Slo2gen
15+ Year Contributor
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- Apr 26, 2005
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Upstate,
South Carolina
To start off with, my name is Zac and this is my Project Alice. I'll try and update as much as possible and post back what photo's I still have of the car and the stages its progressed through. My laptop got stolen about 2 years ago so I lost a LOT of old photos but we'll make do. This will more than likely be updated slowly but updated none the less. My plans for the car is to have something fun to drive that's different, fast and street legal. So......lets start.....
My junior year in high school(2003) I started looking for a car to drive, I had an 1991 Explorer at the time, and came across the Eclipse. I loved it and at the time had no concern for going fast.....that didn't last long.
Meet Alice, a 1998 Eclipse RS/MT
<img src="http://www.dsmtuners.com/gallery/files/5/0/1/3/9/tunerspic4.jpg" alt="Gallery Pics for Slo2gen" />The car was stock except for some welded on APC exhaust tip and had 75k on it.
Seeing as I wasn't into going fast at the time I spent most of the money that I had on ICE for the car, ended up going with a Pioneer AVIC-N2, Alpine Type R 6.5 components in the front, Type R 6.5 coax in the back, some American Pro 12" DVC subs in a bandpass box, driven by a Sony 1200 watt amp and running a 1.2 Farad cap(don't remember the name) in it. I was satisfied for what kind of music I was into at the time and thought I had a pretty decent system.
Well...."It starts...."
It was at this point that I realized that I wanted to go fast and in order to do that I would need a turbo, and after seeing what the Hahn Racecraft RS did, I knew what I wanted, but being in high school and not having a whole lot of money I decided on going with budget parts until I could get enough money together to buy a Hahn Stage 2 turbo kit...
My first mod for the car other than sound was a AEM V2 cold air intake and an SSAutochrome 4-1 header...
<img src="http://www.dsmtuners.com/gallery/files/5/0/1/3/9/tunerspic3.jpg" alt="Gallery Pics for Slo2gen" />
After this I got tired to looking/hearing the stupid weld on tip exhaust and decided to order an Ebay N1 style exhaust, and Howell Automotive AFX underdrive pulley. I don't think I have any pictures of this....
So fast forward from when I first got the car a couple of years and its 2006 and I still don't have that Hahn turbo kit
, but a friend of mine opened up a shop and had a helluva good deal on a nitrous kit put together by a company called NitroDave/NitrousOutlet. So I bought one from him installed it that night/next day and went back up to his shop the next night....
<img src="http://www.dsmtuners.com/gallery/files/5/0/1/3/9/DynoPic.jpg" alt="On Dyno" />
Car ended up making 168whp on a 50 shot. I ended up upping the jets to a 75 shot but never got it back on the dyno.
Now at this point I'm starting to see that I want to go fast but its a lot of money to make a non turbo turbo so I go out and buy myself a 1991 Talon TSI AWD(thats another thread I'll get to one day
), and start buying parts for that.
<img src="http://www.dsmtuners.com/gallery/files/5/0/1/3/9/tunerspic5.jpg" alt="Gallery Pics for Slo2gen" />
Well slowly but surely I still like tinkering with the Eclipse and end up buying a 8.8 bottom end for it off a member in FLA. So I go get that bottom end and get it home, I'll never make the drive there and back in one day again, and tear it apart! The motor had a spun main bearing, but luckily he only had idled the motor so damage wasn't bad and I was able to polish out the crank what little bit it did mar it and get some new bearings. TBC......
My junior year in high school(2003) I started looking for a car to drive, I had an 1991 Explorer at the time, and came across the Eclipse. I loved it and at the time had no concern for going fast.....that didn't last long.
Meet Alice, a 1998 Eclipse RS/MT
<img src="http://www.dsmtuners.com/gallery/files/5/0/1/3/9/tunerspic4.jpg" alt="Gallery Pics for Slo2gen" />The car was stock except for some welded on APC exhaust tip and had 75k on it.
Seeing as I wasn't into going fast at the time I spent most of the money that I had on ICE for the car, ended up going with a Pioneer AVIC-N2, Alpine Type R 6.5 components in the front, Type R 6.5 coax in the back, some American Pro 12" DVC subs in a bandpass box, driven by a Sony 1200 watt amp and running a 1.2 Farad cap(don't remember the name) in it. I was satisfied for what kind of music I was into at the time and thought I had a pretty decent system.
Well...."It starts...."
It was at this point that I realized that I wanted to go fast and in order to do that I would need a turbo, and after seeing what the Hahn Racecraft RS did, I knew what I wanted, but being in high school and not having a whole lot of money I decided on going with budget parts until I could get enough money together to buy a Hahn Stage 2 turbo kit...
My first mod for the car other than sound was a AEM V2 cold air intake and an SSAutochrome 4-1 header...
<img src="http://www.dsmtuners.com/gallery/files/5/0/1/3/9/tunerspic3.jpg" alt="Gallery Pics for Slo2gen" />
After this I got tired to looking/hearing the stupid weld on tip exhaust and decided to order an Ebay N1 style exhaust, and Howell Automotive AFX underdrive pulley. I don't think I have any pictures of this....
So fast forward from when I first got the car a couple of years and its 2006 and I still don't have that Hahn turbo kit
, but a friend of mine opened up a shop and had a helluva good deal on a nitrous kit put together by a company called NitroDave/NitrousOutlet. So I bought one from him installed it that night/next day and went back up to his shop the next night....<img src="http://www.dsmtuners.com/gallery/files/5/0/1/3/9/DynoPic.jpg" alt="On Dyno" />
Car ended up making 168whp on a 50 shot. I ended up upping the jets to a 75 shot but never got it back on the dyno.
Now at this point I'm starting to see that I want to go fast but its a lot of money to make a non turbo turbo so I go out and buy myself a 1991 Talon TSI AWD(thats another thread I'll get to one day
), and start buying parts for that.<img src="http://www.dsmtuners.com/gallery/files/5/0/1/3/9/tunerspic5.jpg" alt="Gallery Pics for Slo2gen" />
Well slowly but surely I still like tinkering with the Eclipse and end up buying a 8.8 bottom end for it off a member in FLA. So I go get that bottom end and get it home, I'll never make the drive there and back in one day again, and tear it apart! The motor had a spun main bearing, but luckily he only had idled the motor so damage wasn't bad and I was able to polish out the crank what little bit it did mar it and get some new bearings. TBC......
I also have a 98 GST that I got for $350 but it was in a really bad car crash (front end damage). All the interior is looking sweet so I will save me some trips to the junk yard. I plan on swapping out what I can, dash, power doors, windows, rear hatch. I am looking to have a hybrid of RS and GST 
it should be fun... I want to put a turbo on the 420A but I am still gathering all the info I can prior to diving on this project.
