Basic Specifications
Vehicle Color: BlackEngine Type: 4 Cylinder
Transmission: Manual
Est. Horsepower: 215 HP
Mileage: 125,000 miles
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nuclearpenguin's 1992 Plymouth Laser
AWD Yyyyurbo Laser
About this Current Vehicle:
I got this car in April of '06. I had been searching for about 3 months since my last car crapped out at the track (beyond my interest of repair). It's my first F.I. vehicle and I'll never own a N/A 4-cyl again!
Vehicle Journal:
Jan 20
I got Snowned
Icy, snowy, wintery weather. Heaven for AWD.
Not.
Today I hit a guard rail on the way home. Not a prissy little metal guardrail though; a big, manly, unforgiving, concrete highway divider guard rail. I was ok, the car has a new suspension gremlin though. It likes to shake at 40+ mph. I'm hoping it's going to be an ez fix, we'll just see.
2g MAS, injen 2g intake/filter, throttle body are all on the way here. Ready to get this crap done and move on. Will probably have to go ahead and get my rear control arm (it's bent, found that out when I installed my camber kit =[ ) and get the car realigned sometime soon.
Later
Jan 15
Catching up to date
A short summary of where I've been with the car so far:
-Got the car in April of '06. Ended up in the shop a week later to replace the tranny output shaft seals and a cv shaft.
That didn't take long. DSM luck had already struck.
Fixed alot of small stuff in the first few months; Idle surge was a quick fix (adjust of the BISS!), Brake light was stuck on (topped off the reservoir, duh), fixed a crack in the valve cover, mostly stuff like that.
I had a stuttery/power loss problem that I couldn't figure out, so I did/replaced a lot to try and pinpoint that: Boost leak test revealed some small hose leaks and TB Shaft seal leak that I all fixed, plugs, wires, fuel filter, cleaned out the TB, cleaned out the SMIC. Somewhere in there I managed to fix the stuttering, but it's still not feeling as powerful as it should.
I also tried logging for the first time during the late Summer and found I had a knocking issue, so right now I'm stickin to 10psi on pump gas, but plan on doing 15psi on race gas.
About 3 months ago I decided to do the timing belt, so I ordered all the necessary stuff from jnztuning.com (belt, bal shaft belt, tensioners, pulleys, etc.), paid my buddy's coworker to help me do it. Found out the hard way I had a 6-bolt motor and had to reuse my old tensioner (although this is where I found out I had a bal shaft elimination already!). A week later the inevitable happened and my timing belt loosened up, bending all the intake valves and resulting in a head swap. 3 months and an all new top end later, I'm back on the road. (Those 3 months are a story of their own!).
I'm right now replacing the whole throttle body because my current one is owned. Next in line is a 2g mas and intake pipe/filter. Shortly after that I want to do my exhaust (evo3 mani, atmos dump o2 housing, custom pipe from the o2 housing back to the muffler, no cat) and then start in on the fuel mods!
Factory Options:
6 bolt motor/4 bolt rearend. Lightest DSM to ever roll out of the factory. Power windows/locks/mirrors.
Exterior Modifications:
Clear corners and wheels. And that'll be about it.
Interior Modifications:
Dual-gauge pillar pod. That's all I need!
Performance:
Ported 1g exhaust manifold, ported o2 housing, TRE rebuilt transmission, test pipe, some cheap aftermarket muffler, hacked aircan and maf, S-AFC1, palm datalogger (m100 w/ mmcd), mbc
Suspension/Chassis:
DME rear camber kit
Drivetrain:
TRE rebuilt transmission with EVO final drive and some other goodies
Electronics:
S-AFC1 and palm datalogger
To-Do List:
N/A
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1 Comments on nuclearpenguin's Laser
What wheels are those man, those look sick.