Sunday, January 14, 2018

Can A DSM Turn?

AWD DSM's are pretty infamous for being great street and strip drag cars, once you figure out how to keep the transmissions from self destructing.

Really good at making power with the 4G63.

Keeping the transmission gears inside the case? Not so much.

Being able to turn with all that power? Also not so much.

Let's Try To Make This Pig Handle

So, in the interest of trying to get this thing to turn, I've picked up a few more things to upgrade the suspension on my 93 Eagle Talon TSi/AWD.
In addition to the Koni Yellow Adjustable Sport inserts for the front shocks, I picked up a set of 3SX Racing Adjustable Rear Camber arms and a Jay Racing Active Rear Toe Elimination Kit.

These Look Familiar


The 3SX Rear Camber arms are a kit composed of AFCO tubular arms, some stainless steel bushings, a ball joint and a teflon lined Heim end. It replaces the upper suspension arm on the multilink rear suspension used on the 1G AWD DSM.


Honestly this "kit" could have been pieced together using parts from a Dirt Track Racing catalog, but I'm lazy and just decided to order the kit. This kit will allow the rear camber of a 1G AWD DSM to be adjusted easily to compensate for a excessively lowered vehicle or to dial in the rear camber for better handling. Since the DSS Coilovers I have on the car aren't very good at going for the "low life", I'll be using these to add a bit more negative camber to my car for better handling. No more than -2 degrees. You know? For handling.

Squats, Squats


The Jay Racing Active Rear Toe Elimination kit consists of a steel threaded "plug" with a large Heim joint.



It gets welded in to both rear trailing arms on a 1G AWD to replace the soft rubber bushing that secures the trailing arm to the rear subframe. The 1G DSM uses the same subframe and suspension setup from the 89-93 Galant VR-4 AWD Sedans. These featured 4WS, but this was deleted by removing the rear steering rack and associated parts when these were used for the 1G DSM cars in the U.S. The original attachment point for the rear trailing arm however, would still allow the rear tires to toe in under hard suspension loads causing issues with handling and during hard drag launches. This kit eliminates the soft factory bushings and locks the rear toe into one position no matter what state the suspension is in. This can enhance the handling of the car, and also help with 60 ft times if drag racing is your thing. It's going to be awhile before this stuff goes onto the car, but I can't wait to get to it.


Alpha, Mike, Foxtrot.....

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