When my 3KGT was automatic, there was a white Eclipse w/ full kit, and everything done to it (the only one ive seen that I had any respect for). Who knows what was under the hood, but heard the BOV from quite a distance, and of course he pulls up next to me in my stock SL at a light. I got a friend and a girl in the car, and he's got like 3 kids in his car. I look over at him, he revs his engine, so I rev mine thinkin "that car looks like its got 20 grand in it, hes gonna kill me". So the girl in my car is all like "omg are you gonna race him, kill him, etc". So just to save face i was like "im not racing him, do you see that car? mommy bought him all kinds of goodies and I just bought mine the other day!". So the light turns green and we both floored it, he took off like a 40,000 pound weight hit him in the ass doing 50 MPH, and my slow-from-start SL automatic didn't stand a chance, but luckily it didn't look too bad since the next light was like 20 yards away, and he turned off
. Maybe when I get done putting this Manual conversion in i'll stand a chance.
oh and BTW when I had a 1.8L 92 integra, I beat a 99 eclipse gs/rs by 4 car lengths in the 1/4, so they are still slow!