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Old Oct 27, 2005, 10:35 AM
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MIVEC motor swap 2.4L for the 3.8L???

hey i was wondering if anyone else has thoguht about this... getting there hands an a wrecked eclipse with the 263 horsepower 3.8-liter MIVEC V6 Engine and doign a swap into the ralliart..... that be sick wouldnt it.... now if i could only happen to find a wreck one and get the motor for bout 2k.... and then image turboing the 3.8L .... damn the possiblites... a girl can dream right....
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hmm sounds interesting...
Old Oct 27, 2005, 10:40 AM
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yea i was just thinkgn bout that cause i was at the dealer and was lookign at the one in the showroom and was like hmmm that looks liek it will fit.... andeven the one tech said he think its shoul be a perfect swap but would look into it for me!!!
Old Oct 27, 2005, 10:48 AM
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Not a bad idear.
Old Oct 27, 2005, 04:24 PM
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It does look like it will fit. But you'd have to change out the axles and crap wouldn't you?? I would love to do that though.

I'd think it would get costly for install though.

Our RA's would HAUL if we had that motor.
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Yea if we had that motor + our overall weight. Without a doubt we would run i'd say around 14's. Though yea you have to change the tyranny and etc. But this seems to be an interesting project.
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that would make our car front heavy like the eclipse gt, your better off going with a turbo.
Old Oct 27, 2005, 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Jasidus
that would make our car front heavy like the eclipse gt, your better off going with a turbo.
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it would be cheaper and easier to install a turbo kit and you would make the same hp or close to it .you must also be rich to throw away a brand new motor if you have that much money you should have bought a evo
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True but the fact of knowing that no-one else in the world has that combination So I give Props to the girl who thought this up>
Old Oct 27, 2005, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by AznX TL
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plus youll need the trans.. axles, ecu, electronics..ect... is a biach.. is not your common b16 to b18... (to name an example)
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Originally Posted by ikeing
it would be cheaper and easier to install a turbo kit and you would make the same hp or close to it .you must also be rich to throw away a brand new motor if you have that much money you should have bought a evo
yeah you would also have more fun with turbo
Old Oct 28, 2005, 05:37 AM
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But she suggested taking that v6 and then turbo it. You wouldn't have more fun than having a turbo on the v6. It would be kick-***.

But i do agree on the turbo isntead of just an engine swap for the money. You can build up the bottom end, turbo at like 11-13 psi safely and have nearly 300 horse. Far cheaper, still lots of fun.
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Props for coming up with the idea. Maybe someone will do it. I own an 06 eclipse and even though I have the 4 cylander engine, the thing is really heavy. Its even more heavy with the V6 in it. Also, at least with the old gen eclipse, there really wasn't room for a turbocharger in the V6 engine bay so it might not be a possibility. I'm thinking we'd have even less room in our cars because the lancer chassis is smaller than the Galant chassis in the Eclipse. The beauty of our cars is that is that they're much lighter than the eclipses, like 500 + pounds lighter. That gives us a huge power to weight advantage. The nice thing about adding a turbo is that it only adds a few pounds to our engine rather than hundeds of pounds for a bigger block. If you're drag racing, its a cool idea, but if you want to keep your cornering performance, Its a bad Idea as it will make your car front heavy.
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If no one does it we will never know how it would turn out... does anyone know the weights of the engines?... I guess you could compare the difference between the base and gt eclipses...


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