I bet none of you people are fit to own a DSM. The transmissions in them are not shitty. It's the people who don't know how to drive that break ****. When he rebuilt the motor and trans, did he put a new clutch in? You weren't even through the break-in period yet, and I bet your dumb ass was doing 5k clutch dumps? "It's AWD, it can take it".If you bit on the fact that it has a "Galant VR4 motor", then you apparently don't know **** about them. The motor is a 4g63. The same motor that comes in the 2.0 DSMs, with the exception of the 420a powered ones. That motor also came in several Hyundai cars as well.
And Air_odie, the 'stages' of a DSM are created by independent manufacturers. It's not like an SRT-4 that has factory stages. You could be calling a stage 3, because you had a CM Stg III clutch. Don't be so vague. You had a poorly taken care of, high mileage, daily beaten, piece of **** car. DSMs are one of those cars that take a special owner, and special knowledge to own. It should have been a red flag that a TSi with a "freshly rebuilt engine/tranny" would very EASILY sell for well over $1700. Without even trying... Scan and post those receipts, lets see if we can find the corners they cut in the rebuilds to get the costs down? And by the way, the paint is hideous. But you're gonna Wal-Mart primer it, so you much me 'TEH SUPAR 1337 JDM MAD TYTE T00NAR"...
Go buy a civic.
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