clearence is about the same as if i lowered the car about 2", no i have never burnt my leg yet, the heat shields are designed pretty well. it sounds amazing...it is lowder than strait pipe (baisicly expasion chambers for the exhaust), and it has that underwater sound (bloop, bloop, bloop, etc). and as for not mixing muscle with import...this is my whole theory for this car, i hate doing stuff other people have already done, and i am a muscle car guy at heart that happen to get a good deal on an eclipse. so right away i decided to put as much muscle car heart into this well known import as possible. hope this answers some questions on why, lol.

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the real skill isnt in the wrenching, its in the tuning and sorting out of the details once the nuts and bolts are tightened up.



70mm mustang TB
2 fuel rails (8-injectors)...in hand but not yet installed.
funtional chrome vette sidepipes (true dual exhaust)
75 shot nitrous
4000 watt stereo
and bunch of minor mods on her now.