Lude394

I have a stock 2001 Eclipse GT 5speed and I was wondering do ya'll know of any good performance chips or suggestions for what i should start with.

johnnyBgood

no chips for this car. I suggest a B&M short shifter, AEM or Injen intake (stay away from the no-name Ebay crap, it is $30 for a reason, p.o.s.), and cat-back exhaust.

eclipsed4utoo

suspension is also a great place to start

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ridnEclipse04

are there any companies that make better suspension mods than the others ex. (eibach)

johnnyBgood

Road///Race Engineering makes a rear strut tower bar for the 3G which is very affordable at $70. And Suspension Techniques make a rear sway bar as does RMDSM. Get the rear, not the front. If you get the front, your turning ability will be decreased.

dfcoolkid

what will the rear strut tower bar do?

johnnyBgood

It stiffens up your car to allow for less body flex. Less body flex = better turning ability.

FIGG

Start with what everyone does...Intake,Exhaust,Rims,Lowering Springs and Shox....from there go with what u want out of ur Ride..Loox or Speed...

nexx777

Hey...I'm kinda new to this forum so I'll tell you a little about my car. I just recently purchased a 2001 mitsu eclipse gt. The mods are : full body kit, greddy exhaust, 18" adr rims, aem CAI and big brake kit in the front, autometer gauge pod with air-fuel and volts guages, momo shift knob(yeah I know it's lame to list a shift knob but what the hell : ) ), and clarion head unit. I was just wondering if anyone has heard anything about anything new for this car. I heard that nobody's got a header or plug wires or nething like that for it yet but I was gonna run it by you guys to see if that was true. Basically I'm just looking for a few more power gains to help me out. -thanks

johnnyBgood

Well, that's not true. I sell Nology plug wires for the car, and RippMods and HyTech make headers for the car.

If you want the best system, I would say get the HyTech headers. They will gain you 30whp over stock. Dyno tested and proven. If you get headers, you must get an SAFC/SAFR and do an hour or so of dyno tuning to extract amximum gains from the system.

nexx777

hey thanks for the response so soon. So about the dyno testing. I live in Miami Ok. and I know for a fact that there aren't ne dyno places around here. (well at least not in lke an hour drive of here) I put the header on my integra but never put one on a v6. Is that going to be a lot harder install? Plus isn't dyno testing pretty expensive? -thanks

johnnyBgood

Dyno tuning varies from place to place. You can expect to spend over $100, but most likely less than $200.

It will be much harder to install, as the engine bay is much tighter.

nexx777

any recomendations of where I could get dynoed? Maybe Oklahoma City or Tulsa OK. Well....I guess I'll just go look around and try to get something going myself. Thanks for your help

johnnyBgood

HP Racing: (405) 672-7227, Oklahoma City
Ed Wright Auto: 918-446-3019 Tulsa, http://www.fastchip.com/
Dunsworth Machine: 580-233-5812 Enid
Alternative Motorsports: 405-440-0933 Oklahoma City
Detail doctors, Inc: 405-542-5179 Oklahoma City
Hogan's Dyno Shop: 918-834-5000 Tulsa
Metro Vo-Tech: 405-605-2236 Oklahoma city
Modern Performance: 918-282-5143 Tulsa
Powerhouse Performance: 405-737-8264 Midwest City, http://www.powerhouseperformance.com/
Tulsa Dyno and Performance: 918-519-1969 Tulsa

I think that should be all of them. A quick search on Google and Yahoo came up with those. Not sure if all those numbers are still active, but there are plenty to try.

perna00

i've heard alot about dyno tuning but never had a car where it could actually be "tuned in". does it involve reprogramming values on the ecu or what exactly is done? also, i'm out on the border of pa/oh. any where close to where i'm at for reference? thanks