Hi. I have a stock 140 hp 98 Eclipse RS....Well Ive been beaten by almost every car ive raced...This car is automatic....My question is:
When I race, should I shift into first then second then into drive or just stay in drive? whats the best way to race?

get a good turbo, exhaust, and intake then worry about it.

your an idiot...if your going to post dont sound like a complete moron and say something retarded

shut ur pie hole!:ylsuper :ylsuper :ylsuper :ylsuper :ylsuper

Alright buddy have fun with ur 93 bronco..hhahahha loser

In my experience the best way is to start off in first,then second, into drive... u can wind the gears tighter and it shifts quicker then then in drive. Truthfully...u should get a shift kit put in...it will help alot! Have u added any performance parts? u need to boost your hp before your gonna beat much on the road. Hope this helped. :)






Divine Wind

Check to see if Zex has a nitrous kit yet for the Mitsis....slapped one on a buddy's Integra with the 55 jets and it's like night and day on the 60 ft times and 1/8th mile passes...he hangs with the SLP 4th gen Camaros now...look into it....money definitely well-spent... :bandit:

get a better car instead of the crankwalk master?????:apuke: eclipse

Orignally posted by kotu100:
get a good turbo, exhaust, and intake then worry about it.

Kotu100 is right. The RS stands for "Really Slow". A hamster in a ball could beat that trim level off the line.

My brother had the stable mate of the RS, the Talon Esi (or whatever they called it). The non turbo's had the crappy neon engine, and even worse Chrysler transmission. His died from electrical and transmission problems that the dealer tried to, but could not fix. Get rid of it before it dies and becomes worthless.

I'm not sure you'd want to do a neutral drop, or manually change the auto trans from 1 to 2 then to D. Trying to get warantee work on the transmission can be a pain in the butt.

Trade in the RS for a used turbo GST manual transmission. The 98 and 99 turbo model years are coming to the end of their lease terms. You should be able to purchase a decent used one for around $13,000.

The more inexpensive bolt on mods to the GST:

Open cone air filter
Turbo hard-pipe
3" cat back exhaust
manual boost controller
A piller boost guage

These net some real horsepower gains. Believe me, I've got a sleeper 98 GSX that was tweaked at TAD motorsports (before they stopped working on street cars and concentrated on their Evo rally team)

My apologies if I sounded like an ass in that last post. :)

FINALLY some one that thinks like me.
dont get me wrong i love eclipses, in fact that was wat i wanted to get for my 1st car b4 my dad stuck me wit my bronco.

the one i wanted to get was a 1999 Eclipse GST Spyder. now that could prolly win u some races in stok form.

right now im savin up for a 1998 Supra TT preferably the targa top. ok well n e way good luck wit ur RS (really slow........ lol good one) Eclipse





i also included a pic of a talon wit a lot of class. i dont really like the paint though.

Originally posted by Kotu100:
dont get me wrong i love eclipses, in fact that was wat i wanted to get for my 1st car b4 my dad stuck me wit my bronco.

right now im savin up for a 1998 Supra TT preferably the targa top. ok well n e way good luck wit ur RS (really slow........ lol good one) Eclipse


The Bronco is one hell of a truck. If they still made them, I would have bought one of those instead of the Xterra I own now. Your dad stuck you with it? Please elaborate? He forced you to buy the Bronco, or he gave you the Bronco? If it's the latter, I wouldn't look down on a free truck.

Good luck finding a 1998 Supra TT (saying this non-sarcastically). I've been looking for a good used one in the Chicago area, but the good used ones are selling for amounts very near to, or above their original retail price.

I found some of the last RX-7's, but all of them had around 60K miles. With the rotary engine, you'd only have 20k miles left before you have to replace the engine.

If I could, I'd try to restore a Starion.



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save 3000 and get a gst or gsx. ive had an rs it takes a crap load of cash to net any real hp. but to help you,nos would benefit you.

ok well my dad basically gave me 5k for my car but would only let me get certain ones. he thought i would kill myself if i had an eclipse, because they r not so safe. the reason i dont really like my truck is cause its so old and rusty things keep breakin. yesterday the mount for my suspension snapped.:( well i dont think im gonna get a supra for another 5-6 years. my and my bro are gonna make a highly modified toyota MR2. but still keep it street legal. i wanna smoke all those litte hondas who think they r so hot.:finger:


a list of the mods might be:
Sparco racing seats
custom dual exhaust
wings west body kit(dont know which one yet)
Greddy turbo and intercooler
airraid throttle body spacer
AEM cold air intake
Racing Hart M5 wheels 16" probably
high performance pistons, cams, connecting rods, flywheel and clutch


now i just need to find a MR2

a 2000 dollar eclipse turbo with free mods will smoke a civic.

ok i dont know wat ur obsession wit eclipses is but they r not the best cars in the world. so just chill

You're right, the Pontiac Vibe is. GO VIBE!

Not Serious

ok i dont know wat ur obsession wit eclipses is but they r not the best cars in the world. so just chill
This is an ECLIPSE forum, fool. :rolleyes:

Wow...this is an old post!

Wow...this is an old post!
:rofl: I totally missed that. Who is this fool trolling for old posts, anyway?

I have noticed about 5 or 6 of the damn things floating around. Seems to be 2 different guys. :banghead:

Probably the same ones asking how do do a motor swap from a GS-T to a GS :grinno:

well my gs is kinda slow from a redlight but i still smoke alot of cars on the highway,and by the way when someone asks how to make there car a little faster like i did a couple of days ago,its kind of a stupid answer to say sell your car and get a turbo,if you cant help the dude make his car faster and you dont know,just say i dont know,or try to help him,cuz if we all had turbos we wouldn't need to ask,well anyway,ok dude go with the simple mods first exhaust,intake,headers and you will feel the difference,well at least i did,then you should be a little faster in higher gears,but for 1st and 2nd i couldn't tell you cuz i still have that problem,so i hoped that helped a little,and i dont think its good for your trany to change the gears like that on a auto,but im not sure.ok cool, ps.go red sox

Hi. I have a stock 140 hp 98 Eclipse RS....Well Ive been beaten by almost every car ive raced...This car is automatic....My question is:
When I race, should I shift into first then second then into drive or just stay in drive? whats the best way to race?

you must pick ur races well....geo metro, ford festiva lol j/p save for a turbo you will love it! Got Boost?

well my gs is kinda slow from a redlight but i still smoke alot of cars on the highway,and by the way when someone asks how to make there car a little faster like i did a couple of days ago,its kind of a stupid answer to say sell your car and get a turbo,if you cant help the dude make his car faster and you dont know,just say i dont know,or try to help him,cuz if we all had turbos we wouldn't need to ask,well anyway,ok dude go with the simple mods first exhaust,intake,headers and you will feel the difference,well at least i did,then you should be a little faster in higher gears,but for 1st and 2nd i couldn't tell you cuz i still have that problem,so i hoped that helped a little,and i dont think its good for your trany to change the gears like that on a auto,but im not sure.ok cool, ps.go red sox


nice reply, but this guy is long gone...

and a canned response for asking how to get more power out of a N/T is always going to be 'sell yours and get a turbo model' because the $$ involved will be the same, and you will get WAY more power like that. or we could just say get intake, headers, exhaust, plugs [wires]... oh and bolt on a turbo or get NOS. add it up...

lol,thats true,i just said that cuz i just asked that question like a week ago,and i didn't know it was an old post lol,my bad,but all in all my car is slow 0-30 but after that i can keep up with some fast cars,but i have never been in a tubo charged car so im sure there a hell of alot faster,ok time to go read some threads,bye people

for all your info, my 98 GSX smoked a 97 GS on NOS.my GSX had zero mods. so for all you with N/T trying to make power.sell your car and get a turbo.there is no other option or answer that is either smart or financially easy. when you make "power" in a N/T.your adding top end.you sacrafice low end.either way no mods or all mods your gettin smoked in the 1/4 mile.refer back to my first quote. :evillol:

Thanks for pointing out the age of this thread. I was wondering why it was completely missing any signs of intelligence... I'm glad I stuck around for the second page, it was refreshing to step back into 2004 :D

well... since all you are putting words, i might as well. one shouldn't look down on a car just because it's automatic. it's still a good car, there're tons of AT's out there that do 11's or 10's. just because you have an AT doesn't mean it's hopeless. and please DON"T tell someone to drop from neutral unless you're going kamakazi on your baby car. by far the best way to launch an AT is power braking. however, holding it longer than 5 secs at the light is strongly NOT recommanded. it heats up the torque converter real quick and can shorten the life of your tranny. with a performance torque converter and tranny rebuild, an AT can just be as good as a manual.

in case if anyone's interested. IPT does performance TC and tranny rebuild for a very reasonable price. their rebuilt DSM cars can do 10's. some say it's much better than level 10.