The Eclipse is full of other tricks as well. To complement the lines of the car, a Wings West body kit and wind was installed, including a new grill piece they just made. Under the hood you'll find a lot of chrome and powder-coating courtesy of Specialized Powder Coatings and California Polishing. Performance goodies include an AEM intake, Bosal exhaust and an Holley ignition.
Unbelievably cool TSW wheels crouch inside the wheel wells. Called Pin Drive, TSW just put them on the street and they are an extremely limited edition. Almost as big as you need, they're 19-inchers wrapped in 235 front and 245 rear Yokohama tires. They show off massive AEM rotors - 13.5" up front and 11.5" out back. But the super cool part is the single lug installation. Setup just like a race car: there is just one massive lug that holds the wheel to the car.
To try and spin those massive tires is a Nitrous Express, 100 horsepower, dual stage system. The dual stage is a 30 horsepower pinch available right off the line; and then with a sensor on the throttle, you get the remaining 70 horsepower when the pedal is pushed past three-quarters. Dual chrome plated tanks are mounted behind the rear seats.
A pair of Kenwood amps power...
A pair of Kenwood amps power the system. Yanking the rear seat allowed Gold Star Audio to make custom amp racks and include more of that wild Chrome Yellow paint.
Then there's the audio system. Kenwood gets the green light on this system and it was all installed by the experts at Gold Star Audio in Irvine, California. Co-owner Steve Mehr and installer Ryan Roybal started with a Kenwood Excelon KDC-Z919 CD player in the dash. This cool machine also plays MP3 encoded CDs. It sits in the yellow dash surround by a carbon fiber trim panel.
Just like the dash, the doors were disassembled, sanded and painted yellow. During the time they were apart, Ryan completely Dynamated the doors and sealed them up for better bass. In the factory location there are now Kenwood KFC-XR60P 6.5-inch component speakers.
An added touch for the doors is the matching upholstery insert. A super grippy suede-like material, it was imported from Italy and is the exact same stuff as what the race-ready Cobra Side Winder seats are covered in. The fancy stitch work in the doors and elsewhere in the car was performed by Stichcraft. The seats will certainly hold you in place from all the G forces the Yokohamas generate as well the Schroth 4-point harness. Because the race harnesses connect to the rear pickups, putting passengers in back becomes impractical. So the installers chucked the rear seat and built an amp rack! With all that extra space, Steve and Ryan re-fabricated the entire rear portion of the Spyder. The side panels were rebuilt of custom fiberglass pods to hold Kenwood KFC-W1703 6.5-inch midbass units. Coated with Chrome Yellow and covered with black grill cloth, they're right about where the factory speakers used to be.
 |  Extra juice courtesy of a...  Extra juice courtesy of a Nitrous Express dual stage 100 horsepower kit. Twin chrome bottles look right at home behind the racy Cobra Side Winder seats. |  The trunk holds three Kenwood...  The trunk holds three Kenwood 10-inch subs in a psuedo-bandpass box that vents to the front. |