Who has the nicest 420a engine bay?

[Fotowntalon]

you mean "mostly stock" with the AEM SRI right in the middle of the picture.

 

[Tha Fella Dylan]

Wish mine looked like these.... . Good job guys.

 

[NWHTanK]

What is it a srt-4 swap? That's almost the same as a 420a but better. ^

<--- This is srt swap.

Not even close to being the same lot of fregin work!

 

[jordonbryant777]

you mean "mostly stock" with the AEM SRI right in the middle of the picture.

haha yeah well you get what i mean

 

[iamnotwhoiam]

semi stock ;-)

 

[scottyhops]

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[dsmute]

Hey scottyhops, where'd you get that aluminum radiator and who makes it? I've been looking for one for my NT, my OEM one is starting to rust. Also, I think a purple vavle cover would look perfect with the green paint on your car.

 

[scottyhops]

here it is finished

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Hey scottyhops, where'd you get that aluminum radiator and who makes it? I've been looking for one for my NT, my OEM one is starting to rust. Also, I think a purple vavle cover would look perfect with the green paint on your car.

its a fluidyne radiator, I'm not to sure, i bought it with the car

 

[DSMAvenger]

nice pics and im sorry for the cheap filter i got a new one since the pics that goes down below next to the SMIC

I love the routing of your turbo piping. All hail to the king


Chris

 

[glowryder]

Lil update.

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as for the srt swap.. Its a battling point. as the head is the same, well , im using an avenger head, as the srt4 guys swap to our head, as ours flows a little better and gives them the turbo up front. As for bottom end.. theres not much of a diff between the SRT bottom and the EDZ, other then the Crank position. Granted, the SRT comes stock with cracked rods and internals that can handle boost well.. however all that gets washed away when you do forged internals. So when you balance srt swap on one hand, and 2.4 ED swap on the other.. you really have to ask yourself.. why. Not knocking his swap, its sweet and unique. I think thats what he was going for and deff nailed it. But IF he was going for srt power ( idk if he was or not) then a 2.4 swap would have yielded the same thing.. thats what i meant by "close".. so in reality.. they are Very close to eachother. Mopar simply made a steel crank with NGC code, and put some beefier internals in and a different trans, which is also alot like our NVT350 ; ). so again, hats off for pulling the srt swap, looks great! but its very comparible to doing the EDZ swap. Just wanted to clear that bit up. : )

yes.. my valve cover is very misleading..

 

[Aeren]

Greets from the Netherlands..!!

ive just freshed up my enginebay....!!
and im lovin it..

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[jayson427]

still work in progress for me.

 

[Cobo's Customs]

alot of people dont realize that an srt4 (a855/a853) and an edz are a different engine all together. for the most part all they share bore and stroke. some internals are compatible but in 03 when the srt4 came out they remade the whole electrical system for the 2.4 so that more parts had to be sold for swaps and the edz was no more! The only reason the pistons and rods are interchangeable (some models) is because r&d is expensive! I personaly think the srt swap on a 2g eclipse is a waste of money unless you have a drivetrain sitting and nothing better to do with it. at least a low budget edz swap can be done on 420a electronics. Glowryder and I may not see everything eye to eye when it comes to that subject but I think he has the best looking engine bay here and the only edz swap i see besides my own

 

[96talon420a]

Dont know if this will put my pic on here but here is my engine bay

 

[Cobo's Customs]

Dont know if this will put my pic on here but here is my engine bay

your jack handle hood prop is awesome! I'm not talking shit but what is on top of your battery and why is your coolant/heater hose crooked like that? Other than that this is a really nice looking engine bay it just confused me with the little stuff.

 

[96talon420a]

your jack handle hood prop is awesome! I'm not talking shit but what is on top of your battery and why is your coolant/heater hose crooked like that? Other than that this is a really nice looking engine bay it just confused me with the little stuff.

The battery is a spare that i had at my house and it was so small that i used my car wash sponge to hold it down and the coolant line is crooked cause i deleted the heater core lines and coneccted the remaining, thanks

 

[iamnotwhoiam]

The battery is a spare that i had at my house and it was so small that i used my car wash sponge to hold it down and the coolant line is crooked cause i deleted the heater core lines and coneccted the remaining, thanks

By chance... any adverse issues bypassing the heater core or even any pluses? I have little need for a heater most of the year in Houston,Texas... so I have been considering doing this myself. My main goal was to help my a/c perform better by preventing any heat "leaks" from coming from the heater core w/in my air system... plus maybe reduce the heat coming into my vents when on air only.

 

[Josh97eclipse]

deleting your heater core will make the car run hotter just a fyi

 

[iamnotwhoiam]

deleting your heater core will make the car run hotter just a fyi

true.. since you would be removing the mini radiator more work would need to be done by the primary one... but I would think this would be minimal and even more so if one had a more efficient aftermarket radiator and/or fans.

I know there are quite a few that have just looped that line when the car is mostly setup for racing ie not as much daily driving. I was just curious if there are any real problems for doing this for a daily driver and such.

 

[Cobo's Customs]

The battery is a spare that i had at my house and it was so small that i used my car wash sponge to hold it down and the coolant line is crooked cause i deleted the heater core lines and coneccted the remaining, thanks

you might be able to see mine in the pic but my battery has a little chrome strap that hold it down really well. I used 3 large hose clamps and hooked them all together and ran them around my whole battery and the battery tray too. This hold the battery down really well and looks okay too as long as the screw part of the clamps are not visible. Just an idea that might help ya

 

[96talon420a]

By chance... any adverse issues bypassing the heater core or even any pluses? I have little need for a heater most of the year in Houston,Texas... so I have been considering doing this myself. My main goal was to help my a/c perform better by preventing any heat "leaks" from coming from the heater core w/in my air system... plus maybe reduce the heat coming into my vents when on air only.

I havent ran into any problems since the core and lines got deleted off mine, I just did it cause the steel coolant lines run right by my intake and wiring harnesses so I removed them for every little bit of difference it could make

 

[Josh97eclipse]

Good luck when your car starts to over heat, you cant do anything about it because you wont be able to turn on the heat.

 

[Cobo's Customs]

Josh be nice bro! my heater is bypassed and it doesnt ever run hot even with a 2.4 swap and a turbo!

 

[95eclispe]

heres mine nothing fancy but still catches ppls eye
Photod - engine bay pic DSMtuners Gallery

heres mine clean but still catches ppls eye

 

[dsmute]

Had to pull the tranny and replace with a "new" used one so I painted it ha.

VHT paint is pretty awesome.

June 2011, almost didn't want to buy the car.

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June 2012, glad I bought the car.

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Oh how things change.