Vehicle Owner

Member ID: TranTla

Location: San Diego, CA

Vehicle Info

1998 Eagle Talon

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile11.82 sec @ 119 mph
  • 0-603.5sec
  • Top Speed160mph
  • HP450
  • Weight3400lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

Ratings

    • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
    • Currently 2.7/5 Stars.

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Last updated: Oct 26, 2009

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Steve’s Eagle Talon
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  • Currently 3.49 /5 Stars.
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Interior

I'm not really into "LOUD" but rather into "Clear." Its loud enough. I have 2 amplifiers. A Kole 2channel 480Watt and a Visonik 4 channel 800 Watt. I chose the amps to deliver 100 rms per channel. I just redid my trunk with black carpet also from StockInteriors.com.
TranTla's 1998 Eagle TalonMy Bazooka 8" base tube and amp rack setup. I didn't want to sacrifice trunk space just to have a little base. This is the Bazooka BT8024DVC. I glued the carpet over the entire tube to make it more stealth. Also the Visonik amp
TranTla's 1998 Eagle TalonTranTla's 1998 Eagle Talon


This is what the amp rack looks like. I used the side pocket. The amplifier is attached to the door
I finally refinished all the wipers. I powder coated them with Eastwoods Hot coat system. Works really good! Professional results and a smooth finish.

The 1.0 Farrad capacitor and cooling fan for the amplifier and the amplifier. (Kole 2ch 480W)This amplifier is solely for the Bazooka base tube. The bazooka is a dual voice coil subwoofer so both channels are being used.
TranTla's 1998 Eagle TalonThis is where my Pocketlogger/Palm Vx sits. Its a Gooseneck. I have never seen anyone with this type of holder. You will also see my custom mounted Beltronics Vector FX2 under the stereo.
TranTla's 1998 Eagle TalonI took my time and some Vinyl dye to do this custom emblem coloring. I also dyed alot of other parts as seen below
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The Vinyl dye helped restore the windshield cowl. It was really faded. Looks like I put Armor all only it does not wash off. Now I need to refinish those ugly wiper arms.

                                                     TranTla's 1998 Eagle Talon
I fianlly refinished the wiper arms. Stripped them to bare metal and powder coated them with Eastwoods Hot coat system. Professional results and a smooth finish. I did the rear wiper as well.

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This is a better look at the doors. Notice the speaker cover was dyed black.

 TranTla's 1998 Eagle TalonTranTla's 1998 Eagle Talon
I am in the process of redoing the seats. Heres a taste of what I'm doing. These are the rear seats. I'm going to match the bottom portion of the seats next.

 Heres the new carpet. Its from StockInteriors.com. Great fit and quality. This was long overdue.

TranTla's 1998 Eagle Talon                TranTla's 1998 Eagle Talon

TranTla's 1998 Eagle Talon


Heres my Dual guage cluster bezel pods. Both guages are from Dynotune. I dyed the bezel red just like everything else. The plastic was real soft and acetone just eats it up so the Dye really absorbed very well. Here they are Digital. Left is Dyno Tune's Voltometer and to the right I have a Dyno Tune's Wideband guage. They both output red digits having the same properties. They both will show the digits the same way (xx.x) so it will look really nice.

 

TranTla's 1998 Eagle TalonThis is the product I use for the interior. The label has changed a bit but this is the product. Some of my dyed products have lasted over 5 years.

 

Page 3 Transmission
Page 4 Transmission 14,450 miles later
Page 5 The Engine buildup

Page 6 Old Evo 3 16G turbo setup

Page 7 Talon LED Tail light Modification

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ingenierobarrera  

Posted by: ingenierobarrera

07/27/2009 10:06AM

TSI,GOOD.

shoobaah  

Posted by: shoobaah

06/11/2009 11:20AM

great work man, i hope to have mine as clean as yours one day!

K3NDOGG  

Posted by: K3NDOGG

06/11/2009 03:21AM

Good work on your documentation of your Talon build.. And I'm not suprised that you had to swap out the engine. Also, the engine bay looked SWEET!

redrooster14  

Posted by: redrooster14

01/18/2009 08:42AM

very nice talon...i like a lot of the ideas you have i'm in the process of upgrading the turbo again

jono35582  

Posted by: jono35582

12/27/2008 11:31PM

i like it man! keep it up...5 stars!

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Location: San Diego, CA