help me...240sx or GSX?

[S13SilviaDrifter]

Ok, I just bought me an 89 coupe last week, pics will be up soon, i got it for 1000 bucks in perfect condition, I use to own a 2nd Gen Eclipse GS-T for about a year now and I'm currently voluntarily impounding the car back to the bank because it developed crankwalk. What is crankwalk and why does it affect so many DSM's?, this is something you should really search before buying a gst or gsx, is something that affects all 4g63 engines and you take a risk that your's would not develop it. I always took care of the car changed oil every 3000 miles sometimes less and was always on top of it. The first problem that rose before developing crankwalk was that my clucth started going out, me and my friend jacked it up and found out that it was just the release cylinder that had gone out and it wasnt popping the clucth back, so we went out bought a new release cylinder or slave cylinder (i always thought it was release) for 50 bucks went back and the car was perfect again, great!, minor problem i can finally start thinking about dropping in a FPBig28 Green, FMIC, and SFP Exhaust Manifold right......WRONG!, about a month later im driving in a shopping parking lot with my friend's brother, as im reaching a speed bump i put the car on neutral, put second gear, when i let my foot off the clucth the car all of a sudden just turns off, dead, and it's not starting so as my friend pushes it out the way i turn on the ignition the car turns back on...weird, might be the coil, we'll get it checked. So the car kept doing this for about a week, we get it checked and it's not the coil everything is fine, but im driving the car thinking that at any moment it might just turn off, and it did, getting off the expressway it just died on me and it didnt turn back on this time. Now when you try to turn it on, it just gives the sound as if is trying to get going, but it just doesnt and it has this loud ticking noise everytime you "crank" it.

Crankwalk. They call it this because basically the crankshaft begins to "walk" or slide in the engine block to the left or the right until it tears through it and the engine just doesnt start again, most often to the right where it meets the Crank Angle Sensor, that's the ticking sound, the crankshaft pushing against it, at this point, forget about it, you're gonna have to get a new engine and that meas $$$$$.

In my opinion, Mitsubishi in general is a bad company, i knew this when i bought the gst but when you want something you get blinded an this served as experience for me, so i went back to the big three (i use to own a honda before then sold it), Toyota, Nissan and Honda, you get either one of these three cars, and you have a car for life. Fast and Reliable engines. Sorry for longness, just had a lot to say.

Oh yeah for your own good dude, dont get a DSM AWD you'll be spending lots of cash in drivetrain problems, the trany is just too weak, i know a guy with a gs-t that blew his transmission, literally, doing a run and his car wasnt even that high in HP, so they're just not worth it, they come with problems from the company, it just wasnt engineered right, especially the second gens.