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Got me another pair of starsharks and polished them. polished them better than my others :/ Tried my hand at painting the engine bay. It went ok, i'd give it a solid B- .... good enough for the engine bay The rest of the car will be a different paint and a bit darker than this i'll get the engine in there soon now hopefilly

Sweet! Jz with itbs would be tits! Glad it was so far away me so I couldn't think too much about buying it

I'm looking for opinions I'm very much on the fence about it. Was just a random spoiler i came across at the wreckers and thought id try out

Hmmmmm... thoughts?

Does the car go?

lol not keen

What is it? / what's in it for me???

Done some painting and polishing

So in answer to my question of can the tail sections of narrow and wide block gearboxes be interchanged. NO, the answer is no fuckin way. Not even close hahaha Miles different. On the plus side i scored these bushes i needed for my shifter. In the dead stock box of course

so what will we be looking at now for a simple engine transplant? still around the $500 mark? or more? Also...... on my galant it has a two piece driveshaft which i'll be replacing with a one piece jobby and my engine transplant means i'll need a dshaft hoop. Soooo can i use the bolt holes from the center bearing bracket thing to mount the hoop?

and screaming tyres!

Does it go much better with those headers?

threw a little paint / rust protection around the place dog why you do that?? Haven't found what colour i want to paint the car yet so i can't really go much further here till i make a decision. Figured out the wiring. Hopefully its a simple as it seems so far. Sussed out a pedal box! The one on the right is from an EX lancer, i simply swapped the pedals from one to the other. Trusty mitsubishi lego. boom! Made for it! There is even a hole in one skin of the firewall already for the clutch cable Test fitted a 5 speed and it looks like i won't need to modify the trans tunnel. Just had to do a wee chop chop to the shifter hole. So i have 3 gearboxes, one to suit a narrow block from an EX, and two to suit a wide block, one from a turbo EX the other from an L200 i think. I was hoping to use the turbo ex one (which is what i test fitted) but that requires a hydraulic clutch which won't work with my pedal situation SO i want to use the L200 box with the cable clutch but its shifter position is further back and i don't want to cut the hole in the floor any bigger. Can these parts of the gearboxes be swapped from narrow to wide gearboxes? Been messing around with a set of these volks and made a pair that will go on the back. 14x8 with a 0ish offset. Two 8"s are better than four 6"s! Those back halves to a shit load of cleaning and polishing to get to this point. Still far from mint but thats about all the time i want to invest in them right now. Also picked up these starsharks which i'll fit the old lips from my longchamps to. making them 7" wide These will go up front untill i find another set or pair of volk meshs' Everything is falling into place nicely

I like where this is going! So good to see something a bit different for one of these wagons

Looks sweet man, love these cars! That looks like the engine I had lined up for my ex. You didn't by any chance buy that around Xmas time 2012? Think I remember the guy sayin it was goin in a gto.

Pulled the lump out today! Borrowed this engine hoist off hydraulink next to my work. They put an electric pump on it! best idea ever! made it so easy. Except when i nearly smashed my garage door opener Once that was out it was time for a can of degreaser.... or two. My waterblaster even took some of the paint off for me which was handy. Then I started attacking some of the rusty bits with a flapper disk Whats good stuff to use to treat shit like this? there is no way in hell in gonna get it all back to nice shiny metal. Also gave my bumper a quick polish, i thought the chrome was had it but its actually mint

damien! where did you find that massive air filter to fit over your air flow meter? i hate these big ugly fucking things or is yours different?

could ya take a picture of it for me man? i wouldnt be surprised if it did fit straight in.

picked this up yesterday I was looking into some sort of mivec engine repower but this popped up and was too good to pass up. Also should be a fairly straight forward swap.... in theory anyway. Its had new rings, bearings, crank grind, re-bored, new water pump, valve grind, head crack tested and resurfaced balance shaft removed and all new seals and gaskets all through it. Hasn't even been started yet. The guy i brought it off got it to put in his L200 but gave up when it didn't fit his narrow block gearbox. i have no idea why its ended up with a fwd intake manifold on it. If anyone has a rwd one i can buy would be swell. Also wanting a manual pedal box also came with this don't know what throttle body i will or can use yet till i get my loom and computer. Is one better than the other? never have i seen a mitsubishi engine this clean under the rocker cover! woooo weeeee! luckily i haven't caved and sold the gearbox from the EX GSR i wrecked because that will be prefect for this. So fuck the rust work! I'm pretty excited to get this thing in and running! does anyone know if the gear box tunnel will need chopping to fit the 5 speed like the auto ex lancers do? and rwd manifold and pedal box please

so impressed with this build man! everything about it is spot on!

i have thought air shocks would be pretty sweet but i dont know if any even exist that would/could fit

yeah its pretty sweet! all good if a keep an extra spare wheel in the boot lol. what does everyone else use in the back?

yeah 70mm, lower in other parts. exhaust is about 50mm back just has some random springs i had, no idea what they are out of but they get it that low and stayed captive with the standard shocks. They are soft as hell though.

yeah im pretty dam happy with the car at the moment. Bit disappointed the 8s don't fill the front guards out as much as i had hoped, BUT all the more reason to widen them to 10 or 11 now

finally got round to getting these in the car this weekend! wasnt without its hiccups though! had to redrill the towers to fit the camber plates. Wasn't too hard! Then the steering knuckle was hitting the back of the hub and the strut wouldn't bolt up flush (GX71 struts in a GX61) easily sorted with a bit of a grind of the steering knuckle! The other side was fine. THEN the lower bolt for the calliper fouled on the knuckle aswell! only by a fraction though so i just done it up nice and tight and everything pulled in nice and tight. That bolt won't be coming out! Also had to use different anchor plates to mount the brake callipers to the GX71 struts as the mounting holes were slightly further apart All sorted now! so i went out and took some pictures. chassis rails are at about 70mm with everything captive. And there is probably about 100 mm left i can come down on the adjustables