c0reyl
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- Jan 14, 2011
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Falls Church,
Virginia
Hi. I'm 19, and I'm about to get my license, but I already have two cars, 
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First car: 1997 buick riviera with a standard crappy GM 3.8 ltter crate engine. A 3800 series II.
It has over 200,000 miles on it, however runs like new, looks like new aside from scuffed up paint, and the controls on the right seat are detached somewhat. it was purchased years ago for $750 with a minor fendor bendor and I've ridden in it for at least 100,000 miles from growing up, going from air show to air show all over the east coast. I'm suprised this thing still runs like new. This will be my daily driver until I can fix up the other car, then I will decide from there.
Second car: where the DSM part comes in.
That's my mom's old standard 1993 eclipse with a 1.8 liter crappy 95 horsepower engine FWD which sucks and needs a new motor and tranny.
My initial idea was to stick an evo X 4B11T motor in there, but then after some looking into it, I realized the 4G63 motor can push retarded amounts of power and they are cheap to start with.
Magnus Motorsports Engines and Internals
I never realized that you could get this much power out of a 2 liter engine before my mom actually gave me her old car.
My questions are, can that motor go in that model DSM easily? Is it a better idea to buy a pre tuned motor with stage 3 parts or rebuild a cheapo $1-2k motor i find anywhere?
How fast can i expect this car to go with some different price ranges (rough estimate, don't care on exacts)
Is it really even upgrading IN YOUR OPINION? I'll probably do it anyway seeing as I grew up in the car and it's sentimental to me.
I'm guessing you all hate bodykits, I'd like to make the car look unique somehow instead of like a crappy old car. My interest is a slightly bubbly, aerodynamic WIDE bodykit which will give this boxxy ass car some curves, I will rep paint the car and air brush any designs on it myself, i will NOT do decals, will NOT have neon lighting, might have cool lighting on the interior that is it. i will change out headlights, hopefully tailights if I can find something, probably put a new non trashy, actual classy looking spoiler on the back. i will probably take out the back seats and use it for trunkspace/sound system space or whatever else i need space. I will probably get a new hood without the odd looking hump on it. I may look for something as close to the henessey performance venom 700nm hood as I possibly can. it looks much like a mopar viper hood. (obviously i can't fit an 8.4L hood on a 2L car, I want the same style.) the front bumper will most likely need to change regardless for better airflow alone
This will be a long term project car and I will be learning from it. I am not trying to be a wannabe ghetto fast and furious kid. I just have an obsession with upgrading my posessions and it started with building, overclocking, and modding computers, went on to building and designing speakers and now I know it will happen with cars as well.
Basically, everyone will probably bash me, call me a retard for wanting to do bodywork and painting it, or upgrading it, but it's been with the family for about 15 years, and I wanted to do bodywork to make it somewhat like a wide body supra and viper venom 700nm mixed if that's even possible. The viper has been and always will be my favorite car. I love the fact Henessey performance just went out and made a venom 1000 twin turbo hold it's own to a Bughatti Veyron which costs 10 times more. Other favorite cars are Jaguar E-TYPE (my step grandfather owns one, it's badass) 3000gt, 1967 mustang mach 1, older corvettes, Nissan GTR and Skylines, the Supra, 96-99 Eclipse, others I'm not going to bother to type out.
.First car: 1997 buick riviera with a standard crappy GM 3.8 ltter crate engine. A 3800 series II.
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It has over 200,000 miles on it, however runs like new, looks like new aside from scuffed up paint, and the controls on the right seat are detached somewhat. it was purchased years ago for $750 with a minor fendor bendor and I've ridden in it for at least 100,000 miles from growing up, going from air show to air show all over the east coast. I'm suprised this thing still runs like new
. This will be my daily driver until I can fix up the other car, then I will decide from there.Second car: where the DSM part comes in.
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That's my mom's old standard 1993 eclipse with a 1.8 liter crappy 95 horsepower engine FWD which sucks and needs a new motor and tranny.
My initial idea was to stick an evo X 4B11T motor in there, but then after some looking into it, I realized the 4G63 motor can push retarded amounts of power and they are cheap to start with.
Magnus Motorsports Engines and Internals
I never realized that you could get this much power out of a 2 liter engine before my mom actually gave me her old car.
My questions are, can that motor go in that model DSM easily? Is it a better idea to buy a pre tuned motor with stage 3 parts or rebuild a cheapo $1-2k motor i find anywhere?
How fast can i expect this car to go with some different price ranges (rough estimate, don't care on exacts)
Is it really even upgrading IN YOUR OPINION? I'll probably do it anyway seeing as I grew up in the car and it's sentimental to me.
I'm guessing you all hate bodykits, I'd like to make the car look unique somehow instead of like a crappy old car. My interest is a slightly bubbly, aerodynamic WIDE bodykit which will give this boxxy ass car some curves, I will rep paint the car and air brush any designs on it myself, i will NOT do decals, will NOT have neon lighting, might have cool lighting on the interior that is it. i will change out headlights, hopefully tailights if I can find something, probably put a new non trashy, actual classy looking spoiler on the back. i will probably take out the back seats and use it for trunkspace/sound system space or whatever else i need space. I will probably get a new hood without the odd looking hump on it. I may look for something as close to the henessey performance venom 700nm hood as I possibly can. it looks much like a mopar viper hood. (obviously i can't fit an 8.4L hood on a 2L car, I want the same style.) the front bumper will most likely need to change regardless for better airflow alone
This will be a long term project car and I will be learning from it. I am not trying to be a wannabe ghetto fast and furious kid. I just have an obsession with upgrading my posessions and it started with building, overclocking, and modding computers, went on to building and designing speakers and now I know it will happen with cars as well.
Basically, everyone will probably bash me, call me a retard for wanting to do bodywork and painting it, or upgrading it, but it's been with the family for about 15 years, and I wanted to do bodywork to make it somewhat like a wide body supra and viper venom 700nm mixed if that's even possible. The viper has been and always will be my favorite car. I love the fact Henessey performance just went out and made a venom 1000 twin turbo hold it's own to a Bughatti Veyron which costs 10 times more. Other favorite cars are Jaguar E-TYPE (my step grandfather owns one, it's badass) 3000gt, 1967 mustang mach 1, older corvettes, Nissan GTR and Skylines, the Supra, 96-99 Eclipse, others I'm not going to bother to type out.
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