The Original "MILE HIGH TALON" - the 280,000 Mile adventure continues...

Tech & Specs:
1995 Eagle Talon TSiAWD, 2.0L 4G63T, 5-spd. M/T, AWD, Big16G turbo, 660cc/min. injectors, 25" x 3" x 9" front-mount intercooler w/custom 2.5" I/C pipes, 1st-Gen throttle body & BOV, K&N FIPK air filter, lightened flywheel, Unorthodox billet alum. crank pulley, D-M billet fuel filter, -6AN Aeroquip fuel lines, Supra TT fuel pump, B&M FPR, Tial 38mm W/G, ported O2 housing, 3" D/P and exhaust, Magnaflow S/S 3" race muffler, DSMLink programmable ECU, AutoMeter F/P, O/P, & Boost gauges, RMDSM F&R sway bars, KYB GR-2 struts, Sprint lowering springs, SPC adj. front ball joints, SPI adj. rear camber bushings, custom air intake & airbox, custom trunk-mount battery, custom aero panels & front air dam, custom 4-point rollbar, GForce 5-point race harness, GForce arm restraints, Stroud custom door net, custom laptop & fire extinguisher rack, Yokohama ES-100 225-50/ZR-16 tires on 16" x 7" Superior polished alum. rims for street driving, Semperit 205-55/16 studded snows on factory swirl rims for winter driving, new M&H 4.5-27/16's on 16" x 4" welded steel rims with 16" Moon discs for 2007 Bonneville Land Speed Racing.

MHT's Bonneville DSM Land Speed Records: (2-run average top speed)
121.438 MPH - World of Speed 2003 (1 Mi.)
130.989 MPH - World of Speed 2004 (1 Mi.)
    rained out - World of Speed 2005
147.775 MPH - World of Speed 2006 (2 Mi.)

[All 2003-2006 runs on street tires, pump gas, 15psi boost, & full exhaust w/cat.]

Special "Thanks" to Mile High Mitsubishi, Honda, Acura - our 2006 Bonneville Primary Sponsor for their generous support!! Thanks also to Street Concepts, On-Track Performance, The Carpet Studio, and Sticky Vinyl Graphics for their kind associate sponsorship, to Thomas "Porkpie" Graf for the excellent photos, and Paul A. Busta, P.A.B. Digital Video Productions for the superb video footage!  


What does it take to go 280K+ in a turbo 2G DSM? Daily maintenance + $7,000 in OEM replacement parts. What does it take to get 280K+ out of a 4G63? Full-synthetic oil & fluids, oil changes every 2,500-3,000 miles, conversion to big-hole lifters, timing belt changes at 55,000 miles, replacing engine seals at first sign of leakage, keeping the rpm's below 7,000rpm, and boost below 16p.s.i. Best way to avoid crankwalk? Run a stock clutch and avoid repeated hard launches.

I've owned Mile High Talon since Nov. 1996 and ran it as my daily-driver all around Colorado and Wyoming for work for ten years. I left it completely stock for the first few years, then started modifying it in 1999 with reliability, streetability, and a mild increase in performance and handling. Beginning in 2003 when it ran in the street-legal '130 Club' class on the Bonneville Salt Flats, I began to install some horsepower upgrades and the additional safety equipment required to compete in the street-legal '150 Club' class at Bonneville. Now that Mile High Talon is retired as my daily-driver, for 2007 and beyond I'll be working towards developing 500-550HP and adding alot more required safety equipment to some day compete in the '200 MPH' class. Towards this goal, for the 2007 season a 6152 turbo will replace the Big 16G, 950cc injectors are replacing the 660's to run E85 fuel, and a larger FMIC and Fluidyne radiator are replacing the current parts.

Check back at milehightalon.net from time to time for updates on the progress towards setting 
                            a new World 2.0L Land Speed Record of more than 212 MPH!