven a car that stalls if the clutch is pushed in, stalls when you shift, stalls if you look at it funny and has about 5 inches of clutch engagement, but it's not easy. Requires some very fancy footwork and alot of restarting. It is not easy in the best of conditions....
Try it in stop-and-go construction on 81. I thought my leg was going to just fall off right there.
- Nick325is - 09-30-2005
Looks like you and the mad scientist are going to have to tear that block apart and replace the rings he fried :lol:
Good find Rex. Looking forward to seeing it.
nick
- CaptainHenreh - 09-30-2005
Nick325is Wrote:Looks like you and the mad scientist are going to have to tear that block apart and replace the rings he fried :lol:
Good find Rex. Looking forward to seeing it.
nick
When did he fry rings?
- Kaan - 09-30-2005
FnF joke... someone hasnt kept up with his movie watching!
- CaptainHenreh - 09-30-2005
Kaan Wrote:FnF joke... someone hasnt kept up with his movie watching!
heh. Yeah, the floor pans fell out on my way home after my manifold failure.
- Jeff - 09-30-2005
That's because you were granny shifting and not double-clutching like you should