They're hit or miss. Some of them are great cars, reliable and all. However, a LOT of them break every other week. Now as far as them being fast... They most certainly can be very fast.

 

Friend of mine got one this summer that was already lightly modded but it broke on him right after he drove off the lot. It's fixed but he said that it is pretty quick but he is a little scared to race it until he gets it tuned so that it doesn't break again.

 

These cars can be insane if built and tuned right. I think you may be in trouble if u line up with him.

 

I mean its just an eclipse and as far as the reliablity problems go its the world engine aka dodge mits hyundai engine

 

if it actually looks to be done up under the hood good luck. if hes one of those yeah these stickers add 100 hp people itll be a good race

 

The more I read on how unreliable they can be, I say race him in hopes his motor blows mid race.

 

what gets me, is in the OP he says the car has the 2.0 engine. i think the factory turbo'd cars had a differant engine, mabe a 2.2 or something? i could be wrong, but eather way anyone that shoots their mouth off like that typically has no idea what they're doing.

 

No, they were 2.0L turbo.

 

They blow up! Those things used to be all the rage, but they are almost extinct now. They all blew up. The car is probably good for 20 - 30 hard passes...

 

Chrysler touched it, so it's not known for reliability

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