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97 eclenger gs?

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97 eclenger

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Jan 22, 2014
Durham, North_Carolina
Got my 97 eclipse gst fall of 2011. Bought it for $300 and a few hours of driving. Got there the car was just a rolling shell with doors and a hatch. Started piecing it together, change interior color. After getting the body complete I decided to go another route. Dodge avenger conversion. So far I'm past year 2 in this build but almost ready to get on the road. Show car that can run. Project name is crouching tiger hidden dragon. Avenger front clip, non turbo gauges, wingless and gs badge.
 
here's some pictures. This is all done by me. The wing is gone now.
 

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Got headlights in and a new personal touch is the saturn L300 third brake light.
 

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The front end has been done in the Venge world. I started out there. I just wanna see you replicate the rear to actually look right. The front looks good man. Theres a few custom 4g63 awd avengers out there this was my plan. Its not a hard swap. I think you should of got a clean venge and just did the engine ecu swap to the avenger shell. But none the less. Nice work, hope to see it with a venge rearend. Not like the avengers that put an eclipse front on but leave the rear. I personally like the style of the avenger better, I bought one new over an eclipse in 1999
 
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Haven't thought about the avenger rear end. Not a bad idea either. Its is an easy conversion in the front but notnsurenon the back
 
To be different. I dont like 2ga eclipse or talon. 2gb eclipse is way too common so its boring and 2gb talon is hard to find here. Avenger is great looking and a few more options eclipse doesn't have.
 
Have always wondered how an Eclipse would look with Avenger parts. Looks nice so far judging by your avatar picture. Best of luck to you with this project.
 

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Ya I've tried uploading pictures but it wont post. My avatar is the car. All I need is paint and end engine then this car is road worthy.
 
Cant do that either. Check out dsm nation on Facebook. I post updates often and way better then dsm tuners on Facebook. It says uploads have been disabled
 
When will that be? Its been 2 months so far. Pictures is the only issue I have at the moment
 
Just got my center piece of the brake light painted so you can see the eclipse lit up. Didn't think about making a write up on it
 
Front end of the car. it's been done for a few months, just wasn't able to upload. well here is a dodge avenger front clip on a mitsubishi eclipse. If anyone wants a picture of the car i can go get more pictures. just and engine and few wires away from having this car running since 2011.
 

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As an update in the project, the ecu plugs as been converted to run the evo 8 ecu. Plan after that is to convert the rear 2ga bumper to a talon rear end for anther project idea. Expecting to have this car running within the next few months. Have a good short block and a complete head for the car. Putting a 3g maf in for the evo 8 ecu. Will still be playing with the front bumper and a few ideas to try out with my 2g headlights that i'll post up when its done.
 
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