Hello my name is Tyler, i go by in_deep. I am new to this. Well I am new to forums anyways. Well this is what is going on, and I need all the help I can get, so any advice at all would be awsome. I live in a small town and I was driving by a place that I always drive by, and for 2 weeks straight there was this family that had a 1998 GS-T Eclipse just sitting there. The body looked really good and it caught my eye for sure. Well after about a month trying to track them down to ask them what they were doing with the car, I made a small investment. Let me explain. The lady that owned it decided to run it with hi oil pressure and it thre the pistons through the engine. Sadly that was good for me to hear. Why? Well because now there is this beautiful car that she has no idea what to do with. So I made a small offer and she took it. No I didn't rip her off, she did some research and came back to me saying she wanted to sale it. So here is what I need help with. First of all money is not an issue but lets not blow things out of porportion. Because the engine is blown I am going to replace it(I will take any suggestions on what engine to put in) since I will have the engine out I am going to convert it into a right-hand side drive. Also it is an automatic and I will be changing it into a manual, I was also thinking about turing it into AWD. Please let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions. Thanks

From the sounds of it you should have looked for a 5-speed GSX and saved yourself a lot of hassel and more than likely saved quite a bit of money. Between buying a new engine, swapping it to AWD and converting it to a 5 speed you could have bought a very nice GSX and saved some money.