1992 Eagle Talon TSi... For Her

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Some of you know me from my Firebird, (my first car, the one that became a SEMA 2009 build and eventually got a full 2.0 redo), but this time I’m sharing something smaller, lighter, and… for my wife.

Her first car in high school was a blue 1994 Eagle Talon (NA). She put over 100k miles on that car, drove it across the country, and still talks about it with the kind of fondness only a first car can earn. So I set out to find another that could bring that feeling back.

That search led to an original‑owner, Radiant Red 1992 Eagle Talon TSi… a 5‑speed turbo car with just 33k miles. A true survivor: clean, original, and unmolested. Exactly the kind of foundation you want when you’re trying to recreate a memory — only better.

This won’t be a daily driver.
This is a Cars‑and‑Coffee, weekend, nostalgia cruiser that she can park next to the Firebird.

The goal is simple:

Preserve the survivor quality

Refresh and modernize the right things

Keep the ’90s DSM character intact

Make it reliable, fun, and presentable

Since bringing it home, we’ve been going through the car front to back… mechanical refresh, paint correction, cleanup, and a few tasteful upgrades.

If you guys are interested, I’ll walk through all of it here the same way we’d approach a pro‑touring car: baseline it, then improve from there.