After multiple futile attempts by his local mechanic, a fellow member brought me his car to see if I could straighten it out. It's a SQ drivetrain swapped '88 Might Max, with an '89 harness, knock box & ECU, and a 1g DSM MAS. It has brand new injectors from Lower Shores Performance, probably a couple weeks old. The turbo is pretty worn out, probably has 1/8" of up & down shaft play.   The truck starts up and idles fine, little hard at start up but the battery is a bit weak. If you start

I'm in the process of a turbo longblock swap in my Raider and planning the oil pan/pickup changeover right now. I keep finding this oddball cross section of an early Starion engine showing an oil pickup mounted to the block (like a truck) but fitting the turbo oil pan. I've NEVER seen this in 50+ engines I've handled through the years (they all have the pump mounted pickup) but low and behold Bad2Rass has a block mounted pickup tube that fits in a turbo oil pan. Was there an early Starion tha

We have here a very beautiful professionally powdercoated valve cover. The color is a wrinkle phone red from prismaticpowders.com. The wrinkle gives it a nice texture and will look beautiful under any starquest hood. (oil cap not included)   Prices as are follows:   If you send me your old valve cover "any condition" it is 45$ shipped! shipping one to me should cost no more than 10 dollars (great deal and what i would prefer)   any questions please let me know or email me at anthonychelini@hotma

The title will make sense later   But...I recently got hold of an 87 TSI, white with red guts, and, I'll be honest, the cars a piece, but, I have a plan for it and it'll be a fun street/track car.   It currently has a built motor but has a rod knock, so, I'll be pulling it soon and having the crank and rods checked. I started it and it ran for a few seconds and has great oil pressure (a little over half on the gauge), and coolant is green and the oil is clean, so...a guess its a good start.