Well I had a Talon TSI, traded it for this car... since the TSI was a money pit and it was more off the road then on the road. Turbo 1g's been there done that... I've had less problems with this car. I'm modding a NT... yes slower then a turbo 1g but its more reliable. I had a test pipe on the Laser I had which was a 1.8 with cat-back exhaust and had no problems. The eclipse runs the similiar setup that was on it a year ago and it ran fine with the pacesetter headers, test pipe and 2 1/2" cat-back a year ago... but it was the complete pacesetter system then and now I had custom piping done.

Still does not answer any of my questions....