do you guys think its worth it for me to rebuild the engine in my car or just buying a gst/gsx and parting out my car?

98 Eclipse GSX
www.ridonkulous.com

Look at it monitarily if you have to. How much is it going to cost to get it to the power goals you want(rebuild with forged internals/turbocharged) vs how much you can get out of it so you can get a gst.

Kevin
The old:


The new:

well im surei can rebuild the car and meet/exceed the power of a gst stock(ie. buying one) but i just dont know if rebuilding the engine would be worth it if the car has 116k on it and i will need to start replacing more crap.

98 Eclipse GSX
www.ridonkulous.com

Well, I guess it depends on the condition of your car. If its in good condition and paid off, then I would definatly spend the money to have it rebuilt vs. buying a stock gst that you will probably spend extra money on anyway. There realy isn't that big of a differnce in the insurance costs between the GS/RS and the GST/GSX. But if you can spend 5000 on building an awsome motor rather than buying a mediocre GST than that would be the way to go.

always rebuild!

-Roman

yea i guess buiding a motor and any supporting mods that i might need from the car being old would be the way to go, I just figured buying a factory turbo would be a better idea since its turbo from the factory and built that way, i just dont want to get into any more problems do to this car being turboed =/ but i guess yea, the money i put in so far on other crap, i would have to start all over and i would have the car payment on my head and stuff.

98 Eclipse GSX
www.ridonkulous.com

Yes rebuild, I am doing so and it's not that hard if you know anything about cars. My friend has a GS-T, and man, I don't know about all of them, but his is a piece of shit, it's just one thing after another with that car. I just got done helping him and he's actually selling it to buy a GS so he can turbo it. I think it's awesome. But not all GS-T's are crap if you don't run into that 'ole crank walk crap. Definately rebuild man.
~Jeffo


Hey, have you seen my new tail lights? Yeah, cool huh, get used to looking at them.

if i got a short block from howell, what else would i need? would i need to do anything to my top end?

98 Eclipse GSX
www.ridonkulous.com