I'm sad

oh well. there's always going to be someone faster. i'm sure there are some honda or mitsu's out there that could smoke my car. just haven't found one yet.

If you wasnt racing him then how can you say that you got blown away..Seems to me he was speeding..

the weird noise was his girlfriend laughing at you...

A few months ago I got smoked by a Saturn Ion Redline

well depending on which Eclipse it was this can make a lot of sence actually. The mid 90's eclipes has a GS a GST and a GSX the GST is turbo FWD and the GSX is turbo AWD. Both GST and GS weigh shortly upwards of 2700lbs where as your sporting over 3347 lbs.. W/ a substancial after market down pipe eclipses gain 2-3psi. including a flowing cat-back. It's not that hard to make rice rockets w/ potencial fast, now if it was the newer V6 eclipses, those are sleds u shoulda smoked it

My friend has a 90 talon (same thing really as eclipse) and it trapps 114 (24PSI)...and it was all jacked up and blowing out the spark in 3-4th. Im thinking @ 30PSI he could easily go over 120 in the 1/4. BTW he can easily turn it to 30.

But my friend has an aftermarket single turbo (like a 60trim) and different pistons. Otherwise its just exhaust work. (stock heads/cams/intake)

Anyways dont worry about it, those cars can be made FAST for CHEAP.

DSM's can be NASTY for cheap money.. and that weird noise you heard was it's turbo, they come with one stock.

Who cares, man? You drive a legend. He drives an over-engineered bitch car.

04GT said:

I'd love to know what that guy had under his skirt

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If you were crusing in traffic I would not consider that a race. There are some fast eclipses out there but for the most part they are slow as balls. I have owned a few mitsubishis and they are JUNK!

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Trying to do a little converting there Tom? We know thats what you would have been thinking, but trying to give peeps ideas .

Lets make this clear...NO CONVERTING ON THE FORUMS!

umm yeah. not suprising. coming from a dsm background, the 90-99 eclipse/talon/lasers (in fwd turbo and awd turbo trim, not the ****ty non-turbo crap), are by far the best car with the "money spend per power gained" ratio.

the 4g63 motor alone, without touching ANYTHING, can handle 23-25psi, and roughly 400-450hp depending on tuning. now stick in some arp studs and a better head gasket, and it can handle 30psi and 500hp with the right tuning.

i had a 1997 GST Spyder. the only reason i dont still have it, is 400hp+fwd=worthless, and the awd swap was out of my realm of abilities. mods included:

Evo 16g Turbo @ 20psi
SBR Cast Manifold (Ported to match turbo hotside)
Custom FMIC + Piping (By me)
550cc Injectors / 190lph Pump / DSMlink for tuning(the laptop program thats basically standalone)
intake / turbo-back exhaust (3")
act 2100 clutch kit

on the freeway, in 3rd gear, as soon as it reached 20psi the wheels just broke loose until they heated up so much theyd finally catch, and by then i was already in 4th and at about 115ish(3rd gear tops out at 105mph). the car was stupid fast, from a roll. from a stop, well, lets just say the car was fwd, and 1st-3rd were useless in anything over 1/2 throttle. i remembered cruising just to find LS1's and GT guys to tangle with, just so see their faces. and i did, many times, all of them met "yeah, its fast, but its still a 4 banger", some people are just sad. the saleen guy i raced one night, got so pissed after 3 runs and 3 losses, he went into oncoming traffic, after i had hit the brakes and coasted down to reasonable speeds, just to prove he is more "hardcore" or something.

then i got the stang and realized that even though the eclipse was way faster than my stang now, the stang is just so much more fun to drive, and even the ****tiest exhaust on a stang sounds better than the best 4banger exhaust. and getting sideways with a slight blip of the throttle owns.

4u2nv said:

Who cares, man? You drive a legend. He drives an over-engineered bitch car.

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One of the greatest Quotes of all time!