Please, let me know what you think of the mods, and what I should do next!!! Secondly, a little incite, I work two jobs and go to school full time, the car was bought and paid for buy me, no sponsors no outside financial help; and the car was stock when I bought her, just to let you know.

My Story: My DSM History

I'm 22 and I have owned 3 Eclipses and an EVO VIII. My DSM addiction started as soon as I got my drivers license and a job. It didn't take long till I had saved enough pennies to buy my first car, a 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse RS(Piece of SH**). No it wasn't anything special but it was the only 2g body style eclipse I could find in my price range. Then after purchasing the car I started broadening my horizon by educating myself through "word of mouth" from friends and website forums, and figured out everything I was doing wrong. First of all it was the 420A N/A motor, second it was FWD, and thridly it was automatic. So what do I do, I'll tell ya, I spend seven months looking for the perfect eclipse.

The search ended on the day I e-mailed every Mitsubishi Dealership in the state of Illinois letting them know that if they had the car I was looking for I would buy it. Lunch time came around and sure enough Max Madsen in Downers Grove calls my cell and says, "Justin we have your car," I went there right after work and new I had to have it the second I laid my eyes on it. It was a Silver 1998 MItsubishi Eclipse GSX 5-speed. Just perfect, it had grey leather interior, that two toned grey/black trim and dash decor, bone-stock except for a K&N air filter and a cat-back exhaust system. It was in great shape and only had 58,300 miles. At $13,499 it was mine. I took her to the track to get a base time more or less, pulled a medioker 14.7@102, and it wasn't long till I wanted better. So I sold her exactly a year later for $14,000, and headed on to bigger and better things, yep that's right, I wanted an EVO VIII.

This took a little longer to save for seeing as it was 2005 and the EVO's had only been out for 2 years. Eight months of driving the family beater was just about enough to make me blow a head gasket mentally; so I started visiting Mitsubishi dealerships to play the number game. Well it didn't take long for my loved ones to figure out what I was doing, and they were outraged that I was going to drop ten grand on a down payment for a $35,000 car, and put myself in $25,000 worth of debt at the age of 19. I needed a new course of action. So I started looking online for a used one, but seeing as the cars were still fairly new it was hard to find one that didn't have a price tag similiar to that of a new one. Then it hit me, where can I find a used EVO VIII that hasn't had the abosolute piss beaten out of it and for a reasonable price...... CARMAX!

Sure enough a CARMAX in Kansas, Missouri had a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII with 6400 miles(no joke) for only $24,995. I had it shipped up here and within a week I was the proud new owner of a Yellow 2003 Mitsbushi Lancer Evolution VIII. It was gorgeous, I think somebody had garaged kept that bad boy because it had cob webs in the door jams, but it was well kept. It didn't have any blemishes besides a rock chip or two, but other than that it was spotless. Life was grand, everything was perfect and my turbocharged veins were coarsing with boost. To start I took her to GLD and on her first run in 97 degree weather with a bogged launch I pulled a 13.6@108 completely stock, no race gas, just the spare removed. On round two I got a little better launch but not much(It was so hot the Yokohama A046's just wouldn't ease up on the traction) and ran a 13.5@109 with a 1.8-60ft.

Well your not going to believe this but a mere three months after I bought the car, certain life events had me selling my beloved EVO VIII. Certain someones thought that I was miss placing my priorities concerning my career and education, and that I had too much invested in the EVO than in other aspects of my life. So to prove I thought it was just a car(don't get me wrong I loved the car) and not the most important thing to me in my life, I sold it. That was in June of 05' and in August of 05' I picked up my 4th and current DSM off a pregnant 27 year-old woman, a 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX 5-speed. It was in great condition with low miles so I bought her. I have visited every DSM website I could possibly find and did as much research as possible to decide the correct boosted path for my new pride and joy! So the past couple of winters I pretty much let the car sit and throw parts at her. This is where she is currently at and probably will be for a while.... with minor improvements along the way ofcourse! I'm currently putting down 347.8-wheel-horsepower and 323 ft-lb-of-torque which puts me at roughly 400 ponies at the crank!!

I hope you enjoy my chariot and my page! Sign the guestbook and rate my ride if you get a chance!

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Page 1: About Me
Page 2: A List of Mods and Eng. Pics
Page 3: A Short Audio List and Int. Pics
Page 4: Future Mods(hopefully)
Page 5: Videos of the "X"
Page 6: Why I Chose an Import
Page 7: Finished Product
Page 8: My "Track Record"
Page 9: "Why would you do that?!"
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