Z Killer ?!?!
 

Hi!

At a Brazilian Mitsubishi Forum, a member has posted an article from Import Tuner Magazine (november), about the Eclispe GT. Have you seen?

They say that with only 3 up-grades (CAI, Ripp Header and Exhaust) they reached a "Naturally Aspired Power" and a "Z Killer".


"outputting 290.5whp and 284.1 lb-ft torque, our eclipse gt was transformed from a decently quick aggressive-sounding commuter car into a tire roasting z killing roaring beast begging to be taken to the next level. we're not sure if any modification will continue to the car...but we're dying to drive a gutted one with sticky tires, a tuned suspension and RIPP SDS"

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/815...a3452c111o.jpg
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Can you believe it? :eek:

interesting.. lets throw some bolt ons the z to see what happens :D

Whipped cream on dogshit. :gtfo2:

But its still a mitsubishi eclipse...

If you take car (A), and apply parts (B), it will out perform stock car (C).

Fill in A B or C with anything you want.

Honda Civic
All the bolt ons you can imagine
Ferrari F430

Who cares? The real question is why doesnt mitsu put the evo motor in the eclipse?

A= my tricycle
B= 25wet shot
C=370z

think your wrong

I think the point here is that saying 'modded car A can make more power than stock car B' is just gay. It's not comparing apples to apples. So an Eclipse with a CAI, headers, and a CBE can take on a stock Z with no mods. Ooooo . . . Big F-ing Deal. Try comparing it to a Z with the same mods.

Pretty stupid article...throwing mods/money at cars will obviously make it faster, welcome to racing 101. What part of "there's always something faster" do they not get? You'd think a magazine would have something above the beginner race mentality LOL...thanks for the laugh!

Good luck handling all that power with the Eclipse's front-wheel drive. Meet my good friend torque steer! :tiphat:

The bolt on would have to be a few JATO rockets like on Mythbusters!. :D

http://www.adamsavage.com/images/pix/JATO.jpg

how about they compare a modded clipse vs a modded z.
lol...
I think they did that so, they can sell more clipses, idc.
It's like saying a modded 350z can beat a 370z.

I saw at another magazine, an article about Z. The name is "The car of the year 2010: Nissan 370Z". Have anyone seen this?

They used the same mods (Stillen G3, Stillen exhaust, High Flow Catalytic Converters) and results were pretty good, about 30~40 whp.

Magazines get paid to write articles that polish the knobs of the vendors they have advertising them.

If the only way they could write up a good review was to add a few mods to "compete" with a "car of the year", well...there ya go.