awdboosted1
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- Sep 23, 2009
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charlotte,
North_Carolina
to much work!!! im not a fan of the aluminum blocks...
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NO ford and Chevy never collaborated with a foreign manufacturer to produce the mentioned cars. A mustang is a mustang and a camaro is a camaro. No matter what year they may be. maybe if fordsubishi and chevonda come into play its a different ball game.
i like it i think its good for all the 420a guys with a lil money
In Europe this makes sense. In Asia, makes sense too. Not in the US. We have less expensive, more robust options. The only thing you get with this is that you can say you have an evo motor in your eclipse.
Well I have some other point of view. I live in Bulgaria (Europe) and I have to say that DSMs and all the Eclipse generations are rare. There are more lambos, porsches, ferraris and other sports cars than us, so our cars are "exotic" I am not talking Bulgaria only. It is most of Europe.
So a DSM-er who wants to keep his DSM and make it fast has almost no alternatives. He takes the first thing that seems reliable and not so expensive. In this case the guys can find evo8 motors for good money so they do it. They don't have much of a choice like you guys in US have.
That's why me and 2 other friends are going to make a 420a to 4g63 turbo swap on a GS this winter-spring. We don't have a better and cheaper choise. There are like three 2g GSX here and 10-12 turbo DSMs here.
So the guy has a turbo DSM with a pretty nice Evo 4G63 engine. It is much better than driving a stock 420a so i am enjoying this quite much.
Your option is getting a GSX with the money you would spend on the swap! You have that option in the US. GSX's and GS-T's are abundant. You can find one fairly easily and for little cash. Just look at the classifieds. My point is WHY WOULD YOU SPEND ALL THAT TIME ON SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN DONE FOR YOU FROM THE FACTORY BY MITSUBISHI (or Diamond Star, bc I'm sure someone would point that out)? Again, I have nothing against being different, but in this case it really makes absolutely no sense. From my experiences (read: mistakes), I have learned that it costs a lot of money to go the custom fab route. Nothing wrong with it, but sometimes there are better options. Ultimately, you do what makes you happy and if the only way you can see to be happy is swapping an evo motor into your N/T then go for. But don't forget this thread when you're knee deep in it and you could've just got a GSX. .
Well here is the first How to tip then
the reason the evo 1-3, 9 motors aren't suggested is fitment the evo4 - 8 are pretty much drop in motors as far as the motor mount positions are concerned.
i am kind of wondering where these huge price tags are coming from i have searched countless scrap yards and front clips are about 2000, you add in the 500 blown 420a eclipse, and an extra 1000 for all the extra misc. parts your only at 3500 for a truely unique car. You could how ever buy a gst in decent shape for about that with 100000+ miles and be just like every other 2g or do this and have something unique for about the same price.
I mean the site is dsmtuners right not lets take the easy way and do something everyone else has done already, knowledge is power, but applied knowledge is unstoppable