Take back the keys!

Whats up everyone? My name is Mike and I'm from Ellwood City, PA. I met someone from Crux up in Boardman a couple years about during supernats and added your Myspace group which is where I found the link for your forum. I currently drive a 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT and I am a member of Poor Boyz Motorsports.

Here's the most up to date picture of my car...

Welcome! Looks good I love those things lowered really clean too!

Are you running just springs on it my friend has one and wanted to lower it, but she said she had to replace the whole rear strut?

Thanks!

As for the drop, I have the Megan Racing 32-way street coilovers. Most guys on the 3g forum like to go with tein s-tech springs with kyb agx struts.

Ive seen you around before. Clean car! thanks for joining.

swagger wrote:Thanks!

As for the drop, I have the Megan Racing 32-way street coilovers. Most guys on the 3g forum like to go with tein s-tech springs with kyb agx struts.

Ahhh Yah she told me she had to replace the struts I was like :

But I guess it is set up a little differently. I think she has teins not sure though. Ill have to tell her that ill have to order her some struts haha.

welcome welcome

clean whip Mike!

haha thanks eric!

hi mike! welcome to the group!! im from pa also. sharon/wilmington area. nice eclipse!! im looking at buying one since i wrecked my shelby. how do you like them/ do they drive nice?? and i guess you can do a lot too them, fill me in to help me decide lol.

I guess it totally depends on what you want to do with the car. If i could do it over again i probably would have went with a 2g because of the awd and 4g63. don't get me wrong i love my car but if you want to get a lot of power out of it you're gonna spend a lot of money for a supercharger or turbo setup. although if you get the 4cyl version you can swap an evo head onto it and put together a turbo kit for a pretty good price and make decent numbers. overall i like the car. its fun to drive, handles pretty good and has decent power but like i said 4g63 if you wanna go fast.

swagger wrote: 4g63 if you wanna go fast.

..and don't mind a lot of headaches lol.

hahaha i can relate to headaches, had a lot of them when me and my brother started messing with the shelby i have in the garage, took us a yr and a half to get everything right on it, we even blew it up in the process of tryin to get it right. 400 hp runnin on 35 psi on a 4 cylinder car. its originally a turbo car we just did lots of upgrading and rebuilding

my shelby i wrecked never gave headaches..the motor is still good everything is not even a yr old on it...i need a new intercooler tho...i was thinkin about gettin an eclipse n seeing if i could use that engine in it...it was a 2.5...hmm something to look into and research i suppose

boostgyrl22 wrote:hahaha i can relate to headaches, had a lot of them when me and my brother started messing with the shelby i have in the garage, took us a yr and a half to get everything right on it, we even blew it up in the process of tryin to get it right. 400 hp runnin on 35 psi on a 4 cylinder car. its originally a turbo car we just did lots of upgrading and rebuilding

my shelby i wrecked never gave headaches..the motor is still good everything is not even a yr old on it...i need a new intercooler tho...i was thinkin about gettin an eclipse n seeing if i could use that engine in it...it was a 2.5...hmm something to look into and research i suppose

That's rear wheel drive right? That may be your issue fitting that engine in an eclipse.

you can do anything with enough money Trina haha

touche haha

my money come fast... so thats how i spend it.

Nice car. I'm from New Castle. Nice to see someone else from PA!

thanks what kind of car do you drive? maybe i have seen you around

I have an 06' Copper Red Miata. I really should post pictures sometime soon. But I also should be studying for finals...

Ubryaj wrote:I have an 06' Copper Red Miata. I really should post pictures sometime soon. But I also should be studying for finals...

x2 rather than being on different forums pages all night

ERABBIT23 wrote:

Ubryaj wrote:I have an 06' Copper Red Miata. I really should post pictures sometime soon. But I also should be studying for finals...

x2 rather than being on different forums pages all night

Ya I also have a final tomorrow that I don't plan on studying for.

Nick Serra wrote:

ERABBIT23 wrote:

Ubryaj wrote:I have an 06' Copper Red Miata. I really should post pictures sometime soon. But I also should be studying for finals...

x2 rather than being on different forums pages all night

Ya I also have a final tomorrow that I don't plan on studying for.

haha same here. car forums are my downfall. i could sit here all night and read nothing as opposed to studying.

Nick Serra wrote:

ERABBIT23 wrote:

Ubryaj wrote:I have an 06' Copper Red Miata. I really should post pictures sometime soon. But I also should be studying for finals...

x2 rather than being on different forums pages all night

Ya I also have a final tomorrow that I don't plan on studying for.

+1 2 finals tomorrow, no need to study.....

Rb25Cory wrote:

Nick Serra wrote:

ERABBIT23 wrote:

Ubryaj wrote:I have an 06' Copper Red Miata. I really should post pictures sometime soon. But I also should be studying for finals...

x2 rather than being on different forums pages all night

Ya I also have a final tomorrow that I don't plan on studying for.

+1 2 finals tomorrow, no need to study.....

+1 Accounting final tomorrow I already studied though so I think im good haha

Dave, for my accounting final, we played MONOPOLY! Haha....not even joking. Yes, Westminster is so hard. But anyway, this is a little off topic.

Ubryaj wrote:Dave, for my accounting final, we played MONOPOLY! Haha....not even joking. Yes, Westminster is so hard. But anyway, this is a little off topic.

Wow that is funny hah im transferring

yea i would like to do that i think hahaha but no the car is front wheel drive, the other shelby i have is rear wheel drive. if i cant put the engine in the eclipse from my shelby ill just tear off the parts i can use to turbo the mitsu motor. but it sits in my garage all day haha. and money isnt the problem after i get the car haha.....its finding the time to do it dave lol.

so im thinking...if i get the eclipse i want, turbo it....make it run atleast 13's in the quarter mile im thinkin thats fast enuf for my liking if im goin to daily driver this thing for a while til im out of school....the car is silver, the white rims i have from my shelby will fit on the car. i wanna take the black convertable top and make it bright white, and paint the car white in the front and fade it into a dark candy hot pink towards the back hahaha. atleast so it has a girls touch eh??

boostgyrl22 wrote:so im thinking...if i get the eclipse i want, turbo it....make it run atleast 13's in the quarter mile im thinkin thats fast enuf for my liking if im goin to daily driver this thing for a while til im out of school....the car is silver, the white rims i have from my shelby will fit on the car. i wanna take the black convertable top and make it bright white, and paint the car white in the front and fade it into a dark candy hot pink towards the back hahaha. atleast so it has a girls touch eh??

or just paint the whole car bright pink, I guess if the fades done right it could look good, will stand out so hopefully it does!

boostgyrl22 wrote:so im thinking...if i get the eclipse i want, turbo it....make it run atleast 13's in the quarter mile im thinkin thats fast enuf for my liking if im goin to daily driver this thing for a while til im out of school....the car is silver, the white rims i have from my shelby will fit on the car. i wanna take the black convertable top and make it bright white, and paint the car white in the front and fade it into a dark candy hot pink towards the back hahaha. atleast so it has a girls touch eh??

is this the 4-cylinder one? If not I would suggest the 4 cylinder eclipse if your going the turbo route. Mike will tell you, he's been on the 3g forums for awhile now and its much easier to boost the 4 cylinder than the 6. Mainly because a lot of the Evo and dsm parts are usuable. You could do an evo head swap or an entire Evo 4g63t swap. There was an article in turbo magazine a while back with someone who did the swap and said it was fairly easy to do.