2001 Eclipse GT Mods

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.

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.

suspension is also a great place to start

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

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.

what will the rear strut tower bar do?

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

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.


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...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You will need an APEX'i SAFC II or an HKS SAFR properly installed to dyno tune the car. With tuning those, Air/Fuel ratios are properly set for maximum horsepower gain.
Check the following link for PA dyno's. Also, search on Yahoo and Google for Pennsylvania Dyno.

http://www.mustangdyne.com/LocatorPages/DynLoc_PA.htm

why do you have to have a safc? I mean, what does it do to help out with the headers. I kinda know what the safc does but what does it help with headers?
-thanks

the headers make the car run rich. so u need the safc to even the flow out.

I'm looking at a 91 laser rs turbo, anybody tell me pros and cons, what to look for?

you would probably want to go to the other eclipse forum for that question. the other forum is for the first and second generation eclipses, such as a laser

If you do not have an SAFC/SAFR and put headers on the car, the ECU will throw an SES light and your power gains will be minimal. Please, when modding your car for power, do not go cheap. Power costs money, plain and simple. Do it right the first time.

I totally understand. you go cheap and that's exactly what you get....cheap crap. but thanks for the explanation. I found out the other day that a buddy of mine has a safc that he used when he turboed his galant. So I think that I'll try and pick that up. Am I going to need any kind of adapter kit or anything like that for the install?
-thanks

You will not need an adapter, but you do need to have wiring and soldering skills/equipment

that's fine, my buddy and his dad put their's in and had no problems at all. So I think that I'll have it covered.
-thanks man