Brian's Eclipse is Terrible

[@ALYangRSX]

Danger to intake manifold. Not exhaust. should’ve had a warning on the floor board instead🤣

[@TheRacingJoker]

Hill integrity compromised, temporal leak detected

[@ImDisrrxpt]

@@TheRacingJoker hull integrity compromised

[@thesistersofbattle]

@@ImDisrrxpt You obviously missed the hill in the background imploding.

[@cgreen339]

He forgot to check his floor bolt sensors

[@Where_is_Waldo]

I'm still waiting to see a car in real life with sections of the floor pan cut out and replaced with diamond plate.

[@bowl-of-chicken-soup7107]

Dom: “you owe me a ten second car” Brian: “I just saved your ass from the police and then got the car that is now technically yours shot up because of your own problems with a biker gang… I don’t owe you shit.”

[@TheRacingJoker]

All reasonable points lol

[@bowl-of-chicken-soup7107]

@@TheRacingJoker I mean he definitely accepted because he’s a cop trying to bust them, but to think that the entire movie franchise could of ended in 20 minutes there and then.

[@Kuson2]

Also Dom: Family.

[@Firemarioflower]

Still thinks he owes him a ten second car even though Brian's Supra BEAT Dom's Challenger to the line.

[@ElvenMans]

@@bowl-of-chicken-soup7107 Fast 1 was planned to be a one and done movie. They didn't expect it to blow up, but it did, so they made 2F2F, then Tokyo Drift, then you know the rest..

[@helenmannion]

Love how it says WARNING DANGER TO MANIFOLD but Brian is just like fuck it and uses another bottle of NOS haha

[@TheRacingJoker]

Equivalent: My leg is almost broken? Let’s dunk a few basketballs!

[@Fuji086]

Brian: *adds* *nos* *to* *failing* *engine* 4G63T: Alright, Ima head out *blows* *up* EDIT: It was the Chrysler 420A that was under the hood of Brian's Eclipse, not the Mitsubishi 4G63T that was also available for the Mk.2 Eclipse.

[@CaptainRudy4021]

@@Fuji086 it was a 420A Chrysler motor 😂

[@Fuji086]

@@CaptainRudy4021 Ohhh... Probably should've watched the vid before commenting. Mea culpa.

[@wotwott2319]

Then for some reason the thing that actually falls apart is the floor of the passenger seat lmao

[@4storyboss]

Brian: *uses 2nd shot of nitrous* Floor pan: adios

[@TheRacingJoker]

Somethin ain’t hooked up right lol

[@jegr3398]

Those bolts holding the floor pan just COULD. NOT. TAKE. THE. POWAHHHHHHH!!!

[@gangerprinch28]

stage 2 was actually setup to use more NOS and then ditch the floor pan for 'weight reduction"

[@Blackferret66]

I was waiting for the turbo to hit 66lbs of boost on a neon gauge and cause the rear spoiler wing fly off. Also, why a huge rear wing on a front-wheel drive car?

[@djinkentertainment]

lossing the floor pan gains an extra 5 whp haha..

[@GR1MRACER]

Brian was Laundering money from the Police. Brian asked for $80k but really pocked 40k and built up the eclipse, which is why Brian has a Dodge Stealth in the prelude and then paid cash for the Skyline that is slower than a Cobalt SS/TC.

[@TheRacingJoker]

This would be a badass plot for a movie

[@devanfunderburk9373]

Cobalt ss>

[@zaynemedricks1575]

Yo this is the most keen fucking noticing ever

[@CirocObama.94]

@@devanfunderburk9373 A Cobalt SS is nowhere to even being close as fast as a Skyline R34 GT-R maybe a gt-t but not a GT-R and this is coming from someone who's owned both 💀

[@finck9226]

makes more sense then the actual plot of somehow a 30k top car somehow ran 80k

[@darkmatterm4a1]

2:02 "He can see the ECU in the engine bay! What?" That's because that's precisely where the ECU is on a nonturbo Eclipse.

[@blue_lancer_es]

Right hahaha

[@TakeNoShift]

But a standalone? Why stick to factory location? Or am I missing something here.

[@blue_lancer_es]

@@TakeNoShift less wiring headache

[@blue_lancer_es]

@@TakeNoShift especially if you can make a plug and play.

[@nothanksguy]

@@TakeNoShift well, if the ecu wasnt in the engine bay you would know its standalone then. if it was in stock location, you would be able to see thst its aftermarket.

[@danielmcintyre7405]

When u realize that Brian was the main star and some how Dom became the main in fast 4

[@michaelskoomamacher5652]

Vin Diesel became producer since F&F4 after Universal BEGGED him to come back.

[@installshieldwizard3017]

When you realize the original and 3rd movie were about jdm and from then on it became a Dodge promo show

[@kingf6766]

Yeah Brian was supposed to be the MC of the series. Dom originally was an anti-hero. I'm not complaining though. Fast 1-Fast 5 are pretty good imo. After that it just got too over the top

[@aznlee2817]

@@installshieldwizard3017 facts

[@jegr3398]

I only ever watched the first movie. I think the characters just being street racers is good enough for me, I don't need to see them being international superspy action heros or whatever the series has morphed into.

[@joshklaver47]

The danger to manifold thing partly makes sense, as a nitrous backfire can happen, and could potentially blow the welds on the intake. The computer wouldn't have known about it beforehand, though. The piston rings comment would have made more sense if he just said the pistons themselves. Nitrous can cause you to run lean and burn pistons, or even put holes in pistons if you don't have it tuned properly. If he rushed the installation that day, he likely wouldn't have had time to upgrade and/or tune the fuel system to match, making running lean a big risk. That said, they show the Eclipse running and driving at high speed after the race, which it wouldn't with burnt or damaged pistons. If the piston rings were bad, it would be smoking badly the whole time, from oil getting past and into the combustion chamber.

[@laurap3244]

Nitrous in the intake manifold can preignite, ECU can detect knocking

[@lorenzhartl8466]

3:51 at that point you can actually see the nitrous igniting in the intake

[@RinksRides]

@@laurap3244 Nitrous is not flammable, it is an oxidizer.

[@RinksRides]

@@lorenzhartl8466 Nitrous is not flammable, it is an oxidizer.

[@thevictoryoverhimself7298]

Was a street racer only a few years after this era. We had a vin diesel-like one liner: "If your car makes XXX passes and doesnt break something, its not a race car". We were just kids and had shelves of spare transmissions and differentials ready to swap out haha. A full engine rebuild on friday night was not common but also not unheard of. Once did both with one other friend and drove the car 1,200 miles to a race and back the moment everything was bolted together. The standard weekday afternoon social activity was spent at junkyards looking for compatible spare parts. (oh to be young again and have that kind of energy)

[@rwdplz1]

When they said in the movie the car was $80,000, I assumed the government had a speed shop build the car for the undercover job, and billed them at, um, 'government rates'. Like Dom said in the movie, $10k worth of parts if he had done it himself.

[@TheRacingJoker]

In the script and deleted scenes the car’s engine is worth 35k according to Jesse

[@NaruSanavai]

@@TheRacingJoker 35k? That's like, top-fuel dragster money. God...who wrote this movie?

[@doug-core8850]

@@NaruSanavai fuel cars run up to $500,000. 35k will get you something like the 5.2xs aluminator racing crate engine from ford performance.

[@JunkCCCP]

@@NaruSanavai 35k is top fuel dragster money? For what, a lower block and crank assembly?

[@dunhillsupramk3]

@@NaruSanavai the engine block alone will cost $35k

[@MrHatchiFuto86]

Even as a ignorant child who had very little knowledge on cars I was questioning how Brian’s car magically was able to run after all that shit Dom said happend to it

[@T1GEVERETT]

Either Dom doesn’t know shit but likes to sound like he does or Brians Eclipse is a Transformer that didn’t give a fuck!

[@UpperDarbyDetailing]

Actually, it could still run. Not super well, but run.

[@anthonyfransen5218]

the real question is why dom put a 400 pound speaker system in an actual race car

[@GovernorRiffRaff]

+respect

[@kikoredog]

SWAG

[@henrlima87]

Because its all about family.

[@dybixs1400]

3:18 I have never noticed this before but in this shot of the cars backfiring they didn't used the same Eclipse or a modified one, the rear bumper and exhaust are the stock ones from the 2ga models from 1995 and 1996

[@mattmcilwhan]

Holy shit I've never notice that either!

[@heartbreakkid8708]

Good eye!

[@SuddenFool]

Been watching the movie every now and then since release, never realized that xD

[@NeoCat1993]

Yea it's one of the stunt cars, they basically built like 4-6 versions of every car

[@bigmanmccheez5342]

I love how little this film actually knows about cars. It's like when a 12 year old learns what a R34 skyline is and shows off that they like different cars

[@CobraDBlade]

The worst part is they had a technical advisor that really knows his stuff for the movie, but they just ignored 99% of the corrections he told them to make. There was an interview with him floating around on youtube a while back where he took a list of some of the more major issues in the movie and explained how the studio took things that he said to do and turned them into what we got.

[@St_Rizla]

@@CobraDBlade Craig Lieberman, he did a series of videos on each car they made for the films, along with the details they ignored during production lol

[@erikerik3823]

For me the worst thing about it is dom road car from 30 years old being as fast as these cars, need for speed movie mocked this notion so well

[@ElvenMans]

@@erikerik3823 I think we all know this movie is almost in the fantasy category. I think that's why it was really popular.

[@lucasjuhas12]

@@erikerik3823 Yeah, we totally don't have muscle cars with thousands of horsepower that broke records in drag strips lol

[@lucheloco420]

I remember seeing a great replica of one of these in Jefferson City a bit after the movie came out. I hope the vent on top went somewhere on the replica lol!

[@sandersson2813]

Modified cars are just embarrassing

[@deanchur]

I can explain why it cost $80k in two words: Government tender. It's taxpayer's money, so who cares if it's overpriced?

[@neoncactusfilms4820]

Heres my understanding of the eclipse... no one in the movie acknowledged or specified it as a gst or a gsx eclipse. That being said, The production team probably just bought a bunch of gs eclipses because they were way cheaper than buying s couple of GSTS to save money on production and mocked them up to look sporty. The car is just a prop. In the movies universe the eclipse is turbocharged. Again since the eclipse is never specified we can think 1. He turboed the 420A...probably a bad idea. 2. Its mocked up to be a GST. The reason the turbo is pointed out in dialouge is to tell the audience without showing since the car isnt really turboed. And it is because we hear his BOV when he revs his engine. Again its just a post production sound effect.

[@exstaticzzz9272]

Why is 420a a bad engine to turbo?

[@neoncactusfilms4820]

@@exstaticzzz9272 it just wasnt as reliable and turboing it would only make it worse.

[@CaptainRudy4021]

It should be noted that the engine sound came from a Honda crx and the blow off valve from a turbo integra

[@joshklaver47]

The production team was replicating the hero car, which was a non-turbo GS built by John Lapid. It wouldn't make sense for them to spend way more on stunt cars than what the hero car was actually worth. It would have been way cooler to use all GSX or GST Eclipses, though.

[@Kevslatvin]

This guy goes pretty in depth about the Eclipse.kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZonGn5WCmc91i6c It was a RS in real life.

[@bradleyhollon6085]

Something that always got me was dom pulling a huge wheelie while spinning and smoking his slicks.spinning means no traction wheelie means insane traction

[@jeffring1222]

Watch some drag videos on KZbin, there's plenty of slow motion shots of cars spinning their tires and pulling at least a foot of wheel stand. But the giant wheelie done in the movie is ridiculous.

[@bradleyhollon6085]

@@jeffring1222 thats what i was getting at also basically putting it on the bumper on a non prepped surface but as far as entertainment goes the movie did a decent job

[@Dags470]

A lot more plausible than going wheels up at 100mph in desert sand. 🤣

[@shanegrant2144]

I love how the eclipse manages to fire brand new nuts and washers from the engine, through the firewall and into the footwell. Where of course the weight of such nuts and washers managed to make a bit of the floor pan fall off, because apparently his eclipse needed a rust repair or something since his floor pan wasn’t all one piece.

[@TheRacingJoker]

More importantly, why did he have a diamond plate floor pan

[@ZX3000GT1]

@@TheRacingJoker 90s. Everything has a diamond plate floor pan

[@jegr3398]

@@TheRacingJoker looked like 3/8" thick solid steel diamond plate too, you'd think he'd go for a lighter material in a racing car. Like what, did he cut out the stock floor and then replace it with thicker heavier diamond plate? Where the bolts can just suddenly shoot out like bullets because of too much engine power? Why didn't he weld it in?

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

@@jegr3398 Maybe it was magnesium? It is light, strong and gives a lot of white sparks.

[@BySixa]

​@jegr3398 you're applying logic to a film series that has no logic. The actual reason for this scene was the director seen someone's car with stamped floor mats and thought it was the actual floor. They also had a series of buzzwords to sprinkle into the movie to make the technical talk sound more realistic and the director believed this was an opportunity to use danger to manifold. Really, really funny, but as with a lot of things, the reality is way different to whatever theories we may put up. The director and production team were just idiots who knew nothing about cars and ignored the technical directors. Craig lieberman channel, talks about this scene in detail if you search movie mistakes

[@tino897]

He skylarkered their limbs hahahhaha. Jokes aside the technical advisor Craig Liberman said that most of the idiotic stuff and lines are due to directors and managment wanted the flashy and cringy stuff. He has a youtibe channel that explains alot about the movie and cars.

[@deusexaethera]

Man, everyone was so young and alive in that movie.

[@Kevin-sr8yx]

I never realized that Dom was Flintstoning in the Eclipse when Brian picks him up. Maybe that's why it's so quick still?

[@ProductBasement]

My favorite part is how Brian is so happy to be losing being so unprepared that he didn't know they were racing for money which led him to lose $80,000 in taxpayer money on his very first night undercover

[@AmeerHamza-nv2ei]

Yeah its goofy but ya gotta remember: they used 6! Stunt Cars. Hero 1 was rented by john lapid in the scene where brian and roman are checking the engine bay: hero 2 used for all interior shots. Stunt 1: the scene were it blows up it was stripped and windows were tinted. Stunt 2: dodger's stadium scene stunt 3: the jump scene i think.

[@TheRacingJoker]

It ultimately turned into an icon, they did a great choice picking out the hero cars

[@CaptainRudy4021]

Don't forget the micrig car and the green screen car. Also, a funny bit of irony is John rented universal his car on the condition they don't paint it green.

[@IAMTRASHMAN267]

6:40 I never actually thought about the missing floor when Dom is sitting in the Eclipse lol

[@rob0079]

This is somehow still the best movie of the series. That stupid eclipse got me into cars when I should’ve been playing with dinosaurs.

[@austinfrazier7325]

Tokyo Drift has become my fav but this is my 2nd fav.

[@VitalMusic217]

Tokyo Drift is the best by far.

[@austinfrazier7325]

@@VitalMusic217 I like that it’s back to basics and focused more on cars and culture. Like this and the original are probably closest to the spirit of what F&F should be.

[@VitalMusic217]

@@austinfrazier7325 Indeed, they are the only ones about cars and not about explosions and planes

[@jegr3398]

I've only ever watched the first one

[@lordmegatron65]

I do love how it looks! Sounds great too. Was really surprised when I initially found out it was a base model Gen 2 Eclipse! Always thought it was a GSX. Especially since they kept saying thewhole build was 80'000 lol

[@TheRacingJoker]

GXS would've been cool, disable the power to the front wheels to do some proper rear wheel skids

[@lordmegatron65]

@Mexicanus Prime Thats true! Actually another fun fact is that the exact CRX used for the sound can be seen in a couple short clips during the Race Wars scene!

[@originalstickers]

Craig Lieberman goes over some of the things that the producers were thinking about including in various films in one of his older videos. I remember someone had floated the idea of Roman's eclipse doing a flip, literally ass over nose, in the middle of a race. By the metric of what Hollywood was attempting to stuff into these stories, it's a surprise that things weren't even worse.

[@andysvideogameandrc6001]

“$80,000 vehicle, FUCK OFF! THAT WAS A BASE MODEL ECLIPSE!!!!” 😂😂😂 Yet another of 2022s BEST one liner roasts EVER!!!!!

[@TheRacingJoker]

Lol 😂

[@Dreamweaver94]

Brian's floor pan falling off is still the most WTF moment to me in all of F&F. That makes absolutely no sense at all lol

[@Johndoe-um8hz]

High vibrations can cause the bolts to come off

[@Dreamweaver94]

@@Johndoe-um8hz I guess? I think I remember tons of bolts coming off, it still doesn't make sense that they'd all loosen and it'd fly off. A competent mechanic would ensure that the plate was properly torqued down with loctite anyways.

[@Johndoe-um8hz]

@@Dreamweaver94 ikr

[@Dreamweaver94]

@@Johndoe-um8hz not to mention that there's no reason to cut out your floorboard and replace it with a flat sheet of metal lol. At least I've never heard of that before irl

[@Johndoe-um8hz]

@@Dreamweaver94 it could be to save weight cut the iron floor and replace it with aluminum panels

[@threatlevel_TACO]

I never thought of this until you brought it up. DOM IS LITERALLY HOLDING HIS FEET OFF THE GROUND THE ENTIRE TIME THEY RAN FROM THE COPS wtf 🤯

[@albertko1]

And at any decent speed, there should have been tons of rocks and debris being flung up into Dom's legs and feet. Either that or Jesse had bolted the floor back on while nobody was looking... Truly a mad scientist!

[@quackman]

@@albertko1 He's a smart detective, thinks of everything.

[@QuantumS1ngularity]

Believe it or nor, but back in the early to mid 2000s tuning was actually affordable. In 2005 i turbocharged a VR6 Corrado for less than $2000 parts and labor included just on the summer job i had in my senior year in high-school. Granted it was a low pressure TD04-16T from a 2.3L T5-R Volvo engine, but it still gave me 300+HP on a car that used to weight as much as a paperclip in a time when most supercars weren't still hitting 500HPs. The Ferrari F360 was with just 400-425HPs depending on the country it was about to hit. Its big brother - the 550 Maranello had just 485HP. And most Porsches of that era barely punched through 400HPs. It was quite an unique time which i'm sure will never happen again. Ofc 18yo with 300HP FWD car can only go one way and the Corrado was at the junkyard less than 4 months after the metamorphoses was complete, but these might've been the best 4 months of my life. Also - of course we paid cache - online payment, e-bay and all the other shizz we are used to now, still was non-existent. People barely could get their dial-up connections across most of the world and China was just about to come out of its 3rd world country status.

[@nolesy34]

Yes and before that people were roof chopping hot rods tinkering with carbies etc, full on engine swaps on the street, badass

[@Spicy-gt8qf]

4:41 he’s going faster bc of the weight reduction from the missing floor pan. Duh

[@TheRacingJoker]

I remember thinking this as a kid tbh 😂

[@ZacharyDarkes]

I love the second gen Ecplise. Definitely in my top 3 favorite Japanese sports cars.

[@itznsdominator3521]

Isn't the Eclipse an American car ????????

[@hellcat272]

But the Eclipse is not japanese car. Hell, it's not even real sports car (besides GSX). It looks really good, that's all.

[@ZacharyDarkes]

@@hellcat272 Last time I checked it was make by Mitsubishi and that's a Japanese brand. If it's not a sports car was is it then?

[@hellcat272]

@@ZacharyDarkes Nope. Eclipse was designed by Chrysler and produced only in America. Mitsubishi only delivered engine (4G63 from Galant) and platform (also from Galant).

[@ZacharyDarkes]

@@hellcat272 It's still Japanese name brand so everything you say won't change my mind. So you're wasting your time. It's like denying the EVO is Japanese it's stupid.

[@smilingmiata6362]

Why was the floor pan a piece of diamond plate held in with pop rivets in the first place

[@ryans413]

I don’t think it was a floor pan it looked more like a hatch in the middle of the car not where Bryan and Dom are sitting in the car but for fried piston rings that cars driving pretty well it be smoking and backfiring and probably leaking oil everywhere.

[@Matt28NJ]

Escape hatch for skinny people to get out of the car in a hurry.

[@UnlicensedOkie]

There’s one in the movie car museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Idk if it’s a movie used one, but it looks like it.

[@TheRacingJoker]

Might be! There’s a stunt car in missouri!

[@UnlicensedOkie]

@@TheRacingJoker that pigeon forge museum is insane Come to think of it, they have several cars from the series, among many other movie and tv series Original cars Would make sense that it would be an original one as well

[@8bitgamerC64]

Those floor pans are really heavy and aerodynamically unsound. But it also knew to get the hell out of there.

[@that1dude38]

computer : danger to manifold brian : i am the danger computer says noooo floor pannel proceeds to aggressively unscrew itself this is still the best racing movie ever

[@TheRacingJoker]

Engine: I am the one who knocks

[@jegr3398]

The floor panel is designed to do that when you hit the NOS so the car gets lighter. Floor eject.

[@aq4316]

@@jegr3398 ejecto flooro cuz

[@imaverageatgamesbutimostly3431]

About Brian finding Dom amongst the police busting the street race, He was there undercover. It makes sense for the police to be feeding Brian Dom’s location so he can “rescue” him and gain his trust.

[@travismason2811]

Always figured it was intake manifold that the warning is about, which makes some sense. There were some WW2 planes that had superchargers with 2-3 speed transmission so you could use the higher setting at higher altitudes, but if you shifted them in at low altitude you could blow intake gaskets among other things. Were talking about 1500+ HP engines built to be light weight, there was a lot of functional jank going on in those thing. Another place intake manifold pressure can be a problem is on staged compression setup where your running 100-300 psi stock manifolds are not built to withstand that much pressure. And yes that's a thing, the Cummins 5.9 guys do it all the time, it down to about 200 psi now because some company designed some better flowing heads, but before that the only way to make 3000 hp was to run those crazy high pressures.

[@technorunner1]

The part where Dom could apparently see the ECU in the engine bay, is because he knew how much Brian spent at Harry's and what he bought. Though, that wasn't explained all that well. In the movie, it was also supposed to be a GSX, which was nearly $30,000 MSRP I believe. One more thing, he's able to drive super well because he's a police officer. He knows what the LAPD is going to do, as well as he took extensive driving courses. You basically become a wheelman when you join the LAPD lol

[@scarlett_phoenix3174]

According to movie logic, the whole "fried piston rings" and ruined engine thing, is staged by Brian, car was smoking more than 20 pot heads hot boxing in a clown car, and then he rips it around saving dom, i believe, whether it was intentional or not, that Brian staged the whole thing. Minus getting the car blown up

[@ryans413]

Didn’t seem staged he seemed to be really pissed but maybe your right

[@XanVicious]

Maybe he said fuck it when he saw he was losing, and just blew the engine cause it wasn’t his car anymore anyway lmao.

[@madmike987655]

I'm sure it was staged. Wasn't he meant to lose to get working for/with Dom to gain his trust etc?

[@saadettin3221]

you forgot to mention the fact that when the floor panel fell, how did toretto not pedal like flintstone when he got picked up by Brian

[@HomeDefender30]

He mentions it

[@XanVicious]

He added 300hp, because family.

[@tomahawk8754]

Maybe he was pedaling, how else would the car be running after blowing the welds on the intake and fried piston rings.

[@Van.lb91]

The Eclipse is not an iconic car nor is it fast , to be famous but when car manufacturers pay money to have their cars fitted into a movie ( I don't know if they paid for this ) yes it will become famous and known no matter whatever car they fit into the movie

[@peterparker3668]

I like to think the car is iconic for bringing about a tuning resurgence in the 2000’s. I don’t believe they paid for this car to be discarded pretty quickly in the movie. Although the Lan Evos in the 2 and 3 were paid to be the main cars. This movie made a lot of people get into cars and the Eclipse was the huge motivator for a lot of people. My parents bought an Eclipse GS-T after the movie came out. So it may not be the most memorable tuner car but it started a renaissance that still persists to this day.

[@Van.lb91]

@Peter Parker Well like I said , I don't know if they paid for this particular car to appear , but in fact what made it special is that we had to see it go to flames pretty early , which makes viewers want it more , just like what made fans go crazy for not being able to mod and customize a BMW M3 GTR in any NFS game , because they simply had it for a short while , and until NFS heat , you get the car at the end , when you finish the story mode lol so the Eclipse actually got a lot of fame , and it's a good looking car even stock , but what I'm saying is that the Eclipse was a normal car before this movie , not like the supra , which is still a famous car for it's speed and performance , or the Skyline GTR , those didn't need movies , so if they actually used a Lexus or any affordable car in the movie instead of the Eclipse, I'm sure it would had gotten famous as well , especially that these cars are affordable, so people and fans will get them and put tones of accessories on them

[@vukpsodorov5446]

here's the thing though. the eclipse GSX has a 4G63T and an AWD system, basically like a lan evo (i think the factory turbo on the eclipse was smaller?). except, it's fitted to a sports coupe and not a sedan (so less weight). basically, whatever you can make an evo do, you can make an eclipse do too (the eclipse wasn't meant for rallying, but it can definitely be made to work). and the lan evo is definitely not slow.

[@a_common_weeb]

"the eclipse is not fast" ok

[@Van.lb91]

@L W before who's time lol I'm an 80s man , and I am not speaking out of being a fan . When you speak from a fan perspective, you would totally drop out everything bad or just normal about anything, not just cars

[@bugnut82]

I hated this movie when it came out, and it still sucks balls. Same for all the ones that came after.

[@TheNinjaMonkey43]

Actually, i think around the time of the first f&f movie, the cheapest way to boost a car was a mechanical FMU (fuel management unit) that was mechanical and was visible in the engine bay

[@TinTinPlays]

the eclipse was amazing it inspired me to get my own i wish they made some more of fast films

[@TheRacingJoker]

Honestly the fact they haven’t tried to recapture the thunder of the original makes it feel more special

[@CordovanSplotchVT]

I think I know how the "price" of the car managed to get to 80k. It was made on public funding out of the police precinct's annual budget.

[@realbigtuna667]

You don't think they actually spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat do you?

[@CordovanSplotchVT]

@@realbigtuna667 Of course not! That money goes into paying for the hours it takes to research WHICH hammer and toilet seat are the correct choice to buy.

[@hinkhall1186]

Something I noticed that isn't talked about so far in these comments. At 5:59 they drift around a car and that car ends up hitting the police. But the car driving towards them honking and swerving has a red light...

[@ACECAL-cl4tb]

What was the hanging hose supposed to be for? Take a look under the car when Brian arrived at the warehouse meetup spot before the first drag race.

[@TheRacingJoker]

Pyrotechnics hose, likely for exhaust flames

[@Schultzy1992]

You should ask Craig about it

[@CorredorDigital_]

Cache tank?

[@bulletron3000]

It was for Brian's breathalyzer

[@sukhdevr3489]

It's actually a great car, looks and sounds amazing and has great action scenes. I know it's not great irl but in the movie it looks great.

[@minimanadam]

Actually, the " danger to Manifold " could have been a real warning , SAY if his turbo began to surge or blowoff valve failing or over worked and THE " MANIFOLD" would be experiencing too much pressure EXP with nitrous and risk exploding or fuel pooling and a nitrous backfire ( hehe ALWAYS use shear bolts encase your mani does blow )

[@DareToBeDeviant]

I thought it was very silly how often Brian spun out in the Eclipse for the short amount of time he had it... ... then unfortunately for me I found out it's not too hard to go sideways. While going a modest 35mph down the stretch of road to my humble abode, some bitch pulls out of a racquetball center with no regard to traffic on either side. Braking hard + e-brake, my Eclipse did a total 90° counter-clockwise. Falken tires at the time and it happened maybe twice more before getting a new set due to rot (4k miles, maybe). No idea why it did that but fortunately no country club rejects have pulled out in front to warrant hard braking since then. Only indecisive drivers cutting each other off or tap-dancing on brake pedals. -_-

[@amnottabs]

in most cars from that era the e-brake bypasses the ABS system so you locked up your rear wheels easily, just stick to your brake pedal and downshifting if time allows

[@DrewLSsix]

@@amnottabs all cars e brakes always bypass the abs....

[@JunkCCCP]

Why would you pull your ebrake as well as the regular brakes? They operate the same set of pads. You're not gonna stop faster.

[@amnottabs]

@@DrewLSsix iirc electronic e-brakes are ABS controlled in some cars; I said most of that era because if OP's Eclipse was a third gen it overlaps with the Honda Fit which have said type of e-brake but yeah, can't be sure if that one bypasses the ABS or not

[@DareToBeDeviant]

@@JunkCCCP Handbrake engages rear. Brake pedal controls front pads. Combined, 100% stopping power rather than 75%. It's also instinct now with more and more people randomly stopping on a dime in traffic because some asshole up front wants to make a left turn without signaling. Do what you want to with your vehicle and I'll control my own. Stay safe. =Þ

[@luispatino3180]

Always wondered how Dom jumped into the eclipse with no floor board

[@Jayskiallthewayski]

We all made fun of it, we all cringed but we all loved it and checked out 35 shitty sequels.

[@nolesy34]

Oh that reminds me Fast and Furious 36 is on tonight, F&F retirement home drift This time its personal.... diapers and b̶e̶d̶ skid pans Racing to the toilet after 3 shots of N̶o̶s̶ Prune juice Comparing motorised scooters.....

[@Louzahsol]

I love how Brian’s laptop is just acting as an access port

[@ZeldaIsMyLove]

Computers were much bigger back then.

[@_baller]

The movie has a Lorno vibe, but without the lorn

[@r4gefi]

I think, Eclipse better than Dodge Neon, which could be in 2Fast 2Furious as a Brian's car...

[@r4gefi]

@@AnthroGearhead In my opinion, Paul Walker looks cooler with Skyline. Yea, Dodge Neon SRT have all chances to destroy Eclipse and Skyline.

[@StudentDriverBR]

@@AnthroGearhead how a Neon would destroy a Skyline? It would crash on it? On a racetrack i believe the Neon SRT4 ACR would eat the Skyline for breakfast but not on street racing

[@TheRacingJoker]

The neon would’ve been a terrible choice for style points. Would’ve made sense for Jesse’s character

[@soarin64]

@@r4gefi um isn't dodge neons known for idk breaking down

[@cryinglaughter6792]

@@soarin64 the SRT4 cars had head stud issues. But aftermarket kits address that. Been looking for a cheapish SRT4 but they’re almost all gone to the scrapyard

[@ZabelGameZ]

I think the reason Dom knows about the Eclipse is that he asked Harry about it, and knows every part he's got in it.

[@TheRacingJoker]

Yo! I can’t monetise this video but if you want to support the channel and can spare 99 cents a month you’d be a VIP in the TRJ crew! Just press ‘join’ and become a member!

[@AntonioRamirez-ne3xk]

Hi

[@AntonioRamirez-ne3xk]

Hi

[@RinksRides]

$1/mo?! HELL YEAH BROTHER!!

[@SupThiefPlays]

no🤍

[@dadrand0m]

Dude, I honestly lolled!! Awesome video!! :D You got a sub from me.

[@kyledodson2992]

This movie came out when I was in high school. The amount of shitty Honda’s in the schools parking lot tripled.

[@quietbeest]

He suddenly got better at driving because his mission was to get close to Dom. All that was an act. And it worked.

[@sst1911]

And, as a police officer, he took offensive driving training at the police academy.

[@sukhdevr3489]

So he lost on purpose?

[@shawzymusic]

Maybe they were talking about 1/8th mile times 😂😂

[@mintysquinty2989]

420a is quite reliable. I had an eclipse GS for years that never failed me.

[@bottleflipmontagehere2184]

Lmao Fr this guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

[@danr8194]

If its kept stock, most of the time it's fine.

[@_baller]

Lol that clank sounds come from metal bushings on the shifting linkage, it has more vibration and clank sound, and not as mushy as rubber bushings

[@Oscar.P]

If only he'd have that motec system exhaust...he'd win ☹️

[@GAS.M3]

Why is everyone dissing and making fun of these cars, but when the movie first came out, you know damn well these same ppl wanted these cars. Idc how 'cheese' this movie is, it put the car scene on the map.

[@TheRacingJoker]

I wanted an Eclipse or an EM1 Civic as my first car mah dude, ultimately I went a different route but it was all thanks to this

[@michelangelo5903]

i have a 1990 eclipse GSX and i’m in some facebook groups and the things people do to the 420A motor is incredible! (also an incredible waste of money lol) they are 420A purists they swear that it’s a better motor then the 4G63T! they throw massive turbos on it just to run 6PSI of boost because it will explode at like 9 PSI my stock GSX runs 12 PSI and can handle like 18-20 or so before you need to start messing with your fuel system ok i’m done ranting i just heard you roast the 420A and got a good laugh out of it

[@gideonvincentgoudin7762]

The movie that made me love cars and other things with wheels

[@TheRacingJoker]

Our origin stories

[@MenaceSociety]

6:44 - "Aren't his feet just dangling" - I never thought of that LOL!!!!!

[@junkaname6900]

The car is basic, but is a hit, just like the Charger in this movie, those two are movie icons, right in there with K.I.T.T (i grow up with it) and Eleanor (the original and remake of Gone in 60/s).

[@TheRacingJoker]

Absolutely a hit, this car would’ve remained relatively unknown we’re it not fit these films.

[@matthewsermons7247]

I saw a video saying that in production, they were going to use a 3000GT but could not get enough of them (needed like 4 or 5) for the shoot. I'd like to believe that is true, even if it is sad.

[@TheRacingJoker]

Sounds like something I heard too

[@VanWolf]

This movie made me a petrol head, then I watched it as a petrol head, everything was so wrong but at this point it doesn't matter 😂

[@TheRacingJoker]

Exactly, nostalgia is a powerful drug

[@jameslyddall]

@@TheRacingJoker also as well BT the artist gave that movie such a identity. Shame they never brought him back but his albums are fantastic.

[@RC-nv4bh]

Haha great video I’m glad it appeared on my feed. As an old school ricer in the 90’s they called NoS, Squeezing… do they still say that? 🤣

[@mrrolandlawrence]

2:35 actually its the size of the jets for the N2O in the engine that determine the amount of flow of gas to the engine, not the size of the bottle. they would have to have exception eyesight to be able to see the jet size at night on the intake. fun fact the shares in holley carbs went up something like 700% because of the demand for NOS products after the film came out. 4:24 intake manifold. thats where your N2O jets will be. N2O works because you are putting more oxygen into the combustion chamber than is possible with regular air. you then need to richen the fuel mixture otherwise you essentially get an acceteleyne cutter inside your engine. brian's use of n2o is nuts. you would absolutely use it from the start to get a faster get away, especially with a turbo as the n2o spins the turbo faster and reduces lag. hes potentially right to have a 2 stage kit, because feeding in max n2o at takeoff would shred the drivetrain however with a 100hp kit, what is it like 50hp per stage? lolz. also hes running a turbo so after spooling up, the n2o is not as essential. more boost will create the power he needs. also what goon would hold in his floor plate with checkerplate aluminium? also how comes none of those 3m bolts sheered? looks like someone just dropped a bag of screws & washers into view. really should have been a tig welded panel. 5:38 if he "lunched" the engine from too much n2o, rings would be an easy replacement. most likely melted piston crowns and / or if the bearing caps & thats if the crank / rods / top end survived. also 100hp kit? thats the basic one to fit to your mums honda civic. 250-500hp would be more like it for a small motor. also why fit a big ass stereo to a race car? if he was hard core he could have spent that money on a straight cut sequential gearbox.subs / amps etc + current draw on the alternator would rod a few HP as well as add 300 lbs to the weight of the car.

[@MrMpm3001]

5:15 the more I thought about it. The “welds” might refer to sheet metal intakes with tig welds. There are a myriad of forums/videos with intakes destroyed from nitrous backfires. It does sound crazy though when Dom says it.

[@infiniterift]

80K NO LOWBALLS, I KNOW WHAT I HAVE

[@TheRacingJoker]

Bruh seriously 😂

[@misfit1x444]

I love all those satisfying sounds before he takes off the revs of the engine and the sound of that exhaust and the sound of the shifter 😩😩

[@OGDemonburn]

I love how in this movie he takes Brian's car to teach him a lesson then a few movies later wins the race in Cuba but let's him keep his car out of "respect". This franchise literally understands its own inconsistency and plays off it, even to the point of recreation of the original race but in a Cuban setting.

[@ryans413]

Dom changed after his sister got pregnant it made him more of a family guy lol

[@kingtiger3390]

Isn't that what character development is all about?

[@darkskinwhite]

in the alleyway right after he picks up Dom it sounds like hes rippin thru gears but the cop is just crusin behind him at like 18mph lol

[@TheRacingJoker]

It's like big toeing our mustang behind an old kia redlining onto the highway. Maybe the eclipse was that slow from all the damage XD

[@nashidaperv2351]

No one ever points out how the HECK did it drift?

[@TheRacingJoker]

Slippery roads and several takes. The drift itself is like three different shots in the film

[@nashidaperv2351]

@@TheRacingJoker yeah but its protrayed like it was rear wheel drive by the tire smoke, unless that was edited

[@TheRacingJoker]

@@nashidaperv2351 might’ve been, they could’ve even messed with the brakes though I’m not honestly 100% sure. If I wanted a rwd Eclipse I would’ve gotten a GSX and disable the front diff

[@NAKZnzx]

I watched 2 of your fast and furious vids and I'm sold, you have a new subscriber my friend

[@TheRacingJoker]

Welcome to the team!

[@Mr.Grimm2001]

I love Jesse I wish he didn't have to die

[@TheRacingJoker]

I’d love to meet him, he’s from a town in Washington I grew up in

[@Mr.Grimm2001]

@@TheRacingJoker holy smoke grenades

[@dionisis0018]

hahaha so true! clearly the guys wrighting the script knew as much about cars as the 10 year olds fans we were back then!

[@sumofl]

1:06 they're illegal street racers who bet cash and win cash, of course they're coming in and spending cash on parts. 5:48 the entire reason brian is there is for dom, of course he was watching where he went and swooped in to 'save' him. the whole police bust might have been orchestrated before hand, maybe even planning the loss, but fixing a race doesn't seem like brian's style and i think he actually thought he had him. 7:10 the government bought the car... the price tag checks out when you consider we spend 20k on coffee mugs, hammers, and toilet seats.

[@RallyLancer95]

As someone who's owned both a 1G and 2G GSX watching this movie is always a treat lol

[@RuinNationGaming]

I think dom just put 2 and 2 together and new he had to have a fms for the car. I still love the movie even with all the bs esp when they shift 20 times during a quarter mile race lol

[@TheRacingJoker]

I think if you opened a hood and saw a massive turbo that’s the main thing any normal person would be impressed by. If you’re seeing lines fir a nitrous system somehow then sure that’s also serious

[@SilverBullet93GT]

looking back, a lot of us never saw the details when the movie came out :)

[@TheRacingJoker]

Which is totally ok, we love it flaws and all

[@KoenigseggMDG]

I just assumed that was all according to Brian’s plan, to tank the race and get closer to Dom. He couldn’t get arrested or else his cover would’ve been blown, so he drove for real to escape the cops.

[@AKRXI]

What started as a critique of the Eclipse quickly turned to a roast of the whole god damn movie lmao

[@Firemarioflower]

6:19 Because Dom's car is just faster. Anyone can go quick in a straight line. It was a drag race, not a circuit challenge. Brian would smoke everyone.

[@Stackali]

i mean it does still take some skill to get get faster times. yeah a car can be set up to be dummy proof and got high 9s or 8s. but to go faster and get a car from 8.9 to 8.0 takes some skill. but yeah a drag race and circuit are different things and brian would smoke them in a circuit race

[@XanVicious]

Brian would’ve arguably done worse in a circuit race, he’s meant to be portrayed as someone way in over their head. Familiar with cars, but still just a rookie at this point. By the time he gets to Miami, he’s already a seasoned street racer and maybe then he would’ve smoked everyone.

[@RPG-oh1yf]

"aren't (Dom's) feet just dangling above a hole in the floor right now?!" 6:39 HAHAHAHAHA

[@oz88og40]

gsx model would've been better

[@TheRacingJoker]

Much better, could disable the front for rwd drifts and burnouts

[@oz88og40]

@@TheRacingJoker yep

[@vCuda]

You're like CinemaSins but you ACTUALLY understand what you're talking about and make valid points lol. God tier man!

[@mrtommygunwhite]

Listen to that line again "And a standalone fuel management system not a bad way to spend 10k" He wasn't talking about 10k total but just in the ecu

[@TheRacingJoker]

According to the film’s script and deleted scenes it was worth 35k

[@matthew_natividad]

Doesn’t that also depend on the car it’s hooked up too?

[@dumbodum]

As a kid I never questioned any of this

[@TheRacingJoker]

Me neither, I was four lol

[@XeroFailGames]

This guy clearly has no idea how accurate the race scene was. .

[@metcorleone4811]

I don’t know why I laughed for a good 5mins just on the first 10seconds of this video lmao😂😂

[@TheRacingJoker]

Lol 😂

[@Danny-ow7hl]

I believe the main guy who was the consultant for the cars said they added that "Danger to Manifold" during editing - he wasn't part of it, he said he would've gone against that.

[@alejmc]

This is video is so grounded, laughing through it all. And you know what? I would totally buy a stick shift that gives this mechanical sounds every time a gear is rowed… but it has to be a real thing, not some speakers pumping some fake noise like electric cars piping combustion engine sounds through the speakers.

[@alonsin5450]

The yeeeting of the floor pan made magically the eclipse faster 🤣🤣🤣