Hey sebba I kinda just saw ur question.. I kinda hit an issue there. My oroginal idea was to go with the engine/tranny/drivetrain from the EVO VII. My intention is to stretch the back end a bit, and I figured this would work out. But when I went to do my research (since I realy am kinda car ill-educated) everywhere I went to check had different measurements for the vehicles. For the eclipse I got metric, and for the evo I got american. I can't convert mm to inches (again, slow) so basically all I found out was that the '03 evo has only 61 more horsepower than the '97 eclipse gs-t. I can't tell which body is heavier, or the length of each. Anyone got that kinda info, or a site to check? Cuz I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.

 

being your still in the dark here i'll throw you a bone.
to find out all this tech spec stuf your looking for,try
www.motortrend.com you know the people that drive all these
cars around and get paid to evaluate them and print all their findings,figures
in a nice little magazine thats been around since the 60's or so...

 

to do the conversion for lengths go here
http://www.onlineconversion.com/length_common.htm

And for some car specs you could also check this site out
http://www.internetautoguide.com/car...ons/index.html

 

Hey thanks a lot man that really was helpful. I'll get all my numbers in order and see how I can work this. By the way: Nice car!

 

Ok I just ran some numbers and came across some interesting stuff. As you know, i was interested in taking the engine/tranny/drivetrain from the 2004 Evo and putting it into the 1999 Eclipse. Well, Looking at the numbers from the Ecipse GSX, and actually the 2006 Evo, I found an increase of 76 HP, An added 4.4" wheelbase, and added 6" in overall length. However, there was alsoa 5 lb difference between the GSX and the Evo (curbweight). Not much, but still. Just for fun I also checked the numbers for the 1999 3000GT, VR-4. With a wopping 320 HP (34 more than the 2006 Evo) it gave me +110 HP, +8.3" overall length, and the eclipse is 497 lighter (again, curb weight) than the 3000GT. I figure, More power, lighter, I could do a custom driveshaft... What do you guys think? Which would go better, a VR-4/GSX or Evo/GSX? I really really want input. Mind you, I'll be keeping the eclipse look, so dont judge by appearence of the GT or Evo. Thanks a lot!