Well I've managed to break 3 tranny's in about a years time.

Here's some good carnage shots of a TRE trans that lost 4th gear:






So a few weeks ago I picked up another 1992 AWD Talon but this one's automatic. The plan is to swap some certain parts off this car into my red Talon. I wonder what that might be??

It's a complete car and it even runs really well. The short block is a nt 6 bolt unfortunately but is in great shape. The car had 180+psi compression across all 4 cylinders. I peeped into the spark plug holes and was able to make out the numbers/letters on the tops of the pistons: 63D, no "T" on the end, which explains the high compression. Oh well, no worries, I bought the car for the drivetrain anyway. I'm probably going to pull the NT pistons out, hone the cylinders, throw in some used turbo pistons/rods w/arp rod bolts, new rings and wrap it up in plastic and keep it for a spare. I Found receipts in the glove box for a completely rebuilt head with new valves, valve job, re-surface and stem seals. Another spare I guess lol. The same mechanic also put in a used short block because of a broken timing belt. So I'm pretty sure he's the jerkoff that put in the NT short block.

Onto the drivetrain. The TCU is dead and won't even blink out codes on the multimeter so the trans is stuck in limp mode. I plan on running the Kiggly manumatic mod in order to shift manually with a ratchet shifter anyway so that's no big deal. I just gotta wire up the tranny to shift manually and take it out for a test drive. I just want to make sure the tranny is in good working condition before I go through the trouble of pulling everything for the swap. I have a feeling it's fine (fingers crossed). The guy I bought it from said it always worked great but after it sat for a year or so the next time he tried to drive it the tranny was in limp mode. Planning on putting in the IPT end clutch kit, translab shift kit, doing kiggly manumatic mod and maybe having the converter restalled by a local shop.

Here's some pictures of the auto car and a couple shots of the journey to go pick it up. The car was in Big Bear and if you didn't know, the 330 is closed because half the freakin mountain washed away. I used my buddy's car trailer and we had to drive up the 18 through Lake Arrowhead and then over to Big Bear. This was on a Sunday too so traffic was pretty shitty because of all the snowboarder/skiers trying to make it down the mountain. We ended up taking the 38 back down as it's not so narrow and curvy. It took us about 4 hours but I finally got it home, paid $800 for the whole car and put $60 in fuel in the truck.

Three talons, three trannies,11 sec car...get me a job where you work

I say dog box it.

Hell ya auto FTW !!

I go 5 speed to join the club and then everyone decides to go automatic haha. Nice setup though make a updated thread as you go along. Good luck on the swap Dustin.

I used to tell him dogbox it too,but for less money he'd get better results off an auto.....but nothin better than downshifting on a twistie

Nice score man! Auto is the way to go. I was planning to convert my car over, but I ended up getting ripped off on all the swap parts. Ideally I'd like to find a car like what you've got and just make it a balls-out drag car because my car is too clean to gut out and put a cage in.

leave the hx35 on the red car and i can get you an hx40 in a T3 housing like my hx35 for cheep and i have a turbonetics t3 mani still. pick up some smaller injectors for the red car and just boost 30 psi on it. and 40+ on the auto

or maybe ill buy the red car off you, i have kinda wanted a 1g AWD for awhile lol

Welcome brother

sell me the rear bumper and lights from the auto car. there the color i wanna paint my 1g and ive been looking for a 1gb rear

What are you planning to do with the engine from that car?