V's 97 Eclipse GS

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Torque Solution front transmission mount installed

 

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Boosted Fab poly transmission mount installed. With both front and back poly rollstops the car feels so much better and more stable. The rollstops went bad in less than 7.5k miles and had tears in them. So this poly upgrade is totally worth it, i will never go back to rubber mounts. Planning and research for the other 2 mounts will happen sometime.

 

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Recently i undertook the big task of drilling out the old valve cover bolt threads and installing helicoils. I also have new valve cover hardware for the car and i have had no trouble so far in the past couple hundred miles, everything is perfect and there are no leaks. I also upgraded to a 2.4L valve cover that i got off of a 98 Plymouth Breeze at the junkyard (after cleaning it up and verifying it wasnt warped) and i also went ahead and installed a catch can system to help with catching oil and relieving as much pressure as possible from inside the valve cover area. Lastly i did a tune up with ngk platinum spark plugs, ngk wires, and a new ignition coil.

 

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Here i have installed ST Front (not pictured since its very similar to the oem bar in size, but with 3 holes) and Rear sway bars. This was a tough one, but the back was way easier since all i had to do was take the muffler off. At first i was having fitment issues with the rear but then i realized that the bar wasnt able to fully sit against where it needed to be and it was difficult to bolt in and it ended up being a slim piece of metal, on what i will call the rear subframe (its a fwd car so idk the proper term for this back portion). So i just notched out a space for the bar to go and it worked like a charm, the install was super easy after that. Although its quite interesting that when i was researching this i didnt see anyone else that mentioned having to do the notching thing (well no one really buys the ST bars and theres like no documentation on installs of these BUT you get what i mean). But its whatever, i got it all in and it feels great. I cant believe how skinny that rear bar is, that should be ILLEGAL XD. Also the bar does not hit my exhaust so thats a plus.