240sx VS. eclipse gs turbo

ok, right before i turn down a straight-away type street, i see this badass looking eclipse. at the stop light he was about one car length ahead of me and in the other lane. when the light switched he tried swurving in the other lane and i noticed that he had real nice acceleration off the line. his license plate read "GS TURBO" and he had a real nice taillight setup. he had one passenger that he was probably showing off his car too... after about 10 sec i turned in the other lane to get ahead of the car ahead of me and then went back in my lane. the eclipse was doing about 35 (speed limit) and i was doing about 45 to catch up to him. with no one around us and a dead street, i approached right next to him and let the acceleration fall until i was dead even with him and doing about 35. i held my breath and mashed on the gas... if you've ever heard my car it sounds nasty from a standstill to jamming, it's very loud. the eclipse jammed down too, and after about 5 sec i was 4 or 5 car lengths ahead of him and i heard his turbo loudly start to spool up and whistle. over the next 7 or 8 sec he gained only about 2 car lengths from his previous spot and was still behind me about 2 car lengths, then he started to slow down and i knew he gave up. i could then see his face around the next stop light drop to a drool and he was wondering why this lil import beater killed him.

note this was before i installed my header, cat, and lowering springs and before i got my current tires, i was using goodyear eagle all-around 195/60/15 tires (non performance).

this was my best kill so far.

Nice kill !!!

Good kill he might have not really had a turbo though their are too many F&F want to be's rolling around in eclipses. What kind of modd's you have

never mind:p

haha thats a pretty tyte kill, your car is tyte and all except for one factor....ITS AN AUTOMATIC!!!!! haha its not a bad thing im just stating it:silly2:

Originally posted by WhiteBlur
your car is tyte and all except for one factor....ITS AN AUTOMATIC!!!!!


OH MY GOSH... SO IS MY CAR!!!!


MY CAR BY DEFAULT WILL BE SLOW! AHHHH!


:eek: I'm doomed to be slow! :eek:

Originally posted by WhiteBlur
haha thats a pretty tyte kill, your car is tyte and all except for one factor....ITS AN AUTOMATIC!!!!! haha its not a bad thing im just stating it:silly2:

haha yea i know. that's why i was so surprised.... every once in a while when i slam on the gas i get a REALLY REALLY good jump. it's like god is shining a light on me, lol.

i also took a tiburon gt that goes 0-60 in 5.8, but that was from a roll of about 45mph. i took him only 1 time out of like the 10 times we mashed on the gas, it was one fastass car.

the only time an auto will REALLY not be too good is from a standstill. from a roll it picks up nicely. if i'd convert it to a stick i'd be in the 14's.

Originally posted by RACER D12
Good kill he might have not really had a turbo though their are too many F&F want to be's rolling around in eclipses. What kind of modd's you have

well if it wasn't a turbo, it prolly woulda costed him more to do the whole look conversion.

i heard it whistle REALLY loud, and it would be funny as hell if he had the license plate "GS TURBO" if it wasn't one, haaahahahaha

Originally posted by WhiteBlur
haha thats a pretty tyte kill, your car is tyte and all except for one factor....ITS AN AUTOMATIC!!!!! haha its not a bad thing im just stating it:silly2:

also i was going to do a manual swap but dont want to spend the cash.

anyone know of any internal shifters for an auto? i heard those can do wonders... my one friend told me about it but i couldnt remember what it was.

it would be funny as hell if he had the license plate "GS TURBO" if it wasn't one

Isn't this why we make fun of ricers to begin with? Like the Dodge Neon "Type R" I saw last night? Nice kill, btw. Some of those Eclipses are quick little buggers.

A standard trans would also be useful in the twisties.

dude if the eclipse didn't beat you with turbo it was not turboed I bet you anything it was a fake blow off valve. The eclipse is a beautiful car and when turboed is even more pretty. The 240sx stock has a great amount of power just like the stock integra, 140hp. you said the your wheels were stock when you raced him but was everything else stock or did you have everything put in it besides the wheels. The eclipse is the same way 140 horses. So if this guy had a real turbo he would have smashed you. Unless of course the driver had no fucking clue what he was doing. You do weight les then him but with a real turbo he should have beaten you. Unless of course it was the fake blow off valve.

trust me i seen it spin out from the light a few sec before the race, it was fairly fast. 0-60 prolly in the 6's.

it must have been a complete bone stock turbo eclipse, i think those run 1/4 mi in 15.5 for an auto or something like that. im assuming it was an auto since i didn't see the car jag forward when we raced like a stick usually does.

yea i think it was def a turbo, i cant see a person changing the whole taillights, body, and, GET THIS, a license plate,... wouldn't that cost a lot more than just buying a turbo? from a roll my car has beat lots of low 15 cars, and i kept just about even with a rsx on the hiway. that's from a roll.... it does hi 15s from a standstill (do to my pokey auto tranny...).

the mods i did to my car at the time were: injen intake & extension, exhaust, iridium plugs and wires, walbro fuel pump and filter. basically everything i have now but without the header, hi flow cat and tires.

i gotta get a digi vidcam.... that would be sweet i would just permanently mount it on my car :D


edit: also, i raced the gs's before, they are slow. i would have kept pulling on it if it wasnt a turbo and i would have taken him by 8 or 10 car lengths.

Hey nismo, my stage 1 G-box re-maps the ECU to make the transmission shift harder when under hard acceleration. You might look into that. I too have an automatic transmission.

street, just have to say awesome grill on that max! looks very nice.

have any more info on that gbox? or should i just get the ecu, like the one at http://www.jetchip.com/imports/computerpackage.cfm

i dont want to spend over 400 on the shifter thing. how much did that improve your 0-60 time??

also, here's my car before and after i dropped it. i dont think it went down the full 2" as stated by intrax but it does look better.

do you drift your car?

living in the same area, there's really nowhere to drift in the cleveland area...
at least no where safely...

i know of some areas around here, but the streets are far from good for it...

Originally posted by flylwsi
living in the same area, there's really nowhere to drift in the cleveland area...
at least no where safely...

i know of some areas around here, but the streets are far from good for it...

pot holes ey?

to put it lightly...
as well as very, very uneven street surfaces... etc...

there's some highway runs that could be drifted on, though the troopers around here would have a field day...

i can think of some country roads to drift on, but they're pretty narrow, and none of the corners are anything i would want to hang my tail out around

hey nismo, did you notice any signifigant performance change on those springs or nothing to rave about...... also did u get new shocks?

Originally posted by NSX-R-SSJ20K
do you drift your car?
not anymore. i used to be able to pull them off around broadview and brookpark real nice.

since then i got new tires, as you can see from the sig. eagle f1's. believe it or not i CANNOT DRIFT IN THEM. they are too sticky. It won't let the car turn sideways.

get that.........

it's very nice in the rain though, i just came home and its raining outside, and there was no wheel spin at all. the only time they spun out was when i was trying to rev it from about 2000 grand =). in dry conditions they are very superb.

i'll have some fun though once fall comes and i have to put the stock 195's back on
:ylsuper :ylsuper :ylsuper :toothless



Originally posted by NSX-R-SSJ20K


pot holes ey?
more than you can imagine. cleveland/parma is not a good mix........ that's what happened to my last tires/rims. hit a pothole and it blew out both rims on the passenger side.

Originally posted by SR20DETpower
hey nismo, did you notice any signifigant performance change on those springs or nothing to rave about...... also did u get new shocks?

i definately noticed the first time i took it out that the handling was a lot better. i could feel the car on the turns, and it seemed to turn a little better.

i got tokico struts to go along with them. the ride is very good considering it was dropped...

Originally posted by mynismo
street, just have to say awesome grill on that max! looks very nice.
have any more info on that gbox?
for all the info, go to www.nextlevelracing.com, I'm almost positive they have a stage 1 or 2 G-box for a 240sx. relatively cheap compared to the stuff from jet chip, which is what I was looking at first. It was a pain in the ass to install though, involved cutting wires and the installation instructions weren't very clear, so it was like playing russian roulette with my car's electrical system. Honestly, I have no idea how much it has improved my 0-60 time or if it has improved it at all since I have never had the opportunity to put my car on a watch.

i dont think it was a turbo
the 4g63 turbo puts down 210 horsies and there really isnt significant body changes between the N/A GS and the turbo. even if he had an auto so did you and top drifters prefer sticky tires for more controlled drifts. oh and the differences are a large curved spoiler and 17 in alloy on the 97-99 turbos and i think its just a sticker on the 95-96's. good luck drifting the 240 and happy road hunting, oh and check into a SR20DET and manual tranny, you can find one for like 1200. my friend did

streetracer from paso eh? maybe i know you

so what's to stop the kid from having a gs motor that he put a turbo on, from say, hahn racecraft?
right...
just b/c it wasn't a gs-t or gs-x doesn't mean it wasn't turbo'd.
and being turbo'd doesn't mean it's a 4g63

Originally posted by flylwsi
so what's to stop the kid from having a gs motor that he put a turbo on, from say, hahn racecraft?
right...
just b/c it wasn't a gs-t or gs-x doesn't mean it wasn't turbo'd.
and being turbo'd doesn't mean it's a 4g63
hmm mayb. i dunno... maybe it was some kind of ghetto turbo that added like 10 horses. lol

Originally posted by street_racer_00

for all the info, go to www.nextlevelracing.com, I'm almost positive they have a stage 1 or 2 G-box for a 240sx. relatively cheap compared to the stuff from jet chip, which is what I was looking at first. It was a pain in the ass to install though, involved cutting wires and the installation instructions weren't very clear, so it was like playing russian roulette with my car's electrical system. Honestly, I have no idea how much it has improved my 0-60 time or if it has improved it at all since I have never had the opportunity to put my car on a watch.
ok i know what a gbox is. all it is is a transistor in that box that hooks up to the car's iat, right? a transistor from radio shack does the same thing for $.99. i had that on my car for a while but once i got the cai and extension i didn't need it anymore.

but for anyone who doesnt have a cai, id say try it out, i def noticed a hp increase. ghetto but it works.....

Originally posted by badicalradical
streetracer from paso eh? maybe i know you
I'm guessing because of your name that you are down with BR? lol

sweet kill. j/w if u've run ur car at the track at all for et's?

Originally posted by KrNxRaCer00
sweet kill. j/w if u've run ur car at the track at all for et's?
no never ran it.. i really dont htink its fast enough but i may go anyway in a couple weeks from now just to find out. probably somewhere in the hi 15's.

dragway 42 on tuesdays...
10 bucks for test and tune...
you can get quite a few runs in...

let me know, and we can head out

Originally posted by flylwsi
dragway 42 on tuesdays...
10 bucks for test and tune...
you can get quite a few runs in...

let me know, and we can head out
yea that sounds really cool. i've never been to the track with any car so it should be fun.

$10? nice...... my car is running the best it's ever been running, i finally fixed most of the leaks, brakes, etc. so whenever there's nice weather and im free lets go. maybe in a couple weeks or so though everyone is coming home from college this week and next so maybe i can gather some other people to go too.

BR is an allmighty forse
and unless he did an engine swap for no reason he does have a 4g63 unless your talking 3g eclipses

nice and loud kill:devil:

Originally posted by badicalradical
BR is an allmighty forse
and unless he did an engine swap for no reason he does have a 4g63 unless your talking 3g eclipses
So who are you exactly? Do you go to PRHS?

Its stories like that that are embarassing.

You have an automatic STOCK 240sx. OMG. The turbo eclipse would smoke you hands down. Either he wasnt trying or your makin stuff up.

I own a 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse turbo and a 1990 Nissan S13 240sx. I go to the track often.

Next time you pull up to a Eclipse turbo, you better have an SR20DET in your pocket like I do. Cuz you aint gonna win unless he lets you.

www.teampyroracing.com

He didn't have to have the 4g63 motor to put a turbo in the car... like said before.

Its stories like that that are embarassing.

You have an automatic STOCK 240sx. OMG. The turbo eclipse would smoke you hands down. Either he wasnt trying or your makin stuff up.

I own a 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse turbo and a 1990 Nissan S13 240sx. I go to the track often.

Next time you pull up to a Eclipse turbo, you better have an SR20DET in your pocket like I do. Cuz you aint gonna win unless he lets you.

www.teampyroracing.com (http://www.teampyroracing.com)


Next time, pay attention to how old the threads you're responding to are.

FYI: He DOES have an SR20DET in his current 240SX.