Tony Project: picking up where he left off and doing my best

Prep for story whoring. 16 year old Tony just got his licence and he'd been obsessed with this car he saw on craigslist called an Eclipse cause he thought it was the hottest shit in town, it's an 04 GTS with 60K miles for $1700. So on last minute notice he drives an hour and a half to go pick up his first car. By the time he gets there hes in a sketchy parking lot with two teenage guys buying a car in pitch black. Recipe for disaster right? It ended up not being the worst but had tons of strut rust and was riddled with little problems, but I LOVED IT.
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Ended up doing mods with the money I was making as a waiter at the time, the car was pretty cool in a school full of rich white boy ricers. It also proved to my shop teacher I wasn't a retard and got me from a C+ to a 100%
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This car got me into the culture and taught me a lot of things from stopping my driverside from flooding from my A/C to replacing the trans when it blew up. Sold the thing for $4500 to some idiot who didn't know what a tire rotation was and thought a clutch was a shift knob. Lucky me haha

So here I am without a car and a shit load of money after being promoted to management at my local IHOP and selling my car. One day I was on craigslist and ended up looking at cars in Chicago only to find what I thought was the sickest shit I'd ever seen, I'd been looking for a second gen eclipse but I stumbled across a built up Galant for sale by mko and after some time I ended up taking a road trip there with some random guys I'd never met that were friends of friends haha.
I was amazed when I saw the AWD swapped beast he had and kinda felt like I was buying the neglected step child lol no offence intended.
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After a couple days I'd realized that I really had jumped head first into a car I didn't understand at all and was left feeling like a idiot. After bugging mko with stupid texts and dumb post online I finally got my shit straight and got ECM link up and running. Drove the car to the wash and than to my local tuner only to run into set back after set back and a soon to be pain to my wallet lol.
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This is my favorite and most recent pic of the car. It makes me very happy to say that the few times I did take her for a spin around town people went nuts over the thing. No surprise it's a huge hit in a town full of old farts with their brand new stangs and vettes along with those few kids who have civics with little fart cannons. The plan is to have the thing on the dyno next week Sunday and than get it back in my hands. Hopefully I can put up some videos of us on the dyno. The plans after that are to clean up the interior and body a little, I've been taking inspiration from Solviss's 7g

Hopefully I didn't kill people off with the long stories and I hope to have more updates next week. can't wait to see how much more this car teaches me and where it'll take me thanks for checking this out guys

a lil throw back :)

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Ay that's awesome!! Where in Iowa are you from??

Awesome! It's nice to see another turbo Galant owner pop up in the Midwest.

At first I was somewhat confused with the username and the 3G Eclipse. I was waiting to see the story unfold to an HX35-boosted 6g72.

When next August comes around, you should consider the All-Mitsu Cookout in Ramsey, MN. Do you ever come up to the Twin Cities for car events?

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Ay that's awesome!! Where in Iowa are you from??

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Ankeny, a little north of Des Moines

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Awesome! It's nice to see another turbo Galant owner pop up in the Midwest.

At first I was somewhat confused with the username and the 3G Eclipse. I was waiting to see the story unfold to an HX35-boosted 6g72.

When next August comes around, you should consider the All-Mitsu Cookout in Ramsey, MN. Do you ever come up to the Twin Cities for car events?

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lol I wanted to build that Eclipse so bad but that kid offered me $4,500 for it and I couldn't say no, I was on workmans comp at the time due to a head injury in a bus accident so I couldn't drive it anyways.

I never really had a car to take and meets other than the ones at Iowa state, now that I do I'll have to make it up there for some meets and events. I used to live in Victoria so It'd be nice to visit some old friends while up there too

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Ankeny, a little north of Des Moines

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And I'm in Ames, a little north of you ;) haha crazy meeting another guy in the DSM area on here!! Do you know Jesse Guzman? He's on here but his G is broken currently. He spends most of his driving time in his uber clean Evo X anyways.

And trust me, Ankeny is HUGE compared to the town I used to live in hahaha.

Yoo I just saw your next post! I go to ISU and I have never seen this car at the meets?? Are you on the Ames car enthusiasts FB page or ISUAE?

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And I'm in Ames, a little north of you ;) haha crazy meeting another guy in the DSM area on here!! Do you know Jesse Guzman? He's on here but his G is broken currently. He spends most of his driving time in his uber clean Evo X anyways.

And trust me, Ankeny is HUGE compared to the town I used to live in hahaha.

Yoo I just saw your next post! I go to ISU and I have never seen this car at the meets?? Are you on the Ames car enthusiasts FB page or ISUAE?

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I come up to Ames to go to the skatepark quite a bit and used to hang with the some people from the Iowa State Stance group all the time, idk if you went to their one big meetup they had I'll throw down some pictures of it. PM me, maybe we're friends through friends lol
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There was practically a whole row of EVO's but I lost most my pictures of the meet

Yea that was actually an ISUAE meet, the first one ever! I was only there for the first half hour since I had prior commitments in the afternoon. Iowa state stance got renamed to Ames car enthusiast because soo many people were butt hurt over it.. Stupid shit if you ask me. You can find me on FB if you want, Austin Nutting, I'm in both groups. I look forward to seeing the G at a meet!

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Yea that was actually an ISUAE meet, the first one ever! I was only there for the first half hour since I had prior commitments in the afternoon. Iowa state stance got renamed to Ames car enthusiast because soo many people were butt hurt over it.. Stupid shit if you ask me. You can find me on FB if you want, Austin Nutting, I'm in both groups. I look forward to seeing the G at a meet!

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I'll have to get in touch with my buddies that go state and start making it back out to meets, I still have one of my old Iowa State stance stickers I feel like it's a relic now lol
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I also picked this up from wrench and go a while back, can't decide if I'm gonna use it or not

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Not much progress to report cause the holidays got us bogged down, but the cam gears were changed and now she idles much better and has 100% vacuum. Think my woman's getting tired of me hand braking every turn when it snows here lol

Good to hear Tony. I had a feeling these were the problem

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Good to hear Tony. I had a feeling these were the problem

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You were defiantly right! It took me a lot of time to get over the intimidation of this car

In other exiting news I picked up some overnight JDM parts from Japan today
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excuse the tard face it comes with the -30 temp rn

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So in the next picture I'll show it better but I'm pretty disappointed with how much tape residue is left on this thing

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All around pretty hyped to get this thing all cleaned up and painted

Nice spoiler Tony! Keep it up

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You were defiantly right! It took me a lot of time to get over the intimidation of this car
In other exiting news I picked up some overnight JDM parts from Japan today

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Don't you just love that feeling!

Quick update and an interesting story. Galant has been a nice piece of lawn art at my tuners house for the last 4 months but progress is being made and she should be finished by the end of feburary, just time to hoard parts ya know hint hint nice things are on the way. Ended up buying a 97 gsx yesterday. Everything checked out on the car I thought until I got about 5min from home and the transfer case locked up and threw me into a nice skid during rush hour. Glad it happened there rather than on the interstate or else you probably would't be reading this, lucky yet unlucky I guess. She's going to need some TLC on the body and interior (and transfer case) shes nothing to bad though makes 500 to the wheels on an hx40
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That's the only crappy pic I have of it before it got towed should be running again next week assuming new tcase ships soon

I saw that on FB, I hope you find a new tcase soon! Glad you were safe dude.

Also,

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Bored with it already? lol or wanting to focus on the 2g?

So sadly I didn't take any videos of the street tuning we did on Monday cause my phone died. On the other hand a new throttle cable is needed for the Galant and there's a pretty bad misfire right now so plugs and wires are gonna get swapped in hopes that fixes it. The gsx also got running today which is pretty nice. Everyone's out on spring break going to Mexico and here I am in Iowa dumping all my money into my dsm's XD.

It's been a while since I've updated the thread so I'll give a quick rundown of whats going on. Life has been absolutely crazy for me recently and I've had little time or money to work on either of the cars but I have gotten quite a bit of work done. The gsx motor is about to be swapped into a clean 96 talon shell which I'm very exited about, so the galant will be my daily here soon. The galant has a good street tune on it but I've been held back issues with the throttle body and I need to bang out some dents in the oil pan that I forgot were there when I bought it. In the mean time I got a new carpet on the way for the galant which I think will look prety sweet when its in. My hope is to have both cars running perfect before summers over.... I'm getting obsessed with the idea of racing the two lol. I'll throw some pictures of them I took today to prove they exist stil
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Had a little time to work on the G today and can't stand how crappy the side skirts and some of the other moldings on the car have deteriorated overtime so dropped them and got them all preped to remount on Monday. Also picked up a new oil pan gasket cause I plan on dropping that on Monday as well. Got some brembos from an evo X on the way for the eclipse as well.

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got the sideskirts back on today and I must say that they look 100x better now. Other than that got the throttle body off and cleaned it out as well as tenshioned the spring so it pulls the throttle all the way shut now, talk about a frustrating ass job for one person. Didn't get time to drop the oil pan so hopefully I can get that done Tuesday. Last pic is just showing off how great the hood looks on this car
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Looks good brother. Just be careful with not having the sheetmetal under the hood. It was there for a reason tho. Slight rainfall and she'll be misfiring. I remember back in the day when I used to put cardboard to prevent rain water getting around the spark plug boots. lol

And the oil pan doesnt use a gasket. It has only RTV from factory.

So the eclipse blew something on when we were taking logs on the interstate. The spark plugs are covered in oil but all 4 cylinders are getting compression just fine was going to take off the head on Tuesday and inspect it further, never had to do anything like that so if anyone wants to call out what to look for or something easier than pulling the head feel free to chime in!! I'm very pissed about it cause I just got the brembos in and don't wanna have them sit around forever. In other news the galant's tb is still acting up. Those damn springs wont pull it all the way closed no matter how tight you pull them so I'm waiting on a new 1g tb to come in the mail after that should be good to get back to tuning her.

The TB was rebuilt, i doubt it is the problem. Put a hose clamp on one of the catch can lines and tighten it to restrict the flow. The engine sucks air from the valve cover and it bypasses the TB

took a few parts from the new tb stuck em on the old one and now it works just as it should. In spirit of keeping the gsx alive I bought a silver 95 galant es that I'm sure some of you have seen on craigslist and Facebook. Things pretty clean but it's got a few problems. I plan on swapping pretty much everything I can salvage from the gsx and putting in there. Sadly between being stuck in bed sick as could be, and having my hours cut as I'm leaving my management position soon to work for John Deer I haven't had much time at all to work on the cars. As soon as I can get out and start working on them again I'll throw up some pictures of the new g, and with this new job I'll have loads more money and time to put into the cars.

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So the eclipse blew something on when we were taking logs on the interstate. The spark plugs are covered in oil but all 4 cylinders are getting compression just fine was going to take off the head on Tuesday and inspect it further, never had to do anything like that so if anyone wants to call out what to look for or something easier than pulling the head feel free to chime in!! I'm very pissed about it cause I just got the brembos in and don't wanna have them sit around forever. In other news the galant's tb is still acting up. Those damn springs wont pull it all the way closed no matter how tight you pull them so I'm waiting on a new 1g tb to come in the mail after that should be good to get back to tuning her.

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I believe I saw the DSM for sale on my local classifieds, giving up on her??

Yes, the eclipse is sold I just didn't have the time or money for three cars. The silver galant has become my daily while I work on the "booger" as she's begun getting called. Got some more done to the tune and was able to hit 8psi today and damn did it feel great. Can't do anymore to it till I get back in town next week but I plan on having it finished in time for the cookout in Minnesota
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but I plan on having it finished in time for the cookout in Minnesota

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Awesome! Make sure you sign up so that we might have a Galant category again this year. I look forward to seeing you there!

It's long overdue that I update this build. Had some big changes happen in my life so she got neglected for some time but I've been back at it recently and have gotten a lot done. held off on anymore tuning so I could fix some things about the car being two valve cover bolts that were broken in the head and soldered a lot of the loose connections on the ecu and finally tucked it away so its off the floor. Other than that I re did one of the side skirts again and tore out the carpet cause I've been meaning to put a new one in, and lastly replaced a molding around the drivers door that was letting water in. Now that those valve cover bolts are replaced I actually have a dyno date scheduled so check back after the holidays and there should be a video posted up of it. Sad that I couldn't make it out to the meet in Minnesota but will for sure be there next year assuming the car doesn't take a shit on me haha