OSM Garage

Might have to check out this stoned immaculate mirage

By using a RWD 6 bolt flywheel from any 4G6* powered RWD vehicle

Doesnt have giant sticker on the back anymore

Do they have to be original? (wheels, suspension etc) If not id put forward my Mirage

That handbrake adjustment

For jesselc

WOAH, Page 34 - Last post 2012 So yeah, I still have this thing and has been hiding away in my little shed filled with crap. Neglected all these years. I found out with the Sigma wagon that if I give myself a deadline that I have a better chance of completing something. So I have set one out for the Lancer. The deadline is Early December 2016 - OS Drag Day Nothing has been done to this car for the past 3+ years except obtain parts. Yesterday I went for a stroll around Zebra Car Parts as Bigfoot told me about a Lancer that had arrived. Managed to score the grill which is actually in real great shape, a digital clock and a cool bonnet emblem which probably wont find its way on the Lancer, but cool none the less. Ive collected other bits and pieces and will get to those later. The only thing to do really is save a whole lotta cash and get this thing panelled and painted Happy New Years Y'all

A bit of a late update I had seen a full set of XYZ adjustable suspension to suit a Mitsubishi Cedia on Trademe. They were only $100 so I thought id chuck a hundy on em and if I won them ill install them on the Mrs car (Cedia wagon) A week rolls past and I won them for $100. So I pick them up and bring them to work and then I started getting Ideas. "I wonder how hard it would be to put the fronts in the Mirage?" I pulled a strut out of the Mirage and put one of the adjustable fronts in its place. I was blown away by the fact that the lower perch bolt holes were exactly the right spacing. The only difference was that the gap was 4mm wider and the XYZ use a 14mm bolt whereas the standard Mirage uses a 12mm bolt. I could have drilled out the 12mm hole to 14mm but I wanted to be able to revert back to standard suspension if needed. So I got a length of 2mm flat bar and cut 4 bits into shape. I also had some spacers made. 14mm OD and 12mm ID For the top of the adjustables I had some new camber plates made to suit These are the original camber plates on the XYZ And the new plates fitted So all that was left to do is bolt it all in the Mirage For the rear suspension I went with the 1 way adjustables I havent got a decent photo of how it sits at the moment but I am super happy with the ride height now. The front springs are a tad stiff so will look out for some softer springs. I have been using this car daily and I love it. It also appears that maori fullas like it too. Its a daily occurrence for some to yell "Chur bro" at me which is cool with me. Will upload a pic later

As you may or may not see in the video above there was oil on the cambelt. It was a bitter/sweet moment as I was wrapped that my wiring was good and the motor kinda ran, but theres an issue. This video was taken on the Monday before the OS Drag Day. At a quick glance it looked like one of the tensioner bearings was releasing oil/grease past its shield. So we gave up that night. I returned the next day and found a big pool of oil on the ground. There was a pinhole in a weld where the sump was modified. Unable to fix this in place, the motor had to come out. This was the Tuesday before the OS Drag Day. I was unable to work on it on the Tuesday or Wednesday due to work Christmas dinner and looking after kids. The Thursday before the OS Drag Day I had my good cousin Ants (owns the noisy VK Commodore) come round to help. He zapped and fitted the sump up, replaced a front caliper and fitted the motor back in the hole whilst I did the important stuff like fit the locked diff and fender mirrors. We fired it up again and still was spraying oil from somewhere on the front of the motor. I had the ol man help out on the Friday before the OS Drag Day and have one more crack. I bought some more oil seals (crank, oil pump and balance shaft). I say more because we had already replaced these during the cambelt replacement. As he started to unbolt items he found that on of the hydraulic tensioner bolts were loose. He bolted everything back up and sure enough, no more oil spray.....whoops. 9:30pm rolls around and he has the car running as best as he could. At this stage I havent even got it on the ground let alone taken it for a test drive. 10:00pm I take it for a drive around the carpark. I give it a mouthful in 1st gear and felt good. I get braver and hoon from 1st to 2nd and then it bogs and runs like balls! Like its in limp mode (no power, over fuelling) I then realise that I didnt hear the external wastegate open. I found that I didnt hook it up and the motor saw full boost which at this stage I think ive cooked the motor already...... 11:00pm I wash the car then load it on the trailer hoping that someone may be able to help me out at the strip. 12:00am Tow car home pissed off that I wont be racing. Managed to get home at 1:00am Saturday, the day of the OS Drag Day I dragged the car down to Meremere and try to start it to drive it off the trailer and it wouldnt start. We push it off and im thinking we should have kept it on. As I inspected the engine bay in daylight the problem was evident. An intercooler pipe had blown off. We clamped that back on and it fired up and ran good. Took it for a little test drive and all was ok. I managed to pass scruitineering and took it out on the strip to help dry it out which was a good opportunity to test it further. It was running great Photo credit - MichaelJFox I took it out for its first run and managed to get a 15.25 taken it somewhat easy 2nd run I ran a 14.39 - I was over the moon at this point. All I wanted was to get in the 14s. The car was running awesome. As the day went on the car performed very well. A massive contrast to how the car was running less than 12 hours prior. So all in all an awesome day. A lot of late nights payed off and I met the deadline. Many awesome people to thank Heres a vid of the fast time i managed Now to tidy it up and drive it over the summer

I will give this a try

Was hoping to make this but sadly I cant. Apparently its frowned upon to leave your kids alone at home unattended. Have a good one fellas

Ever since I have owned my Sigma wagon it has had this dodgee chassis plate on the car Its just a bit of aluminium with the numbers stamped. Ive owned a few wagons now and they have all had a Todd Motors tag. I have never had any issues with getting a WOF. They have never questioned this plate. I am going to have to certify the car now and im worried that this will hold me back. The kicker is that CARJAM says that my number plate is for a "Saloon"...... Any tips on what I can do? Will I need to find records for this car? Thanks

Now normally I get my ol man to tackle the wiring because, well, wiring scares me. But with the drag day looming closer and my ol man busy with other things it left me no choice but to do it myself. As the Mitsubishi wiring is heavily documented on the internet it wasnt that hard. I had a few questions that were either answered by my ol man or by Fuel. The wiring loom I had was damaged. It looked like the previous owner of the VR4 was running an aftermarket computer and had cut all the wires right at the plug making it impossible to repair. Going thru my ol mans garage (which has been nick named the "Mark-muda Triangle") I managed to find a VR4 wiring loom that I thought I gave away. Problem with this loom is that it was missing a lot of the plugs on the engine bay side. So I decided to make 1 good loom from the 2 Starting to repair Somewhat organised Back to the car itself, I made a bracket that the oilcooler bolts to. I had some lines made by ENZED (highly recommend) So with everything on the motor it was time to slam it in the hole This is where things started to go pear shaped.......

Im using a Starion sump on the VR4 motor so had to relieve a section of the sump. Whilst the motor was out I attacked the wastegate and plumbed it into the exhaust system. Next up was to shoehorn an intercooler in the front of the car. I really wanted to run A/C but its a bit too tight for 3 coolers up front so ditched the A/C idea. Front of the car off Managed to grab an intercooler from an EVO 5? Looks like an aftermarket replacement. Seemed to be the right size for what I want to do. The mocking up stages I had Daniel (DJZ) weld on some brackets and I went trawling thru Zebra Car Parts for rubber bushes to fit in the brackets. Like the weirdo that I am I gravitated to the Mitsubishi section and found the perfect bushes on the airbox of a Cedia. I managed to get a whole bunch of replacement parts (cambelt kit, valve stem seals, water pump etc, thanks shandawg) and bribed my ol man to fit said parts. Was another opportunity to put my homemade valve tool to work All fitted up

The N/A 4G63 DOHC has been going great guns and has never let me down at all but it was time to upgrade. I had been looking over Fuels and Yoeddynzs V6 builds and thought I like the way the V6 looks mounted North/South. Plus, I wanted to do something else other than the 4G63T swap. So I got a 6G72 N/A from a GTO (thanks DJZ) and scored a GTO for the wiring loom, ECU and sensors. As I slowly (and I mean slowly) plotted along with this I realised that this is going to take a while and with the OS Drag Day coming up I decided to bail on this swap and took the easy option of the 4G63T I had stripped an E39A VR4 earlier this year and hung on to the motor. My original goal has to put this motor into another Sigma wagon I have and turn it into some sort of drift thing, much like Kelvins Corona wagon. So I slapped the motor on an engine stand to give it a good clean and to replace all the serviceable parts. "Mota and box good" When I removed the front cover I found the balance shaft belt had snapped. Took a gamble and decided to continue fixing this motor. For the turbo side of things I am using the turbo setup that was in my EX Lancer. I scored another manifold off Tank that I will eventually use on the Lancer. So, out with the trusty N/A 4G63 I had to convert back to manual steering box as the powersteering pump sits right where the turbo inlet will be. No biggie as the powersteering sucked. VR4 use a different AFM so my modified AFM housing wont work. Had to find a VR4 airbox and cut it up again to fit inside the filter CUT FIT

Love your driveway! I have just installed adjustable coilovers in my Mirage. Will post up what ive done next week.

OK. Im installing some XYZ coilovers to my car that werent made for my car. Ive had some custom top hats made and have made some spacers and sleeves for the bottom attaching thingy. There aren't any mounting brackets for the brake line so I started making some. The XYZ coilovers have a fully removable lower perch Id like to get the car certed for the suspension one day and before I go welding I thought id ask if this is ok Wanting to do this Good to go or hell no?

Sorry, maybe I shouldnt have stated M to indicate that the sleeve is threaded. Basically it would be 14mm OD tube that has a wall thickness of 1mm

Is there such a thing as a M14OD-M12ID steel sleeve? Trying to fit some struts that have a 14mm hole to a hub that has a 12mm hole and uses 12mm bolts. Dont want to drill out the hub in case I need to revert to factory struts

You've got it all! Sweet garage, sweet HQ. And is that an A9X or Torana hatch I can see?

Repping the 90's yo

Cheers for that.

Thank you. All the work converting the Sigma struts was all in vain as I was hoping to put Starion rotors and calipers on at a later stage, but have found out that they don't fit. So may end up selling these struts and start all over again