MY NEWEST project 97 GST Turbo

[Twobit]

Nice, upgrade turbo/internals/suspension and misc interior and you'll be pimp

 

[AccordinSam]

Turbo is upgraded, intercooler is upgraded, piping is upgraded, exhaust is upgraded to 3" turbo back

Edit: so is the suspension, car is dropped 2" but i wanna get a full coilover suspension.

Got new Enkeis and Nitto Invos that arent on the car yet.

 

[TheUAccord23]

Love it! I remember spending hours on autotrader trying to find one back in the day. Exterior looks clean, not a fan of the tan and black combo, but all in all looks great. If I had my way with it, I'd lose some weight and leave the seats in that nice, clean garage of yours cause no one can sit back there anyway. Have fun with it, nice buy

 

[acrod99]

nice! loved my friend's GSX-crazy with few mods!

 

[talontsiawd]

Save up for an LSD right now. I don't care how goood your tires are, you should be making enough power if your spending any money to make any tire really fight for traction.

Nice on the 6 bolt. They can still walk though, well any car can get crank walk. It's not common at all, well, it's not even common on 7 bolts, it's just been talked up alot.

Should have bought a gsx though, i could never deal with fwd, that's me.

I'm a bit of a dsm fan, lol, obvioiusly from my screen name.

Here is my old bitch

 

[ryan s]

youll have to worry more about the timing components. one thing you need to check on the donor 6bolt is the cam keys. my buddy kept losing timing in his old tsi and couldnt figure it out...his cams kept slipping. oh and eliminate your balance shafts asap.

the timing problems are the only things keeping me from buying a dsm. my buddy has a fully buchur built gsx and is building two tsi's for friends, and one more when he finds another shell. hes got more parts than anyone i guarantee it.

 

[talontsiawd]

youll have to worry more about the timing components. one thing you need to check on the donor 6bolt is the cam keys. my buddy kept losing timing in his old tsi and couldnt figure it out...his cams kept slipping. oh and eliminate your balance shafts asap.

That's very odd. In the 6 years of owning a dsm and being fairly active in the online and local communites, i never heard about that. It seems like some cars skipped a tooth a bit to easily for my comfort level but nothing like that. Luckily the valves arn't close enough to hit the pistons since it's a non interference engine.

 

[ryan s]

it IS an interference engine. his first red tsi skipped like 3 teeth, cooked 2 pistons and bent 11 valves. then in his blue tsi (the key-skipping one), after like the 3rd timing belt, he sold it when it ran good and the 17 year old kid who bought it burned a couple pistons and bent (i think) 8 valves.

on his n/a laser, he went through 4 timing belts and 20-some valves.

 

[talontsiawd]

NM, it's the non turbo's that arn't. Lol, it's been awhile. Only the 1.8 1g's though. Just looked it up.

 

[BadgerType]