The reason I chose to do this conversion is the backend of the Eclipse is rounder, wider and more full looking .....kinda like Beyonce. lol

And the tail lights, license plate area are more cleaner looking now.

I went from this....



To this, having to move the middle bracket up and drilling three new holes for tail light center piece.



To rewiring the lights to work with the Talon harness.....NOT a direct plug and play. lol I used this article here to do the wiring. But I discovered a few flaws in his last diagram and wiring scheme that he shows. He eliminates the use of the ground on the chassis harness and says to tape it off which you can't do....you need that. Also his diagram shows to wire solid green to black and then black to solid green when mating the two harnesses together. Obviously it should be green to green and black to black.



Rewire inside car the car too. Which works fine as per the article posted.




To the final stage all buttoned up and ready to go.

Nice job. Looks great.

Looks excellent!! Great work.

Now, if you're ever looking to get rid of that spoiler you have...

Too many holes to fill if I get rid of that spoiler.

Bro, I loved the first pictuer of your car, it looked so original!..makes me want to put eclipse sideskirts with talon rear ...Do you have a new picture of the car in the same angle as the first pic, just want to see how it looks now

She's tucked away tight in my garage right now.....have to wait till spring again before I get new pics.

Looks good Steve, that conversion takes me back a few years!

I dropped it down this afternoon and got these pics done quickly.

Steve, did you have your bumper painted or did you find a red one?

Looks good, and I like the boomerang spoiler with the Eclipse rear.

It came in the Eclipse red....but that is way different than Talon red, plus it was in rough shape. Had it painted along with some other pieces for 300 bucks.

Definitely looks good Steve! I'll see you in the Summer at Shannonville!

Thanks for getting those pics, was really curious how it turned out, One of the best 2g's ive seen in my opinon and I like the rims also, they flow with the car

I love the rims and your car's absolutely beautiful.

Can I borrow your garage?

Looks good Steve.
I can't wait to do the Eclipse rear on my car.

Thanks guys, the number one compliment I get on my car is the rims and how they suit the car perfect.

Yeah I've always liked 5 spoke rims that are thick.

What are they?

Mille Miglia Evo 5's 17/8 40mm offset.

Nice car, props on the conversion. Tho the talon rear end looks better IMO

It really depends.

I love both rear ends, but we can't have 'em both on one car...or can we?

Hrmm.

I think I have the right idea, almost.

2gb Eclipse conversion done on my 95 ESi

2gb Talon conversion planned for my 95 TSi AWD

I think I have the look right now. I also like the look of the 2ga side skirts too.....but these I found first.

Next step is to go wingless or a lip style spoiler like this here

That would look mint on there, that's for sure. Regardless, Steve, your car is gorgeous.

oh man steve your talons sick, thanks for postin up the conversion pictures now i know what you mean, so simple people make it sound so hard.

ps. glad you got rid of the wal-mart turbo emblem in the first pic.

I like the old!

It's unique and I do like the look of Eclipse's, but dam your original talon was so much better looking. That red paint was mint!

lol that was off a turbo Beetle S .... cost me $20 or more at the dealer.

I've been thinking about doing the eclipse back end mod to my 96 2g/6bolt tsi, I have the front end already on. How hard is it?

It's a pretty simple job, just takes patience.

http://www.ca.dsm.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=262800&fpart=1

Is when I did it. The rear lights needed a couple small holes drilled, but that's easy. The bumper needs brackets fabbed up, to mount the bumper. The eclipse one sits a bit higher.

Hey Steve, I think your car's been featured in a bunch of those Youtube DSM tribute videos?

I saw a RED TSI just like yours with what looked like the same wheels.

NICE

your car is my twin but I think yours is way shinier
Good work on figuring out that harnes!

Great looking car, but that muffler bugs me, haha