Project: 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX

You guys LOVE these threads, and so do I.

Let me all introduce you to Ian Burnside.



Now, let me introduce you to Ian's 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX.





And yes, this car has 62,000 original miles on it. Yes Miles.


And here's how it sat for the winter:


Throughout the next 12 hours or so, we're going to be doing a lot of work to this thing.

The goal right now: Strip the engine bay of EVERYTHING to get it ready for paint.

Stay tuned, subscribe to this one guys, it's going to get one hell of a transformation.

Ooop... he's here, with some Timmies. Time to get working!

Wow that car has less miles than mine

This will be pretty cool to watch, very nice car.

Was it stored indoors for most of its life? At 20 years old and only 62k miles it probably did a lot of sitting.

Lets hear some history on it!

History:

Original owner imported from NJ, she brought it to Canada, sold it about a year or so after to a guy in Sudbury. He rarely drove it, it sat in a field for 7 years, then was purchased by some idiot here in Sudbury. he beat the hell out of it, then sold it to Ian. Ian's had it for 4 years, on the road for 2 months thanks to me.

Here's today's progress.

Here's what the engine bay looked like when we started:


So we started tearing into it:







Progress!!


Time to pull the motor:



And it's out... we're a little happy:
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Beer break:
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Pulled the tranny off:
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Put the new motor stand together and motor on stand:
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Food break:
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And now we tore into the engine bay itself.
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This is why we had to pull the motor:
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So we brought the motor to the back deck and disassembled it:
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The other motor there is from Bryan's N/T parts car:
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So here's what my shop looks like now, with 2 cars worth of crap in it:
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And last but not least..............................



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frack YOU POWER STEERING! Manual rack FTW!!!!

More next weekend.

you better fix up all that rust

That's the plan, and the reason why we pulled everything including the engine. It really came out a lot easier than I thought it would. The whole engine bay is being repainted and all the holes that aren't needed filled in. The motor is in pretty decent shape too, has kinda low compression in one cylinder.

So I went through the pictures, and I do realize some of them lack continuity. Oh well.

and clean your lense, same blurry spot in each picture

Damn, I should have made the trip up there this weekend. The tournament turned into a drunkfest pretty fast and things got out of hand.

Well, I was going to jokingly ridicule you guys and call you pansies for wearing gloves but you did a decent job. Well done!

Wearing gloves is just smart and it will take alot less cleaning to make the install look sharp in the end. Its much easier to take off dirty gloves than it is to wash your hands to handle those clean parts, and even easier than washing those parts that where clean before your dirty hands got on them. Mech gloves or dirt bike glove work even better IMO.

Nice car Ian, its the bigger Brudder to my white 92' GSX, Ryan will vouch to that, to bad mine is coming off the road on Apr 24th or I would request a family photo shoot.

Keep up the nice work guys!, 1G's forever!

The gloves thing was just a 'manly' joke Malcolm. A semi-regularly wear gloves when wrenching on the car!

Whys it coming off the road so soon? If you're parting it anytime soon let me know.

where exactly is that rust?

Right where the seam is at the P/S Reservoir and Washer Fluid Reservoir.

The rest is surface.

The front fender is what slapped me in the face

HA!

Ian... you win on that one.

If you'll notice in this pic:



.... the new fender is right there.

Took long enough. I thought for sure someone would have said something sooner. "Nice clean car, except for the rusty fender".

My car came from Texas and it has zero rust and runs pretty dam good, so a part out would be out of the question.

To be honest I bought a house on the back roads, and it was either drive my eclipse every day or the 4-Runner, and I didn't want to use the car as my daily driver for work, but it is insured till the 24th so I'm getting my rides in well I can.

I have plans for a 2G tranny, new rear axles, drive shafts, cams, turbo and ex manifold, brakes, ect,.. so I will be keeping it forever.

Well, here's this weekend's progress. It's just about ready for paint.

What's left:

Mark holes to be kept and the rest to be filled in
Pull the heater core
Remove some of the subframe for powdercoat

Car goes to paint on a flatbed next week (4th).

Here's how the car sits now:






I was cutting out those POS Cowls out around the fog lights, the handle of my sissors broke. Out of frustration, I threw them towards the house.....



My Fiancée wasn't too pleased.....

So, next week while it's at paint, the plans are to go through the harness and start pulling wires we don't need. We're also going to be relocating the fuse box into the glove compartment, so shortening of the wires and extending the rest should be fun.

We've got a healthy sized box of parts to go to powdercoat as well, and we're also going to be tearing into the motor soon as well. It's got low compression, and we need to find out why.

This week is going to be a bit of a slow go as I'm going to be busy as hell. The following week we're going to try and get as much done as possible, and the week after, we're both on holidays to get the motor in and the car running.

Oh, you forgot to remove the hood latch support so he can fit a nice front mount in there later on.

We tried, stripped bolt head at the bottom.

This gives me motivation for my car. Should have all my parts in the next month. =] Even some nice rims.


Cant wait to see the finished product!

"We tried, stripped bolt head at the bottom."

^^^ Perfect, now it will be easier to fill in after you grind the rest of the head off that bolt to remove the bracket, and if you think you need support there (which you don't) you could weld in a flat brace for FMIC clearance. Now is the time before paint.

Looking good guys well stripped, you won't here me say that again

when I get home I have to get to teaaring my engine out of my wheels ! so she is ready for the paint shop
What are you guys painting the engine bay with ?

Dead hooker hair brushes.

We arent painting it ourselves, we have no supplies or a place to do it. Yet. It's going to a local bodyshop where theyll be doing just the engine bay painting now.The rest of the car is going to be done later on once all the big work is done just so that nothing gets scratched.

I think im going to have them blast the inside of each front fender and have something put on it that will prevent it from rusting. It looks as if they rust from the inside out and id better fix the other one now before it gets any worse.

And clean your damned camera already, that smudge is still there!!!!

I guess we can post a picture update of all the new parts going in eventually. The cheapest part is the one i was the most excited about.

You have 2 options to prevent rusting.

1- mildly blast the inside, clean it, spray Etch Primer and then gravel guard it or paint it.

2- mildly blast the inside, clean it, spray Epoxy Primer in the color of your choice and call it a day.

Either options will prevent rusting. Wish I was closer, could be helping quite a bit on the painting/body stuff

Don't be shy to ask any questions though.

Maybe we can enlist your services once it comes to painting the rest of the car. I'm sure we could do the engine bay ourselves but we dont have access or know how on metal work really. No welding machine or ever really a clue on how to fix the problem. The rest of the rust isnt even really rust, its just places where brackets were resting against the frame.

I guess it just looks alot worse than it really is, well atleast thats what im hoping.

We'll get a pic of all the parts going into the car tomorrow night. I'm in Belleville right now, so it should be interesting.

Ian, get pictures of the car being loaded up on the tow truck tonight! Get Corey's camera or yours, whatever.

For a quick fixer on surface rust or "bracket rust" you can use a product that's called Rust Inhibitor. Buy it at Crappy Tire or Napa. Clean the surface, spray the rust, it turns black and seals it, paint it. Works great...not better than properly treating it but it will stop the rust from coming back for quite a while.

Going, Going... GONE!

It's at paint right now! We'll be heading over there tomorrow night after work to get some pictures of the progress.

This week, it's motor and powdercoat time!

I demand more Pictures !

+1

Working on it. More will come tomorrow. Got some pics at paint and some of the wire harness we're working on.

Lots of pictures will come this weekend and next week!

Edit: Ok, here's some pics at the paint booth.





The bay has been blasted, and it's going to be painted probably tomorrow after some final prep.

Man I can`t wait till I get mine striped and ready for the paint shop !

Car is back, looks GORGEOUS!

Holidays started at 5PM today. Time for the build!!!

I f'ing love build threads!

Here you go!











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Subframe is being pulled and powdercoated black.
Shocks are being replaced with an AGX/Eibach combo and mounts will be black.

More tomorrow.

That is an awesome paint job. It looks great!
And I agree,
MOAR

Damn Fine looking car. Only problem is that I am jealous. Gotta get my ass going!!! Great job.

GOD like White I love it !

Well, here's today's progress. We got what we wanted done.

Subframe is out and ready to go to powdercoat, interior is stripped and ready for paint.

Here's the pics!!

that's so much work, hahaha. This car better be awesome when it's done!

Ya, it better be worth it......

Have you driven many DSMs in the past?

Ryan, you can tell your fiance I am proud of you.

But seriously guys, exellent job.
Amazing.

-Manuel

Brandon, I have. I've had 4. This is Ian's first.

Thanks Manny, We're putting a lot of work into this.

Including (IAN'S IDEA!!!):

Fuse box relocation to the glove compartment!!!!










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Here's the subframe as she sits right now:

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More today!

wow didn't know there were so many screw holes in the front end.. look at the firewall .. you should weld some of them shut now that you're doing all the work for items that will probably not get mounted there anymore

it would be a good time to do a manual rack swap now

being a 90, this would be a good time to put a 4 bolt rear in there as opposed the 3 bolt "twig"

long live pop up 90 DSMs

That thing is looking realy good.
How long did it take you to move the fuse box any ways ?

Manual rack swap will be done when the sub frame gets back from powdercoat. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be needing a 4 bolt as i dont plan on putting down that much power. Theres no racing up here so I'm wanting to be able to go fast only if need be.

I have broken 2x3 bolt rears w/ stock setup... doesn't take much to snap those 3 bolt rears

Ya Ryan, I know you've had a few. I was asking Ian because he said it better be worth it, and I was gonna let him know that he will never have so much fun with a car, and there is nothing else like driving a DSM.

Kevin is currently running a ton of power on an LSD 3bolt rear end.

I've had well more than 100 launches with my 3-bolt rear-end, always running more than 450whp!

Regardless though, F the 3bolt! 4bolt FTW

When we do a 4 bolt swap, everything from the doors back is coming out and being restored.

Pics from tonight:

Cleaned up the interior a bit, painted it with rust protect paint.

Before:

After:


And finally some pics of re-building/re-designing the front harness.










Here's how things look on the outside at night:
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See you all tomorrow! Stuff goes to powdercoat first thing in the morning!

I love it ! That is all I have to say.

Update for tonight.

Seems we were sucking too much power out there and popped a fuse in the house, so we had to call her quits early.

No pics for tonight.

Rear of the interior has been detailed and installed. Working out some electrical gremelins right now when it comes to the signals.

Every light works, but the signals don't, I believe you have to have ignition power do you not?

Anyway, more tomorrow.

Try the hazards. They're supposed to work without a key in.

You have to have it turns to ACC in order to get the signals to work. 4 ways should work without them tho

Yep, and they do work.

You also have to have POWER going to ignition to work.

We hammered out all the wiring today, everything works. Dash is in, rear is in, just the seats, carpet and center console left.

Pics in the morning. It's 1AM and we just stopped, I don't feel like uploading.

Edit: Pics!!











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You're moving quick man, I'm looking forward to the pictures!

Then you and Ian can hit up Cayuga with us on the 5th of July!

My hat's off to you guys. I'm so lazy I think I would have lost interest about an hour into the project.

But assuming 30 seconds per post, you've spend about 66 hours just typing replies here. Scary, huh??

My hats off as well, and I appreciate you guys posting the pictures. Fair to say we all love threads like this, and find them motivational to go work on our own heaps!!

You guys can come down and finish my car for me. I am slowly getting motivated to get out there. This long weekend I'm going to try to obstain from getting to shitfaced, which makes me lazy the next day.

Added pics above.

Here's today's progress.

Got the entire interior in except for a few small pieces as the ECU has yet to go in.

Tested everything, every switch, every light, it all works, except for the auto seatbelts, but we'll take care of that later.

Doors on, battery is in the trunk, tomorrow is to start assembling the firewall and engine bay.

Pics!!





Brand new OEM 2G Weighted Shift Knob, thanks to Ziggy!


FAAAABULOOUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!

How is that shiftknob? I was thinking of picking one up from ziggy, but not sure if the weight makes much of a difference?

Holy Moly...that is simply AMAZING. Wicked work. I / we all have to see the final product in person. Very Very Very Nice.

Murtaza, that shift knob weighs A LOT. It's more than expected, but it's beautiful. Haven't really "shifted" gears yet, but it sits a lot lower than the stock 1G knob.

Thanks Will!

The shift knob is amazing, worth every penny

Is that brand new OEM carpet? Its so.... clean.

Ehh, nvm... i saw rust/coffee stains .

We detailed it Joe with some carpet cleaner, I would have liked to have painted it with fabric paint to bring it back to it's original color, but Ian said No.

Pissing rain here for the next little bit, but I got some running around to do anyway.

Should be a fun day.

Today's been a frustrating day.

We haven't done much on the car since we haven't had time. It's 9PM and we've done SQUAT today.

First off it was PISSING rain this morning, and our "garage" was a lake. We spent 2 hours cleaning in there and sucking the water out with a shop vac.

The wind SUCKED today and we spent another 2 hours trying to secure our makeshift garage.

Went to the paint shop today to pick up the fenders and gripe about what a shitty job they did in the engine bay. There were areas that weren't sprayed, huge runs in the paint and overall just a full out shitty job. The owner basically told us to go frack ourselves because "we did a lot of stuff for free on that and I was told just to paint it, no show car, just make it white". Yeah, Colormelt in Sudbury, DON'T go there.

Couldn't find an ECU socket to save our souls, so the chip is being hard soldered on. Took us forever to find someone to do it.

3G Lifters finally showed up today so the head is still at the machine shop.

Got everything back from powdercoat and all four subframe bushings had to be burnt out, so we have no subframe bushings. We are having some solid plastic ones made (harder than plastic, same stuff they use in bushings essentially). Hopefully that turns out well. The front motor mount was only supposed to be blasted because we have the inserts, and he cut out the center of it and powdercoated it. It looks good, but now we have no front roll stop. Luckily we have Prothane mounts, so a front roll stop not being there isn't as big an issue.

A few good things did happen today.

Jamie Loo sent out a brand new 1G OEM rad and 2 fans, that should be here tomorrow (hopefully).
We are filling in some bolt holes in the engine bay, since we essentially have to repaint it.
Powdercoat looks AWESOME.

Today was very frustrating, we're going to be up late since we are VERY far behind now.

Will this motor fire up on Monday? Will we get it on it's wheels?

Stay tuned........

Did they use base/clear or single layer/epoxy in the engine bay?

will u be going buy kingston this weekend Louis ?

I'll be driving by and planned on stopping on the way back to look at your car. PM me your #, I should drive back around 6-7pm or so maybe earlier.

friday or sat ?

PM sent.

Single Layer/Epoxy.

Looks like crap.

Figures...most shops spray it like basecoat which results in running it all over the place or it looking dry dry dry. Single layer always needs to be sprayed as if you were spraying a clearcoat.

Wish I was closer.....

Well, I figured I'd update as to what's been going on with this car.

We're still working on it, just a LOT slower than what we were. Thank goodness there was no real set "deadline" as it were.

We've filled in most of the holes under the hood that will no longer be needed after the wire tuck. The engine is assembled minus the oil filter housing which will be picked up today, then it's prime the motor and make it complete.

Today we'd like to get the front facia and whatnot back on the car, as much as possible. We're also going to be slowly putting things back on the firewall. We'd like to get it on it's wheels, but who knows.

More pics today, I promise

Ok, so some updates.

Subframe is in!!! Still missing 2 busings, but the subframe is in.

Wire harness is all buttoned up and secured, and a few other things installed.

Motor is also complete and primed with oil.

Pics:








Should be ready for the 5th of July for the cruise, hopefully.

Very small list of things to be done yet. To be quite honest, the entire car could be finished in a weekend, we just need a cherry picker.

Motor's ready to go, Tranny's ready to go, just have to mate the two together and drop it in!

lol, dude, you put the alternator on the wrong side of the motor!

LOL... You're absolutely right!

Its like new! Maybe I ll get you guys to restore my 2g one day
Unless I do. Rust proofing is my next big project. Damn other owners definatley put it through a few winters. I wish I could slap em. And then find every person that made a door ding before I bought it, and smack em with a door to show them how it feels

Is that the alt relocation kit?

The alternator is on the left side of the motor.
It happens to be the right side too Hopefully the kit lasts longer than the alternator were it in the stock location!

This is the redesigned Jay Racing Alternator Relocation kit.

This, coupled with the manual steering rack, will eliminate all clutter in the front of the motor.

We have yet to wire the alternator up as well as the engine harness, but we will be doing that once the motor is in the car. It's going to be completely tucked away.

Eek, nobody open the passenger side door, or Ian might flip out!.

looks awsome guys, I like that Alt relocation, very clean.

I had the original and two 'redesigned' units. All 3 failed. They have failed many times on many cars. Some have failed but the owner has no idea until it gets much worse. All in all, what a pile of crap.

Meh, if it fails, we'll put it back in the front.

But this car isn't a race car, where it's being revved to the moon every time it's out.

Well guys, this is the last update.

The car will be running this weekend as long as we get the cherry picker. Everything has fallen into place nicely.

To be continued..... at the DSM Invasion.

Teaser.....

Yes, the engine bay is ENTIRELY put together.

Looking good. All the hard work payed off.

I'd be scared to drive it now, its so clean.

Looks real clean I'm looking forward to seeing it at the invasion!

great work guys! keep it up, hope I can make it to invasion to see this clean puppy

something I wanna do but never find time to finaly do it. Great
& fun to watch. Thanks for the pics

figured id update this a bit. car pulls hard and drive nice. Will be buying Link sometime soon and will get it tuned so it doesnt knock.

Mmmmm 1g Eclipse!

So Hot.

Hotter than that time you performed fellatio on a plugged in curling iron, Ryan.

So vivid !

My quest for 17's starts this year!!

I didn't know it was plugged in mmmKAY!?!?!?

Great build!


I need the insperation for my "restoration" lol!

You tease

Very nice man!

Gigiddy

I've been following this thread the whole time and wow it turned out nice! good job man

Ian where did you grab the vent gauge holder from, I have been searching for a three with little luck.

Ziggy used to sell them, not sure if they are still available.