1990 eclipse gsx. Had an upgraded TD05(H?)turbo, spiral header (ugh), and upgraded 12v fuel system. Made really decent power even though the power and was meh. Had it about 3 months before I made the executive decision to sell it before I killed myself.
Had a full 3” turbo back from magnaflow that was loud as hell.
Bought it in 2012 for $1200 with 143,xxx miles on it. If I had it today I probably would have kept it. The interior was immaculate except for a couple cracks on the dash.
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Meant to say the power band was meh. There were a couple issues, biggest one being the spiral header was cracked which was unfortunately common. Not to mention the kid I bought it from knew absolutely nothing about cars and chopped the wiring up.
It amazes me how Mitsu screwed it up so badly in subsequent generations of the Eclipse.
How a company that made the Starion, Eclipse, Lancer, 3000GT and a bunch of other performance trims of their other cars dropped the ball so badly .
9 year old me was so jealous of you
It was a fun car. It’s lighter than any of the cars I own now, but from what I remember it felt super heavy compared to my protege.
It’s the only car I’ve ever owned with popup headlights and I miss it.
My baby from the late 90’s it was my second DSM (1994 Talon AWD, decently modded stock motor build) ran mid 12’s in the 1/4 in full street trim, which was pretty fast back then :)
@sparky1337
Had it about 3 months before I made the executive decision to sell it before I killed myself.
I don’t know if this is a typo but here I am concerned for your life. Here’s a suicide hotline link: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/resources/index.html
I’m pretty sure they’re referring to driving in a dumb way and getting into an accident.
Yep! Poor figure of speech! My bad.
I was 20 something and had a bit of a reckless streak at that point in my life!
Same reason I didn’t get a mazdaspeed 3 when I had the chance. Knew I’d end uo getting myself into trouble with it.
Can’t say I don’t kinda regret it now though haha
I had a Mazdaspeed 6 back in the day. I may or may not have rolled it over into a drainage ditch on some twisties…
That was a real object lesson for me. I thought I knew the car well enough but I didn’t know the road well enough.
Thankfully nobody was hurt so I took my lesson and moved on.
Proud to say I haven’t wrecked a car since and it’s been well over ten years since the day I had to say goodbye to the speed 6.
I miss that car. It was a black, fully loaded grand touring model and got absolutely ZERO attention (except from people who knew what it was). FBO with a tune made it an absolute blast to drive.
My current fun car draws a lot more attention (particularly from young guys lol)
