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Just always liked the look of them.. then started reading about the ass whoopings the GSTs and GSXs can lay down when built right LOL! Owned two 99s (an RS and a GS) and now I'm about to make my jump into the boosted world, as I'm looking at a GST local to me. Never worked on/been around/owned boosted vehicles, so eagerly and anxiously looking to learn haha
 
I love these for along time and being in the UK they are not exactly common here! rare as anything, then I met my wife, before the wife part around 2005 ish of course we was dating first and then found out her dad had a 97 eclipse! Since then I use to drive it and then I started buying parts for and washing it alot like my own and all while learning about the car more then I went and bought the car from him!

Fast forward to now and i own the car and he loves to drive it every now and then still, it's getting a bit too much recently going in the direction I am going though haha.

Love my car and I'm not letting it go, EVER!!!
 
Mine is kinda a long story. 1996 I was 12 years old and my dad passed away. That next summer my mom got the life insurance check and bought a new house and a brand new car. It was a 1997 mitsubishi eclipse spyder gst. I remember the test drive like it was yesterday. My mom dropped the top hit the highway and it felt like she hit 115 in the blink of an eye. I was in love. Told my mom very often that one day that car would be mine. Then she sold it about 4 years ago and broke my heart. Tax time came around last year and I came across one exactly the same as my mom's but different color. Couldn't pass it up. Paid $1800 for a running driving 1997 mitsubishi eclipse spyder gst with some modifications under the hood nothing fancy. Never getting rid of it I love my dsm
 
I like them because I heard they are fast and reliable. Looking to get into the 4G63 game.

However, this thread has a lot of people saying they blew their engines. Should I be worried?
 
The looks, the sounds, and the learning experience is what drew me in. When I was younger, for 3-5k this was the best option in my opinion. Nothing about a honda sounded fun to me. I loved the 2g's since I was a kid, and I'm still into them! I have more fun driving this car than I have any other car I've owned.
 
Wanted an automatic for heads up racing. No options to make my Evo auto so I parted it out and built a DSM. Cost of entry and cores are much cheaper as well :)

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Wanted an automatic for heads up racing. No options to make my Evo auto so I parted it out and built a DSM. Cost of entry and cores are much cheaper as well :)

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should of got yourself an evo 7 GTA! they may have worked out for you being auto, unless you dont get them over there?
 
Sort of fell into my lap, friend of mine had fried the clutch in his, bought it for $1000 when I was 16, put a clutch in it and drove it for 2 years. Sold it back to him for what I paid and bought another with half the mileage and the rest is history, been tinkering since then...that was 16yrs ago.
 
DSM's are the only car that can be cheap fast and reliable. trouble is they are all old. and people dump 2000$ into turbos and intercoolers and very little supporting items and suddenly the car kills over and gets blamed. even the 2g crank walk thing got overblown, i had a cavalier in the 90's that crank walked and none of the 2g's ive been around ever have. (i do use soft pressure plates on the clutch with grippy friction discs just to hedge my bet though.)

as for how i actually got into them, i was a muscle car, then truck, then mini truck guy. however i have always thought 3000gt's and turbo eclipses were cool. but out here in cattle country they just do not exist. suddenly a non-running 1g awd manual popped up and i grabbed it for a song, i did have it running for about a year, but it had low compression and was never right so when the innards of the oil pump started spewing oil out i parked it in the project lot. then just kept adding to the collection because parts are so scarce out here.

its supper fun smacking around mustangs with a 2g DD car everyone out here thinks should be lining up next to a civic.
 
Amen fellow Kansan. I don't find these cars in any salvage yards either.
 
I love them. Its a purely emotional attachment DSMs and me. My first car was a 90 laser, 2d car a 94 eclipse. Then went to 2g because i like how they look: got a 98 talon in the military and built that with all my single guy money. Now I'm in a 97 talon and loving it.
 
I've always thought a lowered 1g with nice wheels and paint was just an amazingly good-looking car. I sincerely can't think of many cars I'd like to have besides a 1g DSM (maybe a 1995 911 Porsche or something). The combo of AWD/turbo is just an awesome combo of sound and acceleration that you can't get with many other platforms. Finally, it disappoints me when DSMers always talk about being cheap for owning a DSM. I would honestly describe us as reasonable. Hell, look at the evo/domestic guys. They pay 10-15k just for the car (if not more) then double that with upgrades. How many people can reasonably drop 20-30k on a toy car? Imagine if your wife had 30k worth of clothes in her closet. I really think DSMs are one of the only reasonable platforms where parts costs a couple hundred and not a couple thousand for each upgrade.
 
I got my (florida car, owned by a old lady) 02 sebring lx coupe for "VERY" cheap. No rust. It has the 4g64 2.4l, wich i plan on boosting, after a few necessities that need to be done. I know everyone is like..." why would you beaf up a sebring ? " well the answer is, i like to be different and dont want, what everyone else has . Also not to mention a sebring pulling on a stang or charger gives me a woody LOL. My question is why so much love for a 4 door gallant and ABSOLUTLEY NO LOVE for the sebring coupe ? It is a sexy looking car in my opinion.
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I didn't really choose a DSM. I enjoyed my old school 1986 dodge colt turbo(owned 6 of them) and i found mitsubishi engineering to be quite nice to work on vs. the fords, mazdas and nissans i had worked on at the time. I eventually maxed out my little 1.6l 4g32b with the stock td04 on the stock system. It pulled really good, but one day i got destroyed by a 1g talon. There was nothing my little colt could do to keep up. Then at the dragstrip one day a guy came by to check out my car and offered his 1g tsi to me for $1200, blown up motor. I bought it and after i repaired it i fell in LOVE with the mitsubishi AWD turbo system. Eventually got a N/A awd galant and made a AWD turbo galant with dsm parts. Recently i built an mitsubishi expo lrv awd with a 14b 4g63t and it is my FAVORITE one.
It's nice how forgiving the 4g63 is, as long as it is built correctly. 350hp without breaking a sweat all day long.
 
I got my (florida car, owned by a old lady) 02 sebring lx coupe for "VERY" cheap. No rust. It has the 4g64 2.4l, wich i plan on boosting, after a few necessities that need to be done. I know everyone is like..." why would you beaf up a sebring ? " well the answer is, i like to be different and dont want, what everyone else has . Also not to mention a sebring pulling on a stang or charger gives me a woody LOL. My question is why so much love for a 4 door gallant and ABSOLUTLEY NO LOVE for the sebring coupe ? It is a sexy looking car in my opinion.
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Maybe because there's no VR4 badge on it? Beef away I say!
 
Reasons why I went dsm
1. I'm cheap
2. They aren't "hot" such as honda's
3. Enjoy beating evos/ exotic cars with a dsm and getting that confused face while they stare hard at the dsm.
4. Love that 4g63 nothing like it out there
And 5. I'm cheap
 
Since childhood I have always been in love with cars. Growing up surrounded by games like need for speed and the Fast&Furious movies, and watching rally racing, Mitsubishi has always had my heart. The Evo was always my dream car, but the eclipse was always admired as well. I got my first car when I turned 16, it was a lancer. After spending a few years modding it and stuff, I was ready for more. Saved up for an Evo but cracked along the way and just needed a racecar in my life. So I got the poor mans evo, aka the eclipse gsx :p awd, 5-speed manual, factory boosted with a solid base to build to on! After 7-8 months of searching, I drove 5.5 hours to check one out and caved even though the seller was kinda sketchy and the car had clear signs of "project", because I had travelled so far and I really wanted a gsx. So here I am now with my project gsx waiting to get her all fixed up and ready for the road to daily-occasional race.
 
I was big on Toyota MR2s and little turbo Mazdas because of my dad in the 1990s. Then I saw that Top Gear video where Jeremy Clarkson keeps up with a Lamborghini in an Evo. That got me thinking Mitsubishi.

Evos and 3000GT VR4s were way out of my price range at the time, but then I discovered the little DSMs and this site. Sounds corny, but compared to the other car forums across the internet, this DSM community is really special. The level of support this site offered probably motivated my decision somewhat.

And of course, there's that inner-cheapskate lurking inside of me :rolleyes:
 
I had no clue dsms existed until i bought my first one in 2010, was a very very clean 92 talon esi (auto tran :-( ). Was always into toyota's bmws and classics, but never heard of the term dsm and what it implied. The 92 esi left me broke in 2 months in repaires. Then i found out what the 4g63 was and dsms came awd.....ive owned 4 more since then.
I just fell in love with the 1g's plus them being cheap to buy, fix, and modify was the biggest draw for me.....being cheaps very nice!
Pimpyriders the guy who gave me my first awd shell, so big thanks to him (brandon)
 
Well, the most important thing would be the price of it. But, really, the best answer to your question is "Why not?" :D
 
I like to rebuild things.. cars are one of those things and when I saw a talon 2g in bad shape likely headed to a scrapper next I popped over and once looking under the rear of the car and it was indeed an awd I told them I wanted it without looking under the hood. Engine bay was burned out (engine turned out to be ok) but I didnt care I knew I was going to rebuild it once I found it.
 
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