Now here's something you don't see everyday

"Somethingwittyer likes noisy" (Somethingwittyer)
10/24/2013 at 21:54 • Filed to: Eagle, F-body, Fox body, drag racing

An Eagle Talon running 8 sec 1/4s and just whopping some F and Fox body ass.

DISCUSSION (13)

GhostZ > Somethingwittyer likes noisy
10/24/2013 at 21:58

Who needs an Alpha Omega GTR, right?

Dunnik > Somethingwittyer likes noisy
10/24/2013 at 21:59

Would I be wrong in thinking the only thing that's original on that Talon is the frame and body?

Frank Grimes > Somethingwittyer likes noisy
10/24/2013 at 22:00

AWD=not as impressive.

Casper > Dunnik
10/24/2013 at 22:04

I doubt even the frame is original (or at least greatly reinforced) and I bet a fair amount of the body work is fiberglass or carbon fiber. That car is a purpose built race car that just happens to resemble a Talon.

Casper > GhostZ
10/24/2013 at 22:05

It probably cost a lot more than a GTR when all was said and done... but I doubt you would want to drive it on the street. This things home is a track.

Dunnik > Casper
10/24/2013 at 22:06

Yea, that's what I thought, so it's not really a Talon after all.

The balance of the universe is restored.

PS9 > Somethingwittyer likes noisy
10/24/2013 at 22:08

Meh. Enough money and time, and anything can be fast.

Random Commenter > Casper
10/24/2013 at 22:14

Um, you guys do realize that the Eagle Talon TSI is just a Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX wearing different badges, right?

And the car looks to me like it's based on the actual street car, as it's got the right engine for an Eagle Talon TSI, and the body looks like it's a standard Talon/Eclipse unibody. Also, There are Eclipses out there that are just as fast as this Talon, that aren't race cars with fiberglass bodies that look like the road car.

LSXforYourSuperCar > Somethingwittyer likes noisy
10/24/2013 at 22:26

Impressive certainly, however dollar-for-dollar no car can beat the Fox Body Mustang in a drag race, ever.

The Fox Body Ford has it all; low weight 'cause of CAFE regs, room for any size V8 'cause Mericha, and still had a live rear axle 'cause live rear axles are more appropriate, more durable, cheaper for 99% of people who'd buy a RWD car.

Pick a number,.. Let's say $20K, you build a diamond-star and I build a Fox, I win.

Somethingwittyer likes noisy > Random Commenter
10/24/2013 at 22:40

Yeah, but nobody cares about Eagle, so I just thought it was kind of funny that they used a Talon instead of a Eclipse.

Casper > Random Commenter
10/24/2013 at 23:17

I'm pretty sure almost everyone knows about the DSM trio for this car and it doesn't matter which they picked. There is very little street car about this. You can tell from the video that the hatch is a different composite as is the hood, and front bumper. The engine is the same base engine as OEM, but virtually nothing is OEM about it other than the visual trim. When they pan through the interior you can see that the body is reinforced both with the cage, and it looks like some cross bracing.

I can pretty much guarantee there is more custom about the car than factory at that point. The entire hatch is lexan or plastic.

Casper > Random Commenter
10/24/2013 at 23:38

I hunted down some details on the car for ya. You can't see much of interior or underside, but you can see most of the highlights in the list. It was built by Boostin Performance as a demo car/track car. They are light on details as far to how light they got it, but napkin math would say that it would need to be somewhere around 2900lbs or less... so probably about 300lbs in weight reduction. Not as much as I would have expected.

http://www.boostinperformance.com/index.php?opti…

CAFIFTY > Somethingwittyer likes noisy
10/25/2013 at 12:48