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AccordEx
10-04-2004, 04:55 AM
Cruising last night on this 2 lane road in the fast lane when I pass a nice Eclipse driving behind a truck in the right lane. As soon as I pass he changes lanes and gets right behind me. He stays on me for a minute or two then I see light turning yellow coming up so I start slowing down and he pulls next to me.

I look over and dude has his girlfriend with him, he never looks over so I assume he didnt want to run. So light turns green and he floors it and takes off, pulls about 2 cars on me, so I floor it too and start catching up, during the end of second I start passing him and he looks over at me, I just smile and go by him. By 105mph I had about 3 cars on him and I let off and start braking, he passes me all pissed off still not letting go. I take a next left turn and dont see him no more.

His mods from looks: intake, exhaust, lowered, rims, body kit. It was either base RS or GS version.

Asiandude03
10-04-2004, 09:09 AM
Eclipse Suck ass. Unless you have the allwheel drive version with turbo. Even then the motor doesn't last long because my friend had one. The tranny and motor was always giving him problems. But when it ran fine damn that car was fast. But if you don't have a turbo eclipse, the normal eclipse suck ass. Accord can walk all over Eclipse. nice kill to add to your list.

PAaccordvtec
10-04-2004, 08:27 PM
Yeah the 2nd gen motors have the crank walk problem that usaully kills the engines. I think most people actually swap the 1st gen motor in because it never suffered any of those problems.

5peedCoupe
10-05-2004, 12:11 AM
Eclipse have shitty crankshafts.. thats what i heard.. also.. NA Eclipse are slow anyways.. just looks nice when droped.. cuz it looks like it has a body kit..

stnkycheez
10-05-2004, 03:41 PM
if i got an eclipse it would HAVE to be either a gs-t or gsx
fuckin gsx in its "prime" would kill a WRX!

5thGenLX
10-06-2004, 06:29 PM
my friend had the gsx and this one time he got into an accident "read ended someone" but it put a huge hole in the front of the car and he waited for awhile to get it fixed cuz he was actually faste cuz the turbo could suck in more air, i thought that was funny.