Handyman Dan's TSI Project

[Handyman Dan]

When I had the car on the dyno idling and while on the street at red lights I noticed that when idling for a few minutes the engine was getting warmer than I liked. So today I removed the two 10 inch electric fans I had on the radiator and installed four 7 inch 1550 CFM electric fans on the radiator. The car now will idle all day and will not get hot.

[Handyman Dan]

I charged the A/C today and it is cooling good. I had to feed power to the compressor clutch to engage it. I will look into why the compressor is not engaging when I have more time.

[Handyman Dan]

I have installed a adjustable cam gear and degreed the cam. Now that is done I can now adjust the cam to fine tune it to what works performs the best.

[Handyman Dan]

I have installed a new 100 Amp alternator to keep the voltage going to everything smoothly. I have pictures here. The Alt. with the green in the middle is the 100 Amp. that I have installed.

[adoornbosc]

Wow I really liked looking at all you posted. Made me kinda jelous. I have a white 1988 Conquest that I would love to bring back to life. It has been sitting for the past 8 or 9 years. I don't want to get rid of it. I know the money I put into it I won't get back out of it. I don't want to take it to the junk yard. Everything you did to yours needs to be done to mine. I have had this car since around 1993.

I am moving to Orlando FL this Nov. I'm going to have my Conquest shipped for 650.00 to my sister’s house in Orlando. My dad likes giving me a hard time over keeping this car. I'm going to through on some cheap tires up front for the trip down there.

Can I ask you, how much would you say you spent on bringing yours back to life.

[Handyman Dan]

Wow I really liked looking at all you posted. Made me kinda jelous. I have a white 1988 Conquest that I would love to bring back to life. It has been sitting for the past 8 or 9 years. I don't want to get rid of it. I know the money I put into it I won't get back out of it. I don't want to take it to the junk yard. Everything you did to yours needs to be done to mine. I have had this car since around 1993.

I am moving to Orlando FL this Nov. I'm going to have my Conquest shipped for 650.00 to my sister’s house in Orlando. My dad likes giving me a hard time over keeping this car. I'm going to through on some cheap tires up front for the trip down there.

Can I ask you, how much would you say you spent on bringing yours back to life.

Well to date I have about $7000+ invested in the car in parts. I have many hours of my time and sweat invested also. I will be glad when this project is done so that I can start enjoying it.
Good luck with your car and let me know if you need anything or any help.

[Handyman Dan]

It is a 8" desktop in car TFT-LCD Touch screen Monitor that I found on ebay for $130. I bought 2 of them so I would have a spare. They also had 7" monitors. It has a VGA plug that hooks to your computer monitor output, then it has a usb plug that you plug into your computer. It also has video and audio inputs, and it has a built in speaker. It has a cig. plug for the power. The software that comes with it is for the touch screen operation. The monitor looks to be of good quality. It has a digital Toshiba CMOS chip. I am really pleased with it.

[1988esi]

beautiful car i wat to do this to mine trying to do a little at a time were did you get your alt

[Handyman Dan]

beautiful car i wat to do this to mine trying to do a little at a time were did you get your alt

I got the alternator off ebay, it is a 100 amp and looks to be good quality. I paid $105 for it. here is a link to the sellers item. Mitsubishi Starion Conquest 100 Amp Alternator 87 88 89: eBay Motors (item 120621818802 end time Sep-26-10 19:03:20 PDT)
Hope this helps you.

[Handyman Dan]

I got some time to work on the car today and have it running pretty good. I hope to get it out tomorow and do some road tunning on it.