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[ncgalant]

Well I've begun work on the new talon. I first pulled the oil pan to find if their claim of a broken rod was indeed true. What I found was worse. The rod was fine. The piston on #4 was in 8000000 pieces. The oil pan was full of piston. This didn't bother me.

What bothered me was when I pulled the turbo. The coolant lines were full of piston. When I started pulling water lines off the engine to pull it, piston pieces everywhere. This doesn't bother me other than the parts that I can't clean easily. I'm assuming the heater core is full of metal. The radiator is full of metal. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I was thinking about throwing in the other motor, but I don't want it full of metal pieces. In-line filters all over? I'm really not sure where to go with this.

[ncgalant]

Well the engine is now out of the car and I'm ready for the next phase... finding funding. I've made some decisions on what is going to happen pretty much forsure now.

1. The galant motor will survive in the Talon
2. A 2g tranny will be used to make this work with some sort of custom mounting procedure(I'll do some measuring tomorrow)
3. All of the extras stay in the car(A/C, Power steering, Heat)
4. Galant parts will be used to make up for ones that have to be thrown out. Becides the heater core, I think the others(radiator and lines) will work quite nicely.
5. The spirit of the galant will be kept with the Talon being as much of a sleeper as possible.