Christ I hate changing my mind but the gf is more responsible for this one LOL. She said, 'Why the hell don't you get the Talon back on the road for the summer?!!?' I decided I should, I miss racing and boost.

Goal is to have the bitch on the road beginning of June.
April 22-29 I'm off school for Easter so I'll be doing the following
To Be Done April 22-29
- Rust reapir (trunk, wheel wells, floor, lower rad support)
- Re-install Front cross member
- Install front mounter mount inserts
- Remove 14B and O2 Dump
- Install 16G
- Install new oil pressure sensor
- Wire secondary fuse boxes
- New t-stat and rad cap
- New Intake Manifold Gasket
- ABS Delete
- Clutch cut wire to ECU
- WBO2 to ECU
- Rebuild Shifter plate (new bushings)
- Fuel pump rewire
- Reinstall Door Panels
- Reinstall all dyed interior panels
- Reinstall dash

I did a bunch of stuff to work towards these goals this week. Starting by cleaning up my Evo 3 16G for a rebuild. I got it all taken apart and soda blasted the gunk off. The soda blaster works friggin awesome for cleaning delicate parts. Best of all I built it for only $10!
CHRA before:


After:


All the parts nice and clean and some close ups.




I'm gonna order a rebuild kit from FP on Tuesday and get it finished up once that arrives.

Next I plugged away at the S2000 cluster, still need to order the Speedohealer and Tach Converter. I've got the cluster mounted though.


I'm starting on the surround for it. Picked up some thin plexi today and started by gluing it to the factory surround.




I've got to wait for the glue to dry. I've gonna pick up some Evercoat filler and likely some fiberglass to finish bonding the too pieces together. Then I'll cut a hole to view the cluster though and lastly paint the whole thing black.

I cleaned up all my interior pieces since the soda blaster got them nice and dirty. After reading about trimming a few pounds off of the 2G AWDs fat ass, I learned there was a big metal plate in the glove box, no wonder that fracker was so heavy. I popped the cover off, drilled the plastic rivets out, gave the plate the heav ho and glued it back together. The plate weight 3.5lbs approx.

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Next I moved on to some gauge related stuff. I've got a center vent pod and I hate that the heater ducts behind it are open so I cut a block off out of plexi and glued it in place.
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I also got my secondary fuse boxes installed and wires hooked up for my various gauges. The chip at the top is a 12V to 5V convert to run the Modifry ECT converter (small black chip by the fuse boxes).
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Installed my AEM Volts gauge where the cigarette lighter use to be. The rotary knob beside it controls the wattage to my Bosch HID ballasts, they are adjustable from 35W to 75W.
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That's it for now. I'll be doing some more work tomorrow, rebuilding some broken tabs, redoing my door panel inserts possibly and putting the doors back together.