EC17PSE
Freelancer
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- Nov 1, 2008
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London, UK,
Europe
Sounds like you got some good history and great background to spur you on your quest for this car.Oh god no I dont drive it in the snow. I have a 09 civic Si as well as a 2018 sti that are my DD . I will be posting up my small builds for those as well. I also have another 4g63 that I will be sharing shortly. Dont wana post everything at once haha.
As for the DSM It was always my dream car. My first 2 cars when I was 16 was a 90 GS then a 98 RS. My uncle also owned a 91 GSX that he let me drive once in awhile. My best friend used to house sit for these 2 ladies and one owned a 99 gsx. They went to Canada for a few weeks and he let me drive it for those 2 weeks. A memory I will never forget. I always wanted a turbo one but couldnt afford it. And honestly I'm glad I didnt. Because at 16 or 17 it wouldve ended up being another broken trashed out eclipse. Now I'm in my mid 30s and learned alot on how to make a clean simple build. I went a little overboard with the eclipse but its because it reminds me of my youth. But everything done to it, I believe is a clean look. It's almost complete. I wanted to keep the car under 300hp for reliability purposes. I own faster more modern cars so no need to put some huge turbo and built motor into this. My goal with the cams is hopefully in the 270ish range which is plenty. Everything else is just looks. Once my front and rear diffuser are on, I think it will really set it off. I was driving it home the other day and the kids at the jiffy lube were jumping up and down crazy when they see this car. I dont need to be the fastest guy on the street , this car turns heads everywhere all the time. Thumbs up literally everytime I drive it. My gf enjoys it, and we took it to rhode island last yr on vacation. We went to watch hill where every other car is a convertible. But there was only 1 gst convertible eclipse there hehe.. And even up there I got complimented all over.
What you have done is very subtle and power is very useable and your reliability will be just fine as you already know, so the car is just a nice cruiser for the summer mainly yeah.
My Wife used....... To love drving around with me and now she hates it but i went way out of my original plans so we dont get those nice romantic times anymore so alot of our trips are now in the daily but they used to be fun so you driving around together is nice and that you can both enjoy the car