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Perkul8r
11-11-2012, 10:15 PM
Well....I had some issues with the 1g I had, motor went to hell. Was getting bad blowby, and I was working so much that I sold it to someone who would at least use it.

After a few months my buddy's around here started getting back into the Honda's..what a shame. lol. Than another friend got a VW Golf GTI, and after driving that I needed something fun again. lol.

After searching for a decent car that was close, the best I could find was this
95 GST Riced out. lol.
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/Perkul8r/98%20GST/IMG_0439.jpg

Sadly, it needs alot of work. Car was originally black, but someone did a cheap respray of red. Car was lowered, not sure on what yet. Kinda scared to look. It has an Ebay 16g on it and FMIC. I am planning on getting the car running good again. And than whenever the body shop at work slows down I will get it painted. I am sure it will def be a challenge.

Here are some more pics:
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/Perkul8r/98%20GST/IMG_0440.jpg
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/Perkul8r/98%20GST/IMG_0442.jpg
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/Perkul8r/98%20GST/IMG_0443.jpg

Hopefully I will be able to get into my buddy's garage for a while. I was bound and determined to get the new clutch line installed today for it. But when I went outside I found this.
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/Perkul8r/98%20GST/IMG_0445.jpg

We got quite a bit of snow last night. lol. Hopefully will be moving it this week.
EclipseGST
11-11-2012, 10:33 PM
Wow... I dont think I have seen a 2g that needed more help! Good luck!!!

I am jealous of your snow! Wish that shit would show up here at some point! haha
Perkul8r
11-11-2012, 10:47 PM
Wow... I dont think I have seen a 2g that needed more help! Good luck!!!

I am jealous of your snow! Wish that shit would show up here at some point! haha

I haven't got pics of the interior yet either. lol.

And yeah, the snow is great. My Subaru loves it. lol. We were supposed to get more but the storm kinda went around us. Oh well.
DSMINMN
11-11-2012, 11:06 PM
Oh my...lol Anything can be fixed though. A paint job will go a long way as far as looks go. My Talon looked like ass until I finished repainting it. It'll be interesting to see what you do with this.
Perkul8r
11-11-2012, 11:14 PM
Oh my...lol Anything can be fixed though. A paint job will go a long way as far as looks go. My Talon looked like ass until I finished repainting it. It'll be interesting to see what you do with this.

I hope I can actually hold onto this project for a while. It usually seems that right when I start getting somewhere something comes up. But now with work being busy..sometimes to busy..and me and the GF finally got a decent house to live in I believe I shouldn't have any problems keeping this one around.

As long as the world dont end in December I plan on having this for a while. lol
evotuner
11-12-2012, 11:52 PM
Sounds like a good little project, overnight parts from JAPAN!!!
goodhart
11-13-2012, 09:49 AM
AWD swap it!
Perkul8r
11-13-2012, 09:53 AM
AWD swap it!

That is the plan down the road...one of my biggest reasons for getting a 2g. I had found a couple fwd turbo cars around here, but they needed more work and I couldn't awd swap them.
Perkul8r
11-22-2012, 08:43 PM
Well...was able to actually get some work done on the Eclipse. Started tearing into the engine bay. Its pretty nasty. However, on some good news. The car does appear to have the Evo3 intake manifold. If my search was correct. So thats at least one good thing.

While I have it apart this far, I am considering doing a wire tuck. I do not plan on having the car running anytime soon. So it would give me time to do that.

Any thoughts on why I should or shouldn't do a wire tuck.
Perkul8r
11-24-2012, 12:50 AM
Well, seems as how the GF and kids are out of town visiting family in ND I thought I would get some work done on the Eclipse. I have decided to do a mild wire tuck for now. Not quite sure how much I will do.

I already moved the fuse box down to the passenger frame rail. I seen it done on a car over on DSMTuners, and it looked like it worked alright. Plus, I only now have to lengthen the wires going to the battery.

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/Perkul8r/98%20GST/2012-11-23_20-17-00_650.jpg
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/Perkul8r/98%20GST/2012-11-23_20-16-30_824.jpg
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/Perkul8r/98%20GST/2012-11-23_21-28-19_985.jpg

Also while working on the wiring I found this connector. It wasn't plugged into anything. Kinda curious on what it is. It would be right behind the battery.
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/Perkul8r/98%20GST/2012-11-23_21-34-14_693.jpg

Also found that at least the muffler on the car is an Apexi muffler. Not to bad. Sucks that its still the factory downpipe though. lol. Oh well...Pleanty of time to upgrade it. lol.