Found an 96ish Mistu Eclipse today while out and about, he was sporting the usual ***** high wing, coffee can sized exhaust, and Altezza tails, but the front mount intercooler made me think there might be a good race in this guy. I was making a right onto the road into the direction he was traveling, he was the first car waiting at the light. So I roll out in first, punch it thru 3000rpm, slid into second and let the tail do a little waggle just to let him know, he bites, comes flying past me w/ a rev and a BOV, we struggle to find road and a light, finally we get lined up. Check traffic as the green is coming up, we're good, I stall at 2200rpm, he's ready too, we take off, I leave with barely a chip, just a dead hook, and I'm 3 cars by the time I rip into second, I stay in until 50mph, he's still not pulling, so I call it quits. He drives by w/ the usual ***** flyby, I throw a rev. He defintley went for the launch too, but gears, converter, and posi made the win today, I'm sure from a roll he'd may have pulled me, but that wasn't the race we had. Good times...

 

Awsome race, maybe now he can see that 8 cylinders is the way to go. I am sure he has dumped thousands of $$ into that import of his and he still gets smoked by stock Camaros and Trans ams.

 

please don't get me wrong but something doesn't add up to well here. even if he didn't get the greatest launch on you his car should have fairly easily taken yours. he should of started to pull almost right away even more so if he had any mods.

so my thoughts on this is that the story is either B.S. or you just beat a broke down wore out car.

 

 

if anything,this particular board on these forums is good for a laugh,some of the stuff i have read here,is worse then the ricers!

 

I hate ricers!!!! Good kill your lucky tho he probobly couldnt drive nice kill tho.

I ##$# hate ricers!!!

 

Its funny how you talk about beating this boosted eclipse so easily when I made a thread a few days ago about beating a civic si and you said that you don't think its true that I beat him and that he probably would have pulled on you.So if a civic si with 197 hp would have pulled on you how the hell could you beat a boosted eclipse.

 

Eclipse ESI maybe...

Any TSI DSM would have had you for lunch, spit you out and then ate you again for dinner.

 

damn canadians with different car types

that or maybe thinking of the talon brand I donno. but as I know them at least the eclipse used rs/gs/gsx/gst
the esi/tsi and so forth where more for the talon version.

I'm assuming you are refering tot he base 4 cylinder N/A model.

 

actually when all i had was headers, cat back and intake i was pretty even in the 1/4 mile with boosted DSM. granted they were stock....but just my

 

Like I said, I'm sure from a roll he would have beat me, and I'm sure if our race had been longer he would have pulled past me. It wasn't a awd car, that much I'm sure of with his terrible launch. It wasn't a GS-T, or a GSx, my guess was it started life as an N/A ride, and then had boost added, the intercooler did not looks stock. The point wasn't that I had the faster car, the point was the faster car was outperformed badly on the launch, and the race availible to us didn't provide an oppurtnity to make up the deficient. From a roll at 20mph or greater, I'm sure he would pull almost immediatly.

For what its worth, I respect those DSM cars, I particually like the early TSi cars, I wouldn't mind building one of those some day, absolute great bang for the buck. And my comment on the Civic thing stands, from a roll I probably wouldn't stand a chance with one, and the ride you have would seem to be less built than my already mild build. Flame on...

 

Actually I would think our cars are evenly built.I have an edelbrock performer rpm intake with a modified ccquadrajet,an msd ignition coil,wires, and cap & rotor, and a dynomax 2-1/4 true dual exhaust with headers,glasspacks,and no cats.You also have a mild cam that isn't much better than stock, and my 3.23 gears are better for racing from a roll than your 3.73 gears.So I could see how you could have trouble at high speeds and top end when I don't.

 

I'm sure it would be a good race, the battle of the LG4's. I'd feel confident out of the hole, from a roll would really depend on what speed, I defintely have points of weakness, 25mph-35mph is tough, too fast for first, dead bottom of second, and then 50-65mph is dead bottom of third. I'm sure you've got weak spots too, a punch at 45mph would put you low in second and I'd be in the meat of the power, and a 70mph punch would probably do the same. I feel the mild cam in my ride probably is worth a respectable gain over the peanut cam in the stock LG4, we do otherwise seem to be similarly equipped, but anyways, only one way to find out...

 

I've got $20 on the thirdgen

 

It would be a good race.If you're ever gonna be in the jersey shore area send me a pm.

 

Absolutely. I gotta try Atco some day.

 

Ill take that bet

 

Hah! Wow, late night posts. Yes I meant the 4cyl model. Totally escaped my mind that eclipse's use rs/gs/gsx/gst,

 

They all had 4 cylinders. It wasent untill 99 i think that the eclipse was offered with a 6 and they also changed bodystyles.

I believe him. My friend has a boosted civic si and he spins horibly through 1st and most of 2nd. 60ft is 2.6 or something. My stock wornout 305 would pull a few cars on him in the lauch but he would blow by me quick.

 

nah it's cool. and if nothing else it wouldn't be the first time different car sub types would be used between the two places.
kinda like the SiR vs the si here in the states for the honda products. we don't have the SiR here.