Thinking of buying an eclipse.....
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your not trying to start a debate? you stated that 420a is more reliable and that when you owned a 4g63 you had too change the turbo plenty of times and a list of problems etc etc just sounded like you dont know how to take care of a care. I know plenty of 4g63 owners that havent had 1 problem with them for years. I could also post vids of cars too but instead of 4 vids I can show you hundreds of pages. So what was the point. Anyways get a 4g63 you wont regret it. gl
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These cars are never going to be the most reliable cars on the face of the earth. Mitsubishi is at best fifth-rate among Japanese car companies and I'd rank Chrysler among the lowest of all car companies for quality in the 90's. You're talking about a 2g so Chrysler doesn't factor in, but still, the build quality is not the same as a Toyota or a Honda. Then you put the car through 10 years of neglect and abuse because it's a relatively inexpensive sporty car and the kind of people that buy them typically abuse them. It's just not a formula for reliability.
Anyway, if you really want to modify the car later on, I strongly suggest you do your best to find a turbo car. If you know you want more power, why would you start out with a car that has less power and is much harder to make power with? It's not any harder to bolt an exhaust onto a GST than is it to bolt it onto an RS, but with the GST you'll make 20 horsepower and on the RS you'll make 5. I can understand it when people who have had nonturbo cars for a while and then decide they want to go faster upgrade them, but if you know you want to modify the car, you should start out with the turbo platform.
Anyway, if you really want to modify the car later on, I strongly suggest you do your best to find a turbo car. If you know you want more power, why would you start out with a car that has less power and is much harder to make power with? It's not any harder to bolt an exhaust onto a GST than is it to bolt it onto an RS, but with the GST you'll make 20 horsepower and on the RS you'll make 5. I can understand it when people who have had nonturbo cars for a while and then decide they want to go faster upgrade them, but if you know you want to modify the car, you should start out with the turbo platform.
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I think this thread has a high chance of turning into a big argument and flame thread. I apologize to MistaMX, but right now I'm too tired to go through and clean it all up so I'm going to lock it. MistaMX, my suggestion is to think over the arguments people have made for buying a turbo (GSX, GST, a 4g63 turbo car) and for buying an RS/GS 420a nonturbo car. Then when you decide which one you want to get, start a thread asking for the ups and downs of that car in particular.
