99ECLIPSEGSXDSM
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- Aug 22, 2010
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Erie,
Pennsylvania
I don't know why I never made a build thread but I guess it's never to late to start one. I've had my 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX since 2008. Took me 3 years to find her and I also worked two jobs to pay for her. Had 95,000 on her when I bought her and was mostly stock beside some crappy lowering springs, strut tower bars, hks high power muffler and rims. Had sun fade but besides that it was the cleanest dsm I've ever seen in person. No rust anywhere. Here's a few pictures from a few days after I picked her up.
I soon swapped out for stock tail lights
I ended up raising the car back up to stock and removing the tint because I got a few tickets for both. I started school and worked full time just to cover my bills so I didn't do anything to her for awhile. After I graduated and got a good job the first thing I did was buy my exhaust and intake. Bought a RRE downpipe test pipe and cat, apexi n1 cat-back and injen intake.
Was never a big fan of chrome/polished parts under the hood so I had the intake powder coated and turned out good for $5
My plans where to stop there on performance upgrades but like the rest of us I got addicted so I added a boost gauge and a mbc. Still wasn't happy so I bought the punishment/cx racing fmic kit with black piping and a ngr type s bov then painted the car. Right after paint I replaced my rims with DR-19s cause the old rims where scratched and getting worn because of the previous owner.
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After that I saw a deal that Fp was having for a evo III 16g and a race manifold so I bought it. I put it on and the manifold melted my fans and I couldn't get the 16g to work properly cause of boost creep. I put the car in storage and was planning already for next year. Well life throws curves at you and some really crappy things happened in my life. I was injured and hospitalized for two months so the car had to be put on hold till I recovered enough to be able to turn a wrench. while I was recovering I got to go watch a friend (GofaST4life) autox and knew that I wanted to try it as soon as I was able to.
About mid sumer I was finally strong enough to work on the car. After I was aloud to drive again I was getting tired of the boost creep problems so I decided to go back to the stock turbo so I could drive it like I wanted to until I had dsm link and a wideband. I've always love the thought of a stock turbo look with a kick so I bought Fp big t28. The car pulls much better on top the the t25 ever did and am very happy with it.
After this I decided to take care if my airbag. After getting in trouble a few times for the tint I took the tint off and as soon as I did that the airbag started pealing and just got worse and worse. I bought a used airbag from miller import and was very easy to swap out.#
I also installed a walbro 190 and the front rm sway bar just before winter but I do not have any pictures but I will take some when I finish my suspension.
Over the winter I've bought EPROM, Dsm link, fic850cc, innovative wideband, tokico illuminas, prokit springs and a polyurethane bushings kit. These parts will be installed as soon as the weather breaks which I'm hoping is real soon.#I'm planning on running 22psi but only if the tune is safe enough to.
I soon swapped out for stock tail lights
I ended up raising the car back up to stock and removing the tint because I got a few tickets for both. I started school and worked full time just to cover my bills so I didn't do anything to her for awhile. After I graduated and got a good job the first thing I did was buy my exhaust and intake. Bought a RRE downpipe test pipe and cat, apexi n1 cat-back and injen intake.
Was never a big fan of chrome/polished parts under the hood so I had the intake powder coated and turned out good for $5
My plans where to stop there on performance upgrades but like the rest of us I got addicted so I added a boost gauge and a mbc. Still wasn't happy so I bought the punishment/cx racing fmic kit with black piping and a ngr type s bov then painted the car. Right after paint I replaced my rims with DR-19s cause the old rims where scratched and getting worn because of the previous owner.
After that I saw a deal that Fp was having for a evo III 16g and a race manifold so I bought it. I put it on and the manifold melted my fans and I couldn't get the 16g to work properly cause of boost creep. I put the car in storage and was planning already for next year. Well life throws curves at you and some really crappy things happened in my life. I was injured and hospitalized for two months so the car had to be put on hold till I recovered enough to be able to turn a wrench. while I was recovering I got to go watch a friend (GofaST4life) autox and knew that I wanted to try it as soon as I was able to.
About mid sumer I was finally strong enough to work on the car. After I was aloud to drive again I was getting tired of the boost creep problems so I decided to go back to the stock turbo so I could drive it like I wanted to until I had dsm link and a wideband. I've always love the thought of a stock turbo look with a kick so I bought Fp big t28. The car pulls much better on top the the t25 ever did and am very happy with it.
After this I decided to take care if my airbag. After getting in trouble a few times for the tint I took the tint off and as soon as I did that the airbag started pealing and just got worse and worse. I bought a used airbag from miller import and was very easy to swap out.#
I also installed a walbro 190 and the front rm sway bar just before winter but I do not have any pictures but I will take some when I finish my suspension.
Over the winter I've bought EPROM, Dsm link, fic850cc, innovative wideband, tokico illuminas, prokit springs and a polyurethane bushings kit. These parts will be installed as soon as the weather breaks which I'm hoping is real soon.#I'm planning on running 22psi but only if the tune is safe enough to.
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